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Our Chiang Mai trip was amazing! I had a lot of fun despite the 12384757039482 km marathon I had to endure with my fellow white-mates! (kidding) I love how easy and natural it is to just relax and explore nature. We did bamboo rafting and I got to try it myself and I find it very cool but tiring :/ excuse me for being a posh,I don't always do CHORES around the house. We went elephant riding and there was this incident that terrified me. The man who was in control of the elephant named "Bo" was actually beating her up. Naili and I had to scream to ask him to stop. He stared at us and laugh but till then,he stopped beating her up. Spent 300 on elephants food! Such big and beautiful creatures :)
We didn't get to go tanning or anything. Enjoyed good food and good bargain at the night market and some thai massage! Overall,Chiang Mai is just plain beautiful. Ooh,mom and I met party girls from Sydney and NZ who had this very "blonde" accent. She's actually blonde,so yeah.

....and then Sydney (: went around June so it was practically winter in Aussie. Weather was a bit chilly. I swear at that time I wish I could've wore a face protector. We went up to Blue Mountains and stayed over at Madison where I met Wendy and her daughter Jack who told me that she saved up some cash from her summer part-time job in Sydney that she applied to NSW with that money itself. "You make ridiculous money here as compared to South Africa" was her exact words. Starting to miss baby Hallifax now that I'm writing this post.

As I said,I'll blog more frequently once I'm dne with exams which I am (well,partially). SPM is in one month and I'm 60% prepared? Guess so. Hopefully I'll be able to be fully prepared for SPM soon. I blame SPM for restricting me from doing what I love to do. I've created a bucketlist of things to do after SPM although I doubt I'd be able to complete it by May since I'm going to start Uni soon. Mom thinks its good for me to start classes during the summer so it'll be easy for me to adapt to my 'new' life during the Fall where I have to attend all full credit hours. Boring. 


Basically,I won't be free after SPM. I have my TOEFL,SATs and piano exams to compplete which will probably take 5 months and then I have to get my driving license. So yes,I only have 3 months of relaxation before I leave for the States. Scary though,in just about 8 months I'll be an independemt woman living on a high altitiude mountain (haha that's what I like to call WV as it reminds me of the song country homeee). But nevertheless,I am excited as well.
And I really have to start going to the gym everyday! Once I'm done. I'll be finishing on the 28th and then I'm a freee bird. Okay,not exactly. I won't even be able to find myself a decent job besides tutoring and mom has this crazy idea that I should volunteer as one of the instructors in OBS but I'll think about it. Come on,someone who's afraid of nyamuks ain't fit for a job like that! Haha. I was planning on doing some charity works like volunteer at the SPCA or an ohanage. Like tutor amd help little kitties. It'll be fun! 
There you go,a sneak-peek on my bucketlist.