Aimee’s Adventures Part 4!!
9/6/03
Hello!!
Well I'm
back at school again after yet another holiday week!! I spent my half-term
break in sunny Cyprus with Sally
and Jimmy (the other Aussie Gaps at my school). We hired an apartment for the
week in the resort town of Ayia Napa, on the
south-east coast of Cyprus. It was
absolutely fantastic!! It was very warm, about 30 deg every day and very sunny!
After 5 months of not seeing the sun (literally) my legs got rather lobster
like after the first day!! But I eventually got used to the sun and ended up
with a rather nice tan. It isn’t quite Summer yet but the place was still
packed with tourists (and mainly of the pommy variety - brits abroad are the
worst kind!!). We mostly lazed around sitting on the beach or by the pool ( its
a tough life really!). Managed to get ourselves off our backsides on Wednesday
to go cruising on a catermaran for the day. We sailed right up to the Turkish
border and saw the Greek Soldiers, then the UN and then the Turks all in their
towers on the coastline. They've opened up the border for tourists but you're
only allowed to cross the border for the day and have to be back by 5 pm! We didn't venture across but
apparently the other side is even more beautiful. We then sailed back down past
Ayia Napa into a little bay for Lunch and some watersports ( kayaking, snorkelling etc).
Hired mopeds
on Thursday and rode to some sea caves nearby and to Protaras (the next
resort). Had loads of fun hooning around. The keys fell out of Sally's ignition
on a particularly bumpy dirt road, but she didn't notice until we stopped and
she tried to turn it off!! Luckily we found them again otherwise there could
have been trouble!!! Went for another ride on Saturday to Potamas which is a
little kind of shanty fishing port, it was very cute, and the nearby beach was
gorgeous!
We weren't
too happy about having to come home again, but were very tired!! The flight
home was horrible, it was long (about 4 1/2 hrs) with absolutely no leg room!
At one stage I tried to lean back my seat and the old lady behind me pretty
much pushed it back up again!! When we got into the airport our taxi, which we
had booked a week before didn't turn up!! We waited for ages but then decided
it wasn't going to turn up so we had to get another taxi which was much more
expensive!!! Not happy Jan!!! We finally got home at 5 am and had to start work at 8!!!
We're in the midst of exam weeks here at the
moment. Last week was Lower School exam week, as well as A, AS and GSCE levels
(yrs 10 11 12 exams).Unfortunately for us, one of the little year 8 darlings
decided to break his arm in the holidays so we have to write out all of his
exams for him!!! I got lumped with both of his English exams first thing Monday
morning!!! Apart from that we're having a bit of a easy week as the kids are
all on exams so there's not many classes to teach!
Well thats
about all for now!
Aimee
xoxo
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