Going to Darwin

On the 7th of June my family and I were getting ready to leave for Darwin, the first stop of our journey. We were leaving on a Jetstar plane that leaves at 1 pm and arrives at Darwin at 5 pm in Darwin time [which is one and a half hours time difference].

So we called a taxi, like we usually do, to go to the domestic airport. We went to do the normal procedure [since we've done this 10 times in the last 4 years], meaning we had to go through baggage drop and then through the x-ray things. Not as many things in the international  terminal but I still thought it took a long time, like every other thing i think is boring. After we got our boarding passes and after our bags got checked, it was like still an hour to our flight. In my head I was like, come on! We should have arrived here two hours ago not three! My family and I waited in the food court. I was like so totally bored, there was I could do. Ayesha was really enjoying herself. She was talking with my dad about the planes, taking off and landing. i then took pictures of the planes, since I had nothing else to do.

my view for 1 hour

Ayesha making sure everyone's safe

Fifty minutes passed and we were walking to our gate, which the number I've forgotten. Then we boarded the plane and took our usual seats. Me by the window, Ayesha in the middle, Mum by the aisle and dad behind us, and so we begin our journey and say goodbye to Sydney at least for a month, I think.               

Oh yeah, in the last post, I take back what i said. I say bored much more often now.
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Last Day at School

Ayesha on the way to pick me up

My last day of school was 1st of June. We would be leaving Sydney on the 7th of June on Thursday. My little sister, Ayesha's last day of school was the previous day.

I'm pretty sad about leaving Australia. I'm really going to miss everything here. I'm sure Indonesia's going to be different. 

It was a nice last day at school. My teacher read one of the stories I write during writing time, I thought mine was okay. Everybody was nice to me that day, they all wrote a card. At the end the day I handed everybody a bookmark and we all took photos.

It was very sad having to go away. Seriously though, at that time I didn't feel any emotion at all. It's very incredible how I didn't say the word "Bored" in this post, [though honestly, I don't say that much anymore]. Until next time, later.

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First term of school

After camp I go back to school for the second week of term one. It was a good term. I met new people, made new friends and learn new math, English and Cogs. My teacher, Ms Katsilis, have us do writing in the morning. She gets us to write narratives, exposition and information reports. I might share some on my blog.

I like this class, but I can't wait until the holidays because I'm going camping again!

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camping at Narrabeen: The short morning

I woke up early in the morning and saw that everyone's tent was covered with dew from the fog last night. I had a pretty good night last night, since that wasn't my first go. I saw Amy sitting down with her mum and her little sister. I went to join them. I found a seat and waited for the others to wake up. A few minutes went by and somebody woke up. By 7 o'clock everybody was up and talking to each other. 

We waited for our breakfast while we talked. We said things like "If you get off your chair and someone else takes it, you don't have the chair unless you say reserved before you go" or " I heard you say the word 'what' "  or else "Today's total of the number of the word 'what' being said is 73." The breakfast came and we had corned beef and ate seaweed for a snack afterwards.

We all started packing up after we finished breakfast. Rere was the first to finish. When we completed everything, there was nothing on the block except the cars and ourselves. Everybody was going at 10 o'clock, as it was the checkout time, and we all went home started a different story.

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Camping at Narrabeen: The rest of the day

Ayesha and Nadyne playing frog jump

Everybody's back from the beach and finished their showers now. We are all waiting for the frog jump. It's a party game where yo have plastic frogs and try to make them jump to the pond, by pressing it's tail. Everybody was was paired up and had to verse each other the winner gets to pick a prize [everybody got a prize, the winner just chose the colour.]

Everybody was happy with their prize [they all got different prizes, depending on their age] and played with it for the rest of the day. What happened to my friends [ kak Nisa and Noufal ] and myself for the rest of the day is this, the first part we all decided to get the map and find the playground. We found it pretty quick and told the little kids about it. They all wanted to play in the playground, so we had to take them there. We were all so bored [ my friends and myself, that is ] watching the little kids play on the equipment, so bored we said to them 'it's time to go back to the tent now.'

The second part of the rest of the day was this: kak Nisa had to do her homework [ I guess when you're in high school you get homework in the weekend ] and Noufal was just watching something on his Samsung tab. Do you want to know what I did? I just sat there and asked questions that they weren't answering. I gave up after sitting in a chair and watching them do their homework or playing on their Samsung and said 'You guys are sitting there doing nothing and I'm going to play with Rere and Dafina.' But kak Nisa said 'I'm doing something.' I had to admit she was right. Then I came up with a better sentence and said ' You guys are sitting there doing nothing that's exciting.' This time Noufal said 'This is exciting.' while he was pointing to his tab. Now I think of a better sentence and said for the last time ' You guys are sitting there doing nothing I think is exciting.' and walked away to join Dafina and Rere. I played with them for the rest of the day going in and out of tents, playing with our yo-yo and flashlights.

We had a nice barbecue dinner and went to sleep in our tents.

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Camping at Narrabeen:North Narrabeen beach

Dafina, Rere and I playing with our bodyboards

Just finishing our food before we all head to the beach. About five minutes later we were all ready in our beach costumes as we gather our body-boards and walk through the gate and towards the beach. I was so excited when we set off. Five minutes of walking before we finally got there; and it turns out that the beach was on the other side of the river. The only thing on this side of the river was a swimming pool and rock pools. So we had to go all the way back to the main road and start walking to where the beach is. This took about ten minutes [ I thought it was longer since we had to climb up a hill ]. When we got there, we saw a beautiful long beach with big awesome waves. 

Once we started settling-in, all the little kids and Dafina and Rere were playing another party game. Three [3] people had to dig presents under the sand and the other three [3] had to find them and dig it up.

 After we finished the game everyone wanted to have a swim. We found out that the red and yellow flags were in the middle of the beach, while we were right at the end. So everybody picked up their stuff and walked along the beach to get closer to the flags. 

When we finally got there Dafina, Rere and I ran straight to the water, carrying our body-boards with us [actually Dafina didn't have a body-board, she just ran to the water]. We all had so much fun in the there, riding big waves, swimming and building a sandcastle with a big wall to protect it. 

We all went home when it was to cold to swim. Everybody went to have a warm shower and get ready for what we are going to do next.

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Camping at Narrabeen: The real party

Ais, ready to hit the pinata

Waiting for Amy, she's going to arrive any minute. At 10 o'clock she arrived and pitch her tent [well her dad does]. Then we start our party! 

First, we were all given goody bags by Amy as her dad set up the pinata. This pinata was shaped as a cube and covered with crape paper. This must be homemade because no one could break it. With a few more hits Noufal managed to break it and sent the lollies flying everywhere [if you don't know, lollies are always inside pinatas]. Everybody was scrambling everywhere, though not Kak Nisa and Ayesha [ I was getting Ayesha's lollies for her ] They were sitting down and watching everybody scrambling for sweets.

Well, now all we have to do is wait till we go to the beach and after  that we're going to have another party game!

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