Dancing through life, skimming the surface...
i'm back. unfortunately in some respects, although (and i mean this in all honesty) i missed everyone. so much so that at certain things i would nearly cry because they would remind me of all my wonderful friends. like when they played "Ice, Ice Baby" i thought of Katrina and was all emotional...but also dancing like i've never danced before.
ok..so where to begin. first of all let me just say that i had the most incredible vacation ever. not only was i able to relax and forget about stress for a bit and meet really cool people, i was able to feel free. my parents didn't much care what i did since they knew i'd be on the boat and safe. i'll pretty much try to go in somewhat chronological order and list the most important things...this is mainly for me to remember everything by since most of you probably won't care about it. whatever.
christmas in florida we spent Christmas with my grandmother who lives in West Palm Beach, FL which means i wore a mini skirt and flip flops on Christmas Day while everyone in New York was freezing :-D Not much happened until we left for the cruise...just hung out in my grandmother's apartment, which is in this senior citizen complex so not a whole lot going on. on Christmas Eve my brother and I recited the beginning of Rent..."December 24th, 8pm, Eastern Standard Time. From here on out we shoot without a script..." and so on because it actually was that time. ah yes we're weird.
December 26th...Adios America! The ship set sail for Grand Cayman at around 5pm on 12/26/04 and the vacation really began. actually the first night was quite crappy because i didn't meet anyone so i just wandered around listening to music. the next day was much cooler.
December 27th i dont much remember what i did during the day but at night it was awesome. I went to the teen disco thingy and finally met a huge group of people. We made up the "bloods" (which were against the cryps...yay for gangs)
Kara from Albany, Jessica (#A) from Minnesota, J.J./jay (unfortunately) from Boston, Alex (my confidant/the pimp) from Tampa, Amber from Florida, Alex (the druggie) from Florida, Chris (Amber's brother) from Florida, Chris (another one) from Maryland, Matt from Maryland i think, Abby and Kelsey from Oklahoma, David from California, Adam and Kurt (my husband) from Chicago, Peter (PAN!) also from Chicago, Casey and Wayne...not sure where they're from, Shane from California, Alex from North Carolina, Derrick from Georgia, Trevor from Missouri, Mike (the comedian) from Georgia, Jew-boy (i think his real name was Ethan) from Westchester, Craig (who left us after the first night) from Duchess county (he used to live in Congers!), Arkansas!-Stephanie and her brother whom I only know as "Arkansas," Brent from...i'm not sure where, Ryan from Virginia, Greg also from Georgia...yea there were lots of cool people
ok so that second night we pretty much just wandered around talking and whatnot...eventually ended up around 1am in the main lobby where we sat every night after all the adults went to bed. I went to sleep around 2:30ish...every night after that i had a curfew unfortunately so i had to be in my room around 1ish. I met Kurt that night (Kurt Cobain as i know him) who is just as liberal as i am...most of the people didn't know what liberals and conservatives were and we were just shocked at them. We then went off ranting about how stupid religion is and how gay marriage/abortion should be allowed, how dumb Bush is...the usual good stuff like that. Someone used "gay" not in the sense of someone who is a homosexual but rather to say something unpleasant was gay..so i told her to stop using that term in a deroggatory sense as it is uncalled for and incorrect. Adam shouted out that i should marry Kurt...so we're running off to Utah where he's going to marry me first, then marry Kara because she has a cleft chin like he does. Greg walked by and we all started shouting at him to join us, but he ignored it so then Alex (the pimp) ran after him and told him that kara thought he was hot so he came back. OO at the disco i also met this 17 year old guy named Giuseppe from Italy who was all impressed when i spoke Italian to him. I only saw him a couple other times though.
Grand Cayman was nice i guess..we just shopped around. I've been there before, not much to see. That night Alex, Alex, Jess, Kara, and I hung out together on the top deck for awhile...Alex (the druggie) told us about his problems with drugs and such, which i won't go into the details of, and then we started playing truth or dare. The other Alex was dared to make out with me, which he would not do because he is committed to his gf and i was all impressed. The whole truth or dare thing kinda didn't work after that. we tried some dares, but no one had anything exciting to share. We then found a table and had the most interesting "sex ed" ever...i was also offerred to make out with other alex (the druggie) but opted not to since i barely knew him and all..yea...ryan joined us because as he was walking by he heard other alex saying that he fucked cheerios and so he was quite interested in what we were talking about. Eventually we went downstairs and regrouped with some of the other people including Kurt and Adam who were completely drunk. Kurt was sitting with his arm around me and was all "i want to marry a roman catholic italian like you" and i was all "yea you're drunk...you dont know what you're saying" which he was denying. I think by this night Kelsey and Chris (the one from Maryland) had established themselves as lovers and whatnot although that didn't last...David stole Kelsey away which pissed Chris off a lot.
Costa Maya, Mexico was nice because i spoke spanish to all the mexican peoples! I was incredibly proud of myself for doing so =) I think it was that day i got my hair cut and it looks much nicer now because it's all layered and pretty. My mom went to the spa a few times but i only went to get my hair done that one time. All the details of the days and nights are blending together now which is very upsetting. I went a few times over the course of the week to this awesome spot called "Gatsby's Garden" which is just a sitting area that has lots of big windows that look out to hte water and comfy benches. I sat there and wrote random thoughts as well as added on to the story i had started in Math a few days ago. I have to finish that thing..it has much potential.
I also went to Cozumel, Mexico and then finally Belize, where i went snorkeling and swimming with huge ass sting rays and nurse sharks (neither of which bite) which was awesome.
Other stuff that happened:
-Amber eventually getting the most of the other people to vibrate...which is incredibly cool
-J.J. videotaped us dancing the last night at the disco which pissed us all off because that's just...weird and creepy and so not cool.
-David made out with the window because the lady on it was "hot" and as he did so an old guy walked by.
-ACCENTS ARE AWESOME! especially when people think new yorkers say "coffee" weird and other such words. Georgia boy (Derrick) had such a strong accent..i couldn't help making fun of it =) So did Jess who said her a's really oddly.
-Kara had the awesomest outfits!
-Jess and I were inseparable. We went on an escapade to find ice cream...which was successful thankfully. Anyone who wears an American Idiot t-shirt is automatically my friend because that's just the way the world works.
-Alex (the pimp) was highly sought after...whenever he left, Jess, Kara, and I among others would run after him dragging him back. one night we sat on the window ledge and pulled the curtain down and just talked in the calm darkness because he had a headache and didn't want to be in the midst of the noise and bright lights of the disco.
-New Year's Eve was awesome, even if I didn't get drunk like everyone else. Kurt nearly fell into the pool because he was so buzzed. Chris had gotten drunk off champagne, but he wasn't that bad and i comforted him because he was feeling rejected since Kelsey had run off with David and he was all being really nice to me so we walked around holding hands and such. He wrote a great song too, which he let me read. Jess and Kara fell asleep next to Alex (actually nearly on top of him...)
-Waking up Kelsey in the middle of the afternoon (and almost having an orgy..i just had to take off my shoes..) and sitting around in the middle of the hallway scaring people was fun.
-I signed alex (the pimp)'s boots a lot...completely vandalized them with random things including calling him a dirty mexican =)
-Finding Alex's (the girl from North Carolina) father was NOT fun especially when she got in trouble for being out late..but she's an awesome person and i think i must follow her philosophy of simply having fun being one's self.
-Mike is hilarious...he kept reciting random bits from comic sketches really well..he provided some great entertainment.
The last night was so depressing...we ran around taking pictures of each other...i even actually danced during the disco which is unheard of since i just..don't dance. Jess and i kept hugging each other and nearly crying. Kurt and i hugged for a long time and left with the parting words of "stay liberal." I got a whole slew of sn's but the horrible reality of the matter is that i'm never going to see many of these people again and we'll probably all lose touch fairly quickly. David had fun making his "sexy" face and randomly picked me up so i started screaming...a "bear bitch" scream as Derrick termed it. Ryan grabbed my ass and he's all..can i do it again? so i'm just "yea" and he grabbed my ass as we hugged good bye.
And while all this was going on i barely saw my family the entire vacation. Oh well...
If i missed anything, comment and tell me...
So many great memories...I want to go back. It's rare for me to have that much fun in one week. and it's over. POR QUEEEE?!
i love everyone...all my new friends as well as the people who have made my life worth living for the past year, two years, three years, 10 years..you know who you guys are.
Happy 2005...let's make it a good one.
love,
Jess
ok..so where to begin. first of all let me just say that i had the most incredible vacation ever. not only was i able to relax and forget about stress for a bit and meet really cool people, i was able to feel free. my parents didn't much care what i did since they knew i'd be on the boat and safe. i'll pretty much try to go in somewhat chronological order and list the most important things...this is mainly for me to remember everything by since most of you probably won't care about it. whatever.
christmas in florida we spent Christmas with my grandmother who lives in West Palm Beach, FL which means i wore a mini skirt and flip flops on Christmas Day while everyone in New York was freezing :-D Not much happened until we left for the cruise...just hung out in my grandmother's apartment, which is in this senior citizen complex so not a whole lot going on. on Christmas Eve my brother and I recited the beginning of Rent..."December 24th, 8pm, Eastern Standard Time. From here on out we shoot without a script..." and so on because it actually was that time. ah yes we're weird.
December 26th...Adios America! The ship set sail for Grand Cayman at around 5pm on 12/26/04 and the vacation really began. actually the first night was quite crappy because i didn't meet anyone so i just wandered around listening to music. the next day was much cooler.
December 27th i dont much remember what i did during the day but at night it was awesome. I went to the teen disco thingy and finally met a huge group of people. We made up the "bloods" (which were against the cryps...yay for gangs)
Kara from Albany, Jessica (#A) from Minnesota, J.J./jay (unfortunately) from Boston, Alex (my confidant/the pimp) from Tampa, Amber from Florida, Alex (the druggie) from Florida, Chris (Amber's brother) from Florida, Chris (another one) from Maryland, Matt from Maryland i think, Abby and Kelsey from Oklahoma, David from California, Adam and Kurt (my husband) from Chicago, Peter (PAN!) also from Chicago, Casey and Wayne...not sure where they're from, Shane from California, Alex from North Carolina, Derrick from Georgia, Trevor from Missouri, Mike (the comedian) from Georgia, Jew-boy (i think his real name was Ethan) from Westchester, Craig (who left us after the first night) from Duchess county (he used to live in Congers!), Arkansas!-Stephanie and her brother whom I only know as "Arkansas," Brent from...i'm not sure where, Ryan from Virginia, Greg also from Georgia...yea there were lots of cool people
ok so that second night we pretty much just wandered around talking and whatnot...eventually ended up around 1am in the main lobby where we sat every night after all the adults went to bed. I went to sleep around 2:30ish...every night after that i had a curfew unfortunately so i had to be in my room around 1ish. I met Kurt that night (Kurt Cobain as i know him) who is just as liberal as i am...most of the people didn't know what liberals and conservatives were and we were just shocked at them. We then went off ranting about how stupid religion is and how gay marriage/abortion should be allowed, how dumb Bush is...the usual good stuff like that. Someone used "gay" not in the sense of someone who is a homosexual but rather to say something unpleasant was gay..so i told her to stop using that term in a deroggatory sense as it is uncalled for and incorrect. Adam shouted out that i should marry Kurt...so we're running off to Utah where he's going to marry me first, then marry Kara because she has a cleft chin like he does. Greg walked by and we all started shouting at him to join us, but he ignored it so then Alex (the pimp) ran after him and told him that kara thought he was hot so he came back. OO at the disco i also met this 17 year old guy named Giuseppe from Italy who was all impressed when i spoke Italian to him. I only saw him a couple other times though.
Grand Cayman was nice i guess..we just shopped around. I've been there before, not much to see. That night Alex, Alex, Jess, Kara, and I hung out together on the top deck for awhile...Alex (the druggie) told us about his problems with drugs and such, which i won't go into the details of, and then we started playing truth or dare. The other Alex was dared to make out with me, which he would not do because he is committed to his gf and i was all impressed. The whole truth or dare thing kinda didn't work after that. we tried some dares, but no one had anything exciting to share. We then found a table and had the most interesting "sex ed" ever...i was also offerred to make out with other alex (the druggie) but opted not to since i barely knew him and all..yea...ryan joined us because as he was walking by he heard other alex saying that he fucked cheerios and so he was quite interested in what we were talking about. Eventually we went downstairs and regrouped with some of the other people including Kurt and Adam who were completely drunk. Kurt was sitting with his arm around me and was all "i want to marry a roman catholic italian like you" and i was all "yea you're drunk...you dont know what you're saying" which he was denying. I think by this night Kelsey and Chris (the one from Maryland) had established themselves as lovers and whatnot although that didn't last...David stole Kelsey away which pissed Chris off a lot.
Costa Maya, Mexico was nice because i spoke spanish to all the mexican peoples! I was incredibly proud of myself for doing so =) I think it was that day i got my hair cut and it looks much nicer now because it's all layered and pretty. My mom went to the spa a few times but i only went to get my hair done that one time. All the details of the days and nights are blending together now which is very upsetting. I went a few times over the course of the week to this awesome spot called "Gatsby's Garden" which is just a sitting area that has lots of big windows that look out to hte water and comfy benches. I sat there and wrote random thoughts as well as added on to the story i had started in Math a few days ago. I have to finish that thing..it has much potential.
I also went to Cozumel, Mexico and then finally Belize, where i went snorkeling and swimming with huge ass sting rays and nurse sharks (neither of which bite) which was awesome.
Other stuff that happened:
-Amber eventually getting the most of the other people to vibrate...which is incredibly cool
-J.J. videotaped us dancing the last night at the disco which pissed us all off because that's just...weird and creepy and so not cool.
-David made out with the window because the lady on it was "hot" and as he did so an old guy walked by.
-ACCENTS ARE AWESOME! especially when people think new yorkers say "coffee" weird and other such words. Georgia boy (Derrick) had such a strong accent..i couldn't help making fun of it =) So did Jess who said her a's really oddly.
-Kara had the awesomest outfits!
-Jess and I were inseparable. We went on an escapade to find ice cream...which was successful thankfully. Anyone who wears an American Idiot t-shirt is automatically my friend because that's just the way the world works.
-Alex (the pimp) was highly sought after...whenever he left, Jess, Kara, and I among others would run after him dragging him back. one night we sat on the window ledge and pulled the curtain down and just talked in the calm darkness because he had a headache and didn't want to be in the midst of the noise and bright lights of the disco.
-New Year's Eve was awesome, even if I didn't get drunk like everyone else. Kurt nearly fell into the pool because he was so buzzed. Chris had gotten drunk off champagne, but he wasn't that bad and i comforted him because he was feeling rejected since Kelsey had run off with David and he was all being really nice to me so we walked around holding hands and such. He wrote a great song too, which he let me read. Jess and Kara fell asleep next to Alex (actually nearly on top of him...)
-Waking up Kelsey in the middle of the afternoon (and almost having an orgy..i just had to take off my shoes..) and sitting around in the middle of the hallway scaring people was fun.
-I signed alex (the pimp)'s boots a lot...completely vandalized them with random things including calling him a dirty mexican =)
-Finding Alex's (the girl from North Carolina) father was NOT fun especially when she got in trouble for being out late..but she's an awesome person and i think i must follow her philosophy of simply having fun being one's self.
-Mike is hilarious...he kept reciting random bits from comic sketches really well..he provided some great entertainment.
The last night was so depressing...we ran around taking pictures of each other...i even actually danced during the disco which is unheard of since i just..don't dance. Jess and i kept hugging each other and nearly crying. Kurt and i hugged for a long time and left with the parting words of "stay liberal." I got a whole slew of sn's but the horrible reality of the matter is that i'm never going to see many of these people again and we'll probably all lose touch fairly quickly. David had fun making his "sexy" face and randomly picked me up so i started screaming...a "bear bitch" scream as Derrick termed it. Ryan grabbed my ass and he's all..can i do it again? so i'm just "yea" and he grabbed my ass as we hugged good bye.
And while all this was going on i barely saw my family the entire vacation. Oh well...
If i missed anything, comment and tell me...
So many great memories...I want to go back. It's rare for me to have that much fun in one week. and it's over. POR QUEEEE?!
i love everyone...all my new friends as well as the people who have made my life worth living for the past year, two years, three years, 10 years..you know who you guys are.
Happy 2005...let's make it a good one.
love,
Jess