Since the 18th of December, school has been out and we have summer holidays! To celebrate, a few friends and myself spent a good portion of the day at the beach and my friends house just having fun and hanging out. It was a good time, followed by going home to get ready for a Rotary Christmas Party, which was pretty good. The party was mostly just a Christmas themed meeting with small party aspects, but the company was great and I enjoyed it. Afterward, I went to a friend's 17th birthday party, which I think pretty much ended up being an end of the year party. It was pretty fun end to the school year.
The next day was time for camping! My host family and I went down to a mysterious bay (pun intended) to camp for the next week and a half. We got there mid afternoon, finished setting up and the day was pretty much gone by dinner. In the morning, it was an early (normal for camping) start at 0800. I went for a run to explore the camping area, came back and went to the beach with Will. Down there, I even taught him the art of Wiffle Ball before we threw ourselves into the surf. I had a try with the surf-ski, which is kinda like a kayak that you sit on top of, designed to catch waves. Its fun, yet can be pretty challenging to balance, especially with the waves pounding you, its similar to a bike in the way that the faster you go, the easier it is to balance. Back at the camp site, we collected firewood before having a family night playing Rummikub. This is pretty much how the camping went, with just some differences in what we did at the beach and what games we played. We played a lot of Rummikub and plenty of Speed Scrabble, and some trivia here and there.
Saturday, the four of us spent the better half of the morning fishing off of one of the cliffs, yet no one ended up getting anything other than a rock. ;) That afternoon, we played a good game of beach cricket, which was pretty fun, before cooling off in the great Pacific. However, for the first time in my life, as I remember, I ripped my swimmers while reaching for the ball during cricket! Of course, since it happened once, t can happen again, and come Christmas Day, while tossing the frisbee, I ripped my jeans... Sunday was a pleasant day and Will and I got to explore a cave structure near the beach which, other than the rocks hurting my feet, was pretty cool, if it wasn't so hard and dependant on the tides to get to, I wouldn't mind just hanging out in there. That night we had a fire and I introduced my family to the magic of S'MORES! They aren't the same because a) no graham crackers in Australia, and b) marshmallows are different, c) no Hershey's... Australian Cadbury is better, yet the different sized pieces make it harder to make the s'mores. Overall, they are good, but I don't think they quite hit the mark. That night, Will and I also played around with my camera and our flashlights to take some pretty cool photos which will be up soon.
Christmas Eve Eve consisted of an early morning to go to town and get ready to go fishing. The four of us rented a little tinny to go out on the lake for four hours of fishing. It was a good time and after a slow start for myself, I ended up catching 5 1/2 fish! They were all baby snappers so we had to release them but it was still good. The half of a fish was when I had a pretty big fish on the line and almost got him out of the water, but with only a couple feet left to go, he got himself off the line... Or a shark ate the other half of the fish, whatever you want to believe. ;)
Christmas Eve was a normal day of camping, and we had another fire that night before heading off to bed around 10. (Can't be up when Santa gets there!) Christmas morning was a pleasant one and a relaxing one. We woke up one by one, and once everyone was up and running, we opened up presents! I got a few things from my family, but I think the one I will cherish the most is a shirt Julie altered so say where I've been, including Moruya, Moruya Heads, and Congo on it! It was great to spend Christmas here in Australia with my host family, Julie, Pete, and Will! Afterward, we headed back to Moruya to have a Christmas lunch with Pete's family. Beforehand, though, my family was awesome and changed the plans slightly so that I could get to church for Christmas mass. As it goes with the Church, mass was pretty much the same, yet here, at this parish, they sung all of the responses, which was a bit different. But singing in praying twice, right? When we got to Pete's sister's place, we had a great lunch including, not shrimp, but prawns on the barbie! It was a good time, and it was then that while tossing the frisbee, I ripped my pants *insert Spongebob song here* for the second time that week. Eventually it came time to depart from there and head over to Will's uncle's place for Christmas dinner, which was equally as good. For dinner, we had various vegetables, next to wild boar and duck, which were both very delicious. Will and I spent the night with Will's dad before going home in the morning after a bacon and egg breakfast. This year's (or last year, now) Christmas was awesome! It was much different being that it was 80 degrees (fahrenheit, I don't think we would be alive if it was celsius), although apparently thats cold for Christmas in Australia; also because we were camping on Christmas morn. I don't know if it was that or the absence of family that it didn't really feel like Christmas at first, but I missed the cold Christmas back home... Everyone in my family and friends around me, though, held the holiday spirit and helped me feel that, making, in the end, one of the best Christmases ever! It was definitely different, but good. :D
The next day was Boxing Day! It was exciting to say "Happy Boxing Day!" haha We didn't get back down to Mystery Bay until the afternoon, but it was alright, we still got some good time at the beach before the weather turned. Of all times that it doesn't rain in Australia, it rained 3 of the 10 days there... It was still good though. :) Friday morning we spent the hours mostly at the beach and on the boogie board. It was a pretty good time and I caught a few great waves on the board. No surfing, though. :/ In the afternoon, after lunch, we went down to Merimbula to do a little shopping before Will and I went to a French exchange student's 18th birthday party! It was a pretty good party and I had a lot of fun, and pulled an all-nighter to watch the sunrise. The next morning, we had breakfast with eggs, delicious crêpes and the best bacon I've had since getting to Australia. Usually the bacon, here, isn't quite as good I think, but this bacon was great. :) We then hung around waiting to do something before getting picked up in the late morning by Pete and Julie who were generous enough to take the hour drive so Will and I could go to the party. We took the coastal route back to our camp site, stopping for lunch along the way, which was superb. When we got back, we decided to just pack up that night instead of the next day, so we packed up and headed back home to Congo. That night, I had a generous 13 hours sleep before getting up to help sort out the camping stuff, and clean/ fix the bikes. We even had some street art from the world-renowned artist, Will Scobie, after having to empty a bucket of paint and water that has been sitting for some months. (Pictures will be up soon)
This brought us to Monday, where we had a quiet day of the Hobbit! In the morning/ early afternoon, we watched The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey before going to the theater in the late afternoon to watch The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They are both pretty good, but I have to say, I didn't enjoy An Unexpected Journey as much the second time watching it and in both, they got a little slow in the middle. Other than that, they are really good. :) Tuesday was finally New Year's Eve! It kinda crept up on us, and seem to be here too soon. My host family and I went mini-golfing! I was winning by one for the first 9, but come the end of the game, I was in 3rd, with everyone only 1 point apart from each other. I did, though, win in the number of hole-in-ones, with 2! :) It was a fun time! In the evening, Will and I went to a friend's place for a small get-together for New Years. We had a lot of fun that night leading up to 2014 and a pretty good start to the year in the early hours! It was kinda cool to spend New Years here, and watch the fireworks, even if just on tele, but it was great! I would put this as one of, if not the best New Years celebration in my life! After a few hours of sleep, we had pancakes for breakfast before heading down to the surf for a day at the beach. We even had tubes to float around in and ride the waves on, which was pretty close to being just as good as surfing!
We went home in the late afternoon, and had dinner. To finish off the night, we watched The Man From Snowy River, which is an Australian classic based off an Australian poem about a mountain man. Both the poem and film are really good and I enjoyed it. :) Come today, we had a relaxing morning, which I spent reading and writing the majority of this post. In the avo, we went for a canoe ride up Congo Creek which was pretty fun and very enjoyable. Will and even stopped for a little while to go for a swim, jumping off a fallen tree. I even did some back flips and two failed front flips... It was a good time followed by going out for Mexican for dinner. :) I had the fajitas after we all had chips and guac. It was pretty good, although I found the guac a bit unsatisfying and the meal insufficient, but other than that, it was a great meal and a good time. I even taught my family paper football! Afterward, we went home to get changed shortly before heading down the road to the Creek for some prawning. We spent a good hour or so down there, and had about 6 or 7 prawns to show for it, although only 1 was of good size, really. It was still a great night and really fun. :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR! GOD BLESS!
02 January 2014
31 December 2013
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! It has been just about 5 months since I arrived to Australia and it has been possibly the best 5 months I have and maybe will ever have in my entire life! I just want to thank everyone who has been a part of it and all those who helped make it happen! Thank you to my parents and family for supporting me on my exchange! Thanks to the Rotary Club of North Haven, Conn. for sponsoring me for this exchange, specifically Debbie Volain for her help getting this done! Thanks again to the Rotary District 7980 for doing the same, and for the help of Sue Horton and all the other committee members for helping prepare me and making sure that I was ready for this awesome time! Thanks to the Rotary District 9710 for hosting me and to Rohan Gleeson and John Britton for organising my exchange and making it actually happen. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Moruya for hosting me here in one of the best places on Earth! Thanks to Carol Young, my counsellor for supporting me and helping me while I'm here! Thanks finally to all my host families, those who have already hosted me and had to hire a cow ;) and to those who will host me in the future! It has been great and has meant a lot! THanks also to all the fantastic friends I have made and the great fun you have given me! It wouldn't be the same without you. Thanks again to everyone who made this happen for giving me the best experience ever! Happy New Years! GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS IN THE NEW YEAR!
17 December 2013
Even more stuff, stuff, and stuff from November
Come Mon, 18 Nov, it was a normal day at school, and I played basketball with Will in the afternoon, which was fun, but annoying with the sun directly in my eyes for half of it! Tuesday, at Cadets, I got my black ceremonial belt, and prepared some more for March Out. Wednesday was a relaxing day and I got into town a littler earlier than usual and just explored. At the running club, I was doing well until I got to the hill, then it just didn't work for me and I finished with a time of 20:36. Rotary was interesting as the Area Police Commander was speaking. :) Then came the weekend, where I had another relaxing day Saturday, when I should've done this, before going down to Bega with the Whitings an early Sunday for a Christmas dinner! :)
At school on Monday, we had an excursion for Society and Culture about our PIPs (Personal Interest Project), which is basically a hige research project that is a part of their HSC (High School Certificate) mark. I decided to do mine on Gun Control and its effect on culture. I still have yet to narrow down the topic to a specific question. Anyway, it was fun day and I got out of class! I even met someone from Arizona who attends another school! However they seem to think Australia is much better... Don't get me wrong, Australia is awesome, and amazing, yet I think it would be best to put them equal if not the US just a bit higher up on the scale. ('Cause we're obese as a country, get it? tehe)
Tuesday, I was blessed by my hospitality class to hold a Thanksgiving dinner with them. We are learning cross-cultural things at the time so it worked perfectly. It was awesome for them to do that for me, though, and I really enjoyed it! Thanks guys! :D We even had an extra turkey which I got to take home. :) Then come Thursday, which is actually Thanksgiving, my awesome host family gave me a Thanksgiving dinner as well! So, Tuesday, I made 2 apple pies from my family's awesome recipe, which everybody loves, of course! Thursday I went to school and came home to the house smelling of Turkey, as Julie had kindly started the cooking. She really did most, nearly all, of the cooking herself, and did an amazing job! For her first turkey, it was delicious, as well as the other food we had! We also invited my first host-family, my counselor's family, and another friend. It was just amazing! I really enjoyed it and am so thankful for all the wonderful people I have here to call my family! :D Thank you guys!
Friday morning I video chatted with my family as it was then Thanksgiving back home and it was really nice to see everyone that I haven't seen in several months. That afternoon, the Whitings took me up to the Rotary orientation meeting for us exchange students. Friday night we went into Canberra and saw Catching Fire, which was amzingly good. I even got a hat with dangly things that should keep the flies away from my face when I go out to the outback. :) Saturday morning came with a ride to the Rotary meeting and a morning of boring, yet necessary I guess, workshop things with the inbounds and outbounds. In the afternoon though, the other inbounds and I got to head off to a local fair, which was interesting and fun to go to. I won a little blue hedgehog which I called Sonic after paying $5 for a carnival game. :) I also got a pacman tattoo after we all decided to get tattoos together. It was a good time, followed by spending a half hour at the local pool. :) I must say it was my first time I've ever lost a contact! I guess thats why your not supposed to where them in the pool. That night the outbounds got presented with their jackets in a nice ceremony, followed by a mini-party that got shut down around 11. So, of course, we all piled into one room and preceded to stay up past 2am. Most of us did end up going to sleep at some stage, yet a couple did pull an all-nighter. It was a fun night. :) Sunday was more boring things until noon, when we all went off in our own directions. It was a little sad that this was the last time we would see the outbounds before they leave. It was a fun weekend all together and I can't wait to meet up with the other exchange students again!
Tuesday was an interesting day at school, as there was a teacher's strike so no classes were held until 11am, which just gave me a bunch of time to waste in the morning. Which I did so unproductively! Due to the strike, the school was pretty empty as kids didn't bother coming to school. It was nice, though. That evening was March Out at Cadets, which is the last parade night of the year where we invite parents and people to come watch a small ceremony where we march onto the parade ground, have awards, and then change over those in charge of the unit. It was a nice ceremony and I enjoyed it. :) I even got to meet a Major in the Australian Army. Wednesday at Rotary was interesting as it was a geologist speaking and telling the local history of the land, which was fascinating. Also, apparently, there is a point only 5 km from me that is an international hotspot for geologists! The Moruya granite, that built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, even has a special name, which I cannot remember at this time. Friday was nice and relaxed and I played cricket for the first time with Will! Its pretty cool and I think almost as good as baseball. :)
The weekend was fun filled with a biv with Cadets at a local property. We arrived in the morning, followed by splitting the unit into two groups and then heading off into the bush to create bunkers for the teams. THis consumed the morning, besides setting up the CP of course. In the avo, after lunch, we played capture the flag between the two teams, and the senior rank (of which I'm included) operated as a renegade force. It was a fun time, followed by teaching the newbies about the rations packs, before heading off to dinner. Once back we had a little down time and let people modify their hoochies as rain was possible, before heading back out in the dark to play capture the flag again until 10pm. The unit even has 1 pair of night vision goggles, of which I got to play with for the night! :) Finally, we stayed up around the fire until 1ish after sending everyone else to bed around 11 after having some awesome bbq chicken cooked in the camp oven. Sunday was more war games in which the two teams had to capture a FOB that us senior ranks set up and then acquire an intel package which we had hidden. It took them about 30min to get the four of us, even with them respawning, and another 30 to find the package. We then headed back to CP, where we broke everything down and then sent the teams back to play capture the flag again if they so wished while we waited for rides to show up. It was a pretty fun weekend that I wished could've lasted longer. Sunday avo I met Will's dad, who seems like a nice bloke from my interaction with him, and we played a short game of cricket with the family!
Come this past week, not too much has happened. I've spent most of it trying to catch up on assessments that I have procrastinated until then. My run at the running club wednesday was poor. I was doing great up until the halfway mark, where after turning around I got a huge stitch (cramp) in my back followed by not being able to breath well, causing me to have to walk to catch my breath. I still came in at 23 min but for me, that is just horrible... I feel a lot better now, and have gotten more into a better running routine lately. :)
Friday was Presentation Day at school which is basically when we have a ceremony (2hrs about) where the school gives out awards to the best students, mostly those who came 1st in a subject, and some athletes who excelled. There were also a couple small talks relating to various things. Such as Will, my host brother, gave a talk on culture relating to the school over the past year, so of course that led me to talk to the school since I am from another culture! It was good though, I basically just told them who I was and a little about myself, and highlighted a little bit of the cultural differences between the US and Aus. It was a good talk I felt and I barely even looked at my notes! Afterward, just because our year advisor felt they needed to give me an award, he gave me a Parents and Citizens award really just for being me! haha Although with the awards they gave out $30 vouchers for the local bookstore and newsstore, etc for education, which seems as a pretty good incentive to try to place high in your class. One person received almost $200 in vouchers! It was good though and I enjoyed it. However, since I was out of class the whole day to prepare for it (was supposed to practice but just sat there...) afterward it felt like it should've been the last day of school...
The weekend came and went pretty quickly. Saturday was filled with writing postcards to various people. I think I sent out about 8 or so. This consumed about 3 hours of my day, followed by homework! WOOOH!
*****
So, I set out the paper excitedly and grabbed my special black pen that received at Presentation Day, and began to work... I worked effectively and efficiently with great zeal! This was the case though only until my hand began to cramp up unexpectedly, yet nothing was going to stop me! I ran to the kitchen with fright, got myself a tall cool glass of Milo, and raced back to my seat! I gulped down the Milo as quick as humanly possible; the milk was gone within a minute. Then I was at it again! I hit the papers with my pen ad fury flew out as I wrote an amazing several thousand words!
*****
So, really, it was just a boring day, yet surprisingly it didn't bother me to do homework all day and I was very productive. This continued Sunday and before dinnertime Sunday, I was finished with all my assessments and it felt sooo great to be done!
Additionally on Sunday, Julie, Peter, Will and I set out to our camping site down the coast to set up early, so it was all done, and our spot is reserved! Its actually a pretty good site and we have a great setup, especially since we may have been a little greedy grabbing our spots. But it will be nice when we go down there on Thursday and camp until the New Year! Yesterday, Mon 16 Dec, was an alright day at school, I did one last bit of school work that I had to finish and the only class that we actually did work in was English and Modern History. :) It helped that my teacher wasn't here for 2 of the classes. It was the same today, although they didn't ring the bells so I was pretty much halfway late to history, but it was all good. :) In hospitality, the two of us, plus another who came just for the ice cream, ate some fresh mango ice cream that we prepared yesterday. It was delicious. :D The afternoon consisted of running errands such as mailing those post-cards ($2.50 each!) and finally paying off my safari trip! I also got a new pair of running shoes for only $90 which was great! For the shoes I got, I may have paid that back home. It was a good day and its great that school's over until 2014! Until February actually!
Now I am finally caught up, I believe! I doubt I will get in another post until 2014 so MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
At school on Monday, we had an excursion for Society and Culture about our PIPs (Personal Interest Project), which is basically a hige research project that is a part of their HSC (High School Certificate) mark. I decided to do mine on Gun Control and its effect on culture. I still have yet to narrow down the topic to a specific question. Anyway, it was fun day and I got out of class! I even met someone from Arizona who attends another school! However they seem to think Australia is much better... Don't get me wrong, Australia is awesome, and amazing, yet I think it would be best to put them equal if not the US just a bit higher up on the scale. ('Cause we're obese as a country, get it? tehe)
Tuesday, I was blessed by my hospitality class to hold a Thanksgiving dinner with them. We are learning cross-cultural things at the time so it worked perfectly. It was awesome for them to do that for me, though, and I really enjoyed it! Thanks guys! :D We even had an extra turkey which I got to take home. :) Then come Thursday, which is actually Thanksgiving, my awesome host family gave me a Thanksgiving dinner as well! So, Tuesday, I made 2 apple pies from my family's awesome recipe, which everybody loves, of course! Thursday I went to school and came home to the house smelling of Turkey, as Julie had kindly started the cooking. She really did most, nearly all, of the cooking herself, and did an amazing job! For her first turkey, it was delicious, as well as the other food we had! We also invited my first host-family, my counselor's family, and another friend. It was just amazing! I really enjoyed it and am so thankful for all the wonderful people I have here to call my family! :D Thank you guys!
Friday morning I video chatted with my family as it was then Thanksgiving back home and it was really nice to see everyone that I haven't seen in several months. That afternoon, the Whitings took me up to the Rotary orientation meeting for us exchange students. Friday night we went into Canberra and saw Catching Fire, which was amzingly good. I even got a hat with dangly things that should keep the flies away from my face when I go out to the outback. :) Saturday morning came with a ride to the Rotary meeting and a morning of boring, yet necessary I guess, workshop things with the inbounds and outbounds. In the afternoon though, the other inbounds and I got to head off to a local fair, which was interesting and fun to go to. I won a little blue hedgehog which I called Sonic after paying $5 for a carnival game. :) I also got a pacman tattoo after we all decided to get tattoos together. It was a good time, followed by spending a half hour at the local pool. :) I must say it was my first time I've ever lost a contact! I guess thats why your not supposed to where them in the pool. That night the outbounds got presented with their jackets in a nice ceremony, followed by a mini-party that got shut down around 11. So, of course, we all piled into one room and preceded to stay up past 2am. Most of us did end up going to sleep at some stage, yet a couple did pull an all-nighter. It was a fun night. :) Sunday was more boring things until noon, when we all went off in our own directions. It was a little sad that this was the last time we would see the outbounds before they leave. It was a fun weekend all together and I can't wait to meet up with the other exchange students again!
Tuesday was an interesting day at school, as there was a teacher's strike so no classes were held until 11am, which just gave me a bunch of time to waste in the morning. Which I did so unproductively! Due to the strike, the school was pretty empty as kids didn't bother coming to school. It was nice, though. That evening was March Out at Cadets, which is the last parade night of the year where we invite parents and people to come watch a small ceremony where we march onto the parade ground, have awards, and then change over those in charge of the unit. It was a nice ceremony and I enjoyed it. :) I even got to meet a Major in the Australian Army. Wednesday at Rotary was interesting as it was a geologist speaking and telling the local history of the land, which was fascinating. Also, apparently, there is a point only 5 km from me that is an international hotspot for geologists! The Moruya granite, that built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, even has a special name, which I cannot remember at this time. Friday was nice and relaxed and I played cricket for the first time with Will! Its pretty cool and I think almost as good as baseball. :)
The weekend was fun filled with a biv with Cadets at a local property. We arrived in the morning, followed by splitting the unit into two groups and then heading off into the bush to create bunkers for the teams. THis consumed the morning, besides setting up the CP of course. In the avo, after lunch, we played capture the flag between the two teams, and the senior rank (of which I'm included) operated as a renegade force. It was a fun time, followed by teaching the newbies about the rations packs, before heading off to dinner. Once back we had a little down time and let people modify their hoochies as rain was possible, before heading back out in the dark to play capture the flag again until 10pm. The unit even has 1 pair of night vision goggles, of which I got to play with for the night! :) Finally, we stayed up around the fire until 1ish after sending everyone else to bed around 11 after having some awesome bbq chicken cooked in the camp oven. Sunday was more war games in which the two teams had to capture a FOB that us senior ranks set up and then acquire an intel package which we had hidden. It took them about 30min to get the four of us, even with them respawning, and another 30 to find the package. We then headed back to CP, where we broke everything down and then sent the teams back to play capture the flag again if they so wished while we waited for rides to show up. It was a pretty fun weekend that I wished could've lasted longer. Sunday avo I met Will's dad, who seems like a nice bloke from my interaction with him, and we played a short game of cricket with the family!
Come this past week, not too much has happened. I've spent most of it trying to catch up on assessments that I have procrastinated until then. My run at the running club wednesday was poor. I was doing great up until the halfway mark, where after turning around I got a huge stitch (cramp) in my back followed by not being able to breath well, causing me to have to walk to catch my breath. I still came in at 23 min but for me, that is just horrible... I feel a lot better now, and have gotten more into a better running routine lately. :)
Friday was Presentation Day at school which is basically when we have a ceremony (2hrs about) where the school gives out awards to the best students, mostly those who came 1st in a subject, and some athletes who excelled. There were also a couple small talks relating to various things. Such as Will, my host brother, gave a talk on culture relating to the school over the past year, so of course that led me to talk to the school since I am from another culture! It was good though, I basically just told them who I was and a little about myself, and highlighted a little bit of the cultural differences between the US and Aus. It was a good talk I felt and I barely even looked at my notes! Afterward, just because our year advisor felt they needed to give me an award, he gave me a Parents and Citizens award really just for being me! haha Although with the awards they gave out $30 vouchers for the local bookstore and newsstore, etc for education, which seems as a pretty good incentive to try to place high in your class. One person received almost $200 in vouchers! It was good though and I enjoyed it. However, since I was out of class the whole day to prepare for it (was supposed to practice but just sat there...) afterward it felt like it should've been the last day of school...
The weekend came and went pretty quickly. Saturday was filled with writing postcards to various people. I think I sent out about 8 or so. This consumed about 3 hours of my day, followed by homework! WOOOH!
*****
So, I set out the paper excitedly and grabbed my special black pen that received at Presentation Day, and began to work... I worked effectively and efficiently with great zeal! This was the case though only until my hand began to cramp up unexpectedly, yet nothing was going to stop me! I ran to the kitchen with fright, got myself a tall cool glass of Milo, and raced back to my seat! I gulped down the Milo as quick as humanly possible; the milk was gone within a minute. Then I was at it again! I hit the papers with my pen ad fury flew out as I wrote an amazing several thousand words!
*****
So, really, it was just a boring day, yet surprisingly it didn't bother me to do homework all day and I was very productive. This continued Sunday and before dinnertime Sunday, I was finished with all my assessments and it felt sooo great to be done!
Additionally on Sunday, Julie, Peter, Will and I set out to our camping site down the coast to set up early, so it was all done, and our spot is reserved! Its actually a pretty good site and we have a great setup, especially since we may have been a little greedy grabbing our spots. But it will be nice when we go down there on Thursday and camp until the New Year! Yesterday, Mon 16 Dec, was an alright day at school, I did one last bit of school work that I had to finish and the only class that we actually did work in was English and Modern History. :) It helped that my teacher wasn't here for 2 of the classes. It was the same today, although they didn't ring the bells so I was pretty much halfway late to history, but it was all good. :) In hospitality, the two of us, plus another who came just for the ice cream, ate some fresh mango ice cream that we prepared yesterday. It was delicious. :D The afternoon consisted of running errands such as mailing those post-cards ($2.50 each!) and finally paying off my safari trip! I also got a new pair of running shoes for only $90 which was great! For the shoes I got, I may have paid that back home. It was a good day and its great that school's over until 2014! Until February actually!
Now I am finally caught up, I believe! I doubt I will get in another post until 2014 so MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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