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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Italy trip - Day 1 (28/06/07)

Yes!! today is the day.. finally starting on my very first overseas trip without my parents around.. i was very nervous.. keep on checking if all important stuff are put inside the luggage or not.. Daniel called me at abt 3pm to ask me to go hav dinner at Popeye around 5pm.. and so i were there rather early.. with my mum and sis sending me off~ not long after i saw Cloud, Daniel and Xw and join them.. Alison, Nick and some other nusws members were already there eating.. and so we joined them to eat.. my sections were all there by around 6pm and we took a section photo together.. and haha eng kwang was there to send us off too.. and den I was given the task of giving ribbons to all the ppl and to be tied to every luggage.. in the end we were abit late for the checking in and stuff.. and yah had a full nusws photo taking b4 we all fly off.. I was seated with mr leonard tan and edna.. so during the whole flight we talk abt band's curriculum in Singapore and other band related stuff.. we talk for so long b4 realising that the plane is landing.. its so fast sia.. the Thailand airport was rather big.. and we waited 1 and a half hr for our next flight.. next flight was very terrible.. it was soooo long and bored.. only manage to slp like for an hr or so there.. breakfast on the plane was nice.. i had omelette and sausages.. the plane finally landed at abt 7.30am Milan time.. the air was so cooling when we get out of the plane.. so shuang~ haha.. went to collect our luggage and instruments b4 we met our trip representatives frm Italy.. she was a bit poor in English but we manage to decipher it bit by bit haha.. we had another 45min bus journey b4 we reached our main festival place: Besana..

From there we were "handed over" to each respective host families.. for me I am sharing room with Dennis.. a trumpet player.. and our host name is Mr and Mrs Sala Silvio.. =) sad to say that the hse is among the furthest awy from Besana compared to other band members.. Their hse is like a big mansion la.. so big and nice.. they even had a medium size garden!! omg.. so cool man.. they grow food like potato and fruits like apricot strawberry and so on.. we had lunch with them.. first we had this delicious lemon chicken and risotto.. its so nice man.. tried their wine too =) we chatted for awhile b4 they bring us around their town.. Biassono.. And they actually got a F1 racing track within 500metres of their hse.. they brought us around and spend sometime there.. there were some motorcyclists practising there.. took lots of pics there haha.. Mr Silvio den bring us to Gelato and tried the ice-cream there.. omg.. their gelato rocks.. really.. singapore is really nth compared to them.. next he bring us to this mini museum where there are display of what an old Italian hses look like.. tools they use for farming and stuff.. we visited their supermarcato next.. things were pretty the same except for fruits and cheese that they sell there.. for dinner we had this "Italian wanton" called raviorli and wads inside were cheese and ham.. not bad haha.. and we went on to have some cold cooked beef mixed with lemon sauce and olive oil.. after which we went back to rest.. oh yes their nighttime only comes at around 10pm.. hahaha.. so not used to it.. but its rather cold at night.. i finally went to bed at around.. 1am..

chris ~ Tuesday, July 31, 2007