I arrived early on Monday morning, the first of the OCers (OC = Orientation Course) and have been looking around and getting to see a little bit of Singapore as I recover from jetlag and settle in.  The weather is hot and humid, it isn’t as hot as I thought it might be though.  High 20/low 30s most of the time, but it is pretty humid.  This is the rainy season, though there hadn’t been much rain on Monday or Tuesday.  Today is a different story, after a clearish morning there was a burst of thunder and the skies opened!

Singapore itself is interesting, the OMF IHQ seems to be at the swanky end of town, yesterday I headed up to Little India to see an electronics store and stepping off the train felt like stepping into a different country!  The most curious thing is that English is the common language, and signs, labels etc are all in English.  Which almost makes it feel as though it’s somewhere tropical and American, like Guam or Hawaii or somewhere, but the English is all British!  There are all kinds of hints to the colonial past as well…  My only experience of Asia really has been Japan, and so to arrive in Asia, go to a shop and be able to understand everything, be greeted in english and answer seems a bit weird!

So that’s about it really so far, it’s been quite uneventful, but the real stuff starts tomorrow!