NEW ZEALAND! ((:
i'm missing it already!
went there for dance study tour! whoo!
7days. 12th to 19th june!
room 901.
chilton st james school (girls school)
(yi2 is jealous!) (sarah too!)
miss pam's girls: priscilla koh, solana, jeanine, cheryl, yuting/rachel, priscilla, jeannie, belinda, sonika, athena, audrey, yanyin and i ((:

i tell you, my roomies are messy! haha. we are the ru family! rudian, ruqing, ruyin, ruting, ruqi.........alot! haha!
oh yes, and cheryl (my fake cousin cos she wanted to borrow my luggage weight. cos mine was 10.1kg and her's was like 26.something, and everyone can only have 20kg max!) practically brought her whole wardrobe! -.- matching jackets, shoes, nice SLEEPING CLOTHES! so if anyone didn't have clothes we all borrowed cheryl's! haha. stylish mama man!

DAY 1
left s'pore on 12th at 10pm (flight was delayed!) boo
arrived in auckland and then transfered to wellington. domestic flight.
delayed delayed! 1hr bus ride to angus.
so we reached wellington at like 5 something instead of 1pm! haha.
checked in, rooming with athena, audrey and yanyin. there are supposed to be 3 pple in a room but we are special -.- haha. after dinner we went to chilton to watch a class. the pple there were really good. but only miss june lee's girls wanted to dance. the rest of us were just freezing down there. haha.
chilton is just like 5-8 minutes walk away from angus inn so we had to walk everyday!
then went back to the inn. angus is quite nice. cosy! oh, we got a pink room which is quite dark oh and we were superly messy! no, actually i was clean! ((:

DAY 2
had breakfast in angus. the breakfast there is heavy! everyday eat the same ole thing! haha, nice lar.
went to chilton, they gave us each a nice cute cute soft toy! i took a white sheep! so cute. there were black sheep and new zealand birds too! we had a short short tour round the school. then juniors made our way to RAROA CAMPUS for hip hop. (5 minutes walk from angus but in the other direction from chilton) learnt "dirt of my shoulder"! heh! ((: had a tiny lunch there and walked back to chilton for classic class. we were with ms foo's students. repertoire class, we learnt a snippet of COPPELIA! ahh! ((: then we went to westfield shopping centre. haha. not quite a shopping centre haha. but one shop was good! urban angel girls. haha. most of the meals were in angus inn. after dinner we went back to chilton to attend a grade 5 class. the steps are the same as ours last time, only the music is different. haha. dropped by new world (supermarket) to get our groceries. i bought tim tam and milky way cookies and milk chocolate! mmm! had meeting in cheryl's room. (technically it is sonika and yuting's room too, but we just call it CHERYL's room.)

DAY 3
classical class at chilton. luckily the dance hall is warm if not we will all freeze.there are 4 heaters, but when you are hot and you stand near it, you will feel your skin kinda burning. haha! then walked to raroa for hip hop! learnt "tutti fruitti" whee! so fun! ((: then had lunch at raroa again. ooh, there was a little baby! ((: so cute! had this super sweet marshmallow thing! haha. pink and green. ((: went to the ballet shop nearby. disappointment. i thought it would be quite big a actually no.we also found the short cut to westfield haha! bleeps. boo! then went for repertoire class, learnt more of coppelia... then had dinner and attended the intermediate foundation class, quite interesting. then had jazz class. ((: whee. we learnt the parter thing. oh yar, and we had to ti tui and do da tiaos. haha. i like it! went to NEW WORLD, again. haha. yuting bought one whole tub of ice cream! -.- haha, but i think in the end we didn't finish it. haha. i dunno. lols. had usual meeting in cheryl's room.

DAY 4
bush walk day! bus ride to rimutaka forest park kaitoke. 1hr bush walk. but it seem really short. haha. we took the swing bridge route. SWING BRIDGE! went went on the swing bridge 2 times. supposed to be 10 pple at a time but there were like 30! ((: haha, i was holding on to my camera like crazy! they said that they would bring us to some place where they shot the lord of the rings movie but they didn't. oh wells, i don't mind. we were supposed to have a picnic lunch near a river but it was raining to we had lunch at some bbq pits. french loaf sandwichs, COOKIES and fruity drink. haha! mine was the lizzie mcguire one. they took all the spongebob one! ): hoo hoo! went back to angus inn. then had repertoire class. learnt rose fairy part from sleeping beauty. i quite like it! ((: haha. cos it is short. only that i can't do the "lame ducks" properly. too bad we didn't learn it! i wanna learn more interesting steps! then went to some hotel with some name starting with "R" haha. chinese hotel. so we had a close to 10 course meal. or was it 8. i only know that we had alot alot alot of food and only 1 dish was my beloved veggies! ): i was so so so full! cheryl served us okay! so nan2 de2. served us the soup with egg and crab meat. sonika polka dot didn't drink it up! bad bad! haha. then we were planning all kinds of ways to get rid of the food. haha. like learning from mr bean. haha. even stuffing our mouths with food then puking them out in the toilet. then we got super noisy and ms lee was like really suspicious. haha. but actually we finished quite alot. oh yar, audrey ask for a CUP of water from the chinese man, then the man didn't understand. haha. then she said "bei zi" then when he came back with one he was like "this is ge-la-si (glass)" then audrey became hysterical! haha! oh wells. then we went back. walked as usual. usual meeting in cheryl's room!

DAY 5
woke up later today! cos the seniors had their repertoire class before us! whee! ((: then we had our repertoire class, had lunch at the foyer. the friedrice was really really yummy! whee! oh, they had a snack table too! haha. we da bao-ed food in little containers in case we got hungry. we took chocolates, cookies, some black coconut thing that miss pamela likes. haha. oh wells, we took a one hour bus ride to NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF DANCE AND DRAMA! ((: so so nice! the bus was packed as usual! heh! so we had to SQUEEZE! then we had the "Powhiri" the traditional maori welcome. abit scary. but but very very impressive and nice! then they started singing their school song and some beautiful songs! i was totally blown away! ((: so so sweet, all their voices! we also performed pengyou for them! i'm like addicted to pengyou already! oh, then we went to their common room to have some food. namely juice and cookies. then had class with miss christine gunn! the studio was HUGE! i tell you! but the barre is a little different. the class was real nice. haha. ((: then we watched the NZ students present their classical repertoire! WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! so so super good! and all of them did pointe! i swear they looked alot like professionals! then we went to buy t-shirts! ((: i bought one black one with pink word: Dance is.... not just an attitude. i was considering buying the baby blue one too! haha. but it is ex lar! then we had dinner. it was MCDONALDS! haha. fries were soggie. haha. oh wells, it was dinner. auntie liming and ruhua (auntie angela) bought it from nearby i think. so nice! so we went to watch the contemporary students warm up! their warm ups can easily win the SYF i tell you. so super super nice! we also listened to a bit of christian songs played by a rock group! the songs are really nice! ((: haha! oh wells, then we watch SLAVES TO THE RHYTHM! so so nice! but actually abit NC16! haha. touch here touch there. ><>< so funny! then we took the bus home. usual meeting in cheryl's room!

DAY 6
farm day! whahaha! left of lindale farm complex! had a farm show first. the farmer was wearing a singlet! -.- the sheep dog was really really cute! oh and the poor sheep were being chased by the dog. the farmer also sheared the sheep. and pple got to milk the cow and feed the calve and piglet with milk! the piglet was cute! R-rated! two doggies were mating! standing up! in front of everyone! :S then we went for the farm walk! was walking with rudian and jeannie! there was shit everywhere i tell you! had to tip-toe around in order to avoid them. and the chasing animals made it worse. that whole place stinked like anything! then we went shopping! whee! my camera was so super annoying! always "LOW-BATTERY" but i managed to buy some from the main building. and jeannie was buying postcards. yuting bought a super super cute baby t-shirt haha! ((: awwww! then we went to the candy shop! hoo hoo! i bought 3 big lollipops, nougat and sweets. oh yar, pinky is nice! (oops, that was totally random!) cheryl and the sub ele pple bought a HUGE HUGE HUGE lollipop for martin! i tell you huge. martin is our pianist. always sleeping in class, not to mention playing game boy and cracking jokes. then we went to the honey shop. were busy testing the honey. i bought nata honey and clover honey! ((: sweet! yanyin bought 2 2kg bottles of honey! haha! then her had was like totally aching. :/ haha. oh yes, she spent alot of money on honey and chocolates. aiyo, then didn't really have much to spend on other stuff. boo! then we went to get ice cream. yummy yummy yummy! i got hokey pokey, some honey thing! mmm! tiramisu was nice! mmm! the scoop was big! then we had fish and chips in some kinda bar/restaurant. haha. 50 over of us! then we went back to angus. then we thought we had rehearsal at chilton for the concert but in face, they only arranged it for the seniors. hmph hmph! anyway, they ran through the dance 3 times in the small theatre and then we (misspam' girls) headed off for the warehouse! ((: we kinda zoom there and back! 7 minutes! we jogged from the warehouse back to chilton! whee! okay, so yanyin and i bought the same skirt! only her's is pink and mine is white! whee! ((: we were just in time for the mini-concert. the chilton girls put on their items first then the crestar pple. yanyin, solana, priscilla, jeanine and i didn't participate in "ms pam's girls" dance. cos the sub ele pple were doing it. i like the music! so mysterious! ((: oh but we all had to perform one repertoire dance. we did rose fairy! suprisingly okay! whee! i found something really weird! all the seniors dances were facing the mirror! and not the audience! -.- weird! oh wells, then we went to the school house for dinner. FISH AND CHIPS! ahhH! well, this fish and chips was nicer. haha. we were totally going nutty that nice. after dinner michelle and the other two dancers started putting on items for us! then we had to return an item. in the we all landed in a big circle. then someone would come up with a dance step, show the step and then the rest of us would follow. later, we ask the teachers, mr rumbal and ms steel to perform a partner dance! ((: whee! then we broke up into our respective teacher's ggroups. then we were doing billy banjar/ something else. so fun! then when we went out, we started doing da tiaos outside! -.- 3 by 3. haha. so funny! then we were doing all sorts of weird stuff! then we had to go back. we went to the 24hr supermarket. COUNTDOWN haha! then we bought stuff! i sponsered sprite for the party later. haha. so we went to bathe and then met in cheryl's room at 2am for the party. haha. in the end, everyone either went back or slept. left me, jeannie and priscilla. haha. we were coming up with warm up steps. and they were trying to do headstands! hehs! then after that, basically we didn't sleep!

DAY 7
we left the inn at 5something. went to wellington airport. took domestic flight! rudian sat with me and yanyin. haha. we slept the whole way through! then we woke up at auckland. once we got on the plane, yanyin and i went to sleep haha. sleep till lunch and then till dinner! like pig! ((: after that we couldn't sleep. started taking pictures in the plane. it was an 11hr flight! but at least i've got my sleep. haha.

i miss NZ! especially the dancing everyday and the weather. now i'm totally sweating like a pig. haha. oh wells, i wanna go again but too bad have to save up! boo! i will miss the pple! ): rox! ((: