This month I finally have had my nose stud put in. After having a
thorn in my nose for almost 4 weeks, I now have a pierced nose. It was a
really gory job putting a thick Indian (screw) nose stud in a swollen,
snotty and bloody nostril. Emily did a good job in screwing the back of
the stud in for me. Well...aside from the gagging. It's fully done and
dusted now though so I'm happy and looking good. :) |
| Emily, Sir, Jo and Holly |
Also Emily, Jo and I went on a school trip to a
water/theme park. It's called 'The Haiilands' and it was awesome!
Firstly, we had to get up at 5AM, due to the 4 hour journey to reach the
park. We left for the Haiilands with 3 school buses crammed full of
excited kids and teachers. It was crazy. :)
Upon arrival into the actual
park itself, there were three people dressed in those terrifying
costumes. One was Santa Claus, another a frightening gorilla and the
last was sadistic looking clown. I literally ran away from this clown.
I'm really scared of clowns and that became evident to all the 70 odd
kids that came on the school trip.
Anyway, the girls and I (including
our school group) went on a carousel ride, a swinging pirate ship ride
(where the safety bar casually unhooked itself mid-ride :O), a slow
childrens train ride and a swing ride (lacking in seat belts). We had a
lot of fun on the rides. Later, after a nice lunch of curry and rice, we
went swimming. The pools were segregated by gender and girls have to
wear full swimming salwar kameez's to swim in. I was loving it. The
"swimming clothes" were really comfy, and I loved running around and
going down the waterslides. We went in a wave-pool and did a rain dance,
which was basically a little arena area which has sprinklers above head
and it pours water down while you dance to the music. There was to rain
dance areas, one for boys and the other for girls. Everyone was dancing
to Gangnam Style and various other Telugu and Bollywood hits. I was
loving life dancing with the 10th class girls and Satvika (my adorable
2nd class girl).  |
| satvika |
Now onto Christmas, the girls and I bought each
other tacky Indian gifts and also we got an ornamental elephant for our
Sir and the rest of our Indian family. We opened our gifts in the
morning after breakfast. Gifts sent from our families and friends sat
underneath our awesome 4ft, inflatable X-mas tree.The blow-up tree was
gifted to Jo from her friend and it made all of us so happy. 
After all the fun of present opening had past, we got dressed up, ready for going to Church. I'm Hindu, but I celebrate Christmas like most Brits, so I joined the girls and went to Church too. It was a tiny, shed-like building and in Jo's words, it was "sweatastic". Music was booming from the tinny speakers and there was a lot of clapping and "Hallelujah"s. At one point, they got out a big birthday cake and we sang happy birthday to Jesus. It was great fun! It was, however, very hot in the shed/Church. The fans weren't on and there was a lot of people crammed in there, so after two hours I has a sweaty heap. Everyone has to sit on the floor, due to the lack of seating, and I got really bad cramps in my legs. However, it was worth it to see the beaming smiles of the people around us, wishing us a Happy Christmas. After Church, we all talked to our families via the phone and Skype, then we settled down and watched 'Elf' on Jo's tablet. It was a perfect Indian Christmas. :D
