Day 1 : the journey begins

Day 1 :


FLIGHT
flight was at 7am , i planned ahead and went to the airport at 12am to take a look around the airport.
I regret doing that as i was exhausted and tired when i boarded the plane , and to top it off it was a 4hr and 50min flight. And whats even better than a exhausted person on a long hour flight? two 8 year olds banging, screaming and swinging their chairs the whole period of the flight. i am so glad it was over.
Reached taiwan 20 minutes ahead of schedule as we went to fill in the tourist white forms as required.We then took our luggages and proceeded to exit the airport and meet two Very , Very friendly Tumt students and also a lecturer.
We boarded the Coach they arranged for us and it was very spacious, i was severly carsick due to lack of water for long periods of time , and it took awhile to adapt to the humidity of the country , thankfully it was not hot as it just rained.


ARRIVAL TO TUMT
i would say it was a smooth 1 hour plus ride to the campus, we alighted at the dorms area first to put our luggages inside our own dorms. Was greeted by probably the most friendly person i have ever met, the dorm manager,致玮so ,TUMT senior who is graduating soon. He handed us our keys and had our fingers registered into the school system and also the gates, which i find it convient when going in and out of the dorm area.We were led to our dorms by him and settled down our stuff.
First impression , although it was abit dusty and not maintained properly, i find it very cosy as i always have wanted to live in a dorm after watching taiwan films, and it indeed is quite fun after cleaning it of course. We had a cash card for the aircon which is interesting , basically the card runs out fast if  we set it too low .But overall it was okay.

BUYING OF AMENITIES 
After settling down our luggages, we went straight to 家乐福(carrefour) on the teachers cars to buy our amenities
We had lunch first as we were dead hungry after long hours of flight.
Afterwards we went to the mart to get things like mattress and pillows we went to look for toilet paper, had a shock as the toilet papers in taiwan do not have rolls inside ,which is very weird for us singaporeans.
Getting the stuff done, we headed to the cashier and purchased the stuff, the store staff was helpful and helped us with pushing the trolleys to the counters for us ,sadly you will never see this in singapore.
We placed the items in the provided cardboxes and taped it , and had the staff delivered it to our dorms! After that we went back to TUMT .

Welcome Tea session
The school had a welcome session with us together with the current tumt dgad students.
Had some light deserts.and talked to the fellow students.
afterwards we had a welcome dinner at tamsui , it was a hotpot dinner and the servings was huge and we almost could not finish the food.

End of the day
we went back to our dorms, unpacked the things , cleaned up and rested .