Thank you everyone for your birthday greetings!
The chaos caused by the ash cloud was a blessing in disguise for me. The travel frenzy led to Ryanair slashing their prices down to as low as 3 pounds per ticket. Suddenly, it was cheaper to jet across Europe than to take a cab to school.
And so I found myself spending my birthday in Krakow, Poland, ‘celebrating’ it in a rather unconventional way in Auschwitz – the Nazi concentration camp that housed the gas chambers which claimed the lives of 1.5million Jews among many others. Walking through the compound made me sick in the stomach. It’s unthinkable how cruel mankind was during that time. The whole experience made me look at my birthday in an entirely different light, seeing how blessed I was to be born in Singapore in this generation and not 60 years ago during WW2. Although we so often tend to complain about life in S’pore, I’m thankful that the struggles and problems we face are nowhere as near to the life-and-death hardships that the Jews had to go through then. All our worries seem so trivial. It was a poignant moment. Not the happiest way to celebrate a birthday but very meaningful nonetheless.
I’m back in Bath now. Tonight I had a potluck with my fellow exchange friends. It was nice to have Asian food all over again. I cooked mutton curry =) And my friends were so nice to surprise me with a cake and a Bath Rugby jersey. I’m so gonna miss them and exchange. Exams are coming in 2 weeks which means it’s time to hit the books. It also means that my time in the UK is fast coming to an end! Sigh =(
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