Monday, July 31, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
London!!!
So I finished off Africa with a bang and now I'm almost done with England. And I am officially not the man whore of the trip anymore :). I freeze to death (nearly) and eat ostrich.
The LAST DAY of Africa
So our friends who got tickets earlier worked out a deal to get their money back that they had to spend to change their flights. So Paul, Julie, and I went to Kenya Airways to get the money. Well they had no idea what we were talking about. We talked with them for 2 hours, but since we didn't have the reciepts nothing happened.
After that Julie and Paul were tired so we watched King Kong for $3. It really made me think about the concept of tameing love vs. letting love do it's natural thing. The natural thing lost which made me sad, darn beauty always messing with us Taoists.
After that we went to one of the 50 best restaurants in the world: The Carnivore. Here they served us all sorts of fun foods like roasted crocodile and ostrich meat balls. I stuffed myself so full. I also got pineapple pie!
After dinner we headed to the airport for a long wait. In line I met ANOTHER girl from Africa whos working on Computer Science and she wants to own her own business. But then we split up on the airplane. Just amazing how many women who know computers there are in Africa.
IN LONDON
So I have 7 minutes to describe to you some absolutely crazy things.
First off it's freezing cold. There is no sun in London and its near water. That and I did not bring anything but African clothes. But there's a happy ending.
We are staying at this sketchy Hostel for $30 a night next to glouchester street. The people are Syrian I think. They keep telling me to take a whole pineapple for breakfast. "Take it, take it" throwing it into my arms.
I went to Westminster Abbey and spent a good portion of the day there and went to evensong. I talked to an adult tourist during that time. At the end he gave me about $40 and told me to go buy a jacket. So I did. It was so nice, and surprising. (I really wasn't going to buy a jacket otherwise, as they are so expensive). I went to the Modern Art Museum today and saw some freaky stuff. The main exhibit was a bunch of cardboard boxes. Very strange.
I said good bye to Julie and then I'm takeing off to go clubbing at a place that seems to use glow and the dark paint. And then I'm going home. WOw.
The crazy part is I'm all alone in London. I will reflect more on this later.
Oh ya I saw the Lion King on the theatre the same day I was in Kenya :)
The LAST DAY of Africa
So our friends who got tickets earlier worked out a deal to get their money back that they had to spend to change their flights. So Paul, Julie, and I went to Kenya Airways to get the money. Well they had no idea what we were talking about. We talked with them for 2 hours, but since we didn't have the reciepts nothing happened.
After that Julie and Paul were tired so we watched King Kong for $3. It really made me think about the concept of tameing love vs. letting love do it's natural thing. The natural thing lost which made me sad, darn beauty always messing with us Taoists.
After that we went to one of the 50 best restaurants in the world: The Carnivore. Here they served us all sorts of fun foods like roasted crocodile and ostrich meat balls. I stuffed myself so full. I also got pineapple pie!
After dinner we headed to the airport for a long wait. In line I met ANOTHER girl from Africa whos working on Computer Science and she wants to own her own business. But then we split up on the airplane. Just amazing how many women who know computers there are in Africa.
IN LONDON
So I have 7 minutes to describe to you some absolutely crazy things.
First off it's freezing cold. There is no sun in London and its near water. That and I did not bring anything but African clothes. But there's a happy ending.
We are staying at this sketchy Hostel for $30 a night next to glouchester street. The people are Syrian I think. They keep telling me to take a whole pineapple for breakfast. "Take it, take it" throwing it into my arms.
I went to Westminster Abbey and spent a good portion of the day there and went to evensong. I talked to an adult tourist during that time. At the end he gave me about $40 and told me to go buy a jacket. So I did. It was so nice, and surprising. (I really wasn't going to buy a jacket otherwise, as they are so expensive). I went to the Modern Art Museum today and saw some freaky stuff. The main exhibit was a bunch of cardboard boxes. Very strange.
I said good bye to Julie and then I'm takeing off to go clubbing at a place that seems to use glow and the dark paint. And then I'm going home. WOw.
The crazy part is I'm all alone in London. I will reflect more on this later.
Oh ya I saw the Lion King on the theatre the same day I was in Kenya :)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Last Day in Africa
So leaving has been an adventure in itself.
We get to the Zanzibar airport super early and decide to get something to eat. We go to a coke stand and ask how big the large fries is. The server says its a mountain of fries. We order one. When we get the fries they are not even stacked. We tell the waiter, this is not a Kilimanjaro of fries, its a Sarangeti. He laughs.
Our flight gets delayed to go to Kenya. In the mean time we get to see the chief of the police (Colin Powel for the USA) come into an airport and get greeted. Teju records it, which apparantly could get him arrested. Because our flight is delayed I get a free snickers which rocked. We bought a tanzania joke book which was the funniest thing I had ever seen because it was so rediculous: A man tries to seduce a women to come up stairs with him. She does not respond. He goes down to talk to her, she ends up being a hollow drum. That was joke #1.
After the flight I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich from the girls which was AMAZING. I then had to leave BY MYSELF to go to a hotel as I was leaving at a different time. It freaked me out. Here I am in one of the most dangerous cities of the world all by myself. I had to go outside to use the ATM and my hands were shakeing trying to find my debit card. Eventually, I get my money and find a taxi and head off to a hotel that I have no idea where it is (The Nairobi Youth Hostel).
So at the Hostel I met Julie (Paul still was no where to be found) as she was going to bed. She said she had a roomate named Heather. Heather got home real late, but I'm glad I stayed up, she was amazing. She is spending a year traveling all over the world. She has found a romantic love in Ireland who was French and spent a large time skiing the alps and touring france with him. She plans on going all over Africa and the Middle Asia as a graduation thing from college. She's studying Criminal Justice.
The best part is we have similiar philosiphies. She also doesn't believe problems are real, life absolutely rocks, and relationships are near impossible to form. So we talked for ever swapping stories. In this place the walls were really thin so we had 4 people come and tell us to be quiet. At one point the manager knocked on the door, we were scared it was someone scary so we didn't answer it. Eventually, he walked to the window and yelled at us. He said "If you want to whisper go to a club, this is a hotel". But none the less, meeting Heather was a wonderful end to my adventures, and reminded me there are other Elliott's out there, even if they aren't in the CU engineering department.
Paul came home this morning. We have to go pick up $500 for the other guys who got refunds on their ticket switches. We also are planning on visiting a place where water flows up hill today. How exciting. To finish the day we plan on going to CARNIVORE, which is like a circus in Africa. What a wonderful conclusion. And then I'm off to London, to do who knows what.
I can't wait to see all of you.
Elliott Hedman
er I mean
Loserian
We get to the Zanzibar airport super early and decide to get something to eat. We go to a coke stand and ask how big the large fries is. The server says its a mountain of fries. We order one. When we get the fries they are not even stacked. We tell the waiter, this is not a Kilimanjaro of fries, its a Sarangeti. He laughs.
Our flight gets delayed to go to Kenya. In the mean time we get to see the chief of the police (Colin Powel for the USA) come into an airport and get greeted. Teju records it, which apparantly could get him arrested. Because our flight is delayed I get a free snickers which rocked. We bought a tanzania joke book which was the funniest thing I had ever seen because it was so rediculous: A man tries to seduce a women to come up stairs with him. She does not respond. He goes down to talk to her, she ends up being a hollow drum. That was joke #1.
After the flight I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich from the girls which was AMAZING. I then had to leave BY MYSELF to go to a hotel as I was leaving at a different time. It freaked me out. Here I am in one of the most dangerous cities of the world all by myself. I had to go outside to use the ATM and my hands were shakeing trying to find my debit card. Eventually, I get my money and find a taxi and head off to a hotel that I have no idea where it is (The Nairobi Youth Hostel).
So at the Hostel I met Julie (Paul still was no where to be found) as she was going to bed. She said she had a roomate named Heather. Heather got home real late, but I'm glad I stayed up, she was amazing. She is spending a year traveling all over the world. She has found a romantic love in Ireland who was French and spent a large time skiing the alps and touring france with him. She plans on going all over Africa and the Middle Asia as a graduation thing from college. She's studying Criminal Justice.
The best part is we have similiar philosiphies. She also doesn't believe problems are real, life absolutely rocks, and relationships are near impossible to form. So we talked for ever swapping stories. In this place the walls were really thin so we had 4 people come and tell us to be quiet. At one point the manager knocked on the door, we were scared it was someone scary so we didn't answer it. Eventually, he walked to the window and yelled at us. He said "If you want to whisper go to a club, this is a hotel". But none the less, meeting Heather was a wonderful end to my adventures, and reminded me there are other Elliott's out there, even if they aren't in the CU engineering department.
Paul came home this morning. We have to go pick up $500 for the other guys who got refunds on their ticket switches. We also are planning on visiting a place where water flows up hill today. How exciting. To finish the day we plan on going to CARNIVORE, which is like a circus in Africa. What a wonderful conclusion. And then I'm off to London, to do who knows what.
I can't wait to see all of you.
Elliott Hedman
er I mean
Loserian
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Nearing the End
So lots of fun updates for my relaxing beach portion of the trip. Highlights include Elliott saleing his sandles, a run in with the Tanzania millitary with 4 people questionin g me, a treasure hunt across the beach from the mysterious Captain Shrodinger, sand castle makeing with BJ, and a wooden giraffe. Yey wooden giraffe.
So last time I was reading my Angels and Demons. I was going to read every day, but then something got in the way. It was going to be Teju's birthday. Now I got together with the other guys (The girls are some other random town for the rest of the trip) and asked what we should do. We decided that Teju could use a huge Treasure Hunt. (Remembering his reaction to Ashley's tiny treasure hunt). So I basicly spend an entire day makeing a treasure hunt. I decide to pull some The Alchemist symbology on Teju and hav e him end up where he begins which was at the FAT FISH. So I grab 7 gold business cards from our hotel Amaan and circle a letter on each one. I put triangles and underlines also to confuse Tej u. I then hid the 7 cards all the way across the beach, and marked x's near where they were. I then put clues at these locations wh ere Teju could find the clues and then with the clues find where the gold card was. It was kind of complicated.
Here's a few hints that I laid out for him:
After getting to a lonely tree surrounded by disregards (trash) there is a piece of paper. It says "A short walk from here is a 5 sided shape surrounded by leaves. The warrior within holds your clue". It ends up there was a nearby store called the pentegram with weed leaves on both sides. In the front of the store was a warrior statue. I put the clue in the warriors hand. When Teju did the treasure hunt, he walked right past the warrior and it took him forever to find it :)
Another fun example was on the map I marked an X at Tattered Japan. Which ended up being a torn Japan flag. It then said take the number of countries that can be raised (empty flag poles) and add that to two hundred. Then go to that room to find golden clue number 2.
Anyway the treasure hunt was awsome. I had the waitress put down in front of teju a coke bottle with a letter from a pirate and a treasure map to start off the whole thing which totally surprised him. At one point in time Teju was on the 2nd floor and standing right on top of the clue (litterly) but couldnt find it. Ben took a hilarious picture. When he finished we walked back to the most beautiful sunset ever. Palm trees. Purple. A giant su n. The water had the color of the sunset on the foam next to the sand. Amazing! When we got back to the fat fish we had a cake and candles waiting for Teju.
So I put about 2 days work into makeing the treasure hunt. It was so hard persuadeing people I was doing a "treasure hunt", which apparantly they don't teach in English. I had to tape a clue on a boat and the guy kept thinking I wanted to advertise on the boat with my Amaan clue. The best was when I got to the light house.
The light house was owned by the millitary , and I wanted Teju's last clue to be at the top. So I went over. The first time I got yelled at by some guy so I left. The next day I went over and quickly taped a clue in a rusty barrel ( I had made a mini map that lead to it). Well one of the millitary guys spotted me and ran after me. Then I was surrounded by four of them. None of them could speak Enlish. They asked me if I could read the sign, pointing at that sign that said no trespass that I had walked past. I told them I didn't understand (I'm so sly). They then pointed to my journal I had in my hand and told me they knew I could read. At this point a guy who could speak Enlish came over.
He took my clue and looked at it. He asked why did I tape this Amaan card in a rusty bucket. I told him it was Teju's birthday. I don't think he really understood. I spent like 20 minutes try ing to explain what was happening (I needed to get the card back). Eventually, they let me go for who knows what reason. I then taped the clue on the back of the no trespass sign, which got removed while I was gone.
Another fun story with the treasure hunt was getting tape. Apparantly there was one store that had tape in the entire African village. I went to the grocery store and asked for tape. They tell me to go to the hardware store. The hardware store tells me to go across the street. That store tells me to go up one more. I do this for a LONG time, going to about 10 stores. Eventually, a kid guides me down a back alley and I get totally lost, but they did have electrical tape.
I bought a really cool looking mask (there are hands hanging from the guys ears) and a wooden giraffe. :) That made me run out of actual cash again. But then I realized that I wanted to get my little brothers a checker board. So I barter with the giraffe saler and ask him if he would sale it. Well I didn't have as much as he was asking for $60. He then told me he would give it to me for $30 and my shoes. I tell him my shoes are leather bound and very valuable (now I'm the saler) (they were actually discounted at Garts and killed my feet on this trip, asking to go in the trash at home). I tell him they are near brand new and he'll never see another pair. I get him down to $20 and the shoes. Well I don't have $ 20 so I go to the other stores and now the entire market is interested in my shoes. At the other store I get it down to $15 and my shoes (I only had $5 left). I begin to leave and the giraffe man offers me $10 and my shoes. I tell him no. He then flicks me off in a very strange way with his thumb behind his back. That night I borrowed some money for Teju and got the chess set for $10 and my sandles. It's sweet, hand carved pieces with giraffes as knights.
As you could imagine now my back pack is supre full. I have to carry around my giraffe (it is about waste high). I packaged it really well though for no materials. There is a cereal box between all fourlegs and a water bottle between the two close ones. I used a cookie box to protect a fragile leg and foot. Everything is covered in plastic bags. It really is a work of art in itself.
The rest of the day I spent building sand castles with the group. As a proffesional snow sculpotor (international award 2 times in a row for youth) I knew a thing or two about scultpting. I taught the group how to make huge towers in sand. You put in a little. At 2 parts sand, 1 part water. (avoid the shells). And pound it. You keep doing this layer after layer. Garrett and Hayden know what I'm talking about with our Seattle adventures. Well to do this I needed a bucket.
All the local women seemed to carry buckett to catch fish. Well I went up to a group and asked if I could borrow a bucket. They didn't understand. Eventually a guy came over to help translate. I don't think they still understood but I got a bucket out of it and started scultpting. At one point in time they asked for it back. I then just snuck into a guys "house" which was a tarp and "borrowed" his bucket. Buckets are a rare commodity here I guess.
The castle was pretty sweet but I got tired so I took a nap. For dinner I had steak and lobster for $8. Yummy!
Post-Dinner I stayed up pretty much all night (litteraly) and sat next to the beach finishing Angels and Demons.
I could predict the ending way too soon, so it was a bit dull, but the concepts it represented more than made up for it. Science is blind without religion, but how do we gain faith? How do we create god? Yoga romance. All the good stuff. I don't know what book I'll read next. I'm thinking about borrowing Ben's "How to recieve love" as that would help me out a lot in my life right now.
Walking home from reading I ran into a guy doing Taibo. That scared me. I also ran into my prostitute friend 2 more times since last we met. Once she was on the dance floor where all the group was dancing, I left that scene. The second time she was sitting on the beach. She asked me to come closer. I told her I wasn't going to fall for that again. From what she told me next I'm glad I didn't.
Probably the most fun was post Teju's Birthday, Teju requested that we go skinny dipping together. You are now reading the Olympic Skinny Dipping Hand Stand champion of the world. I came up with this game where you are naked and try to do a hand stand. It's really interesting as a tide goes up and down constantly. Ben MC'd the event. By the way we were doing this right in front of two restaurants. On my turn for round two, I couldn't stay up, but instead of coming up for air I just kept trying. So it was like an on and off flash of Elliott's legendary member for like 2 minutes. It was an event few will forget. Kelso attacked me for ruining his life long goal :) That night we also remembered when it is people's birthdays we put our buts on them. So we chased Teju around in the water and smothered him with our butts. Good tiems. How many people can say they did that in Africa?
We're back in Stone Town now and things are beggining to wind down. Starting to think about how I want to school to look when I get back. There's lots of changes I look forward to implementing. I can't wait to start working on makeing magic eye stuff.
Oh one more crazy fact, all the Denmark people bought tickets for the wrong day, so their Kenya flight is leaving after there trip to England. So they all have to change their flights. I didn't do this however, so I am home free, just Julie Marie, Paul , and I, partying hard in London. If it's Elliott, style, which I'm sure it will be, there will be lots of touring of the science museum and modern art museum. I'm so hardcore.
And that said, if anyone wants to ever go anywhere in the world Elliott style, you should leave a message on this board. I have fallen in love with world travel (it's an open relationship, so don't worry), and want to go to so many more places. So let me know if that sounds itneresting on this blog (if you really read all of this).
Oh one more fun thing: This morning I got a Henna tattoo.
I put a few lines there to freak out my mom. A henna tatoo is from spices and stays on your skin for a few weeks. Well I'm not to good with tattoos. I tell the lady to do whatever she wants. She asks me to write my name. Well I'm like oh cool how about Lo Serian. She's like is that your girlfriend. I told her unfortuantely I don't have a girlfriend. Well I wrote down the name wrong and she put it in my skin LOSARIAN. She then put a heart at the end, apparantly she thought it still was my girl friend. So now I'm in love with myself. But none the less hopping into the van to Stone Town I wipe the stuff all over my shirt and it smears my name. So I now have a semi-pernament tatoo that says LoSSDFD on my arm. Oh the engineers are going to be jealous back home. See you guys reall soon. This could be my last post till I get home. How sad. Then again, only 8 more days till Elliott's birthday. Woo hoo!!!
~Lo Serian
(Coincidently, Lo serian means no problems, makes you think, I also found out it means the one who is always blessed )
So last time I was reading my Angels and Demons. I was going to read every day, but then something got in the way. It was going to be Teju's birthday. Now I got together with the other guys (The girls are some other random town for the rest of the trip) and asked what we should do. We decided that Teju could use a huge Treasure Hunt. (Remembering his reaction to Ashley's tiny treasure hunt). So I basicly spend an entire day makeing a treasure hunt. I decide to pull some The Alchemist symbology on Teju and hav e him end up where he begins which was at the FAT FISH. So I grab 7 gold business cards from our hotel Amaan and circle a letter on each one. I put triangles and underlines also to confuse Tej u. I then hid the 7 cards all the way across the beach, and marked x's near where they were. I then put clues at these locations wh ere Teju could find the clues and then with the clues find where the gold card was. It was kind of complicated.
Here's a few hints that I laid out for him:
After getting to a lonely tree surrounded by disregards (trash) there is a piece of paper. It says "A short walk from here is a 5 sided shape surrounded by leaves. The warrior within holds your clue". It ends up there was a nearby store called the pentegram with weed leaves on both sides. In the front of the store was a warrior statue. I put the clue in the warriors hand. When Teju did the treasure hunt, he walked right past the warrior and it took him forever to find it :)
Another fun example was on the map I marked an X at Tattered Japan. Which ended up being a torn Japan flag. It then said take the number of countries that can be raised (empty flag poles) and add that to two hundred. Then go to that room to find golden clue number 2.
Anyway the treasure hunt was awsome. I had the waitress put down in front of teju a coke bottle with a letter from a pirate and a treasure map to start off the whole thing which totally surprised him. At one point in time Teju was on the 2nd floor and standing right on top of the clue (litterly) but couldnt find it. Ben took a hilarious picture. When he finished we walked back to the most beautiful sunset ever. Palm trees. Purple. A giant su n. The water had the color of the sunset on the foam next to the sand. Amazing! When we got back to the fat fish we had a cake and candles waiting for Teju.
So I put about 2 days work into makeing the treasure hunt. It was so hard persuadeing people I was doing a "treasure hunt", which apparantly they don't teach in English. I had to tape a clue on a boat and the guy kept thinking I wanted to advertise on the boat with my Amaan clue. The best was when I got to the light house.
The light house was owned by the millitary , and I wanted Teju's last clue to be at the top. So I went over. The first time I got yelled at by some guy so I left. The next day I went over and quickly taped a clue in a rusty barrel ( I had made a mini map that lead to it). Well one of the millitary guys spotted me and ran after me. Then I was surrounded by four of them. None of them could speak Enlish. They asked me if I could read the sign, pointing at that sign that said no trespass that I had walked past. I told them I didn't understand (I'm so sly). They then pointed to my journal I had in my hand and told me they knew I could read. At this point a guy who could speak Enlish came over.
He took my clue and looked at it. He asked why did I tape this Amaan card in a rusty bucket. I told him it was Teju's birthday. I don't think he really understood. I spent like 20 minutes try ing to explain what was happening (I needed to get the card back). Eventually, they let me go for who knows what reason. I then taped the clue on the back of the no trespass sign, which got removed while I was gone.
Another fun story with the treasure hunt was getting tape. Apparantly there was one store that had tape in the entire African village. I went to the grocery store and asked for tape. They tell me to go to the hardware store. The hardware store tells me to go across the street. That store tells me to go up one more. I do this for a LONG time, going to about 10 stores. Eventually, a kid guides me down a back alley and I get totally lost, but they did have electrical tape.
I bought a really cool looking mask (there are hands hanging from the guys ears) and a wooden giraffe. :) That made me run out of actual cash again. But then I realized that I wanted to get my little brothers a checker board. So I barter with the giraffe saler and ask him if he would sale it. Well I didn't have as much as he was asking for $60. He then told me he would give it to me for $30 and my shoes. I tell him my shoes are leather bound and very valuable (now I'm the saler) (they were actually discounted at Garts and killed my feet on this trip, asking to go in the trash at home). I tell him they are near brand new and he'll never see another pair. I get him down to $20 and the shoes. Well I don't have $ 20 so I go to the other stores and now the entire market is interested in my shoes. At the other store I get it down to $15 and my shoes (I only had $5 left). I begin to leave and the giraffe man offers me $10 and my shoes. I tell him no. He then flicks me off in a very strange way with his thumb behind his back. That night I borrowed some money for Teju and got the chess set for $10 and my sandles. It's sweet, hand carved pieces with giraffes as knights.
As you could imagine now my back pack is supre full. I have to carry around my giraffe (it is about waste high). I packaged it really well though for no materials. There is a cereal box between all fourlegs and a water bottle between the two close ones. I used a cookie box to protect a fragile leg and foot. Everything is covered in plastic bags. It really is a work of art in itself.
The rest of the day I spent building sand castles with the group. As a proffesional snow sculpotor (international award 2 times in a row for youth) I knew a thing or two about scultpting. I taught the group how to make huge towers in sand. You put in a little. At 2 parts sand, 1 part water. (avoid the shells). And pound it. You keep doing this layer after layer. Garrett and Hayden know what I'm talking about with our Seattle adventures. Well to do this I needed a bucket.
All the local women seemed to carry buckett to catch fish. Well I went up to a group and asked if I could borrow a bucket. They didn't understand. Eventually a guy came over to help translate. I don't think they still understood but I got a bucket out of it and started scultpting. At one point in time they asked for it back. I then just snuck into a guys "house" which was a tarp and "borrowed" his bucket. Buckets are a rare commodity here I guess.
The castle was pretty sweet but I got tired so I took a nap. For dinner I had steak and lobster for $8. Yummy!
Post-Dinner I stayed up pretty much all night (litteraly) and sat next to the beach finishing Angels and Demons.
I could predict the ending way too soon, so it was a bit dull, but the concepts it represented more than made up for it. Science is blind without religion, but how do we gain faith? How do we create god? Yoga romance. All the good stuff. I don't know what book I'll read next. I'm thinking about borrowing Ben's "How to recieve love" as that would help me out a lot in my life right now.
Walking home from reading I ran into a guy doing Taibo. That scared me. I also ran into my prostitute friend 2 more times since last we met. Once she was on the dance floor where all the group was dancing, I left that scene. The second time she was sitting on the beach. She asked me to come closer. I told her I wasn't going to fall for that again. From what she told me next I'm glad I didn't.
Probably the most fun was post Teju's Birthday, Teju requested that we go skinny dipping together. You are now reading the Olympic Skinny Dipping Hand Stand champion of the world. I came up with this game where you are naked and try to do a hand stand. It's really interesting as a tide goes up and down constantly. Ben MC'd the event. By the way we were doing this right in front of two restaurants. On my turn for round two, I couldn't stay up, but instead of coming up for air I just kept trying. So it was like an on and off flash of Elliott's legendary member for like 2 minutes. It was an event few will forget. Kelso attacked me for ruining his life long goal :) That night we also remembered when it is people's birthdays we put our buts on them. So we chased Teju around in the water and smothered him with our butts. Good tiems. How many people can say they did that in Africa?
We're back in Stone Town now and things are beggining to wind down. Starting to think about how I want to school to look when I get back. There's lots of changes I look forward to implementing. I can't wait to start working on makeing magic eye stuff.
Oh one more crazy fact, all the Denmark people bought tickets for the wrong day, so their Kenya flight is leaving after there trip to England. So they all have to change their flights. I didn't do this however, so I am home free, just Julie Marie, Paul , and I, partying hard in London. If it's Elliott, style, which I'm sure it will be, there will be lots of touring of the science museum and modern art museum. I'm so hardcore.
And that said, if anyone wants to ever go anywhere in the world Elliott style, you should leave a message on this board. I have fallen in love with world travel (it's an open relationship, so don't worry), and want to go to so many more places. So let me know if that sounds itneresting on this blog (if you really read all of this).
Oh one more fun thing: This morning I got a Henna tattoo.
I put a few lines there to freak out my mom. A henna tatoo is from spices and stays on your skin for a few weeks. Well I'm not to good with tattoos. I tell the lady to do whatever she wants. She asks me to write my name. Well I'm like oh cool how about Lo Serian. She's like is that your girlfriend. I told her unfortuantely I don't have a girlfriend. Well I wrote down the name wrong and she put it in my skin LOSARIAN. She then put a heart at the end, apparantly she thought it still was my girl friend. So now I'm in love with myself. But none the less hopping into the van to Stone Town I wipe the stuff all over my shirt and it smears my name. So I now have a semi-pernament tatoo that says LoSSDFD on my arm. Oh the engineers are going to be jealous back home. See you guys reall soon. This could be my last post till I get home. How sad. Then again, only 8 more days till Elliott's birthday. Woo hoo!!!
~Lo Serian
(Coincidently, Lo serian means no problems, makes you think, I also found out it means the one who is always blessed )
Friday, January 06, 2006
Update:Zanazibar
So I wrote this whole thing and then the power went out, so here is a much shorter version. Elliott goes snorkeling for the first time, he plays soccer on the beach, meats Danish people and talks about legos, finds a stalker family from South Africa and reads 200 pages, and has no more money.
I woke up after my strange night with prostitutes and got an early breakfast and took off for snorkeling. We piled into a a little boat called a dow with 20 other people and set off towards an island off zanzibar. This boat was made out of wood and was very rocky over on the hour long trip. A little girl threw up.
At the coral reef we went snorkeling which was so much fun. I saw schools of fish, fish that were neon pink and green. Those fish had etches on their face that looked eerily familiar to circuits. I saw flounders, eels, and water snakes also. I saw this freaky looking red starfish. The favorite fish I saw was a purple fish that I am calling a flying fish. It's fins looked like wings and they went up and down instead of back and foreth. When I found one of these, I would just follow it around and see where it goes.
Snorkeling was really hard for me as I didn't really get directions and kind of just dived right in litteraly. My snorkel kept filling up with water and choking me. I drank so much salt water. Every 5 minutes I would get my snorkel full of water again.
At one point I resurfaced and an entire South African family was chilling up on the top. I just said outloud that my snorkel was filling every five seconds drowning me. They seemed to think that was real funny (south africans mostly speak English). I then had a friendly conversation of who I was before going back in the water. I asked the guide how much more time I have and he told me 15 minutes. I said, "Good, don't want you to leave me" at this point the SA family (South African) laughed histerically and told me that I should take as long as I want up to 4 hours, they will send regards to my family. On the way into the water, I told them to give my stereo to my brother.
At the end we all came back to get food. The SA family asked why I resurfaced. I told them drowning now would conflict with my desire to be eaten by a lion. They informed me in SA there are lots of lions.
The way home was an amazing trip, we got more than we paid for. The waves were ridicuously high and we seriously thought we were going to capsize. The best part was I was sitting in the front, and I would constantly get splashed with water. The salt water was hurting my eyes so I put on a snorkel mask. In addition everytime the water hit I would say "Argh!!". Amazingly Ben, BJ, and Teju followed suit and we were all dressed hillariously yelling pirate slander.
The boat would rock back and forth continuously, and at one point the boat got so full of water we had to stop and use buckets to get the water out. We saw a pack of dolphions too.
After that trip I took a walk up the beach and saw some kids playing beach soccer. Unlike Kenya, these kids were adults, there was about 30 of them, and they were playing on a field a fourth the size of a regular field. None the less I jumped right in. They kept giving me the thumbs up whenever I did anything good and at one point I almost headed in a goal . They were really aggressive.
At dinner Kelso brought to women from Denmark to eat with us that he had been eyeing. One of them Kristina and I had a very vivid conversation. At one point I yelled really loud "I LOVE legos" as Denmark is the lego capital of the world. Kristina is majoring in day care which socialist Denmark takes very seriously.
Later that night I brought out my stick and I was made fun of in Enlish for the first time. An irish lady asked me if that stick I dance with is a replacement for the women I can't get.
That night I meditated on the beach for a long time and read some more Reconstructing Christianity. My favorite quote:
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you weird".
Today I spent as an incredibly lazy person. I just sat on the beach and read 200 pages of Angels and Demons, which is an amazing book by the way. It was wonderful. The SA family litterly stopped by to talk to me 6 times that day. Crazy! And they always ask me to tell them something funny.
Besides that I've been enjoying Zanzibar and totally relaxing which I hope to do a few more times before I get back to my busy life. Which will also be good because I will get to see you again!!! Huzzah!
I woke up after my strange night with prostitutes and got an early breakfast and took off for snorkeling. We piled into a a little boat called a dow with 20 other people and set off towards an island off zanzibar. This boat was made out of wood and was very rocky over on the hour long trip. A little girl threw up.
At the coral reef we went snorkeling which was so much fun. I saw schools of fish, fish that were neon pink and green. Those fish had etches on their face that looked eerily familiar to circuits. I saw flounders, eels, and water snakes also. I saw this freaky looking red starfish. The favorite fish I saw was a purple fish that I am calling a flying fish. It's fins looked like wings and they went up and down instead of back and foreth. When I found one of these, I would just follow it around and see where it goes.
Snorkeling was really hard for me as I didn't really get directions and kind of just dived right in litteraly. My snorkel kept filling up with water and choking me. I drank so much salt water. Every 5 minutes I would get my snorkel full of water again.
At one point I resurfaced and an entire South African family was chilling up on the top. I just said outloud that my snorkel was filling every five seconds drowning me. They seemed to think that was real funny (south africans mostly speak English). I then had a friendly conversation of who I was before going back in the water. I asked the guide how much more time I have and he told me 15 minutes. I said, "Good, don't want you to leave me" at this point the SA family (South African) laughed histerically and told me that I should take as long as I want up to 4 hours, they will send regards to my family. On the way into the water, I told them to give my stereo to my brother.
At the end we all came back to get food. The SA family asked why I resurfaced. I told them drowning now would conflict with my desire to be eaten by a lion. They informed me in SA there are lots of lions.
The way home was an amazing trip, we got more than we paid for. The waves were ridicuously high and we seriously thought we were going to capsize. The best part was I was sitting in the front, and I would constantly get splashed with water. The salt water was hurting my eyes so I put on a snorkel mask. In addition everytime the water hit I would say "Argh!!". Amazingly Ben, BJ, and Teju followed suit and we were all dressed hillariously yelling pirate slander.
The boat would rock back and forth continuously, and at one point the boat got so full of water we had to stop and use buckets to get the water out. We saw a pack of dolphions too.
After that trip I took a walk up the beach and saw some kids playing beach soccer. Unlike Kenya, these kids were adults, there was about 30 of them, and they were playing on a field a fourth the size of a regular field. None the less I jumped right in. They kept giving me the thumbs up whenever I did anything good and at one point I almost headed in a goal . They were really aggressive.
At dinner Kelso brought to women from Denmark to eat with us that he had been eyeing. One of them Kristina and I had a very vivid conversation. At one point I yelled really loud "I LOVE legos" as Denmark is the lego capital of the world. Kristina is majoring in day care which socialist Denmark takes very seriously.
Later that night I brought out my stick and I was made fun of in Enlish for the first time. An irish lady asked me if that stick I dance with is a replacement for the women I can't get.
That night I meditated on the beach for a long time and read some more Reconstructing Christianity. My favorite quote:
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you weird".
Today I spent as an incredibly lazy person. I just sat on the beach and read 200 pages of Angels and Demons, which is an amazing book by the way. It was wonderful. The SA family litterly stopped by to talk to me 6 times that day. Crazy! And they always ask me to tell them something funny.
Besides that I've been enjoying Zanzibar and totally relaxing which I hope to do a few more times before I get back to my busy life. Which will also be good because I will get to see you again!!! Huzzah!
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
LoSarian in Zanzibar!!
So now we have 8 days in Africa and its time for my actual break. What better way then going to Zanzibar!
Zanzibar is a small island off of the coast of Tanzania, which is like the Euorpean Hawaii. We first spent 2 days in Stone Town. A few highlights:
Stone Town is this absolutely amazing looking city. A bunch of hold, tall historic buildings and winding roads everywhere. Combine that with palm trees and beach and you have the coolest town ever.
I explored pretty much every part of the town. It was really interesting how the church and the mosque of the town were litterly right next to eachother. There were a lot of cannons everywhere. We went to the local market and bought this really strange looking fruit. There were little things that were fruit but looked like bugs inside. They tasted like onions. Weird. I also stopped by the meat section which absolutely discusting. Bunch of meat slabs hanging everywhere. The salers kept slapping their meet as if I was going to take a cow's thigh back to my house.
We toured a palace turned museum which was very enlightning on the history of Stone Town. At the top was an AMAZING view of the entire town and the beach. We watched the sunset from their in the most amazing cloud cover.
That day I got really good at my bargaining ability because I was really sick of people pestering me to buy stuff. The secret is that I simply would stick to a really low price and never go up, at all. It works wonders.
With that bargaining power, I was able to 50 door decorations for my entire floor. They are bannana leafs glued together to make pictures, all African. I got 50 of them for $50, which was in my budget. So now I'm going to need a gel pen and write everyone's names on them. I'm also going to draw arrow's pointing at parts. So for instance, Dillon won't just have Dillon, he'll have a arrow pointing to a spot on the cheetah with the title Dillon: The 32nd Cheetah Spot. I just love thinking about it.
We went to the fish market afterwards to pick up dinner. I ordered shrimp and lobster for $3. Yummy!!
The others in the group wanted to find hookah, but they tried for about 3 hours, and never got it. It was an impossible struggle.
The next day after a really good complimentary breakfast (eggs, fruit, yogurt, toast, and tea) we headed up for a spice tour. Random trivia knowledge: Zanzibar is known as the spice island.
We loaded 9 people into the 7 passanger van and headed up to a spice farm. There we got to see all sorts of different spices. Strangely enough, I got a runny nose that day. So I could barely smell anything at all. But I definately could smell the lemon grass, that smelled exactly like fruity pebbles. Yummy, fruity pebbles :) We saw a kid climb up a cocunt tree and I got to drink an entire cocunut. I also got to taste a bunch of really good fruits. There was this one fruit Apple something that tasted just like apple pie. We learned how vanilla was produced, and why it is so expensive as well. At the end we got to try some shots of tea, which tasted great.
Then we drove to the north part of Zanzibar. Our guide loved American music all 80's and he sang along on the drive. I decided to chime along as well on my favorite "What is Love?" Ya, I really got into that one.
We saw a really cool squiggly cocunt tree on the way as well.
We got pulled over twice from police because we had too many people in the vehicle. I was sitting in the front, but amazingly, I don't think I messed anything up. Our driver was really upset, and for a long while we thought we were going to be left in the middle of a rainforest because we were an illegal vehicle. Luckily, we were allowed to get to the resorts.
The tricky thing about Zanzibar van and taxi drivers is that they get commisions if they get us to go to specific hotels. Our driver kept trying to get us to go to one hotel, we kept telling him no, but he kept pushing. It was very strange.
We ended up at a bungalo right next to the beach, with a look of the entire ocean. It's amazing.
AT THE BEACH
So I have really dedicated myself to spending some alone time in front of the beach, to cool down. I've had some interesting encounters none the less.
So I walked across to check out the beach and was crossing back to go back to the hotel. I decided to go through all of the buildings. At one point I noticed 5 absolutely amazing looking women. They were all reading (so hot)! So I decide I would walk by that building, as it was in that direction anyway. Well it ends up after I cross them I end up at a dead end fence. There's a tractor on my left squeezed into a very sketchy place and a garden shet on my right, all surrounded by fence. I debate for a minute, and decide to casually, and cooly, act as if I meant to come to this dead end and turn around. Well at that point all 5 women had put down their books and were stairing at me. Then they started laughing at me. I asked them where they were from and they said Germany. And so that was the begging of that meeting. I meet up with them again later.
I sneak into another beach resort and fall asleep on their outdoor beds after going for a swim. At sunset I ordered a milkshake and watched the sun set, it was grand. At one point while I was watching the sunset, a man decided to take a shower right behind me, so I watched the sunset while getting splashed by water from above (the shower) and below (the waves).
Our group ate dinner together and then decided to take a 45 minute break before meeting again. I decided to go walk on the beach at night, with the moon reflecting in the water.
A little ways down the beach, I crossed a women who greeted me. I told her "hello". I told her my name was LoSarian, and she told me her name was Shania. She then told me "I want to suck you". At that point it was very weird. I couldn't figure out if this was a prostitute or a desperately horny person. She asked me where I lived, which I didn't tell her, and that she wanted to go there. I then told her that I do not pay money for sexual favors, it's wrong. At that point she said "No big money, just little money". At that point I was pretty sure she was a prostitute. So I have never really spent much time with prostitutes in the past, so this was something new for me. I sat a few feet in front of her and told her that she was a better person than that. I told her she should try to get money in a more constructive way. I told her that she is more valuable than that. I kept saying you are worth more than that, the whole time she kept saying "I understand" and "I want to suck you". I found out that she is a message therapist during the day, and just wants more money. At one point she asked me whether I wanted a half an hour or an hour. I just kept trying to tell her "You are a better person than that, I don't want you physically, you should do something more". Well, she took this as me trying to get a cheap price somehow and she kept saying back. I'll give a low price. Eventually, she said she would do it for free, seriously. I really am a hard bargainer. But I still told her no, you are more important that and got up to leave. She told me to sit down next to her. I sat down and tried talking to her more. She then put her head on my shoulder and her hand on my knee. I told her, no, you are makeing me uncomfortable. I then told her I am going to leave and began to get up. Then she straight out groped me. It was such a disturbing feeling.
Well I learned more than I wanted to about sex and prostitution that night. I think I will stop trying to instill value into prositutes so much, and if I do, I will definately keep a bit more distance. But it really makes you wonder, how do you define prostitution. At one point she said she would do it for free, but I definately felt that there was still some nasty prostitution going on. (Not that I ever contemplated saying yes, but it made me wonder what is the difference between this and kissing a girl who wants to kiss you and doesn't ask for money)
Back at the restaurant we gave our week and a half late Secret Santa gifts. Ashley was my secret Pal. I wrote her a clue on a piece of paper:
Dear Ashley,
You are a good SPEAKER.
Your secret pal,
Elliott Hedman
So she looked at it and was like um, thanks Elliott. I told her that she really was a good public speaker. And there was like 7 minutes of silent confusion. Ben knew what was going on because he saw me plant the clues.
I told Ahsley, "You can LOOK FOR more meaning in there if you think about it" and Ben told her "You just really need to EXPLORE your thoughts".
Ashley was like, does that mean you think I'm a good singer? :) I told her "If that's what you want to get out of it".
Finally, the group persuaded her that she should look at the music speakers in the building. Behind one of the speakers I put a hint.
Don't have RESERVATIONS, just look.
She quickly found the no reservation sign. The last clue was tricky.
It said Your gift can be found Jubon's Dream.
Ashley had a a very confused look on her face for a second, but then Teju, in his excitement yelled it's in the boat and ran over to it, before Ashley could thing. At the boat there was a rock, and Ashley asked is this my gift. I told her if she wants it to be. Eventually, she found my gift.
I had gotten her close tribal friend Zuwate to write her a letter in English and Swahilli about what she thought about Ashley. I then sewed it onto a blanket myself :) It was a great way to remember such a special moment.
During the Secret Santa a thon, I had put on a cheap plastic crown and was giving everyone christmas crackers to pop, like my family does. I also had one of those blow horns that goes out really far and makes funny noises every time you blow in my mouth. At this exact moment when I was blowing really hard and obnoxiously, the German girls walked by (all 5 of them). They all waved at me. Wow!
After gifts, Ben came up with a game where we wrote down all the things that are worrying us. I had a lot, mainly about unresolved things back at school. (You know who you are!). And then we took those worrys and threw them in the ocean.
I then took another walk on the beach alone. Well Shaquila was still there and she came up to me. She tried grabbing my hands and putting them on her ass. I told her no, I had to get to my friends, and told her she needs to change. She told me that all she wanted was $10. I told her no and walked on. I found a cave spot that was really neat and sat there and looked at the water for a good time just looking at the ocean. And that's where we left off.
I'm going to go spend the rest of the day just sitting on the beach, writing in my journal, and meditating. It's going to be fun.
I hope you all have a fun rest of the break, and I am sure I will see you all soon.
Zanzibar is a small island off of the coast of Tanzania, which is like the Euorpean Hawaii. We first spent 2 days in Stone Town. A few highlights:
Stone Town is this absolutely amazing looking city. A bunch of hold, tall historic buildings and winding roads everywhere. Combine that with palm trees and beach and you have the coolest town ever.
I explored pretty much every part of the town. It was really interesting how the church and the mosque of the town were litterly right next to eachother. There were a lot of cannons everywhere. We went to the local market and bought this really strange looking fruit. There were little things that were fruit but looked like bugs inside. They tasted like onions. Weird. I also stopped by the meat section which absolutely discusting. Bunch of meat slabs hanging everywhere. The salers kept slapping their meet as if I was going to take a cow's thigh back to my house.
We toured a palace turned museum which was very enlightning on the history of Stone Town. At the top was an AMAZING view of the entire town and the beach. We watched the sunset from their in the most amazing cloud cover.
That day I got really good at my bargaining ability because I was really sick of people pestering me to buy stuff. The secret is that I simply would stick to a really low price and never go up, at all. It works wonders.
With that bargaining power, I was able to 50 door decorations for my entire floor. They are bannana leafs glued together to make pictures, all African. I got 50 of them for $50, which was in my budget. So now I'm going to need a gel pen and write everyone's names on them. I'm also going to draw arrow's pointing at parts. So for instance, Dillon won't just have Dillon, he'll have a arrow pointing to a spot on the cheetah with the title Dillon: The 32nd Cheetah Spot. I just love thinking about it.
We went to the fish market afterwards to pick up dinner. I ordered shrimp and lobster for $3. Yummy!!
The others in the group wanted to find hookah, but they tried for about 3 hours, and never got it. It was an impossible struggle.
The next day after a really good complimentary breakfast (eggs, fruit, yogurt, toast, and tea) we headed up for a spice tour. Random trivia knowledge: Zanzibar is known as the spice island.
We loaded 9 people into the 7 passanger van and headed up to a spice farm. There we got to see all sorts of different spices. Strangely enough, I got a runny nose that day. So I could barely smell anything at all. But I definately could smell the lemon grass, that smelled exactly like fruity pebbles. Yummy, fruity pebbles :) We saw a kid climb up a cocunt tree and I got to drink an entire cocunut. I also got to taste a bunch of really good fruits. There was this one fruit Apple something that tasted just like apple pie. We learned how vanilla was produced, and why it is so expensive as well. At the end we got to try some shots of tea, which tasted great.
Then we drove to the north part of Zanzibar. Our guide loved American music all 80's and he sang along on the drive. I decided to chime along as well on my favorite "What is Love?" Ya, I really got into that one.
We saw a really cool squiggly cocunt tree on the way as well.
We got pulled over twice from police because we had too many people in the vehicle. I was sitting in the front, but amazingly, I don't think I messed anything up. Our driver was really upset, and for a long while we thought we were going to be left in the middle of a rainforest because we were an illegal vehicle. Luckily, we were allowed to get to the resorts.
The tricky thing about Zanzibar van and taxi drivers is that they get commisions if they get us to go to specific hotels. Our driver kept trying to get us to go to one hotel, we kept telling him no, but he kept pushing. It was very strange.
We ended up at a bungalo right next to the beach, with a look of the entire ocean. It's amazing.
AT THE BEACH
So I have really dedicated myself to spending some alone time in front of the beach, to cool down. I've had some interesting encounters none the less.
So I walked across to check out the beach and was crossing back to go back to the hotel. I decided to go through all of the buildings. At one point I noticed 5 absolutely amazing looking women. They were all reading (so hot)! So I decide I would walk by that building, as it was in that direction anyway. Well it ends up after I cross them I end up at a dead end fence. There's a tractor on my left squeezed into a very sketchy place and a garden shet on my right, all surrounded by fence. I debate for a minute, and decide to casually, and cooly, act as if I meant to come to this dead end and turn around. Well at that point all 5 women had put down their books and were stairing at me. Then they started laughing at me. I asked them where they were from and they said Germany. And so that was the begging of that meeting. I meet up with them again later.
I sneak into another beach resort and fall asleep on their outdoor beds after going for a swim. At sunset I ordered a milkshake and watched the sun set, it was grand. At one point while I was watching the sunset, a man decided to take a shower right behind me, so I watched the sunset while getting splashed by water from above (the shower) and below (the waves).
Our group ate dinner together and then decided to take a 45 minute break before meeting again. I decided to go walk on the beach at night, with the moon reflecting in the water.
A little ways down the beach, I crossed a women who greeted me. I told her "hello". I told her my name was LoSarian, and she told me her name was Shania. She then told me "I want to suck you". At that point it was very weird. I couldn't figure out if this was a prostitute or a desperately horny person. She asked me where I lived, which I didn't tell her, and that she wanted to go there. I then told her that I do not pay money for sexual favors, it's wrong. At that point she said "No big money, just little money". At that point I was pretty sure she was a prostitute. So I have never really spent much time with prostitutes in the past, so this was something new for me. I sat a few feet in front of her and told her that she was a better person than that. I told her she should try to get money in a more constructive way. I told her that she is more valuable than that. I kept saying you are worth more than that, the whole time she kept saying "I understand" and "I want to suck you". I found out that she is a message therapist during the day, and just wants more money. At one point she asked me whether I wanted a half an hour or an hour. I just kept trying to tell her "You are a better person than that, I don't want you physically, you should do something more". Well, she took this as me trying to get a cheap price somehow and she kept saying back. I'll give a low price. Eventually, she said she would do it for free, seriously. I really am a hard bargainer. But I still told her no, you are more important that and got up to leave. She told me to sit down next to her. I sat down and tried talking to her more. She then put her head on my shoulder and her hand on my knee. I told her, no, you are makeing me uncomfortable. I then told her I am going to leave and began to get up. Then she straight out groped me. It was such a disturbing feeling.
Well I learned more than I wanted to about sex and prostitution that night. I think I will stop trying to instill value into prositutes so much, and if I do, I will definately keep a bit more distance. But it really makes you wonder, how do you define prostitution. At one point she said she would do it for free, but I definately felt that there was still some nasty prostitution going on. (Not that I ever contemplated saying yes, but it made me wonder what is the difference between this and kissing a girl who wants to kiss you and doesn't ask for money)
Back at the restaurant we gave our week and a half late Secret Santa gifts. Ashley was my secret Pal. I wrote her a clue on a piece of paper:
Dear Ashley,
You are a good SPEAKER.
Your secret pal,
Elliott Hedman
So she looked at it and was like um, thanks Elliott. I told her that she really was a good public speaker. And there was like 7 minutes of silent confusion. Ben knew what was going on because he saw me plant the clues.
I told Ahsley, "You can LOOK FOR more meaning in there if you think about it" and Ben told her "You just really need to EXPLORE your thoughts".
Ashley was like, does that mean you think I'm a good singer? :) I told her "If that's what you want to get out of it".
Finally, the group persuaded her that she should look at the music speakers in the building. Behind one of the speakers I put a hint.
Don't have RESERVATIONS, just look.
She quickly found the no reservation sign. The last clue was tricky.
It said Your gift can be found Jubon's Dream.
Ashley had a a very confused look on her face for a second, but then Teju, in his excitement yelled it's in the boat and ran over to it, before Ashley could thing. At the boat there was a rock, and Ashley asked is this my gift. I told her if she wants it to be. Eventually, she found my gift.
I had gotten her close tribal friend Zuwate to write her a letter in English and Swahilli about what she thought about Ashley. I then sewed it onto a blanket myself :) It was a great way to remember such a special moment.
During the Secret Santa a thon, I had put on a cheap plastic crown and was giving everyone christmas crackers to pop, like my family does. I also had one of those blow horns that goes out really far and makes funny noises every time you blow in my mouth. At this exact moment when I was blowing really hard and obnoxiously, the German girls walked by (all 5 of them). They all waved at me. Wow!
After gifts, Ben came up with a game where we wrote down all the things that are worrying us. I had a lot, mainly about unresolved things back at school. (You know who you are!). And then we took those worrys and threw them in the ocean.
I then took another walk on the beach alone. Well Shaquila was still there and she came up to me. She tried grabbing my hands and putting them on her ass. I told her no, I had to get to my friends, and told her she needs to change. She told me that all she wanted was $10. I told her no and walked on. I found a cave spot that was really neat and sat there and looked at the water for a good time just looking at the ocean. And that's where we left off.
I'm going to go spend the rest of the day just sitting on the beach, writing in my journal, and meditating. It's going to be fun.
I hope you all have a fun rest of the break, and I am sure I will see you all soon.
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