Friday, September 07, 2007
HELLLLLO PEOPLE I AM BACK!
I'm so completely proud of myself and everyone of the sec3s.
This expedition was the toughest, most painful, most exhausting one ever, but we did well.
and the best thing is, we did it all together. I'm quite sure this is the greatest accomplishment so far in my whole (short) life. It seems kinda poitless to blog about this expedition in bits, according to what we did each day, because I see this one as a whole. (but maybe I'll do that later bah, 'cos there's so much to share)
This trip was by far the most excruciating, but it is my favourite and the best one so far. It made me realise just how much each and everyone of you guys meant to me...and I cannot believe this is the last expedition together for us all, but like the teachers say, the journey and the growing up doesn't stop here. We can go other places next year and torture oursleves, and then feel the happiness together.
We'll be able to revist the feeling of pushing one another to the very top...
Laughing together...
Singing together..
Complaining together..
Breathing the thin mountain air together..
getting affected by the altitude together..
feeling the tightness in our muscles together..
scream from our poor defenceless kneecaps together..
make 'music videos' while climbing down from the hostel stairs and hearing our legs crack..
raft the white waters of some great river together..
teasing one another about nosebleeds/flirting/being smelly/curly eyelashes etc..
hearing the guys make sexist comments..
the feeling of being dirty...
enduring the sticky sticky type of feeling..
having lip cracks..
disturbing the teachers..
playing card games in all types of conditions: smelly shaking train, floor of the gals dorm, plane, bus etc....
staying up til late in the morning to talk talk talk our hearts out..
thereby getting only about 3 or 4 hours of sleep every night..
laughing with and at the teachers..
feeling heck care when Mr R and Mr S chide us for going to KFC to eat..
laughing at the two of them for tracking down a prata shop with a GPS device..
doing great things together..all three teachers have talked about how much we have grown and matured throughout the years..we now make such a great team of whacky and wonderful characters, and I know (just like how the teachers and everyone of us know) that we can achieve so much as a team. I was practically gonna cry during day 3's reflection session, when I mentioned that
if I had to go through this much torture, this bunch of people are the ones I want to go through it with all over again, because they are the ones who truly, truly know what all this feels like.
Of course, we all miss some important people back at home, ( I missed alot of special people while I was away) and it feels good to be back here.
And as an anti-climatic, non-dramatic way of ending this...
I feel like going to sleep again 'cos of sheer exhaustion, and I'll be back hopefully with pictures to share a most beautiful story.
