Categories: just-life
Date: 12 November 2009 22:40:59
Accepting that various confidentiality rules means that I can't tell you some things about my trip down to the Southern Hemisphere, I can tell you that the trip itself was brilliant. I guess when you have a wide pool from which to select people from it is possible to pick twenty that should get on together and even though we ranged from our early twenties to our early fifties, came from all four countries and corners of the United Kingdom we all bonded really well. In fact, conisdering that we only met Saturday evening the fact that there were tears when we all said goodbye early Thursday morning shows how well we all gelled.
While you could see that there we sort of split into three loose groups we usually all came together for dinner out in town, and of course we were hanging out together during the day. Not to mention our wrap party that we held in the hotel (we were only told to keep the volume down once) until about three in the morning... but when the beer comes in litre bottles and costs about two of our English pounds... well you might as well enjoy yourself!!
Of course, two flights the length of London-Buenos Aires are annoying, especially if like me you tend not to be able to sleep... on the other hand I did manage to watch Moon, Up, The Time Travellers Wife, The Simpsons Movie, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (twice), Pale Rider, Land of the Lost, Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well as a number of tv programmes that were also available.
And because we were in the Southern Hemisphere... well, the toilets flush in the wrong direction!!!
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