Mandarin Camp: Final Day
Thursday, 5 April 2012 / 20:46
Went to bed at around 11:30pm the night before and woke up at 8 today. Jade's house have these roller curtains so at 8 in the morning her mum came in and opened them ALL UP! the sun came surging through making it impossible for me to fall back into the land of dreams :/
For breakfast we all had waffles with ice-cream and syrup, as well as fruit salad with yogurt! WHAT A BREAKFAST! The waffles were cooked to the point of perfection and the syrup and ice-cream just made it out of this world. The fruit were cut up in to pieces which were small enough so that every fruit imaginable could fit on your spoon, and the yogurt just made it heavenly. Truly the best breakfast i've every had.
Everybody had yawning faces and tired eyes, which made concentrating in the morning mandarin session harder than expected. But no seriously speaking, everyone was great and we had a productive morning session. Unfortunately the the camp ended before we could finish all the print outs that Ariel had. So now everyone who attended has 23984720394 copies of paper 1's to do and about 30490 copies of paper 2's to complete.
After our morning session was lunch time. We all helped cooked fried rice :) it was again, awesome ! All the food we had at the camp was nothing short of amazing.
After we said our thank yous and goodbyes, Callum drove me to the bus station while he and Tim carried on to DFO airport. YES, that's right CALLUM DROVE ME TO THE BUS STATION. He's already got his P plates!!! This just gives me so much more motivation to hurry and get my L plates before June. I CAN DO THIS :)
All in all, the whole mandarin camp idea and experience was what a sleep in on a raining day would be. perfect. Thank you so much to Ariel (Nick's mum) for giving up your time to help us in our IB mandarin abinitio journey, and another big thanks to Lanor (Jade's mum) for allowing it all happen in her house ( which is massive, and she even designed it herself! ).
Here's another haul of photos that I took today :)
Consists of everyone being half asleep and grumpy that we had to wake up at 8am :/ Us chillin by the pool; while we were all sitting on the side, all of a sudden a toad jumped into the pool grossing us all out. Jade and her trusty pool brush effectively took the toad out, and i can now safely say that the toad is somewhere in her giant front yard. There are also pictures of her massive pool alongside her massive house, us cooking and then ending with a picture of callum's ute and him driving Tim and I, evidently not to our deaths :) It was fun, and if i had a choice of doing it again, I would :)
*I've also concluded that to get the best lighting for photos is to wake up ridiculously early and get the morning sun...
LET'S ALL GET 7's!