Friday, July 4

The Day Before

I leave for Sydney tomorrow and I can't wait! This will be the herald of many firsts.

1) First time at Hillsong Conference. Yaaay!

2) First time in Sydney. Yeah, I know, how did I get an Australian education without going to one of its major cities, right? I didn't know anyone there at the time, and Sydney was so crass and commercialised then. (Still is, but when you are an arts student, it's not cool to do crass and commercialised.)

3) First holiday in a year. Since I started work at this new place, I have not had time to take leave, especially with the revolving door of staff turnover lately. So this will be well-deserved and high time.

4) First time I will be spending more than 24 hours with this bunch of people. I like them well enough under normal circumstances, but I really I don't travel well with people generally, despite how much I like them otherwise. Especially if they are late for rendezvous, can't decide on anything and only want to shop all the time. This will be a good test.

Tonight I wil agonise over what to pack, and indubitably bring too many clothes, not enough underwear and "essentials" that will be totally unnecessary. I also get to wear my new "bling" shoes, which I am really looking forward to. Nice?

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Eh, so are you still coming to Melbourne?

nAl said...

No :(
Unfortunately cannot take longer leave. Got annual report to write.

But it may happen this year yet!

Anonymous said...

aaahhhhh... i LOVE the shoes!
see you in two days! :)

Anonymous said...

nal, enjoy the trip =)

you're making history just by being there ;P

Anonymous said...

i hope you enjoyed spending more than 24 hours with "this bunch of people". (:

i have good memories with you. in particular, that flight scare in your room (which was just AFTER the embarrassment of knocking on the wrong door, thanks a lot).

Anonymous said...

ok i just realised i forgot to leave my name but it's rather obvious who i am right. hahaha.

nAl said...

Ha ha Tiff, you kill me.
"You people" turned out to be not so bad ater all. Except for the constant midnight harrassment, ha ha.