Day 1: Headed to the airport at like 8.30! Checked in and omg my luggage was super heavy! 18.9 KG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? I SERIOUSLY OVERPACKED WOAH. The journey on the plane was really smooth, slept for five hours without realising! HAHA :D Then we headed to marke city for awhile and bondi beach, which is seriously beautiful, then checked into our hostel! :D It's quite a small room and like 6 of us had to share it! Slept on bunk beds, hehe i decided not to sleep on top cause it would be too troublesome to climb up and down! Then we went to Vebrugghen Hall at around 6+ to watch the Festival Opening Ceremony, i was really wowed by all the performances! They're really good! :D Hehe it was a good start!
Day 2: Probably the day i took the best photos! Harbour Cruise was awesome. Saw really cool sights like really HUGE houses with several levels of CARPARKS in ONE house! DAMN BIG, it's like the most expensive houses you can find in Sydney! Apparently the richest person in Sydney lives there! And the houses have a really pretty view cause they're along the magnificent harbour! HEHE, then after the cruise, we walked around nearby for lunch at some restaraunt called Rossini, shared spaghetti with Winnie! Then it was our ADJUDICATED PERFORMANCE at Angel Place, we were all really tired and our performance was really REALLY sucky :( A lot of people cried after the performance gosh :( Sad, and i only took like one photo of the whole thing! Which is of sang ah sleeping during dinner lol. Well, at least we made up for it on the 4th day! :D
Day 3: First thing we did was to do some souvenir shopping at Chinatown! Managed to buy presents for joey andting there! :D And a koala for my sister :) Then we had two hours of freee and easy at Market City for lunch and to shop around a little! Market City's like this place nearby the hostel that we went to like 5 times or smth! After that we headed to the "Rocks" District where there was some tour guide talking about the history of Sydney and stuff. Then halfway it started drizzling pretty heavily lol, was seriously cold. Had fun taking photos! But didn't really get what the guide was talking about, haha i gave up listening halfway! Then we had dinner at a really nice restaraunt! The fish and chips were really good and the brownie was the best! :D Fun day!
Day 4: Spent practically the whole day at the Sydney Opera House! First we went there to watch other schools perform. We had time to take super a lot of photos while we were there! SO NICE! :D Really awesome place and the structure of the whole thing is super cool! Haha i sat next to Siyi for the performance and she was slept super well! LOL, i conclude that such performances aren't supposed to be very interesting, haha she wasn't the only one. Then after we watched other schools, we quickly took a bus back to the hostel to get ready for our own performance! I have to say, we performed much better than on the second night and it's such a waste that it wasn't adjudicated! Never mind, felt our energy and it makes me so proud to say that i'm in SMSB! :D Can't believe i actually performed in there WOAH.
Day 5: Had exchange with Albany Senior High for the first part of the day! They're really nice! We played their piece which was Arabian Dances and they played Flight :) My section had 8 flutes, apparently ALL girls. WOAH. Then after 2 it's like all free time! We shopped at Paddy's market till like 5+! Really fun, didn't buy A LOT of stuff but still manged to get smth! :D LIKE THE I LOVE SYDNEY TEE :D Then we ate dinner at some food court, and that was about it! :D
Day 6: Spent the whole of it at Darling Harbour! Seriously beautiful place. Ate the best pizza i ever ate in my life and the banana smsoothie was seriously good too! Watched the outdoor performance and took photos and ate ice cream along the way! Loved the relaxing atmosphere. Then about 20 of us chose to go to the Wild Life World! Wasn't that impressed with it but whatever. Sad that my camera died halfway through :( HEHE GREAT DAY!
Day 7: Closing ceremony and Anita's birthday! Surprised our beloved bm with cake and stuffed her alot haha! Spent a lot of time packing, cooped up in the room before it was time to perform. Ate at Market City ONCE AGAIN and we paid for internet! Split the one hour into 15 mins each so that explains the brief blog post i had! And so we performed at Vebrugghen Hall! The place where we sat in the audience the first day watching other schools till performing on the last day! We were nervous before we performed but we had a lot of fun with it! Can you believe we were one of the 3 schools they chose? I CAN. Also watched this joint choir perform, they are soo amazing! Closing party was super awesome, there was a live band and they were giving out free drinks! Weird that everyone else wore their own glam clothes while we were in blazer! HAHA HAD SO MUCH FUN THOUGH IT DIDN'T LAST LONG :( That concluded our last night in sydney! A REALLY MEMORABLE ONE :)
Day 8: Woke up at 6+ to have breakfast at 7! I was super tired, sat with joanna on the bus then sang ah changed seats with zhenna so she could sit with me on the plane, thanks to zhenna seriously! Oh and surprisingly my luggage became lighter yes i was super happy! Went from 18.9-17.3 or smth. WOOHOO. Yeap, was super happy to see daddy, mummy, sylvie, dan, yimi and popo at the airport :) THEN IT WAS HOME SWEET HOME TO GET BACK REST!OH MY GOODNESS THAT TOOK FOREVER. CAN'T BELIEVE MYSELF. Seriously sad that the photos i put up that were supposed to kind of "rotate" don't rotate! Felt like a waste of effort, oh well. Go to facebook you'll see it all! Well okay, so this trip there were conflicts here and there, esp during the start and somewhere around the middle, but like, they're resolved now and my section is really bonded! :D It was an eventful trip, that i really enjoyed :) Miss Sydney now! Sucks to be back in school gosh. Well i shan't type so much anymore, hope you enjoyed this post!! :D I SPENT ALOT OF EFFORT ON IT OKAY. Yeap, so out tmr to watch Monte Carlo! Byeeee :D
-Sophia
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