4 more days of sun

merry christmas!! you’ve found ellie & desiree’s new travel blog! for the uninformed, ellie is my beloved elephant (well, elfie’s elephant technically). i shall post a picture of him up here one of these days! in just about 4 days, we’ll be jetting off to “the sunshine coast” of america, except ironically according to the latest friendly weather report, temperatures in san francisco are ranging from 5-15 degrees c! although it won’t exactly be snowing, i decided to add that feature on the blog (lasts till 4th jan) to add a little christmas cheer (:

i haven’t packed!!! still have stupid module mapping nonsense to settle in school, hopefully by tomorrow. my suitcase is standing in my room ready to be stuffed and manhandled. i still can’t believe i’m leaving so soon and for so long!!! the last time i was away in new york for over 3 months but i didn’t get homesick probably because i was busy operating rollercoasters full of overweight burger-wielding people. and it was SUMMER! no one misses home when its summer. but this time its going to be winter and new years and studying and twice as long! plus xixi won’t be there! it’s great that owen was nice enough to offer to let me stay at his place for the first few days while i’m in san francisco waiting for weifen to arrive.. although spending newyears with strangers in a backpacker’s hostel sounds pretty exciting (: i could always do that another time, once i’ve gotten over the shock of the cold.

i think i’ve a pocketful of super duper excitement just waiting to burst somewhere inside of me and it’s beginning to show signs of anxiousness. i definitely foresee a night of sleeplessness the night before i fly off. i’ll miss everyone!!! my family and elfie and xixi and everyone in hall! elfie got my mom a webcam and i’ve installed it and taught her how to use it. hopefully we get to skype often! everyone should get skype! if you can’t (although you really should because it’s free) no worries, i’ll be sure to post tons of pictures up here so you guys can, in the words of sham the copter man “feast your eyes”.

and if my fellow flyaway friends ashok and shanta and kim ever get round to starting up their own travel blog, i’ll be linking them! (: oh and speaking of friends, thank you EVERYONE who came for our One Last Night of Mayhem that night. and ashok! please send me those awesome underwater pictures we took!! i guess we all could use a little friendly goodness PLUS kick-ass durian puffs now and then, especially when a bunch of us will be leaving for a good half a year but we’ll be back before you know it. so in the meantime, enjoy the peace and quiet. haha!