Adv 2. An Adventure to Remember

Im going to EUROPE!!! What an adventure this will be!! I have two must see places on earth.
One: Rome, the capital of ancient art
Two: New York, the capital of modern art
so it is brilliant that i will get the chance to go to Italy and explore the ancient wonders of the world. :)

Thur 19 Jan
Today me and my parents got up very early to drive 5 hours to christchurch. They were kind enough to drive me to the airport, to see me off on my big trip to europe!!!
I am very much loking forward to being in Europe and exploring a little of the different countries and cultures. I'll have a couple of weeks to do some travelling before i have to be in holland to start school. This trip is a bit of an insane one really. I wanted to come overseas and not just be a tourist but to get invovled in something so i could get to know a place and its people. So an exchange programme is perfect, i'll be studying at the Utrecht School Of Art for one semester, I'm not here for very long though, only 4 and a half months, because its my graduating year i need to produce concise, resolved work and a lot of it, and get back home quickly. In amongst a lot of hard work i will make sure to galavant all over europe and make the most of being here.

So, well here i am on a 10 hour flight to Singapore where i will stay for 5 nights on a stopover. My goals for this stop are to catch up with some people that i made friends with when i was here last time for CYX. To buy a really good laptop for a good price, because Singapore is great for cheap electroncs. There will be a CYX press conference and we'll be on tv for the first episode of the Chronicles of CYX.

I am flying Singapore Airlines, and ive decided they are far superior to Air NewZealand. They give you a hot facecloth at the start and end of the journey!!! very hospitable. and you get your own tv screen and can choose between so many movies and tv programmes to watch and music to listen to. There are heaps of games and you can learn differnt languages. I tried to learn a little dutch... it made my head hurt... but i can count to 20 now. i couldn't find a Dutch phase book anywhere before i left NewZealand, so im hoping that when i get to Holland i wont need to speak much. I hear Dutch is one of the hardest languages to learn and that Holland is one of the most boring places in Europe, well its good that i wont be there for too long...