bungees and food poisoning.

I was just reminiscing some of my most embarrassing moments(what the hell Carmen, who even DOES that) . I actually don't get embarrassed that easily because I'm really really good at laughing at the stupid things I do, because I think they're really funny. So I am going to share with you all one of my more embarrassing experiences.

Earlier this year, I was in Queenstown in New Zealand, which is on the south island. Being asian, my parents wanted to save time and fuss by joining an asian tour. Actually, it was a pretty good tour. There were two other families with kids on the tour and there were about 30 people on the tour altogether.

Queenstown is renowned for its bungee jumping sites. The tour guide basically said that people in Queenstown got bored and would invent thinks to do like white water rafting in rocky areas, open skydiving centres, water parachuting and of course bungee jumping. 

As a fellow kiwi( actually, I'm not, I was born there, I sort of support the All Blacks, I like NZ and I was there for three months after I was born before I moved to Australia), I felt that it was srta, my duty to go bungee jumping. And how often do I get to do it? So I asked my parents if I could do it. They weren't keen on it at first; they saw the danger in bungee jumping that I did not, but in the end, they gave in. I was the only person on the whole tour who was going to go bungee jumping. hahaha I was labelled as a hero on that bus man!! Seriously, there was another guy my age on the tour and he didn't do it, which is fine by me, but his parents didnt think so. haha. My sister decided to do it as well eventually, even though she was dead scared.

I would like to describe to you my whole experience of bungee jumping, but I'll save that for another post.

So anyway, all the people on the tour were filming me while I jumped; I was such a celebrity haha. Yeah, just let me be full of myself for a bit.

That night, I went to bed, feeling a little ill. I lay in bed, shivering. I had a bit of gastric medicine, that didn't really help, but I thought maybe I should just go to bed; sleep fixes everything. Suddenly in the middle of the night, I woke with a start, sweating, but feeling extraordinarily cold. I felt the need to go to the toilet. I quickly got up and grabbed my jacket, shivering the whole way to the bathroom. It was dark and I tripped over the table and all I could see were stars were I walked into the toilet and turned on those lights.

Yeah, then I started to throw up.

I threw up the whole night until I really had nothing to throw up...but I kept throwing up anyway.
My cousin took care of me that night, but for some odd reason, we didnt think of going to my parents room, which was just next door, so that I could go to hospital and get an injection, see a doctor or whatever. We didnt tell them till next morning, when my mum came in and found me throwing up! And our tour was due for a flight that afternoon, back to Sydney( we had to travel back to Christchurch airport, omygod)! I basically fainted off the toilet. omygod. yeah, so my dad ran down to the breakfast room and started yelling out that his daughter was fainitnng and throwing up all over the place, which alarmed all the people on the tour. The tour guide was a great guy; he immediately hailed a taxi and took us to Dunedin hospital( we travelled to Dunedin from Queenstown that day, after bungee jumping).

New Zealand hospitals are REALLY thorough with their checks. They were fully examining me, and I was just throwing up, which is pretty bad, but its not like I was throwing up blood or anything! I eventually left with a large large bottle of anti vomit medicine, that restored nutrients into my system, because I chucked up everything already.

Whe I returned back to the tour bus, everyone was waiting inside the bus. Man, I felt so bad. I thought everyone would be hating me! Iwas very surprised when I walked on and everyone sort of cheered. Okay okay, this isn't supposed to be a feel good story, but my dad always describes is as the day that I was a heroine in one day and turned into some poor helpless rabbit who couldn't even sit on a toilet properly. Thanks dad.