Wednesday had been a day full of bats, plants, flowers, laughter, lame jokes, tired feet and plenty of photo-ops (as I had
promised) at the Royal Botanic gardens!! So the day had started off with a 9:00am lecture and an hour later, my four friends and I darted off to the
Redfern train station to head off to the
Royal Botanic Gardens to attend an excursion for one of our unit of studies:
LIVING SYSTEMS. This time, instead of dissecting a rat in a laboratory like last week (lol!! It sounds disgusting but it was amazing to sort through its bloody guts and intestines...^.~), it was to be a day of observing and studying plants but this excursion turned out to be observing and mucking around for alas, nothing went through into my head but a few random facts here and there . . . kekeke! =p
It seems to be that whenever my friends and I attend a
uni excursion, we will always somehow get lost going there...lol! Yes, indeed - I think I should buy a GPS. ^^ Now, I've wondered into the Royal Botanic Gardens many, many times but to go to a specific place located in the garden is like searching your way through a labyrinth. ><" We found ourselves being greeted by this huge glass pyramid and let me tell you, the feeling that I got was very weird. I'm not sure how to describe it. Do you guys know that sudden climax music that movies put on whenever a crew/individual suddenly comes across something that they've been searching for so long, something so amazing and yet, something so dangerous and intimidating?? It was a thumping, exciting and scary feeling. A sudden overwhelming feeling. (o'.'o) My mouth had gaped open - "open wide, let a fly come inside . . . " hahaha!! eww!! xD
But nevermind, we eventually found the way to the meeting place: the
fernary!!
And so the excursion started. . . with the five of us being 10minutes late but it was all good. ^-^
And so, the next stop was the fig tree. I always remember the most random and queer facts and often, the most irrelevant. However, this random fact may be relevant to you - kekeke. Did you know that a fig's crunchiness is due to insects' exoskeletons?? So, basically, when you eat figs, you're eating the exoskeletons of insects (which I think may explain the bitter part of figs). hahaha!! After our tutor Matt told us that, he snapped a fig off the tree and just ate it. Ahh...I bet it must have tasted delicious. kekeke. =p
We zoomed past so many different types of vegetation and oh how my legs were sore then and there! I complain and whinge easily (sssh ^.~) especially when it comes to any sort of exercise. And climbing up and down hills is one of them. lol! Faaiza, Quinn and Susan were laughing at me because a few weeks ago, I had tried to persuade them to use a different route in uni so that we didn't have to climb a 1 metre hill (that takes aproximately 5 steps to do =p) because climbing is so painful. lol!! And there I was, climbing everywhere at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Aye yi yi. =.=" Indeed, I am a horrible lazy girl. hahaha!! But I really enjoyed the excursion nonetheless.
In the midst of the excursion, we found ourselves swamped with bats. Okay, not swamped. But covered with bats. Okay, not covered - that's not a proper description...I think. (o'.'o) There were bats sleeping and/or dangling an/or flying everywhere, from one branch to another; from tree to tree, high above our heads. Oh! Lol!! I was such a silly girl for being so afraid. One, I was afraid of them attacking me because I happen to attract bees (so I assume I smell sweet all the time - hahahaha!! ^.~) and two, I was afraid of them pooping on my head. And I wasn't the only one who was afraid of bat poop. hahaha! Most of us had our paper/notes held above our heads. Oh, such a funny sight. =p And the funny thing was, if you had filmed us at the garden, added a few eerie music/sounds - we would of made a great modern horror film. Lol!
LOL. =P
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To be continued. . .
