Queenstown

In the early morning of last Monday (8th of April), I arrived at church with Jonathan and Wei Zheng. We only left at around 8.30am if I am not mistaken.

On the way, while everybody was sleeping: I was so bored!
So, I started taking pictures:

Everybody was sleeping except me.
That's Wei Zheng's head right in front.

That's the beautiful scenery outside.

The scenery was the same throughout the whole journey.

I take quite good pictures.
Liyana said so.

The many sleeping bags:

There were more underneath the bus.

We arrived at around 5pm. We were given time to unpack then go for dinner.
We had games after dinner and straight to bed after that.

That's where I slept for the four nights. Underneath.
Notice my beautiful shower cap on upper far left.
I was quite rajin. I showered all mornings and for the first two nights. The last two nights, I was too sleepy to be bothered.

I woke up early the next morning to shower. We were suppose to be in the hall by 7.45am and I woke up at 6.30am. Mostly because I want to use the toilets next to our rooms rather than going 'downstairs'.
I took a few pictures cause I was early.

The room that I share with two others is the second from the left.

One of the girls is the president of YAG if I'm not mistaken. The other is a non-Christian.Yeah. U noticed right?
My surname is wrong :o(

The front part.

I did not really take alot of pictures.

First, it was because I was malas.
Secondly, I don't see the point of taking pictures.
Third, there was more than enough people taking pictures of everything.
The only trouble is I have to go get them from people.
But maybe I won't even do that.

Look at the next picture:
This is on the other side of the lake. Lake Wakatipu its called.

tipu in Malay = lying
wakaka = evil laughing

WakaTipu = the whole town is laughing because we're dungus

I thought my picture below is also good.
Thats when the sun was rising.

Our basic routine was
7.45am - Exercise
8.00am - Devotion with group
8.30am - Breakfast
9.30am - Worship
10.00am - Talk/Sermon
11.30am - Free time
12.00pm - Lunch
1.00pm - Free time
1.30pm - Games/Queenstown
5.30pm - Free time
6.00pm - Dinner
7.00pm - Free time
7.30am - Worship
8.00pm - Talk/Sermon
9.30pm - Free time
12.00am - Lights out

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we went to Queenstown.

However, on Wednesday we actually went town to play a 'game'.
We were given 43 'clues' and we had to find the place/thing and take a picture with it and it had to be done following the order of the question. Our group took a long time answering the first question. So, we just randomly took pictures with whatever was in our way and went to Startbucks.
Haha. Other groups were jealous that we got to drink a cup of coffee.
Well, we didn't win anything but we had fun and that is the main thing right?

=)

My whole group at Lake Wakatipu.From left to right:
Malachi Sam Camille Emma Kevin Lee Lily Daniel

The funny thing is everybody has an English name. Except for a few. Wait! That's not the funny thing. The funny thing is how they prounouced the name. Only when its English. Like my name.
Emma.
You're suppose to pronouce it Emma and the ma is like mer but without the r.
But people at camp pronouce it Em MA. And the intonation goes up. Its really hillarious.
The only people who has their name pronouced correctly is people with Chinese name.

Lily - one of my translator, in my group, from Taiwan
(i've been getting rides from her to YAG this year)
Camille - my roomie, from Taiwan, not Christian
I seriously need to learn how to smile.
Maybe I should practice it in front of the mirror.

I found Queenstown very normal. Its just like another small touristy town. The things that you can do over there is many. But other than that, I don't understand why do people rave about it.
Maybe that is the only reason.

I didn't really have the mood to go bungy jumping and all that (+ no teman) and it was camp. If I were to do jumping and all that, I would purposely plan something for that.

On the way back.
In Arrowtown.

I saw the orange flowers on a green tree and thought of Yan Ling.
:o)

Another good picture, aye?
We arrived at around 7pm in church.
It was snowing when we left Queenstown.

All in all, I thought the camp was ok.
The speaker was ok. I guess its because all the things he said I already knew. And the camp was mainly filled with non-Christians so I guess they don't know.
We did not use the Bible at all during camp. Goodness knows why they ask us to bring it.
I know Jonathan said Pastor Jack said that because there were non-Christians so they didn't want to use the Bible. But there were references in the talk.
By the way, our speaker is Pastor Terrance Lau originally from Hong Kong but am residing in Australia now.
He spoke mainly in Mandarin but Eric was my translator.
I am really grateful to both Eric and Lily for translating for me. It must be hard to listen and at the same time thinking of the English words.

The food was ok. I'm quite sick of 'bak choy'. And Chinese food in general. I like the Chinese pancakes in the morning though.

I know one thing.

The amount of Chinese I heard this week is more than the amount of Chinese I have listened to in my 19 + years of life.

Dictionary:
rajin - hardworking
malas - lazy
dungu - idiot (in a 'nicer' kind of way)
teman - companion(s)

p.s. its funny. i have rajin and malas right after the other.

i'm going to shower then eat. have to clean room first before blogging about yesterday.