i'm keeping an actual journal for urban, so i havent really been updating here. so a bit of a recap...day 1 was "arcades, lanes and cafes". we got into groups of 3 (erika, min and i) and a few pages of clues for our challenge. the clues were written in a poem form, so we gotta figure it out and go places :D at first we almost took a tram to port phillip bay, but it turns out it meant port phillip arcade. figures, since the activity was called ARCADES, lanes and cafes *duh* =__= theres so many cool shops and cafes i had never known about, so after doing the challenge, im totally coming back one day :D our group were really organised and i'm pretty sure we finished first. teachers gave us bonus points for working well ;D yaay.
day 2 was going to edmund rice centre and tutoring/playing with refugees. SO much fun, i worked with a vietnamese girl called Hong, and we did a bit of reading and writing before going outside and playing ball games and duck duck goose with the rest of the kids. after the experience, we all wanted to get a real message out there...i mean, the media and stuff always make their stories on refugees sound so negative (especially african). the kids are already feeling touchy and unloved, and for anyone to go there, give them a hug and make them smile...it's priceless. when we left, a boy and a girl and their baby brother wandered in because their father had died and their mother abandoned them. if this was anyone else, it'd be all over the news begging for sympathy stories (remember pumpkin?). they put on a brave face and we all had a good time regardless. its cute how trusting they are, although they hardly know you, they realise you're a good person and just jump on you for a piggy back :P we taught them handclapping games and at the end of they day, one girl didnt want to leave haha. we all donated pencils and stationery (which they desperatly needed) and some of us just pulled things out of our pencil cases and put them in a pile. definatly gonna write a letter to the papers or the principal about the experience soon.
day 3...i was sick. haha, on the night of edmund rice centre (and after watching the SKC & our school play of romeo and juliet) i started feeling a bit sick, i thought it was from the dust or something, but no. in the middle of the night i chucked up all the sushi i ate for dinner =/ wasnt pretty at all, i felt like shit. the next morning i woke up and...slept for the rest of the day. didn't eat at all, had a bit of soup but didn't really want to. i was determind to be well for day 4.......surfing!!! (apparently day 3, which was visiting melbourne uni and a cemetary, absolutely sucked. so i didn't miss much :P)
DAY 4!! SURFING!! i was extreeemely weak, but i HAD to go. the whole point of me picking the urban adventure was cause of surfing LOL. rocked up at some surfing museum (waste of time) and then to some beach at torquay. got a lowdown on how to surf and hit the waves!! ohh so much fun, the first time i stood up i got so excited i jumped off the board :P after a lot of wave catching, Sam and I got creative and joined our boards. with my butt on my board, her butt on her board, but our legs on each others boards (you following me :P?) we were absolutely determined to surf a wave together...which we failed many times but eventually got it........and fell off. we're totally the best :D hahahah. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA FOR FRIDAY.
so today's a long weekend and yesterday was erikas birthday. they're celebrating today but im not going =__= still actually need to recover haha. had a concert yesterday and i was so weak that i finished playing the piece and broke out in a sweat. then started crying non stop. embarrassing, but meh :P gonna stay home today and hopefully susan should be here in a while so i can at least not waste the weekend by watching a dvd. KNOCKED UP IS OUT ON DVD :D so yeah, that's week one for you :] stay tuned
xo
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