Friday 10th July - Left to New Caledonia. Caught the Aircalin airoplane at 12.15pm. Got to our hotel and shared a room with Tiffany and Darinna. Went out to eat dinner at the local cafe called Rimba Juice Cafe. Ate my first french meal which was a maxi bacon buger, yummmmmmm. Got back to the hotel, took a shower & changed room around to suit our comfort and off we bed we went!
Saturday 11th July - Darinna woke me up at 730am. Left hotel at 9am and caught a bus to the centre-ville of Noumea. Went to the markets & bought myself pearl earings, wooden couple sculpture, wooden braclet for Khuyen and a bark pencil. Walked around the city and went sight seeing. Caught the bus back to the supermarket called Casino & did some grocery shopping. Walked back to the hotel which took us 1 hour ! Ate dinner at Fun Beach & went back to hotel to shower. Stayed up till midnight in Mrs Ortega's room telling ghost story, jokes and played games. Very tiring day, walked way too much !
Sunday 12th July - HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY TO TU NHI (TIFFANY) VUONG. Today Darinna again woke me up at 730am. We went on a sight seeing train called "Chu Chu Train". It took us around Noumea and Anse Vata. Some of the girls was calling out silly things in French to the random people. LOL, it was pretty funny. We went to alot of nice places that all had nice views as they all were on a high mountain. Many photos were taken this day. We then went back to the hotel at 11am and had some free time to all of us. We went to the pool for awhile but then went back to our room while Tiffany played the Sims 3 on my laptop & I watched 90210 on Long's laptop. We then went to the local shops for awhile to look for any equipment to make our mask for the Masquerade Party we were going to tomorrow night. Though we didn't find anything to buy. At 630pm we went to eat at 3 Brasseurs. Tiffany received a suprise double mud cake for her birthday and everyone sang her happy birthday.
Monday 13th July - Today we got to sleep in till 830am. We ate breakfast and then had a 1 hour french lesson. I found the lesson very boring and not important. He was going on about New Caledonia and it's history and I didn't even learn anything new ? Oh, besides that Australian was nicknamed as "Pokens" in New Caledonia. Don't ask me why because I have no clue. We then spent majority of our afternoon making our masks. We handmade all our mask but it turned out pretty nice except for Naramsin & Mrs Ortega's mask LOL. Their masks look like they're bush people. At 4pm, we ended up catching a bus back to the centre ville for a festival that was apparently on though when we got there, it looked pretty empty to be a festival. We ended up all going on the Bumper Cars which was awesome fun. When we got back to the hotel we went back to Rimba Juice Cafe to eat our dinner. All the girls had nice curls for the Masquerade Party. We all got dressed and headed to PARTY ! :) French people are Party animals !
Tuesday 14th July - Today was probably my most favourite day throughout the whole trip. We went to the Amedee Lighthouse which was located on a isolated island. It was beautiful!! The water was so nice and the island was amazing! We all climbed up the lighthouse which seemed like FOREVER. There was so many steps to climb and everyone was sooking about how tired their legs were. Though when we got to the top of the lighthouse, it was so so much worth it. The view was BRILLANT! Well throughout the whole day we spent swimming, sun baking, snorkling and we view the corals from the Glass Bottom Boat. We had a delicious tropical lunch which included a wide range of buffet food. YUMMMMMMMMMMMM. :D:D The lunch also included a show. The dancers were very pretty & Mrs Ortega's husband got chosen to dance in a skirt & a coconut bra. It was so funny! Well we got back to the hotel at 5ish and as soon as I took my shower, I went straight to sleep and slept till the next day. LOL. I didn't even eat dinner. Oh wells, too tired to even bother waking up.
Wednesday 15th July - Today we went to visit a school at New Caledonia. It was very very different to the school in Australia. In one school, they only had 200 people. The student we talked to was very nice and funny. We talked English to them while they replied us back in French. They showed us around their school and we took lots of photo with them. When we got back to the hotel around 1ish. We all decided to go eat Pho at a Vietnamese Place. The Pho wasn't as great but it was filled me up! We did abit of shopping after and I bought a hippo soft toy which was a "GOOD LUCK CHARM" & I also bought myself a diamond horse shoe necklace which also symbolised good luck. After we decided to visit the island infront of our hotel. The island was also very nice. We snorkled while some cannoed, though we ended up swaping and doing both. It was a fun splash around! At 630pm, we went to eat at La Dolce Vita which served pizza. So different from Aussie pizza.
Thursday 16th July - Went back to the school, played games, chit chatted and took more photos. Went to some building ? Forgot what it was called LOL. Apparently it's like the Opera House. You have to see it or else you'll feel as if you missed out. BULLSHIT. The place was crap! It just looks like a old building but nicely structured. It was so boring inside though. After those boring boring few hours, we went back to Anse Vata and did our last minute shopping for gifts. I tried to buy things to finish all my money since it was the last day anyways. And so I bought my sisters a ring each. I also bought my mother a New Caledonia hand painted plate. We ate at the hotel that night. The food wasn't as great but. At night, all the girls tried to attempt a all nighter since it was the last night there & because it was my birthday the following day.
Friday 17th July - Happy Birthday to me. The girls manage to stay up till 2am and then we all fell asleep but woke up again at 4am to get ready to go back to Australia. On the way back on the plane, everyone was sleeping. We were way too tired to stay up and talk. When we got to the airport. Ms Keller suprised me as she rant to buy me a donut from krispy kreme and stuck some candles in it with no light LOL. It was so sweet but. My sister also bought me a cake to the airport. It was so nice to be back home. That night, Khuyen came over to see me and the girls and I went out to Cook Hill to grab dinner for my birthday.
Saturday 18th July - My mother wanted to celebrate my birthday with the family today. So she cooked a feast for the whole family to come home and eat. Though that meant I had to miss out on Francis 16th Birthday Party. Oh wells, family comes first right? So yeah, it was a Saturday night in with my family. It was good fun having everyone at home again though. So worth it :)
Sunday 19th July - I really don't remember what I did that day ... ? But I think Khuyen must had came over?
Monday 20th July - Khuyen came over and back to work today! Had 4pm - 9pm. Wasn't as bad :)
Tuesday 21st July - ?? LOL, bad memoryy ..
Wednesday 22nd July - Today I started all my notes. Starting studying and got organised !
Thursday 23rd July - Stayed home + study !
Friday 24th July - H3M to me and my baby. Went to Wollongong to see the "BLOW HOLE" Ended up jumping into the rock pool with Khuyen with just undies and bra and no towel. Fucken freezing off my arse later. Ate lunch + icecream. Had work 4pm - 11pm.
Saturday 25th July - Work 10am - 6pm.
Sunday 26th July - Work 9am - 5pm.
Monday - Spent time with Khuyen + work 3pm - 9pm.
Tuesday - BACK TO SCHOOL.
Sorry guys, thats all I'm bothered for. & if you want to look at pictures of my New Caledonia trip. Feel free to go on my facebook and browse around. GOODNIGHT BLOGGERS. xx
