I am so frigging tireddd!! i can just sleeeep foreverrr. anywaysss today was rather special..coz i visited the prison school. which really was an eye opening experience..it really was very different from what i picture jail to be. i thought its gonna be dark lifeless place but turns out really the opposite. the whole place (although full of gates and locks) was really a conducive environment for learning. (they have a hydrop and it didn't give the feeling of lifeless-ness or eerie-ness at all. i mean..it really looks like a school with a hall, courts, library and classrooms,labs (!!) and computor labs. although everything wasn't very fancy but the humbleness of the whole environment brought a sense of simplicity..and the inmates which have their own complicated background really just looked like another ordinary person. i thought this school was really a good step in the right direction (as wad fio said). the inmates i saw possessed positive attitute towards learning and they really look forward for another chance to be useful and contribute to the society in the future. the tour guide today is serving his sentence but he looked not at all dangerous. he was extremely friendly and approachable. and he was sooooo proud of his prison school..and he told me that he felt blessed to be able to be in the prison school and make himself useful. and today we saw some of the IT work done by these inmates and it was really cool. the programmes they created were really meaningful. i know i can't do it..oh! and there was this person who actually studied his A level in this school within a year and manage to get AABB. who knows. i may not be able to achieve that!! but then..although these inmates enjoy the privilage of studying and have more freedom..they still follow standard prison 'lifestyle'..like they live in dorms (10-15 in one room) and there is only one toilet cubical in each room. and they have to sleep on a thin mat. i really have to say that the room was rather stuffy and warm too. so yea..but anyways i am just glad i signed up for this tingey. (partly happy coz i can skip dance) but it really was a great experience. toooo bad for those who nv sign up. Goals of the rest of the week: stop talkking on the phone and use the time to study. oh..and eat less.