End of Stay Camp in York

Dear Blog….

I’m back !!!! Ugh, my legs are killing me !!! i just had my AFS Orientation camp in York. Mind u..it’s my LAST one. Anyway..last friday, i caught the bus from Albany to East perth station. spent 6 hours sit on the bus, n when i got there, i had to wait about 1.5 hours for the other afs students to come. it was about 4.30 pm, no exchange students came n i hardly saw the afs leaders. so i decided to walked around n found them. i didn’t find any afs leaders, but i found 1 exchnge student that i’ve never met before. so we chilled n decided to go back inside. n there i found Minalka (afs coord) called me. so we went to the other side of the building then i saw liz, charles n yves, then not long after that, eerika n stephie came, then taylor n tania. n we had to wait for the bus again. it took 4ever!!!!! we r all hungry!!!!

when the bus finally came…we all got on the bus, the bus was half full already. i met half of the xchange student, then we went to midland to pick the rest of xchange student n off we went to York. when we got there n got off from the bus, it was freezing. so we hurried get in the house n warmed up. caught up with all of them, n half of them r going to safari, so we’re talking about safari. then we had pizza for dinner… and after that, we got on the AFS thing. we r divided into 2 groups. end of group n mid year group.

end of year group talked pretty much about what we did, how we changed n everything, all of the fear n expectation that we had when we first got here, n for our next life. and also we read the letter from us to ourselves..i was laughing when i read mine. i didn’t realize that i was so naive. Hahahaha…..well…at least i’m happy about how everything’s going in my life. i’ve done everything i wanna do, even more than i wanna do. all of the silly little things that makes me upset are NOTHING. so happy i finally could say that.

And then, we just did everything that we wanna do. caught up with friends and stuff. i’m definitely gonna miss this. and when i was talking to alice n Chihiro in the hall way. Tim (afs leader) said "Don’t come to the big room, all right" , n we just nodded even though we r confusing what was going on. n i became more confusing when tim dragged me to the big room. then i step in the dinner room, i saw tania lighted the candle n she gave me one. "take this…it represents your exchange year" then i walked in the big room n Matt greeted me n said "sit wherever u wanna sit" then i saw liz sat on the centre of the room, lots of pillow and candle in the middle around, and also relaxing CD was on, looked really peaceful, so i sat next to her. one by one the end of year student came n we sat on the circle..n after all of us were there, liz started talking. she talked about sort of our reflection when we r here…n also in 1 month, we’ll leave this country, leave our host family n friend or in a short word..leave our life here. So sad….then we talked about what we felt, and after we finished talking we blew our candle off. sooo sad…..

Then after that, basicly just free time. we talked about everything, jimmy gave me goodbye card. that’s so pretty. then when i felt really tired, i went to bed n woke up in cold the next morning. we had breakfast, charles made the pancake for us. then after breakfast, we did energizer. we did this to get rid the cold feeling n it worked. n after that, we did the AFS thing again, now we r talking about us before we came n we r now. have we changed? n i think i change. i think i’m happier than before (doesn’t mean i wasn’t happy), not only focus on 1 thing, there r lots more to see n think than what i used to see n think, more appreciate everything that i got. and after that we had morning tea, talked about soccer n stuff n yves tried to insulting but also love the other countries. Silly yves !!!!

after the discussion, we had lunch. that was yummy… pumpkin soup n sausage rolls. Yummy !!!! n after lunch, we wnet for a walk around the town…this town is pretty. we talked all the way to town, even i had a bit of discussion with jimmy. that’s good… n after that, we were heading back to the camp site, got on the bus n off we went to the shearing shed. we saw the people did the shearing and we did that as well. i had a go and i loved it. they told us everything about the shearing stuff n after that, we walked around to see the emu. and after a while, we decided it’s time to go. Julian, Ale, n Marta went straight away from there to perth, to catch the plane to sydney. so we said goodbye to them n we headed back to camp site. we had nothing to do, so we just did some random stuff n more people went back to perth. and when it was about dinner time, it’s only me,tiki,maria,kao,tang mo,chihiro,jimmy,fernanda,mily,eva,n hanna n also liz n tania as the leaders, n allison n grand ma as the cooks.

the dinner was absolutelly nice, roast beef n vedgies…Hmm….Yummy !!!! n when we were eating liz n tania said "Guys…we r going to have Talent Show tonight". we started to think what we were gonna do. i had no idea at all….n finally me,tiki n maria thought to sing n dance. i told them the afs songs that i got from afs indonesia. firts i told them the "Walk together n Talk together song" n when i sang the "From coast to coast song" they liked it. so we did that song n we tried to choreo the dance. Well….it was good basicly we just humiliated our selves among the people. But it’s worth it though, they like it n gave us the loud claps. Tiki lost her voice slightly after that, n we teased her that’s because she was singing. actually, she wasn’t singing that much, she made the sound of aussie bush n just laughing at us. Shit ey !!! but still had very great time !!!! i woke up until late…n when i, tiki n maria went to the kitchen to get a drnk, we met liz n she said "nhira…u r still up!! i’m so proud of u" she said while touched my head softly. n when we got back to our dorm, i didn’t go to sleep straight away, i was talking with maria n kao about host fam n stuff. n we r up until past 2 o clock n i slept in maria’s bed while she slept on the floor.

in the morning..it was freezing again. liz made us get up, n when she saw me "Nhira…there u are. i didn’t see u in your bed. i thought u went somewhere". "No..i’m not going anywhere, i slept there" i pointed out maria’s bed. eva n hanna left the camp site when we were up, so said goodbye to them n then we had breakky. tiki definitely had a problem with talking. she had no voice to speak… Hahahaha LOL!!!! even she called our group as Teddy bear group. cos i called maria Teddy Bear n i’m obsessed with Play School theme song. Hahahaha….sooo funny !!!!!

after that, i had interview with liz. just talked about everything n she recorded it. so we’ll get the cassette back n we could listen to how our english improves. i listened to it this morning, n i sound really funny. couldn’t bear to laugh at myself. and after everyone had a turn, we packed up, cleaned up n ready to go. liz took us to the river, we took lots of pics n i felt so happy and sad at the same time. My last chance to hang out with them. we walked across the hanging bridge..well…not really walking i s’pose. we ran across the bridge. n made kao freaked out. we took lots of pics in there. n then ate our morning tea in the park while waiting for the bus came. n when the bus came, we finally had to say good bye…even liz has to drag jimmy got in the bus, because we still wanna be together. Sooo sad… i said goodbye to all of them…they r really cool. thanks for everything guys, thanks for laughing with me…

Friends forever….

we knew each other about 4 months ago but at the first time we met, we just click u know… i’m gonna miss u all guys soo much. n also liz…Hahaha…she’s really cool leader.

Huh…i only have 4 weeks left…dunno what to do…

so many things to do…

so little time left…

in 1 month, i’ll be back to my home town, the place i live until a year ago…meet all of the people that i’ve known since i was a kid…back to my old routine…

Those things look really strange for me now

Ugh…God…help me…guide me to the right place. i know u always have the greatest plan for me.

My resolution when i ‘m back is just be happy. try to enjoy every seconds of my life… Don’t be too serious…try to be a better person.