Today was the eleven hour bus trip back to Christchurch so that we could catch our plane back home the next day. The first two hours I spent asleep on the first bus, and apparently I snored :S But it was ok because no one really noticed except one or two of my friends. I blame my terribly blocked nose! I don’t normally snore! After our morning tea stop I transferred onto the other bus to sit with Isaac who normally sat on that bus with Coxy, Declan and Duncan. However, it somehow turned out that they all left us to go on the other bus which left only Isaac and myself up the back of the bus. I think they were a bit pissed off that Isaac was ditching them for me and just wanted to make it awkward for us. But it was fine because it meant that Isaac and I could have more time to just talk again! Which was exactly what we did, pretty much the rest of the 11hr trip, other than the last two hours when we both fell asleep. It really is so easy to talk to that boy! And before you come to conclusions, he has a girlfriend, so I mean it when I say there was nothing like that between us.
So that bus trip was fun and we got to our final place to stay at about five in the afternoon. That night for dinner we went down the road a bit to eat at an Italian restaurant. The food was very nice and at the end a few speeches were made by Mr D, thanking the year twelves and the other teachers etc etc which were kinda sad because the tour had been such great fun and we all knew that it was coming to an end. I think everyone was in two minds about whether they wanted it to end or not. We had been going nonstop for nine days now, with plenty of sightseeing and rushing around being done. I think everyone was just about ready to go back to their own beds back in Brisbane. But at the same time, that meant that it was the last time that we were all together as a group. That was the saddest part because we had all become so close. And I know that I’m never going to see some of those people again, which is really quite depressing.
So that last night was probably the best, when everyone was down in the common room of the accommodation which was just a simple backpackers. Part of our normal group ended up playing poker. I didn’t know how to play poker so Isaac taught me. Well at least he tried to. I sort of got it but I still didn’t really know exactly what to do so he ended up doing most of it. But it was still fun. The teachers didn’t make us go to bed until about 11:30pm and after that our room stayed up talking. In my room was Aj, Neville, Renata and Camilla again. All of us (minus Camilla because she was asleep!) had a good talk and we didn’t stop talking until about 2 in the morning. But we didn’t have to get up unitl 8:30 which was like a 2 hour sleep in compared to every other morning on tour! The morning where we had the long bus trips we had to be gone by 6:30 which meant a 5:30 breakfast. That meant that I was up at about 4:45 on those mornings! So on the whole tour I probably got about half the amount of sleep that I normally get at home. But that was ok :)
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