Day 1

I am super tired. Staying up so I can call my parents soon.

So. London Heathrow. Got off the plane. Passport control was quicksmart, although I was totally freaked out that I hadn't done something right with visas or whatever and they wouldn't let me in. But they did, so yay! They didn't even want to look at my bank statement...

Then baggage collection! I was so happy the carousel was still, so I didn't have to go chase after my bag.

AND THEN QUARANTINE. What quarantine? I had some teabags, and so I went through the red lane, where they're supposed to check that you're not bringing anything into the country. So I went into the red lane and there was no one there, and there was a sign that said that if no one was there you were supposed to see the officer in the green lane, where you can walk right through if you have nothing. So I asked the guy at the green lane about it, and he asked what I had. I was like ... some teabags and muesli bars? And he had the most unbothered look on his face and just waved me through.

Oh and then I had a little panic attack at the little duty free place cos they didn't have Black Label. So I bought Gold Label instead.

All that took like 20 mins. I was expecting it to take like... hours. So even though I'd booked myself a coach ticket for 1700, I was ready to go at 1340 to catch the 1400 bus, which was 2 before the 1700. So I g0t my ticket amended which costed an extra 6GBP. I don't really understand that :|

Got off the coach at Poole, and my Aunty Kok Lee came to pick me up, brought me to her house in Canford Magna, where I met my Uncle Mike and my cousins Misha and Sarah. The rest of the day was pretty chill. It's summer here, and so at 7 it was still bright. I thought it was like 5 when they said dinnertime, then I looked at the time and it was actually 7.

Then we went to pick blackberries at the back of their property. And I got stung by nettles a little bit I think. Well my fingers sting a little bit now. They did tell me about the nettles. Woops. But the blackberries were yummy.

SO looking forward to a good nights' sleep tonight.