What A Wonderful World: Trip to Cairns

30-7-2012 Saturday Sunny

Today was our last normal lesson and we are going to take a EFCELT Test tomorrow. In the lesson, we learnt about Australian animals. From today's lesson, I realized that koalas and kangaroos are not the only two kinds of animals in Australia. They are a lot more! I have not heard of some of their names before! For instance, there is sugar glider which is a bit like a rat, a bit like a cat, can fly from tree to tree and eats sweet things such as honey and nectar. And one more name I learnt today was Tasmanian Devil. What a cool name! This animal is the size of a small dog but very strong and powerful. It likes eating meat. However, I want to see a platypus the most! I know that it looks very strange! :) Hope I can have a look of it when I came to Australia next time!

In the afternoon, we had a photo scavenger hunt! At first, I thought it was quite boring! Afterwards, I found it quite challenging as we needed to go to different places and took the required photos. It's a tired and tough task! We ran a lot today! The funniest scene today was that we did not know what a cannon is. Then, we took out a camera of a brand name "Canon"! That's humorous, right? Although that's a bit wired, that showed how creative we were! Ha-ha!

At night, we went to night market. We first ate dinner at a Chinese food court. There was food buffet restaurant which sells Chinese food. It had been a long time since I last had Chinese food (rice and noodles)! I missed these food so much. Today, I did not need to wait anymore. I could eat plain rice, fried eggs and Chinese style wings heartily! Nonetheless, it closed AUD $15 per box! That was to say it was almost HKD $120 per a box of Chinese food!! That's so expensive. Therefore, I shared it with Maggie and Ashley. As we had not eaten Chinese food for long, we put a lot in the box. The size of the food accumulated almost doubled the size of the box! After the yummy dinner, we walked around this night market. Ashley and I went into a shop which sells handicrafts. There were plenty of anklets and bracelets. I thought there were nearly thousands of ornaments! I struggled for a long time on which one should I choose! They all were so beautiful. I wanted them all! Then I went to a facial cream shop and brought one hand-cream and 1 lipstick for my mom. It's so nice that the shop-keeper gave me discount! Soon, the night went dark. When we were about to leave, we saw a magical evening beneath the bright stars. The sky was in purple colour! It's utterly glamorous... In fact, there was a gradual change of colours in the range from purple to orange! There were different layers and colour tones!

After that, we went home with Maggie. Unfortunately, we got off at a wrong place! Initially, we should get off in Panorama Street on Toogood Road. Even so, It was too dark, I could not distinguish the bus stop! Finally, the driver let us off at the end of Toogood Road and instructed us the way to walk back. At first, I was so so so afraid and puzzled that we would lose our way home. Yet, when I saw the charming stars and bright moon up on the sky. My worries were gone. Maggie, Ashley accompanied me! That was a bewitchingly beautiful starry night... The sparkling stars scattered all over the sky. I felt like I was in a fairyland... What's more, I thought the sky was very near to us as if I could touch that piece of wonderful "black cloth" and plucked one star on it! I did not feel scared anymore because I had those brilliant stars with me! At that time, we were like mariners, we charted our course by the stars...