December Holidays Reflection

During this December holidays, I went to Australia for 2 weeks. I visited many places in Australia. Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

Australia, in many ways is different from Singapore. First of all, Australia has a lot of land, but not a lot of cars. Everywhere you go, there are not many people squeezing around unlike Singapore. On this trip, we drove from places to places. On the way from Canberra to Melbourne, there were many dead kangaroos on the highway, that's something I have never seen. We got a speeding ticket for trying to take over a truck and the Australian police car was very different from Singapore police cars and so we failed to see the car 'hiding' in the bushes, and hence we got a speeding ticket.

There are many small flies in Australia so wherever you go, you can't keep your car windows open because the flies will stay in your car permanently and it's quite annoying because sometimes it just stays in you and never leave.

Australians are very kind and helpful, generally most of them are kind, that's something we don't get to see in Singapore. While in our stay in Sydney, we decided to visit the Blue Mountains and Three Sisters, a famous landmark. While we were almost there, we got lost and got into a sort of a forest. There is someone living there though. After we drove quite deep into it, we decided not to go any further and asked that person who was outside how to go to Blue Mountains, he was very friendly and decided to bring us there himself so he got into his car and lead us all the way there. I appreciate his help and his kindness and that is .

something we rarely or never see in Singapore, many people in Singapore are quite selfish and only care about themselves. That is something I love about Australia.

The hotel we lived in Sydney is just opposite the opera house so from the hotel there is great view outside.

Something memorable that happened in Melbourne is that I went to Taylor Swift RED Concert and it was fantastic! Although the seats weren't hat great but the concert is still awesome.

So in conclusion, I find Australia really beautiful and their citizens are very kind hearted and friendly and that's really nice. I feel we do need to learn from them in certain ways to develop the citizens in Singapore to be kind and helpful.

       Sydney Opera House

   Blue Mountains

   The RED Tour in Mebourne

     Three Sisters

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