15/6/13
DAY OUT WITH CAMBODIAN TEENS! Woke up super early (later than alarm) and we couldn't bear to oversleep! So yup very soon we were on our way to dhoby ghaut. But the train took so long to travel especially from admiralty to bishan. And tricia who boarded the train later than us reached only a few minutes later when we did. And when we were there, quite a few people have arrived already. Namely Elaine, Janelle, Violet, Thimoro, LC, Zhernyang, Shawn etc etc. And okay before I forget, the names of the Cambodian teens: Thimoro, LC, Yean, Mike, Gwen, Mara, Jacqueline, Chealin, Kelsey and Linda. :-) yup. We waited for the rest of the people (who are late) to come and meanwhile, the singaporean teens split into 3 groups. I'm in team C with Eugene, Robbie, Tricia and Joey. 3/5 are cloud9-ers woohoo! And when all the Cambodian teens have arrived, they split into 3 groups too, and the teens who joined us were Thimoro, Gwen and Jacqueline. Yay! HAHAHAH. That's team c for you. ;) and the amazing race started! Even us singaporean teens were stumbled by the first clue LOL. And in the end we figured out Little India! PHEW so we literally chionged there hahaha and had a very mini group bonding session on the way LOL. There was a little confusion, and we walked all the way to Farrer park?!  and garja was spelled wrongly. So first we bought a "garja" which is actually a garland, and from Farrer park, we took a train back to Little India LOL THANKS EUGENE FOR SUGGESTING IT. And turns out the temple that we had to find was the one we found earlier and apparently we thought it wasn't the one cos it was inder construction. Oh well. And we crossed the road and got naan. And that was all for the tasks and little India! The next station was Chinatown. We had to translate it for them LOL cos it was pictures and had to be said in chinese. And we went there and did our first task of counting the number of cows and bells at a temple at on end of the road. And then we went back and got roasted pork which was a task too! Really really yummy for our hungry bellies! And we took a group photo there yay! And then we headed to another exit and got ourselves something cold to drink. In this really really hot weather. Took a group polaroid! And then we headed back to dhoby ghaut because there wasn't much time for us to go to kampong glam. And at dhoby ghaut, we went to a coffee shop and had our lunch. We sat in our group heheh and most of us were full so we just talked. :) and afterwards we went to watch movie! Man of steel! Sat beside Robbie. And it was really really loud so half the time I was covering my ears LOL the movie was almost two hours long. And after the movie i heard some guy almost went into the girls toilet hahahaha! But anyways afterwards we headed to a busstop to go to botanic garden. Then there was once the light turned green and is teens crossed and after we crossed, we realised we were not supposed to cross so we ran back! Ahahah! Took a bus to botanic gardens and we camwhored too hahaha! At the entrance, we took a group photo and roamed around before settling at a spot, where we talked, had our dinner and took more photos. :) we took jumpshots, cartwheels, and even hair flips hahahah! And also talked to a few more Cambodian teens (yes Joween you are doing it)!!!! Hehe yay and we took polaroid with all the Cambodian teens, even those that we didn't talk to. It was awkward but, to keep for memories, right? And after dinner most of us went to find the pkace where there was an opera. But botanic garden was TOO BIG WE COULDN'T FIND IT we ended up walking in circles LOL (and talking too). And then finally we walked somemore and we found the place! And that was when Thimoro and other teens started talking to us in their language and at first I was like what.... HAHAHA I was slow to realise it. :P  and by the time we settled with Tiffany, it was their final piece already!!! And a lot a lot of people were there and clapping so much so they sang another opera yay ( for us la horh) (btw did i mention that the Cambodian teens know how to use the word "la" hhahahhh) okay and after the opera we walked back and that was when we talked to more teens. :) we often had to tell Eugene to slow down LOL. And we took pictures at the big big tree nearby and more and yay and at 7.15, the sec3 girls left. Whoop. Cos we were staying over at Robbie's house! And ugh I didn't talk to some teens like Chealin and Yean and LC. But I talked to Gwen, Jacqueline and Mike! Okay. And Dayna spend time with family cos she's a tingy jetlaggy. We took a bus to dhoby ghaut where we took a train to punggol and then lrt to Robbie's house. We talked. A lot. And then we all went to Tricia's house cos she had to collect cake. And yoyo omg was barking so loudly and Theo who was at the door, ran to hide at the staircase. And we walked over to Robbie's house which was just a road away. And we talked a little and one by on we washed up. Then we were there like using our phones and talking and taking crazy pictures until we were tired, then we watched a tangled tale for like half an hour? And we went back to the room. Robbie kept saying "i don't want them to go home" I really don't want either. And in the room, we made cards. For our Cambodian friends. Although it was a really really short day where I actually talked to most of the teens, I felt that we were close with them. So close with them. I know I'm gonna miss them so so much. So I wrote for every one of the teen, even to those whom I didn't talk much to. And by the time we finished writing it was 2. And we flipped off the light and slept. Well "slept". Okay Theo was the first one to sleep. I was with her on the bed. And the other four, Robbie, Kyla Joey and Tricia were so noisy downstairs LOL they were making so much noise! And Robbie told me to join them so I did. Hahahaha. And Joey was crying. And there was a time I have no idea why I was laughing si badly I made two weird noises. I was so afraid that I woud wake Theo up! And Kyla and Robbie were like making me laugh and forcing me to make weird noises cos they were laughing and tickling me. And I think at around 3? We slept. Finally.