September 24, 2004

• • The swimming gala might've been boring and crowded and hot and everything like that, but it was definitely comfortable compared to the geography field trip...

    On the first day there was the dreaded hike, we walked for FIVE HOURS! I brought two litres of water (four bottles of 500 ml each) and it wasn't even enough! (Well I shouldn't really have expected it to be enough when I can drink that much at school...) Luckily, Mr McKirdy gave me some more water...

    At least I had a spray bottle and a fan... Well actually I had two fans and other people kept asking to use the fans, and Hung Ray borrowed one of them for most of the time... Of course, I kept the better one for myself... I even had an umbrella with me, but it broke so I threw it away...

    

    At the beginning of the day, everyone was saying that I would have a tough time wearing jeans, but when we're walking through the overgrown area I definitely had it easier than most people... However I was really hot by the end of the hike, but who wasn't?

    

    When we finally got back to the Lady MacLeHose Holiday Village, it was hardly surprising that everyone was really tired and all that... I was one of the last people to get there... After eating at the canteen, the keys were given out and I went to the bungalow immediately and took a shower, and luckily I did, or I would have to wait for a long time to get to use the bathroom... There was only one bathroom in the bungalow for 6 people...

    The dinner was no good, somehow we got vegetarian food, and we had to work after dinner too... All those confusing cross sections...

    

    The second day started out fine; the breakfast was good, way better than the dinner on the first day... The rest of the day wasn't so good though, we had to walk uphill and through overgrown areas when the teacher said we won't... Luckily, my group worked really efficiently at measuring the river and all that, so we finished quite early... I'm not in the pictures because I took most of them, but I'll put some here anyway (especially since Jayde wants to see them so much)

    

    By the end of the day, I was really tired and I got wet and dirty from being in the river, and of course I was really glad to go home... It ends up that I got off the bus (where I was nearly squashed by Hung Ray, what a bad seating arrangement...) at Causeway Bay and walked home...

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