Crazy prep

Hey, I may have forgot to mention it, but I'm heading off to China really soon.
Like in a month.

I completely forgot that I'm nominally studying too and booked my flight on the same day as my exam. I will take the exam for Chinese at 9 in the morning and fly for it at 5 that arvo.

I've spent this entire weekend in prep and promotion for it. I have eaten so many donuts from the Krispy Kreme drive that I will have to consider carefully my re-adjustment to a normal diet to minimise the shock. I have studied so much Chinese that I accidently said 'Ni hao' to some poor stranger as she walked past me in Pennant Hills.

So pretty much the next few blogs are going to be quite focused and I will try write daily while I'm over there.

wow...long time no writee

Okay, so I fell off the face of the planet for a while. Here's what I did while floating in space:
Early Oct, crew at Blackstump, a music festival, so much fun, so little sleep. Actually, the best part was just wandering around bumping into friends in my breaks.

Mid Oct, youth group camp. Yet again, so much fun, so little sleep. Lots of throwing people smaller than me into water -the pool, off the canoes, into the lakes. Campfire singing and lolly fests late at night. Very drowsy girly discussions, including such deep hypotheticals such as: "If you were stranded on a desert island with boy X and boy Y, which would you eat and which would you keep?". Dave, if you read this, just note that you always get eaten.

This weekend, gaming sleepover. This is a regular thing. For this whole year, 3 design buddies and I have been playing 'Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles'. The whole idea is that we are all hooked up to the gamecube, and we all run around this world in our caravan fighting nasties and trying to gather enough myrrh to save our village from noxious gases. I am a clavat, a cute little girl that's dressed kind of like an amish elf. Once we fought a boss for 3 hours because we just kept dying cause we were wimpy. Epic battles. Anyway, bedtime was 4am, then noon wakeup, 2pm lunch and game on till 6! Also watched this really cute and funny manga called Nadesico. I have got to get my hands on the full series soon!

Now...sleepies. I am aware that this is incredibly self-absorbed, just writing about me all the time, but hey, you're reading it!