days 9 ---- 14

ok ok
so i was sick for the rest of the trip
but i still did heaps of stuff in beijing such as:
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go to summer palace
go tian'anmen square
get squished by guards at tian'anmen square

loled at chairmen mao

go to forbidden city

first time karaoke

caught the train

made a new friend. his name is derek, isnt he dreamy??

day 8

DAY 8, Friday, 13th of April, ooo spooky -Not by the Hairs of my Qinny Qin Qin- The terracotta warriors are amazing. Words cannot describe them, so I just take picture.

its inside this little stadium thing
omg we are so adorable (left to right: bonnie, abby, me)

they even have horse thing lol i flashed bonnie in the face




-Some Random Chick-
We went to these hot springs in the mountain where the old emperor hung out with some concubine chick while the whole of China was being attacked by some randos until some communist dude jumped out the window and did stuff to save them or something and it was pretty cool. The water there naturally comes out the ground at 43 degrees Celsius so its nice and warmmm. You had to pay a fee to feel the water but me and Abby and Chris found a free one out the back. Haha sucked in to all the people who payed 1 yuan! I’mso stingy lol. So anyways, us three went out the back, but we forgot to get back to the bus in time so it turns out that the whole group is freaking and thinking that we got kidnapped by psychopath-stalker-rapist-murderers. We got in so much trouble … oops

my school at hot springs

Well, its back to the train again. Hey, you know we checked the toilet on there. When you flush, there’s no water, it just opens a hole to the train track. Seriously! You press the button, you see the tracks moving past!!! Eww

Ahh nightie night!


P.S. sorry I haven’t written much, I’ve got some weird cold and fever thing blehhh

day 7

DAY 7, Thursday 12th April
-Chugga Chugga Woot Woot-
I’m finally of that stupid train. We’re now in Xi’an yay!

Our first place to visit was the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It’s this huge building that leans on one side, kind of like a Chinese leaning tower of Pisa. Some emperor dude built it or something.

-Qiche-
We went bike riding around the city walls. It was cool, but I just happened to wear a mini-skirt that day, so … yea, I was kinda paranoid.

We went to this really cool show about the Tang dynasty. It was funny because Luke fell asleep and we put food on his face and took pictures of him lol. Ben was a big rebel and got in trouble. We thought he was cool, but it turns out he only stepped in the garden. I think we are driving the teachers crazy.

Sleep time now ^o^”

day 6

DAY 6 Wednesday, 11th April
-On the Train-
A lot of good looking Chinese boys told us we were beautiful… I really like this place, I could live here.

We played handball after more classes. I never knew that our teacher was so good! She’s like a machine. Miss ‘The Machine’ Robinson.

Well now we’re on the train back to Shanghai. LOL bonnie fell asleep so i took a photo of her. I’m so tired. Go away.

day 5

DAY 5 Tuesday, 10th April
-School Days-
We got woken up by a rooster. How civilised. Well I guess it’s only a small town of 1 million people *in case you can’t tell I’m being sarcastic*. I’m so tired right now. The beds in China are like rocks! No seriously! My friend jumped on it and now he has a bruise!!!

Even though our time at home wasn’t so great, school today was a lot of fun, especially the senior school. I got like a gazillion emails. They taught us some cool kung fu moves… better watch out hoo haa!

After senior school, there was primary school. Everybody rushed out of their classes and waved and screamed at us. There were more fireworks!

this kid kept on jumping in my photos LOL

-Macazzzzz-
For dinner, our host family took us to Macdonald’s because they thought that we love it. I hate Maca’s. It’s horrible and greasy and even thinking about it makes my heart hurt. Yet again I find another thing that is generally associated with westerners. It seems as if the rest of the world thinks we are fat, drunk people who drink too much. Actually, we pretty much are…

Later that evening, we went for a walk in the local park. Of course their car had broken down earlier that day, so to get there, they put us in a taxi by ourselves. It was totally freaky! We got there before them and some rando guy on a motorbike was asking us if we wanted a lift. A lift to where? We just got out of a taxi! What a jerk. That park was seriously weird. We also ran into a bunch of drunks and one of them fell in a bush haha.


-China People have Bad Music Taste-
We didn’t go to bed until late because we stayed up watching the Chinese music channel. It sucked. There was this song called ‘Marry Me Tonight.’ Like seriously, who even does that? I probably should go and ask Jolene and DT since they’re the ones who wrote it. Apparently they’re ‘in the house.’ Watevs good night

day 4

what a realistic mannequin!

DAY 4 Monday, 9th April
-DAnananananananananaaa MTV nanada NEWS REPORT nananananananana YOU KNOW FIRST dadaaaadanananaa-
I’m so bored right now. It’s been three hours of torture with Bonnie and Abby singing bus songs on the bus obviously. Here is the top five countdown:

5. The peanut song, possibly the most annoying of them all.

Lyrics…
Found a peanut, (x3)
Just now.
Found a peanut, (x3)
Just now.

(repeat the same pattern but change the ‘found a peanut’ line with each of the following:)

In the gutter,
Ate it anyway,
Went to hospital,
Cut me open,
Found the peanut,
Sew me up again,
Where’s the scissors?
In my stomach!
Cut me open again,
Found the scissors,
Sew me up again,
I died anyway,
Went to heaven,
Reincarnated,
Back on earth,
Went to school,
I flunked out,
Found a job,
Shovelling coal,
I looked down,
Found a peanut,
In the gutter… (and so on)

So the vicious circle just goes around and around for eternity.

4. That dumb Chinese song ‘Yue liang dai biao wo de xin’

3. I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a song that will get on nerves and it goes like this …
YAYAYAYAYAY

2. ‘Sweet Escape’ – Gwen Stefani
You know that song that goes weeeeeeeeeeeooooooo woooooohooooooo? Well, it’s been stuck in my head ever since I left Brisbane airport…

1. ‘Backpack’ – Dora the Explorer

Backpack! Backpack!
Backpack! Backpack!
Something something something something
Something something something
Something something something something
Something something something
Backpack! Backpack!
Backpack! Backpack!

(we didn’t actually no the words so we filled it in with erm… something)

Kill me now

-Crazy Man Climbs up Stick-
We finally got to our stopover in Wuzhen. Some crazy man climbed up a big long pole that leaned over a lake and did a roly-poly. I think he was trying to impress us. Maybe this is some sort of ancient Chinese art of pole-dancing. But yeah, that was pretty much the towns highlight. Other then that it had some more weird mannequins and a pet bird, oh, and some guy that sang old opera songs.

-I Don’t Think They Let Turtles through Australian Customs-
We arrived at Cixi this afternoon. When we got to the Cixi Yucai Middle School, they came out and started to cheer and stare and set off illegal fireworks. How awesome!

If you don’t mind me saying, I didn’t really mind the constant attention because, well, some of the guys were incredibly hot (there are so many you know)! They were so nice to us. The Chinese boys were telling us girls we were beautiful and giving us presents like silkworms and even a pet turtle! But I must admit, sometimes I felt like saying MY FACE IS UP HERE if you know what I mean. They sometimes got too close. Some of them even made jokes of us. Somebody would say something then they would stare at us and laugh. Being famous has its ups and downs. ^_^ >_< -Cesuo Zai Narrrrrrrrrrr?-

After school, we back with our home-stay family which consisted of Kelly, Kelly’s mum and Alice who is Kelly’s friend. Their English is about the same level as our Chinese so we met half way. The only phrases you really need to survive with are ‘Cesuo zainar?’ [Where is the toilet?] - For obvious reasons, ‘Zhe shi shenme?’ [What is that?] – In case there’s something really strange on the dinner table and you want to make sure it’s not a dog or something, but the most important and useful phrase is ‘Wo duzi teng’ [I have a stomach]. Why, you may ask? Well it’s a back up plan in case they really do serve you dog. It’s the perfect excuse to leave the table hehehe… Dinner was interesting. They served us Coke in bowls. Who even does that? Do you know anybody that drinks coke out of a bowl??? Kelly and Alice kept on bugging us to sing a song for them. We finally gave in and sang ‘Yueliang daibiao wo de xin.’ Zomg it was so embarrassing, they got out a video camera and started filming us. I just thought, oh great! So now we’re probably going to end up on some weird Chinese version of funniest home videos.

oh man, im so tall lol

day 3

DAY 3 Sunday, 8th April
-Easter Time at a Buddhist Temple Zolv-
Yay! It’s Easter time!!! Oh dear, I miss my fam fam…

We went to some Buddhist temple. It was weird because all those freaky evil god things were everywhere. Blebleble!
Afterwards, we went to a tea ceremony. It was pretty cool so I bought some tea that gives you lots of energy as a present for my grandparents. It smells like coconut^^ I hope I don’t drink it all by the time we get back, then my grandma would look up at me (she’s kind of short) and be all like, ‘How come everyone else has a present except me?’ and she will be all teary-eyed and disappointed and I’ll never forgive myself and maybe I would become an emo and cut cut and read depressing poetry and join a emo club full of other emo kids that didn’t give their grandma a present when they came back from China and mope around all day and dress all black and try to be anti-conformist while copying all the things that my cool new emo friends are doing simultaneously while feeling sorry for myself.

-Acrobat Dudes-
Zomg I’m like totally cereal you guys, we saw the greatest acrobat people like EVER. They did cool stuff like balance 10 chairs on their face while some chick like climbed to the top and did stuff. Cool?

day 2

DAY 2 Saturday, 7th April
-Ponds can be Deceiving-
I just got back from Yu gardens. Such a cute one! Except I was kind of scared since it was like packed full of Japanese people going lala and the bridge we had to walk on was thin and there was no fence and it was over a pond and since I’ve actually fallen into a pond before… what?!? It looked like grass ok?

-I Hate Flight Centre Man and Whales-
Oh thrill. We went to the communist party museum. Zomg it was really freaky. There were all these wax figures and mannequins of Mao Zedong and some other rando communist dudes everywhere. When I first saw them, I wasn’t quite sure if they were real. I got in trouble for screaming. I swear one of them was moving! And what’s with all the security guards? They’re so tight ars. When they do that martial arts stance, they look constipated. Actually, now that I think about it, they look like that flight centre pilot mannequin at the shop that holds flyers about cheap airfares.

Can I tell you a secret? Ok. I have a morbid fear of flight centre man, oh, and the giant whale at the museum in Brisbane that hangs off the roof and goes weeeeeeeohhoooooooooooooyyyy, but no time to explain that.

-Nathan Licked Abby’s Boob-
At lunch time, we had some really nice (but totally freaky) food. For dessert, they served us jelly, but not just any old jelly, this jelly was special. It was boob-shaped jelly. It was funny because Nathan stole Abby’s boob and licked it. Everyone was like ‘Eww! Nathan licked Abby’s boob! Gross!’

-Learning is Fun-
So afterwards, we went to this other rando museum about Chinese culture or some crap and it was really boring until we found a man wearing a skirt. bahaha

-Clowns are Ghey-
For dinner, we went to Jinmao Tower. It’s the tallest tower of something or whatever. To tell you the truth, I don’t know. To get there we had the choice of taking a plain normal everyday train, or like a fully sick pimped out train. We took the pimped out one. It was like an amusement ride or something. We went through a tunnel with all these flashing lights but then suddenly, from nowhere in particular, clowns jumped out. Oh the trauma! Clowns are now officially added to my list of totally irrational fears.

day 1

DAY 1 Friday, 6th April
-Plane trip-
We just got on the plane and what luck I have! I’m sitting in between the two most annoying boys in school! Nathan twitches in his sleep and I’m being flooded by Luke’s dribble. I was considering buying a raincoat, but maybe that’s too harsh. Oh well, only !7 HOURS! of annoying-ness to go.

Now we are at our stop over in Singapore. They have travelators and cool thingies that massage your feet and stuff. What the hell do Singapore people have a thing for fake flowers? They’re everywhere I go! Maybe there are hidden cameras in them and they’re making sure we don’t smuggle in illegal drugs or chewing gum. Got to go now and fill out immigration cards now. Omg this card is weird. One of the questions is ‘Do you have a snivel?’ wtf

-Tanya is a Bumface-
Now we’re in China. Wow man! =.= It’s so big, it’s like the whole of Australia in one city!!! Yay. Shanghai is pretty but there are a lot of pick-pockets. We went walking along Nianjing street (spell check?!?). Our tour guide, Tanya, told us that on this street alone, she had had her phone and/or her wallet stolen fives times in one year. Yeah thanks a bunch Tanya, that made me feel a lot more safer then I already was.

mao mao

On the Easter holidays of 2007, my Chinese class and I set out on a wicked awesome fully super turbo charged study tour to China. I kept a journal, but I want to keep an electronic version. It might take a while to put this together so bear with me!

Zomg I’ve got fake nails on I’m typing like such a spastic…if;ghofnlgk;sogkns;ggghg; owww

CHINA TRIP ‘07
I heart chine-chine <33>

Kaya – she flirts with a boy, but when they ask her out she says no and they’re like wtf

Daniel – his favourite sport is wrestling and one of his shirts has a picture of a half naked wrestler dude on it. Gross?

Ben – also known as Grandpa Ben. Don’t ask. He thinks he’s a rebel. One time, we were getting back on the bus and the teacher made him sit up the front for being naughty. We thought he did something really bad like take drugs or buy flavoured water (we weren’t allowed to buy any sugary drinks) but it just turned out that he stepped over a plant.

Nathan – Esther loves him even though he’s vain and looks at himself in everything that reflects his own image e.g. mirrors, cars, windows, my sunglasses, MY PUPILS, and sometimes even MacDonald’s hamburger because there is so much grease in them. Did I mention Esther LOVES him?

(left picture - nathan[right] getting scolded by nathalie[left])


Brayden – freak

Luke – he’s English, but he came from Hong Kong so he has this really annoying English accent like, ‘ooooooohhhhh woooood yeeeoooooo laaaiiik a cap o teeeeeeeeee?’ (That’s Luke for ‘oh would you like a cup of tea?’).

Stay tuned! Day 1 of the China trip is coming soon.

oh btw, i only made up to day 8 because i got sick and i cant remember (Y-Y)