The day before arriving to Australia there was a supposed “meteor shower” the best ever, and it was supposed to last several hours. So, after going to sleep very late watching team America (which I fell asleep…opps), I was designated to wake everyone up, at like 5 am. I did the round and woke everyone up, Dounia Mercedes , Brittany,a nd gioel had had a sleep over, so they were very easy to gather. We all met outside, it was roughly around 30 degrees outside, and i was in my jamies…so basically I was freezing. And to our surprise nothing was [View Full Entry]

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So Dounia, Tim, Jarle, Adam and I rented a car for 5 days to travel the north island. We woke up early and walked to the car rental place and began our adventure towards taupo. Once we got to Taupo we found the sky diving place where everyone was headed, we signed up and about 2 hours later we were in the sky. My sky diving man was awesome….he was singing to me the entire way up… and being my second jump I was very relax. I was the first one out of the plan and I was glad I was [View Full Entry]

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The day began on a bus. We stopped the bus about 2 hours into the ride to see the location where lord of the rings was filmed. There we got a guided tour of the farm and the events that took place during the filming. Though I haven’t seen the movies it was still interesting to know that I was there….maybe perhaps I’ll watch them now. After the movie set we ate lunch, and quickly had to leave. Our black water rafting adventure began with putting on a freezing wet suit, and very fun boots. Once we were all geared up [View Full Entry]

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Well if you haven’t let me invite you to auction yourself off….if you choose not to do you may just learn from my personal story. Our fantastic boat created a plan to raise money for the starving kids in Africa. And naturally the best way we could think of, is by auction off things we personally own. And simply because I had nothing that I desired to auction off, I auctioned off my services…breakfast in bed!!! Yes ladies and gents I would bring whomever breakfast in bed. On the boat this is not so much of a difficult concept, simply [View Full Entry]

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Ok, never did I ever actually think I would be in Tahiti!!! Nope… never…. But let me tell you, those 26 hours that I was there was much needed, and very much amazing. My on the beach bungalow had an enormous bed, with a walk in closet. I front door view of the ocean. I patio with two launge chairs. And the bathroom was probably my favorite part. Imagine an entire bathroom with doors that lead to the shower, so basically I got to shower outside!!! Awesome!! My entire bungalow screamed romantic getaway. And the ocean water was completely transparent no [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday as we all know was Halloween, which after an entire day in Tahiti a lot of kids didn’t come out and play. But it was fun and worth it, me and my roommate where really hot hawaiin dancers :-D which we didn’t take a look at out skirts prior to purchasing them, so when we were trying them on we realized they were extremely tight. Then we realized we def. bought the kids size skirt instead of the adult skirt….ha….oh well…So we had a pumkin carving competition, and our pumkin was sea sick Stuart. He had swirl eyes and was [View Full Entry]

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My steps clog to the muddy ground, while drop of rain attached themselves to my eyelashes, and I could no longer see where I was going. I slowly followed Kristin the shadowy figure in front of me, as the coldness of the night numbed all of my fingers. The short walk ended in front of our new “family’s” home. The house was small, with chipped paint and a roof that seemed very instable. At that moment I was completely out of my comfort zone. I was placed in an unknown situation and I enjoyed the ambiguity of it .What also disturbed [View Full Entry]

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Are ship is currently located in a very bad area of guayadil. So in order to get out of the port one most go through extremely high security. So even though we were docked at 7ish we weren’t allowed off the ship till 10. and once we got off we weren’t allowed to walk anywhere, so we had to wait 30 minutes for the shuttle to come by to take us 3 ft away. Once we finally made it into town we did some walking around the city. Stopped in a few stores, and went into an outside restaurant. They [View Full Entry]

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So it was another day of class, doing work, or lying out. The difference though is that we had Neptune day, the day we cross the equator. And for all of us who hadn’t ever crossed the equator by water, we had to be baptized into shellback. There we were in all our clothes on the top deck of the boat, getting drenched in salt water. We had to walk through fish guts, kiss and bow to the king ( the king and queen were two of my male professors, dressed in a ridiculous white outfit that only covered their main [View Full Entry]

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I was sitting on a motorized canoe, in a river that flowed from a waterfall. The color of the water was a sort of a pale brownish reddish tint from rocks made of clay. The surrounding was a tropical jungle, with canopying trees, with several large bright blue butterflies flying passed us as we neared our location. We got off the canoe, and walked a good 15 minutes through the jungle passed several residing creeks, to a beautiful cascading waterfall. We swam for about 30 minutes, and luckily I had my waterproof camera. After the swim, we climbed back down [View Full Entry]

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