Thursday, April 24, 2008

Superdead

Today was the 08 olympic torch relay thingo in Australia. Overall, the day was boring and tiring, which made me even more tired than I have been this whole week, and let me tell you, I've been feeling super dead this whole week. The day started at approximately 2:30am, a time that I'm not use to living. We arrive in Canberra [is that how you spell it?] at 7. It is freezing cold and I wish I had mittens. I see hot air balloons everywhere and laughed at the one shaped like an owl. No wait, it was a cookabara? I can't remmeber what it's called. It was brown and owl looking but it wasn't an owl. Anyways, the tour group I'm with traveled down to the front so that we're right next to the lake. I was amazed at all the Asians, Chinese in particular, there because I thought the olympics were multicultural. >_________>



We wait until 8:30 before the lighting the torch thing happens. In the meantime, there was this whole bunch of girlies [like hundreds of them; I think they were all girls :S] singing the Australian anthem or something. I couldn't hear because right next to me was this group of lion dancers playing their drums. These girls rowing on boats rowed to the front of where the lighting the torch thing was happening and it took ages before the torch reached them and was lit. I think the girls were olympians but I'm not really into the olympics so I didn't know who they were. Anyways, during this time, I was standing on this pole thing that was about 10 cm taller than the steps that most people stepped on to see the ceromony. There was a group of Chinese teenagers behind me whose view I was blocking. I think they came directly from China. I was eavesdropping because I had nothing to do and they were having such funny conversations, though I don't remember much of it. Then this plane was sky writing. The first letter was 'F' and the group of Chinese were like 'Are they writing the F-word?'. The second letter was 'R' and this guy was like, 'they're writing FRIENDS, they want to be friends with me'. Ahahaha it seemed so funny then. Turns out they were writing FREE TIBET. >________>



After that we went to the 2nd place where we would see the torch. Apparently there was a fight there and people 50 metres away ran to see it but stopped half way. Ahahah. It was hilarious watching people running and saying 'There's a fight there's a fight!' and then slowing down before they get anywhere near the spot.



There was this charity organisation thingo called Amnesty something. They were carrying huge paper candles around that looked so funny, supporting human rights and freeing Tibet. Then there was another group that protested against that and they started arguing. It was very funny, though I only heard the first few minuntes of it before I was dragged away. You'll probably see this in the news. Actually, the news is probably more informative than this post. Ahahahha.

After arriving back at Cabra at 2 pm [wows, almost 12 hours] we headed to the park because my mum said I needed to get out more often. Then my mum wanders off and leaves me in the park with my brother. The park is so desolated and grey but around it is all green and people filled, which is very strange. After 10 minutes I go back to the car with my brother and no one is there. I would have called my mum but she did something to it and now I can only receive calls. So I stand there waiting for her to call or come whilst planning with my brother what to when she gets back. When I finally receive her phone call she says she's at the car, which is obvious lie, seeing as my brother and I were at the car already. It's not very good to lie when you're an adult, kids copy you. :]

HAPPY ANZAC DAY