June 8th, 2006

One of the perks working in the travel industry like STA Travel is that you get to travel yourself! Sometimes it’s for free like the last trip I just went on. In addition to your normal 4 weeks leave you receive in 1 year; you get an extra 1 week of “educational leave”. STA Travel normally send you somewhere that you’ve never been so you learn about the place and products whether it’d be tours, accommodation, sights etc..This year I was lucky enough to be chosen to do a 10 day camping trip from Ayers Rock to Darwin. This was my second famil trip; my first one was to Borneo Island back in November 2005. I’ve never camped before so when this trip came up I wasn’t sure if I could handle it. Then I thought, “hmm if I don’t try I’ll never know.” So I decided to bite the bullet and did it. It was a real “roughing it up” sort of trip; All of us were pretty much bush pigs for 10 days.

Initially I was like “ooh don’t wanna touch that!”, “don’t wanna get wet” and “oh the sun is burning my skin”. But after the 3rd day or so, I was like.. “oh who cares” and I decided in order for me to enjoy the experience I needed to really get into it like everyone else did.. …well sort of…  It wasn’t easy to transform overnight from a little princess to a warthog if you know what I mean? But hey… I did my best