back from perth!
posted on Friday, November 30, 2007
yeah baby! it was fun!
summary: i went on an art trip organised by the funtastic ms ho. my hilarious roomates were clara and yun zhu!
day 1: (24/11/07, saturday) i had the biggest luggage out of my groupmates. [don't ask] 9am flight. gathered at 7am. the flight was bumby. didn't get to sit with my groupmates. and for some reason i ended up watching hairspray... we landed. it was very shaky. it was 37 degrees celcius! like, whoa. we went to raebrun orchard [just the shop. no tour of the orchard] and we did our first shopping there! buying food and nibbling the samples. next we went to our tiny hotel room! there was a double bed and a single bed pushed together. clara took the single, i slept in the middle of the two and yz took the side cause she wanted the light. the shower door was spoilt so the water kept spilling out while we bathed. we kept drinking the milk in the fridge![the small ones that they give on the plane] yeah we talked all night long! just kept going till 12+ when clara got cranky. took silly photos and laughed our heads off!
day 2: big breakfast in the hotel-2poached eggs, bacon, hashbrown, sausage and 2 slices of bread. and...wait for it... shopping! but first we went to monuement hill. where it was freezing! plus i was wearing a sleeveless top and my group didn't bring a jacket because of yz's and clara's great advice. then we went to the fremantle market where i shopped the most out of my groupmates. [why's it always me?] bought presents for my darling friends! some are small but say a lot. very interesting place. almost got cheated by accident ;) we went for a fish and chips lunch! then toured a prison. it was quite sad. only one guy was executed- a 16 year old, for stealing a loaf of bread. terrible isn't it? they made the prisoners build the prison. imagine how torturing that is. to build something only to be locked away in it. the irony of it all drives you insane. but next at the awesome art festival we painted on a cardboard house. it was pretty cool. then we were allowed to shop for 2 hours. i bought more presents and gelato :) yes, despite the weather i still wanted gelato! went back and slept earlier but this time clara was awake. so i tried to stay awake &talk to her. we listened to her mp3 and fell asleep with it on! and in the morning i thought i lost my wallet! but i managed to find it :)
day 3: boring!? we just toured art gallery after art gallery. [like i haven't had enough of that?!] but there were some interesting parts. i liked the W.A gallery. [i think it was called that] went back and slept. that's about it i think...oh, we ate kebabs. :D it was nice!
day 4: cutin! yeap! we went to university! lol. got that joke from our bus driver. he was a funny guy. we started of weaving using the aboriginal method. we had to use our hands and FEET! it was pretty hard! yz's turned out pretty. i never completed mine. it was too hard. then we went on to felting! it was total coolness. i made a scarf[didn't turn out too well] i tried to make it lacy and thin unlike every one's which was thick. but it ended up it holes. luckily it looks like part of the design. haha. made beads too! cute right?
day5: back to cutin! we did print making and embroidery. the print making was fun but the paint on mine didn't come off completely. the embroidary was very differnt from what i thought it would be. we had to draw our friend's face, then place the paper on the cloth and use a sewing machine to sew the lines without cutting the thread. weird? yes. and being me, i can't sew for nuts&i've never touched a sewing machine in my life. so yes, it was 200% weird. and i thought i lost my handphone AGAIN! but we found it in the plastic bag. i was on the verge of crying cause i just lost my handphone a few weeks ago. it was extremely traumatising.
day6: last day! went to caversham wildlife park. at first we we'ren't sure if they were open cause some joker lit a bushfire at night. but luckily they were open. no harm done. the wombat was big. yes, big and fat. yz held it but i didn't dare. and we fed the kangaroo! it put it's paw-like hand[or foot] on my hand! so cute! then i dropped my ear stud near the dingos so ms ho, la, and yz accompanied me back to find it. ms ho found the backing while yz found the front. thank goodness for them! then we shopped in their shop, and left for the airport. he played the mathilda song for us! it's called waltzing mathilda and we loved the song! haha. we ended up singing along. didn't get to say a personal goodbye to trevel [our bus driver] ): but i hope God blesses his kind soul. shopped around in the airport bought somemore things and got to sit with caroline on our trip back! she has motion sickness, the poor thing. watched liscecne to wed and part of no reservations. there was something wrong with my tv thing at one point. so i got quite fed up. but before we left, in the departure hall, i saw these two ladies, one was leaving and the other had come to see her off. they were crying and just as one stepped into the departure hall she turned back to see her friend crying and she gave her a big hug. whne i saw this i felt like crying too. cause i understand how hard is must be to be separated from your loved ones. she must have been leaving for a long time, or migrating possibly. i hope God blesses them too. when we got back i was washing my ear studs when they fell into the sink! i was like wth?! and i almost cried! then dad came up and unscrewed the pipe thing at the bottom. and we found it there. thank God right? i think i have to pray to st anthony more, so i don't keep losing things. haha.
i went to sleep at 9.30 [that's the earliest record since p2 i think] woke up at 5.30, went back to sleep and woke up at 10 am this morning :D made pancakes! and sorted out my lugagge. i still think i should have bought more sutff. i hope jie likes the big limited edition packet of skittles i bought for her! she's coming back from the conference tonight. :D
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