When I FIrst Met the Group

To help with keeping up with ideas for blogs on what we have done, I started to pre-write these blogs on the laptop during the day and set them up on the blog at night when I have internet.  Unfortunately, I have had a lot of trouble trying to get these set up and try to put in pictures.  This tends to be very slow to work with.  As such, you will be reading a blog that should have been put in before the last one.  I hope to get a few more done tonight with pictures but we will see.  Enjoy this one.

Today is a good day.  By Noon of Saturday, February 15^th, my colleagues from Boston arrived to the hotel.  I guess their plane connection from San Francisco never made it out of the US.  They were connected to a flight to Singapore where they spent the first night in the airport.  My roommate, Dan Norton, mentioned that if they had to be stranded in an airport overnight, Singapore was the place to be.

They say that Singapore is a very clean country and it is according to the group.  They even had t-shirts available to buy that explained all the fines that you would receive if you were caught doing anything that would make the city dirty:

-          No Littering ($1000 fine)

-          No Spitting ($1000 fine)

-          No Smoking ($1000 fine)

-          Don’t Feed the Birds ($1000 fine)

-          Chewing gum is not allowed ($1000 fine)

-          Not flushing a toilet is fined ($500 fine)

-          Even the plastic wrapper that comes on a juice box straw will get you a fine if you did not deposit in the garbage can

And apparently this is anywhere in Singapore.  Not just outside but within the confines of a building like the airport or an office.  Just think of some of the fines students may have received in some of our classrooms.