| This xanga consists of a) a rant on high school relationships (if you're currently engaged in one, skip over it) and b) a retelling of my cruise experience. If you don't want to read either, I understand, because its very long.
Did you know that the emotion love is stimulated by the same brain neurons that rear up when you eat a bar of chocolate? Yep, thats right. Love is really nothing but a fatty mass of food. I told you it was fake, but no one listened to me. Its so annoying listening to people constantly tell me they're in love. I can't speak for everyone, but for quite a few people, that is utter bullshit. I know some girls who will go through eight 'serious' boyfriends in a year, and of course, she was in love with every single one of them. Maddeningly, breathtakingly, amazingly in love! Ha. Or how about the guy who never had a girlfriend all through his middle and high school years, and when he finally gets one, he is so damned relieved that the week after they start dating, what do you think? He's in love, too. Everybody shut up. You're either lying or you're deluded, and I don't feel like hearing about everyone's tedious high school relationships anymore.
p.s. Don't respond to that rant. On the happy side, I'm back from my cruise and I'm actually glad about it. Cruises are brimming with crowds of fat people, 50% of whom are old and shriveled, and the rest are drunken bums that totter around the ship looking for their next cocktail. And they all look the same, too, in pleated Docker khaki shorts, floral beach shirts for the guys and a bathing suit top for the women (revealing all their flab), and either loafers of sandals. I spent the whole time at sea chilling on deck (tanning when the sun came out, which wasn't often :( ) or eating. There was so much freaking food, you have no idea (btw, the rumors about the 24-hour soft serve ice cream are true). I've gained about 10 lbs. and I'm not joking. Never once did I use the gym or get a massage (they didn't have any plain massages- they were all these hour long aromatherapy or hot stone massages that are incredibly expensive, so I didn't indulge). I did visit the gift shop to get a keychain and load up on candy once or twice, and more than once I sat in my room watching TV because I was too nauseous or bloated to do anything else. :( But Grand Cayman and Cozumel were great. They obviously are tourist locations and therefore aren't like the Caribbean shots with deserted beaches and whatnot. The ports are practically mini cities these days, all built up and brimming with more fat, ugly Americans. I'm beginning to hate them as much as the rest of the world seems to. Anyway, at Cayman we snorkled with the stingrays and over a coral reef. The reef was beautiful beyond words, and the stingrays were like underwater dogs! They were adorable and docile. Our guide picked up a stingray and draped it over my back, so he was giving me a hug! :) We definately got a picture of that. Btw, I'll be posting pictures within the next few days. The water was just like you'd imagine- crystal-clear beneath and turquoise from the surface. In Cozumel, we swam with dolphins (that was awesome!) and did some night snorkling. That latter was really great because a bunch of new nightlife came out. I was starting to get cold though, and I freaked when I saw this disgusting worm thing slithering through the water. And I almost got stabbed by a colony of sea urchins, but nothing more dangerous than that. And alas, not once did I see a shark! I am so disappointed. I was looking forward to this excursion to have a face off between myself and a bull shark (there are no Great Whites in the Caribbean, otherwise I'd take on one of those monsters). So, though I feel pretty good about coming home now, I know that once the cold weather seeps back into my bones and I'm back taking tests in school, I will wonder what lapse of sanity provoked me to type that sentiment. I know that next time I go on vacation, I will avoid taking a cruise and instead fly directly to where I want to go. I will also choose a fairly deserted location, thus avoiding all the loud-mouthed, obnoxious, obese Americans that were crowding my living space. Because I found that the best times I had on the cruise were when I was in the water off the islands, I will become a certified diver so that I can experience underwater life even more vividly. I have all this planned for next time, which were invaribaly be at least two years from now :(. But I have to say that the cruise overall was educational. It showed me what i like and what I don't so that my next trip to the tropics will be much more enjoyable.
If you read that ^ you're awesome. <3 Riina |
