And this is why I am now writing a blog post about last weekend, although I should be studying for my Financial Accounting midterm tomorrow morning.
This weekend, around 40 INSEAD 17J students decided to spend a weekend in Kuching. This was actually the first trip many of us booked, just because it was the cheapest flight destination available. None of us had high expectations. However, all of us were quite happy to leave Singy for a few days.
When we started planning the trip, we were less than 10. When we started trying to book an Airbnb, we were less than 20. When we closed the housing deal, we were already 30. The 10 extra 17Jers ended up getting another house for themselves.
Guess what? We all met at the airport on Friday late afternoon, knowing that we were heading to a random place in Malaysia - not really touristic, what so ever - to share a house with 30 people and to do God knows which activities.
What we weren't expecting was that it would be such a cool weekend!!!
The house actually could fit 30 people. All of us had a decent bed. I shared a room with 5 of the 10 girls who were staying at the house, most of them already quite closed to me. We negotiated with a local guy for transportation, breakfast at home, dinner at a typical place, and even some outdoors activities. We just had to pay (and not really much money, as Malaysia is significantly cheaper than Singapore), and he took very good care of us.
We found a very decent bar, where we had probably the most fun night of our INSEAD so far. We went for a hike in Bako National Park. We had a failed attempt of exploring the "city" - there was absolutely nothing to be seen or experienced. We had a typical seafood dinner in an old outdoors foodcourt. We had quite a few drinks again, first at home and then at "our" bar. On Sunday, with most people struggling to wake up, we ended up going to the beach. We swam, we ate, we saw monkeys and orangoutangs. We bounded a lot. We made fun of each other. We laughed at cultural differences, told stories and shared experiences. We all came back extremely impressed with how much fun we had, especially having arrived in Kuching being prepared for the worst.
It is quite impressive how 30 people from around 15 nationalities had such a smooth and fun weekend. Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, Israel, Brazil, USA. And there were extra 10 people hanging out with us but staying at another house, from other countries too.
It's time to review Accounting.
Love,
Marta
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