AHAHAHAHAHA
Second last day of the mid-years.
I've completed the 'devil paper', Specialist Maths. I have no comments at all about it.
Right now I'm happily laughing at the Legal and Bio students who are taking their papers (Psych and SM is on the first exam period, Legal and Bio second).

I've really run out of things to blog about. I'm sure my exam life is not very interesting at all to the readers, much less to me. So forgive me if I just go on and on in this post. (warning: there'll be many pictures!)

I'm used to travelling. I'm not air-sick (unlike mom) and land-sick (like Wei Vern) although I do get dizzy on a boat. Travelling can be quite fun, especially if you don't worry much about it and get past the packing stage :)

For the first time in my whole sheltered life, I actually travelled alone. Okay, not exactly alone, but without my parents (or relatives). It was quite fun, actually (although my mom made it sound like I was leaving forever or something). If you haven't tried travelling with a group of people your age, you should. It's much more fun and relaxed (no nagging parents!) and less stressful.

So I left on 9 Dec 2006 (just a few days after SPM!) to another country. The group I was in had 3 guys and 6 other girls. We just got to know each other one day before, although I had been chatting to Hansen (one of the guys) for the past month.

While waiting for our flight to Singapore the others whipped out their dictionaries and phrasebooks. And then we began our No.1 lesson in learning a foreign language: learning swear words ("Look! Look! Here is how to say *sonofabitch*!" "OMG! There's a whole page of swear words in here!" "Hey, lemme see!")

After a 3-hour transit in Spore we went on to the second flight, this time to CDG, Paris, France. Oh yes, a loooong 13-hour flight sitting in a cramped space.... We landed at Charles de Gaulle at 6am French time. There we experienced our first misfortune - we missed our next flight due to unforeseeable circumstances. After many phone calls and arguments with Air France representatives it was decided we would remain in Paris until Tuesday (it was Sunday). So we spent our one day there exploring Paris by foot and metro.

How did the musical notes appear???Eye of the World Wheel and the Egyptian ObeliskThe Louvre

It was winter in Paris. No snow as yet, but the temperature was around 5 degrees. It didn't deter us from seeing the sights, though :P

On Tuesday we made our way to Madrid, Spain. Marcel met us at the airport and brought us to the AFS Intercultura office. We were given a briefing (due to the fact that we missed the orientation 2 days ago). The guys (Kumar and Hansen; Prem was already in Zafra) were then collected by their host parents, as their foster homes were in Madrid. The rest of us were to leave the next day to the further areas of Spain. We had our first taste of Spanish food that night - tapas and tortillas.

The next day Denise and Yen Ying left on the bus to Oviedo, a town near the Atlantic Sea. Phui Yi took the bus to the north too, but to Basque country. Me, Alithea and Yi Peng took the train to the east and Bella took the fast train to Sevilla, in the south. It was a five hour journey to the east coast of Spain. Yi Peng got off the train halfway, as she was to live in Zaragoza, a windy town 300 miles from Barcelona. Me and Alithea continued on to the last stop, Barcelona Sants. Alithea went with her host mother, a English professor, to the village of Santa Margharita; my host mom, Silmara, took me to the town of Segur de Calafell.