Thursday 11th

This morning there was no flag raising....well for The Heights group at least. Ms Oakey requested that we be excused from it this morning, because we were really tired. However, this meant that we had to go straight to our sabbaticals, and, of course, the girls were late (again). We didn't realise what the time was, and Courtney and Diane then forgot their key cards, so were extra late. We all ended up arriving to our sabbaticals about half an hour late, but luckily the Hwa Chong people didn't mind. In the "Model ASEAN Summit", Ethan and I were asked by the chair of our room to not 'interfere' today because they had to get through a lot of declarations. We agreed and then just sat there kind of bored, but going along with it. Everything was fine....until the delegates of Indonesia and the delegates of Vietnam (who happened to be the buddy of Ethan and I) decided that Australia would like to contribute to ASEAN. They did ask us, however, we didn't realise, until we were told in note from the delegates of Brunei, that we had agreed to Australia contributing $1 billion. Many of the other countries were against this (particularly Myanmar :P), but Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia were, i guess, fighting for us. It made things really interesting and made it a lot of fun for everyone. At the end of the days discussions, there was a vote for nominations for awards. Thailand was nominated as the 'Hottest female delegate'....although this had its drawback with the fact that the delegate of Thailand was, in fact, not a female :P. Ethan and I put ourselves in for some nominations including 'Most awesome country' and 'Biggest country'. We thought we were sure to win! But we didn't. For recess, Darrel and Yan Perng took Ethan, Aidan, Ben and myself to the junior canteen, which they think is much better than their own canteen. It was still amazing and had much more variety than most Australian schools. Our excursion for today was to the National Museum. Evan and Bryan didn't go because they were too busy cheering on their buddy Jarret at water polo. At the museum, our guides were all Hwa Chong students who were doing a course for the week. The museum shows how Singapore has changed over time, and how it is continually changing now. Once again we were there with the Japanese and Hong Kong students and their Hwa Chong buddies. We all gathered in a large room and were given a speech by a lady, whose name I have forgotten. Some of the Hwa Chong students who were our guides, then did a short skit for us, about the 'discovery of Singapore'. It was really funny and they did a great job. Once again, I was asked to get up and do a speech, this time with Damon. I think this was about speech number 3 or 4. We were originally meant to be going to Orchid Road, along with the Japanese and Hong Kong students, but Ms Oakey and Mr Roubanis organised for us to go to the Hwa Chong swimming complex for a swim instead. Jarret and Andre were the only buddies swimming, but Ooi and Darrel were there too. Everyone went for a swim except for Aidan, Courtney and Diane. Most of the time we just threw a ball around, or Damon and Evan jokingly fought with each other. We had a great time though, because we were sort of able to relax for the first time. After a couple of hours we finally went up to eat dinner at the poolside cafe. It was nice for everyone to go back to the place we all first met, and just chill. After that we all headed back to the boarding school and the buddies went home. The night wasn't over however, we were all still wide awake and the night was young. We were all supposed to do most of our packing, so that there was less for us to do the next day. Of course the girls room was pretty messy....well mainly Courtney....and me. The rest of the girls night involved me going around taking pictures of everything, Courtney and Diane running around our floor (when no one else was there) chasing each other, and also us talking to the Japanese and Hong Kong girls. Overall it was probably our least stressful day, which was nice after so many days rushing around, but it was still awesome! Tomorrow is the last day and no one wants to go home....well except Damon, but even he secretly wants to stay :P