I took a visit to my old Primary school. It was pretty crazy to see how the large window I saw as a child now seemed quite small. I visited a classroom with my mum (the teacher there is one of our friends) and the little children were all so well mannered and super cute. I walked down the long corridor and saw all the photos of the whole student body. The photo above is one of me and my friends in Kindergarten.
While I have been in Canberra, I have spent time with a lot of friends, shown my Melbourne roomie around my home town and re visited things from the past.
"There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake" is one of my all time favourite kids books. The cake that the hippopotamus ate looked DELICIOUS to me as a kid.
I have also spent a good deal of time staring at my adorable cat, Taicheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee ee e!
As I wrote previously, I have been riding my bike a lot and really enjoying it. The other day, Darcy and I met up and went for a bike ride to Western Park. I used to visit this place as a kid. My dad used to chase me through the wooden playground. It isn't there anymore. Some cautious parents got it removed because it was "too dangerous" and they were worried their kids would fall over and hurt themselves. (... Kids do that all the time?)
Anyway, I remember the place being a fortress. My dad would walk on the outside of it and make scary noises while my friends and I would run away and scream. He'd sneak up on us and catch us.
Despite the wooden playground not being there, things were still familiar. Darcy and I walked through what used to be the old tree maze. A lot of it has disappeared now... In its place I found many interesting and pretty things.
We climbed up the big double spiderweb and I watched this young girl climbing up. She looked too young to climb and I moved away from her because I didn't want her to be scared of me. Her parents were watching her from five meters away and suddenly she fell (not too far) and her parents rushed over and told her "good job! you climbed really high!" and this little girl said in such concern for herself, "... I hope I didn't break any of my bones!" and she looked at her arms and her legs. She didn't cry at all. She was like three years old. SHE WAS ADORABLE.
Afterwards, Darcy wanted to skip stones and so we walked to the lake and he skipped them really far. The majority of mine didn't go far, but one did! Yay improvement!
Just before we left the lake, Darcy said, "I wonder how far I can throw this rock!" and ran and threw the rock really far into the lake. & I said, "Let me try..." so I grabbed a rock and did a little run, and I ACTUALLY TRIED TO THROW IT. I REALLY DID. It hit the very edge of the lake. Literally like 1 meter from my foot. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I AM SO RETARDED. I was laughing so much at myself and Darcy was laughing at me. It was horrific but hilarious. I obviously curved my hand WAY TOO SOON. It was embarrassing.
at the park
In the evening (Sunday) Elaine and Harry came over for a GAMES NIGHT! We played Cranium for most of the time. Eating skittles, blueberry muffins and listening to 90s music. Laughing at each other and with each other.
I had such a good night. Cranium is such a fun game. It's a mixture of trivia question, pictionary, making things and singing/acting things. GOOD STUFF.
The childhood music was great. It wasn't just the 90s actually.... I just listened to them in the 90s. The macarina came on and all of us couldn't help it but just STOP what we were doing and DO the macarina. Amazing. I love these people.
After Cranium we played Truth or Dare jenga. So the jenga blocks have dares on them or questions on them that you have to answer. I thought the Dares were super tame ("say the alphabet backwards" or "swap a piece of clothing with somebody") until I picked up...
beautiful. thanks jenga.
Elaine and Harry cracked up laughing and told me I could smell anybody's feet in the HOUSE. So we snuck upstairs to where my parents were. My mum was sitting on the sofa with my dad. Her legs were stretched out onto the table with my cat sitting on them. Without saying anything, I sat down by her legs and slowly moved my head towards her foot until my nose rested on it. I breathed in. Patted the cat and ran away.
All mum said was, "make sure you don't disturb the cat!"
Harry and Elaine laughed so much at me afterwards, hahhahaha.
I had such an awesome night!! rahhh!!
Sarah X sent me the cutest card! It was unexpected and really really lovely to get this in the mail. I'm really happy that my friendship with her is slowly growing. I think she's the person that I've kept in contact with the most from Melbourne. I really do appreciate the effort she made to just send me a birthday message : )
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While Jing was here visiting (only for three days) we went ice skating with Shannon! I LOVE ICE SKATING. IT IS GREAT. Shannon and I raced around the rink a couple times when we first got on the ice while Jing clung to the wall. Jing forgot how to ice skate because she hadn't done it in a really long time. For most of the night we held her hands (one of us on either side of her) and helped her skate around the rink. We all had a really fun time. I love ice and I love the cold air. I should do it more often.
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During the week I have been talking lots with my lovely Jenny (of the crab family)!! HI Jennnyyyyy thanks for being patient with my blog updates HAHAHAH <3
She's in NZ at the moment and I have been meaning to visit her! She updates her tumblr blog + instagram with such beautiful photos of NZ skies and nature and I want to be there with her and be in awe! Rah!
Lizbeth came for a visit today. She had been in Sydney all week so I wasn't able to catch up with her sooner and i was NOT going to leave Canberra without seeing her. We always talk for many hours. Today we sat up in the upstairs lounge room in the sun. Liz was so comfortable in this new sofa my mum bought. I could see her sinking into the seat and gradually laying down on it. HAHAHA. I sat on the floor so I was not influenced by the sofa's comfortableness!!
I feel very happy when I'm with Liz. I'm happy that even though we've been separated by continents for years, that our friendship has still stayed strong. We are always happy to hear how each other has grown and about new experiences and ideas.
In the evening we played piano and guitar together and sung songs. She is such a talented girl! : ) I love singing with her. I feel like our voices sound nice together!
I've been having a really good time here. This holiday has been what I've needed. I almost don't want it to end, but I know I should just be thankful for the time I have had here... and I definitely am.
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