I must say, it wasn't how I had imagined my first trip overseas to be like.
I didn't expect the Queen Victoria, but definitely not this pitch darkness, packed in like a furry sardine with dozens of fellow travellers. I was beginning to think the free ticket to Singapore might indeed be too good to be true after all. Still, the brochures promised plenty of sun, shopping and wonderful food, so being the eternal optimist that I am, surely it'll all work itself out. Somehow.
After a while the confused chatter began to untangle itself. We managed to work out a system where each of us took turns introducing ourselves. Stephanie, Gaston, Jacinta, Oscar and Mel are just about all the names I can recall at the moment, but there were many, many more.
There was much hemming and hawwing as an uncomfortable silence settled over the cabin. A soft cough here, a scraping sound there. It was an awkwardness that comes with realizing that elbow in your eye actually belongs to another person just like you.
Gosh~ things were certainly becoming more interesting by the minute... and we haven't even left the dock yet!
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