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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Gwendolyn's
I really enjoyed the Perth Trip and I love it! =)
To me, the most interesing part of the trip was sand boarding at the Sand Dune. It was the first activity in the morning on the 6th day. Since it was early in the morning and near we were near the lake, everyone were frezing and you could see many shivering. However, I did not felt cold at all. Perheps I had adapted to the cold weather. Cool! =) At least it is better to adapt to the cold temperature and really enjoy doing all sorts of stuff than not getting to use to it and complaining about the weather.
Sadly, the boat could not bring all of us across to the sand dune, so some of us remained to go for the cruise trip. While waiting for the boat to pick us up, we took a group photo together. After that, the boat came back to pick us up and took us on a tour around the lake. Compared to the other one I have been to, this was a little different as there were not many trees and it was purely sand. The cruise ended and it was our turn to go sand boarding! Although it was hard going up, being rewarded with the awesome view of the area surrounding the sand dune was worth it. I tried sliding down twice. During the first try, I tried sliding down while standing up, which failed, sadly. The second try, I sat on the board and slided down. Although the board stopped half-way, at least it was a successful attempt. =)
Overall, I enjoyed myself and had lots of fun! Not only that, I've bonded with the girls and through this trip, we really had through many things together and I appreciate the memories and fun we shared. It brings out the best moments of each and every individual one of us. Also, I was able to understand more about everyone through each moment of the trip. Not forgetting, we wouldn't be able to have all this fun without the teachers.
Trip to Perth as an enrichment as an Art lesson
We went to WA Art Gallery, PICA [Perth Institute of Comtemporary Art]. During the visit to these places, I learnt how to study a piece of art and understand why artists did that piece of work and his mood. It's really interesting as we understand lots of different situation that artists met in life.
To me personally, I really like Vincent Van Gogh work a lot. Though in his whole life he only sold 1 painting, he painted more thousands of art work. His thousands of paintings and drawings have various characteristics that have been copied by thousands and duplicated by none.
PICA displays art work which reflects a sense of a contemporary approach from a normal piece of artwork. We viewed mostly installation art which meant by taking materials from things around us to form a piece of art work. I personally feel that "Bubblegum Factory" is nice piece of art work as it made use of light, color, scent, sound, taste and touch to attract and affect the viewer and their opinion.
Trip to Perth as an enrichment as an English lesson
We had to do travel log every night. Though on some nights that we had stay up really late to complete the travel log, it's interesting to recap about what we did that day and do some reflection about the day at the end of the day. The language spoke too. Most Australians speak proper English and in order to communicate with them, we had to speak proper English in order for them to understand what we are trying to say. It's like a practice of kicking the habit of speaking Singlish or Chinese mixing them together with English.
Trip to Perth as an exchange with the students there
We had an exchange with the students with Mercedes College on the 4th day during the trip. At Mercedes College, we were first greeted by the smiling face of the deputy principal, Mr. Cole. He lead us to a room and soon make us feel like it was going back to school in Singapore. We went through talks given by different people in the school. After that, we went through a tour given by some of the students. The school was very big though. We next had a break and had some muffins. Students there are allowed to bring food out of the canteen. In fact, they are supposed to bring it out of the canteen?? In the canteen, there were only chairs and there were no tables. Students buy their food and bring it out and eat with their friends. It's really cool. Soon we had classes in their classroom. I attended a Biology class that started on a topic about bacteria and viruses. They asked the teacher if they do not understand. Soon, we had to go off to our next destination before we fall behind schedule.
Best of all, I enjoyed myself together with the friends! X)
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