VICTOR AUTUMN 2006
Already a
month or so later, it was time for holiday again. After finishing the
horrible Ramadan, we had a week of for Eid holidays, and went to
Bali.
Here I made my first dive, which was awesome. Next holiday I will try to get
my PADI. We also went to the tree top adventure park, where I finished all
three rounds, even though the last one not without some very scary moments.
Luckily we were wearing safety gear so the worst that could happen, was that
you ended up dangling on two ropes.
This year, when Sinterklaas came to Dhaka,
Vincent,
Elodie and I were all
involve as helping hands, Zwarte Pieten. My little sister
Anna immediately recognized
me, however, my mother did not! For more than two weeks the inside of my ear
remained black, urging my mother all the time to tell me to wash my ears
better.
The other game was "tomato dancing" and you can see Elodie and me gracefully dancing together underneath. We tried to involve my mother, but she blandly refused, as she swore never to be involved in any game like that.
There was also a turtle hatchery on the island, and on Christmas morning, one of the nests came out and almost 100 little turtles wee crawling around. I was the first to see them! as soon as the staff found out, they rushed towards them, because they have to be brought to the see as fast as possible, to increase their chance of surviving. Still, black-tip sharks had them for Christmas breakfast.
We saw
loads of monkeys, orangutans, proboscis monkeys and macaques, so we felt
very much at home in Borneo.
In
Kota Kinabalu,
we tried rafting. The lady of the hotel assured us, that it was all nice and
easy, and everybody could do it. How different appeared the reality. We were
upside down more than half of the time and even if we were up straight, the
water would fill the boat before you could count to three. So we did it for
almost an hour and that was it.
The same cannot be said for the adventure park, which
Vincent and me were allowed to visit: we
could have stayed much longer, riding buggies and climbing plastic
mountains, if only my mother would have bought the most expensive option for
us!
In
March, our school had the yearly "Sports Day". The first time it was
planned, 5 minutes before it started to rain, so we had go go to class all
day dressed and painted in yellow. The second time we were more lucky. Our
team did not win anything. Therefore, we received the award of "most
sportive team".
I am still a "game addict" and my favorite one nowadays is "Runescape", to
be pronounced as "rune-scape" but my mother to my endless annoyance
pronounce it as "run-escape". I try to convince her to make me a member
against a monthly fee, but have not succeeded yet. Because even though per
month it is small, she always shows me that per year it is rather expensive.
But you see, even my girlfriends are members!
