Oh my Goshiness :P
I haven't wrote for like a year now. The past posts were about exams that are coming SOON yet again!.... needless to say, lots of things have happened for the past .. eh, year?!
Yes, but I shall be posting again. And I'll try and be un-neglectful towards my 0h-so-pretty blog
:D
Ok.
I've been at camp. And I wrote a whole... LOT of stuff about it.
It was a letter to my friends in another country. I'll just post that on my blog, cuz I cannot write another whole three-hour story about my camp :D
Yes, camp is over and the serious IGCSE's are coming up. They're different from the fake year-1o Exams. Lol
Anyway. Here it is!
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Ok.
*deep breath*
my camp.
Was... pretty darn cool. :)
Ok
First day, I woke up at 5:00. I don't know why, but my brother was up and ready (we were at the same camp because it's a year 10-13 camp... because year 10's & 11's have to do a geography coursework together... so much for fun-ness eh?) and yeah. I had an hour so I just packed the stuff (like waterbottle and shoes) I hadn't pack the night before and went for a jog. It was quite scary cuz it's still quite dark at 5AM. Anyway, quick jogging ended, and I went to school with my perty headphones (that my dad brought from korea-he went to Korea for 3 weeks) and so I arrived to school with my big red bag and my small pink handbag (both kipling, and matching.. hehe) And I had to sadly part with my MP3 & my lovely headphones :( -I did miss them dearly during camp-
Yeah, and we hung out for a while at the school watching the other little kids cramming into other buses, as others started arriving. :D
Anyway.. blah blah, skip skip. We went on the bus... nothing interesting there. No sleeping, just aimless chatter and talking for 4 hours. (toilet stops-but none of the girls stopped and used it)
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And we like arrived at like a close area to there (like a river/sea place) and the boys threw rocks at the water skipping rocks, girls took pictures. And then we went to the cambodian resturant to have fried noodles. (we had like 3 meals of fried noodles -i'm telling ya-) and then mucked around the disgusting pool thingy with the 2000 statue on it. (seriously there were DUNG floating around the water- but the 2000 thingy was cool so we took pictures around it)
and then went in the bus. BUT I found that I had lost hara's (one of my bro's korean-girl classmates) hat! So I ran (with her) all the way back to that place.... and Aggghh the motodop guys were saying that someone took it away. That thief!!! >:(
But we had to go. So I went on the bus... and arrived to this place where we waited for the teachers to get the boat tickets (to go to rabbit Island-where we did our coursework) There we had to carry 4 heavy water bottles because apparently there weren't like good water supplies in the Island. So blah, I had to stuff those HUGE water bottles into my bag and drag it across the rocky/sandy road (well it wasn't that long, but still.. it was heavy.. and I was annoyed) The bag kept tilting towards the waterbottle-heavy side. And I kept kicking it to make it steady again. But it would tip every like four steps I took, so you can see... under the blazing sunlight, I started kicking harder.. lol.
But everything went fine afterwards. The boat trip was just boring. We had to divide into teams to get into the small boat. It was like 8 per boat or something. I don't remember who exactly was in it.... ( wesely, anika, jessie, hannah, larrissa(?), dong, christi...-I think) There was no storm. Just the still sea. No water soaking us (as Mr. Graham had warned) It was hot also. Wesely & Anika actually fell asleep on the boat. Boys... Lolz
Then we arrived. It was so confusing at first. We just waited and waited... hiding in the shade-hut thingy with our bags by the bay until the teachers came back with our room keys. Then they came. And we were told that we were to sleep with people we didn't really get to interact with at school and stuff.. and you can imagine us thinking ... 'uh-oh'... and like seriously... all the room-mates were like so... wierd.
I felt sorry for lots of people.. I could imagine them like being awkward and all. So I was waiting for my name to be called. But I wasn't really worried. I liked all the girls and I thought I could be fine with all of them. :P The korean girls and the western girls! I'm so cool eh? hahaha. Anyway... I was watching all the people depart with their worried faces... Everyone was looking at each other nervously.. hehe.. then I was with Christi!!! we were both so happy...:D
We like ran and hugged each other screaming and yelling. :D haha... girls :P
But the house was so ... ugh! I mean compared to the boys houses it was fine. Because we actually had a toilet. (though it was a squatty thing with a bucket-khmere style yeah!- with no lights) and the beds were small. There wasn't enough room for our baggage. But it was managable. I mean. It's cambodia. It could've been worse.
After unpacking and stuff, we changed into our swimwear (for me.. it was swimwear+clothes above because I was wearing a bikini lolz)... but before we could dive into the sea (..the sea isn't as nice as shianokville.. but still a beach is a beach!) we had to have this mini-meeting with our geography coursework groups to work out the next day's coursework stuff. Blah blah, boring meeting over (though it was very important :D)
And we went SWIMMING!
It was so fun. There was this boat that was like Abandoned -a fishing boat I think.. it had like orange paint on it.. and stuff-. and everyone (who was swimming) went on. IT was frikin hard to get on though! There weren't steps or anything. You had to use your sheer upper body strength. (or in my case.. ask the help of some strong boys :P) to get on. The bottom of the boat had these freaky coral stuff on it so people got cut by it and stuff.... but we still got on it anyway. It was cool. People like pushed each other off, and like dived in etc. (But I didn't cuz I was too scared I couldn't get back on again...lol) Until we had dinner. It was fun.. :D
The sunset was beautiful too. I mean. Cambodian sunsets are just.... you know what I mean. XD. It was by the sea. And that made it like extra dramatic/beautiful.
I don't exactly remember what dinner thingy we had. But I remember having a cool can of coke :D. We had an awful lot of coke that week... hehe
And after that, we had like a prayer/worship meeting with the whole group (year 10-13) and stuff. Mr Eric gave us this sheet... it was like a thinking/chapter thing we had to do every day. And we got these pretty binders (I got red! I LOVE red now!) and yeah. We prayed. I don't remember much that day. We had to sleep early though 9:30! Can you believe that??!
I remember ending up sleeping with Nina because she brought her phone (illegallly... mwahahaha) and I wanted to see the sunrise the next day. And I needed an alarm... which SHE HAD :D. So I slept with her. Besides, Jessie (Elliott) was sharing our room anyway -but this got these girls into trouble later on!! :(, but it was all like a misunderstanding- , so I just moved to sleep with Nina. We talked about like who she liked and stuff. And then we thought we heard voices, .. oh before that... We noticed that Jessie's and Christi's room light went off early (we know this because we were like RIGHT NEXT DOOR with only like a thin wooden wall separating us) And we like were almost so sure that they went outside to talk with people at NIGHT.. (dundundun)...talking... with GUYS! but the guy's voice was like slow and like dreaary. It was a mix of Wesely+Tristan (a new tristan in our school)+ Nathan's voice... which confused us... 0..o
But we kept saying Oh my gosh, I can't believe those girls! They're gonna get in SOO much trouble if the get caught.
But the next day we found out it was some french people (UGH-I mean, french people.. what can we expect... lolz)
I didn't sleep well that night. I was sharing a small enough bed for ONE person with another person. (though nina is quite small)... and gosh, was IT hot! -0-.
I felt sticky all night. Oh, and I DID take a shower... in case you're like ew.. Sera.... but this had little effect to my comfort. :(.. and I did sleep poorly that night.
NExt day! (phew finally.. WOW, this is LONG!)
I woke up to the alarm, and went out. IT was still dark. And I don't know. The dark makes me feel all wierd. Like I'm in a dream or something. So, i stood by the bay watching the sea. And the STUPID FREAKIN dogs (they're not like cute, fluffy, big-eyed dogs.. but SKANKY, fat-pig, smelly, stupid, annoying dogs) kept following me :(
I hated them. And they were in a pac, following me. One of them started growling and like being all wierd, walking in two legs... (like crawling) so I got freaked, and like screamed at them yelling "shoooo! GO GO gO!" and ran to my cabin, nervously eyeing them... :(
Those stupid dogs even come to the balcony of our cabin. I Hate those dogs.
Soon after the dogs like started getting bored... (but still staring at me.. >:( ) I saw some boys that groggily approached the bay.. so I took courage and went with them
Then I walked along the beach.. and some of the boys started running across the bay (like jogging..-gosh, boys always have ENERGY) and Yeah, I went do this harbour thing. And it was cool... I was like sitting watching the sky turn pink (the clouds) and the fish swimming under the harbour thing. IT was like ZEN :D Me-peaceful-time-with-nature-and-God (I think)
Then we had breakfast. FRIED noodles. I felt a bit sick... because it was sort of greasy. I mean fried noodles for breakfast is a BIT MUCH. I was worried for like my day. Because we had Geography stuff for like 6 hours.
The geography part was reallly boring. Just trekking around the island with our groups measuring, taking pictures of rocks, sands and trees. (oh what fun!... not) and like doing a tape measure of the ground and all. We got like tired after the FIRST site we stopped to take measures at. WE had to do 10 of them! Every1 was like tired. But the spit was sort of cool. We went in there. IT was like really shallow for like LONG! and it was like walking int water! But the ground was all freaky (crunchy/muddy at the same time) and me & nina kept screaming (cuz we went together inside) because we thought we like stepped on shells/living freaky sea animals.
At the spit, we met the other half group who did the other half of the data collection in the Island. They were all frustrated, and like some of them had arguments and things weren't going well.... :(
So I was really thankful for our group + the other group that went with us
(our group -group 2-: Me, Joshua, Isaac, Nina, Dong)
After the 10 sites, we walked the other half part of the Island. It was like a silent walk. Rocks rocks, purple, red, pale, green.. ROCKS. trees, bushes, twigs, leaves.... NATURE! -_- IT was so HOT! and we were all thinking 'are we there yet?'... but eventually we DID arrive.
Me and nina got a cool orange drink. And OH MY... it was SO good! So sweet and tangy! If we had had it in another day, I would've been like. EW this is tacky and cheap tasting. But it was SOOO good when we had it after the dreadful walk....We like lied down on one of those bed/benches by the bay, and like wished that someone would carry the bench/bed thing up till where our rooms were (because we were at the other corner of the bay... our area was at the middle area of the bay) But we still went... (after more grumbling and resting...) and had another swim!
Ahh it was SO GOOD. More jumping off boats, struggling to get on, boys pushing you off, painful dives.... etc etc. Haha, and we had chicken fights in the water. I just watched... the kids were VISCIOUS. :P haha. (Especially Jessie) after all that entertainment, we had dinner (with another can of coke) and had a bit of hang out time (20 mins probably) and had our prayer-group-meeting thing. This time we had to divide into groups (Me, Wesely, Zoey, Chakk, Joshua) IT was sort of weird that meeting, cuz like I let Wesely (after whinings) lean on my shoulder... (Though I eventually slapped him away... haha, he's so funny :P) and yeah.. whatever... that wasn't the important part. We had deep conversations, but our time was limited... We had to gather back into the big circle.. We eventually ended our prayer meeting.
And more hang out time. :D
We talked in little cliques.
There was the Korean group
The card playing group
The wandering group
And Other...
I was the wandering part. I like wandered from one group to another... hehe. :D
Anyway, hang out time over. Good-nitey time.
I told Crusty and Jessie a scary story that made them scream.. haha it was funny.
I told this to Anika and Nathan too that dinner and they were freaked too.. hahaha they're so funnny :D.
But then Wesely told this FREAK story I don't even want to mention
because it was inappropriate, and just WRONG. and not in the least SCARY. Ugh, he can be such a freak sometimes.
ANYWAY
We slept more tolerably that night. :D
And The next morning.. ahh wait
NEXT day (again, finally)
This morning I figured there was no point in getting up early, so I tried to get up at a later time. We had breakfast, and then we had this group activity.
We were with our prayer groups (as I mentioned before) and yeah, it was this activity where we had these little plastic dwarfs (from snow white) dolls, and we had to build a house and a bout for them. Out of NATURAL equiptment we found.
Wesely wasn't much help. Just sitting there. (that lazy BUM!) But Chakk was REALLY overly enthusiastic. I was sort of just watching them do it. Hehe, I mean smart Josh and Chakk did everything! Hehe.. But it ended up pretty (the house) well I'll post a picture :D (It'll be on the top of the post though) Hehe :D
After that activity, we packed and like chilled (for a while) -Some swam... Wesely, Christi... and some others- But I just lay down by the shade ^^
Then we went on the boats. MY bag was really heavy. But no one helped me, and I was just waiting there looking at the boats in the sea, looking for someone to help me (I know, I'm so PATEHTIC.. and annoying :[) but Mr. Willsmore eventually helped and I was safe. :D
And more boat riding.
Hot-ness.
But the waves were a bit more high that time. THe boat was actually quite rickety. But no drowning.... too bad... (haha joking)... Anyway. We arrived to Vanna or something. AND BOY, was it GOOD! Air conditioning, proper TOILETS, NICE bedS!
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but for the boys, it wasn't as fortunate. Most of them didn't have air conditioning.
But, whatever.. hehe BOYS. THe view was awesome as well! there was a swing :D
I don't remember much afterwards. I think we played a card game called President or whatever. It was quite fun :D Then we had like worship at night ^^
YEah, blah blah
NEXT DAY
PANCAKEs for breakfast! Yessss :D
hehe, yeah... and then... We went out on 2 buses... We were told to bring a flashlight, but I lost mine at the Island... so I just went with my bag... which ended up being a BAD idea.
But anyway. On our trip there. (It was pretty far) We were singing (me and the girls)
all the part songs. (The good old "lean on me", "All night All day + Swing low", etcetc) and it was pretty fun... And then we arived to the cave.
I thought it'd be like the cave in Halong Bay, where they had nice paved pathways with pretty pink lights to light the way. But heck no. This was different! WE had to like climb onto rocks, sqeeze through holes, slide down the cliff, and OH gosh, people could have Died there. IT was dark, and you needed flashlights AND hands to climb. See how bad the situation was? But thankfully, some girls weren't going, so they stayed and took care of my bag! There weren't safety stuff. And boy, I got my trousers dirty. There were like 2 courses. For both of them I was pretty late (left behind) and every1 went ahead of me.
And the second one I was quite fine, I even caught up with one of the gangs, but you know I'm claustrophobic right? Well There was this part where you had to SQUEEZE through this hole. And Yeah, I wasn't going to risk it. And besides, one guy said he couldn't squeeze through it cuz of his size, so we (me, him, his friends, and teachers) went back.
IT was fun, and thrilling :D
On the way back, we stopped by another khmere restaurant and had a ridiculously large plate of fried rice (with.. again... a coke). I only finished 1/3 of it. :P Luka and Nathan finished like the whole thing. Monstersss.. :P
Anyway, we talked about like how songs when the frequency and volume altered, there are evil meanings in them and stuff, and then did some arm wrestling. Haha..
It was fun when Wesely and Mr Rety did it together. Seriously... it took so long :D
Okk Skip Skip..
This is taking WAY long.
We had another card game.
Then at night
we did this thing where we sat in year groups and did the thing (remember) when you write your name and everyone writes a nice thing about you! :D
Well I always LOVE those. :D
And Yeah, It was nice. Then there was the talking bit, and some people cried. :)
IT was all so LOVey Lovey dovey :D
Skip Skip
Wow
Do you know what time it is?
It's 1:38AM
It's SO late.
I tried my best.
The trip back.. There wasn't anything important :P
