[image:291:c]At about 5:15pm Singapore time, I set foot on the Asian continent for the first time. I have to say that so far it doesn’t feel much different to me. Singapore is a beautiful place and there is English everywhere. If we hadn’t been driving on the wrong side of the street, I might have thought I was in the US. It is beautiful and clean.

I’m checked into my hotel room at the Fort Canning Lodge YWCA (the name threw me at first, but it is a regular hotel that is run by the YWCA). As you can see from the picture, I have a beautiful view of the park across the street with the city in the background. Very nice.

The flight was uneventful. The 11 hour and 15 minute flight from Frankfurt was the longest that I’ve ever been on by a couple of hours. It didn’t seem too bad, though as I slept 4 or 5 hours. I’m not too exhausted right now and it is already 7:15pm. I should be able to stay up for several more hours at least. My dad gets in around 1am so I guess I’ll wake up for a few minutes then.

Tomorrow’s agenda is to get over jet lag. We will eat Indian food for lunch and Singaporean food for dinner. It should be quite an adventure. More pictures tomorrow.