We Made It!!

We arrived in Singapore today about 1 AM (EST) It was quite a journey. It actually took 36 hours from the time we stepped on the bus in the Wissahickon HS Parking Lot until we checked into our hotel. Everyone is exhausted. The entire team is sleeping as I write this.

We also had plenty of stress worrying about our machine, held up in customs for several days. We found out the hard way, that when you ship a crate to Singapore you must send it to a registered importer. Our host the Millennia Institute (MI) is a school and was not qualified to accept the crate. It took days for (MI) to register as an importer so that the robot could stay in the country. It is now safely stored at the school. We are heading to MI on Thursday to reassemble and test the machine.

Singapore certainly is a beautiful country and our hosts are very nice people. We had an informal welcome dinner this evening with some of the students, teachers and administrators from the 3 schools. Watching the students from both countries sitting together made me realize just how special this week is going to be.

Our schedule for Thursday is:
*Welcoming Ceremony
*Tour of MI
*Assembly for the students of MI
*Meetings to plan the future of our Partnership
*Classroom observations and student classroom exchange
*Reassemble/Test Robot
*Rest at Hotel
*Sentosa Island Steamboat Dinner Cruise

Hopefully the next few entries will be from well rested students, but for now they need thier sleep.

We'll write more later.

Alan Ostrow