Today was pretty uneventful. We didn't do much. After breakfast, my mom left to go cancel her timeshare thingy and told my sister and I to go swimming. So we did. But when we settled down at one of pools, an ol guy was just standing there, staring at us. Really creepy. So I swam out of sight, but the he moved so that we were in sight. Super creepy. We went back to our room. We went back down after my mom came back but the guy was still there. He was staring at other people, though. Ehhhhhhhhhhh So creepy.
After that, we went downtown to eat. Then we walked along the beach because my mom wanted to see the statues. There were people making sand sculptures and one dude stacking rocks. Some people had tip boxes out and such. Some people built "wishing wells" made out of sand.
Today, it seemed that there was some sort of uprisal in bees. Bees were EVERYWHERE. Dead ones in the pool, live ones swarming around vendors, flying everywhere.
After some time, we stopped in an ice cream shop. My mom got all pissed off because my sister took forever to decide and ended up getting the same thing as my mom. The ice cream wasn't cheap either, and it melted really quickly.
We walked to a taco shop and ate tacos. They were good, but the shop was kinda small and crappy.
Now I'm sitting here, watching the Simpsons in Spanish. All the TV shows seem more random... Probably because I can't understand half of it. Hahahah.
Today, we started off the day by going to a tour at 11:30 am. It wasn't like a normal tour more like an activity, a really physical one. It was organized by some company called Vallarta Adventures.
The first thing we did was take a speedboat across the ocean. So windy! I sat in the very front so my hair got messed up in the wind. Really messed up. It still is.
Speedboat tips:
KEEP A STRAIGHT BACK
Don't barf. If you feel like you do, clench your stomach, and don't think gross stuff.
Keep your mouth CLOSED. Either things will fly in to your mouth or spit will dribble on to people behind you. Gross.
When we reached shore, a doggie was laying down on the dock. It was all stripey and cute. Some of the houses there were big and pretty while others where in need of repair. Then we were split up in to two groups and climbed in to this huge truck that could fit fourteen people. It was really bumpy.
Then... BURROS! We got to ride our own mule! They were really cute. Mine was old-ish and small. The first thing it did when I got on it was stand there and not move. When I finally got her on the trail, she started eating some grass and wouldn't move. -.-
After some time, my mule was walking well. At one point, the mule in front of us just... Farted. For a really long time in my mule's face. It was too funny.
The mule also had a tendency to try to pass other mules and speed up randomly. On top of that, she also stopped in random places.
When we reached the top, we got of of the mules and got ready to zipline down the mountain. IT WAS SO FUN! The rush you get is... Amazing. After three lines, we walked a bit to a waterfall, where we rappelled in to the pool underneath. It was really scary though, because the rocks were slippery. And at the end, your entire bottom half gets soaking wet and sand gets in your shoes. We ziplined some more, crossed the river a few times, and rappelled on air down another waterfall.We also ziplined downstream and got entirely wet.
When we finished, it started to rain. Hard. Thunder too. Everything that had dried was immediately drenched again. But at least we got some food too. I haven't had a lunch in three days!
After that, we went to a mall, where we had a crappy dinner of dry meat. It was a buffet, and it really sucked. Their sushi had kiwi and strawberries... Not right at all.
We stopped by to look at a pet shop too. All the animals looked tired and the mammals were a bit cramped. There was a small chihuahua sleeping in a glass cage too... I felt so bad for it, it had no bed, only a tiny red sweater.
The bus system in Mexico is so confusing. We keep waiting for the right one but it never comes, and we don't know the bus number and everything.
GAHHH
I haven't put a picture in a while. Here, lemme add some all over the post.
Today was pretty boring. There was this buffet thingy downstairs which we went to for breakfast. Their pancakes were really good and fluffy...
Later, I was dragged to some sort of presentation for a timeshare at some resort here, which I didn't want because I don't want to have to come back here every year
Oh yeah, I forgot to put in yesterday's post that... After dinner, we received mints that said "VIAGRA" in bold print in the back. We didn't eat them...
NOT in Mexico, but in Kirkland.
Anyways, we took a tour led by an uncomfortably nice man across a resort I didn't really like. It seemed weird in some way, I don't know how. After the tour, my mom sat down with a woman who thought my name was Alyssa and they started talking about money stuff. I was sure my mom wouldn't buy the timeshare. The woman directed my sister and I to a lounge room, were we fell asleep watching the Olympics- IN ENGLISH. I woke up several times, each time a different sport on the TV. At one point I woke up to my mom taking a picture of my sister and I sleeping... O.o
When I woke up, my sister switched the channel to Spongebob- IN ENGLISH. After a while, my mom came in with a bottle of champage and said that she bought it. Then more boring things, such as organizing the free adventure thingies they promised us with the presentation.
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There's a lizard/gecko in our room.
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It's super fast though.
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Anyways, after that, we went to go find food. We stopped by a grocery where my mom bought lime flavored chips and lime flavored peanuts.
Then we continued walking, but the sky was gray and cloudy...
Then, RAIN. THUNDER. LIGHTNING. MORE RAIN. It was so much fun, and the raindrops were HUGE. My mom wanted to stay under cover for a while but then we continued walking when the rain lightened.
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THAT LIZARD IS SOOO CUTE!!
ITS WALKING UPSIDE DOWN RIGHT NOW.
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Yeah, then we walked by the marina, where restaurant workers were trying to lure us in, it's like Brick Lane all over again. I hate Brick Lane. Their food isn't bad but the people scare me.
We went to a restaurant and my mom ended up ordering two dishes that were almost identical, just one had more liquid. -.- And she insisted on having one of them... I also saw a guy who looked like someone else I knew... only with longer short hair. It was weird. Really weird
On the way back, we walked along the marina some more and saw a bunch of crabs and fish.
Can lizards sleep upside down???
Then we bought ice cream and watched more Phineas and Ferb in spanish. But I'm still not sure how to change the default language on chrome because it's automatically in spanish because I'm in Mexico. So stupid. This happened too in France.
Early this morning, I had to stay up to pack because we were leaving at 3:30 in the morning. I took a short nap before we left though, but it didn't do any good because I was a zombie at the airport.
First we flew to San Francisco and stayed there for about an hour.
Then we flew to Puerto Vallarta.
First thing: IT IS HOT AND HUMID AND HOT.
Seriously. It's a good thing we're staying in a good hotel with air conditioning than some crappy motel with cockroaches and stuff.
People here are really loud and those who regularly have to deal with tourists seem really nice. I keep on being paranoid that we're going to get scammed though, because trust issues with people who seem too nice at first.
I dunno.
We stayed at a Westin resort here. Some person was getting married so people were out in flashy dresses and such.
The beach here has a bunch of pretty shells and the pool isn't bad either. We later went downtown (which was really far away from our hotel) to go to a restaurant. The food was really good but a lot. I'm sure I'll get fatter here. Then my mom started wandering and we ended up on some street with people laughing loudly and people everywhere and lights. My mom ended up going to several stores to find a good fitting bathing suit, but all were either too revealing or expensive.
Then we waited at a bus station for what felt like an hour, trying to find the bus we needed to get back to our hotel. Out of the thirty buses that stopped by, none wre the one we were looking for. It's like the Louvre all over again! Except instead of taking the metro, my mom was being picky about her cab drivers and setteled for the 80 peso one.
Is that thunder outside? Hm.
Pesos are weird, because it's like 400 pesos for one three person meal. Really strange compared to America.
I think I just saw lightning... Gahh! Thunderstorms are better than nothing, I guess.
I'm too lazy to upload pictures.
It was at Seattle University and we stayed in a building called "Campion Hall" and it was really big and there was a giant ballroom. My roommate was a girl named Crystal. Our room was erally far down the hall, much farther away from the elevator than anyone else's, We had a lot in common. The first night at the camp, we stayed up until midnight sitting on the windowsill, looking out the window and talking.
The girls in our group were really nice, most of them at least. Two girls, Emily and Sophie, stayed quiet most of the time. Emily left early though because she was feeling sick.
There were another two girls, Janet and Jacquelin, who looked similar and were both really weird. Janet was hyper and obsessed with cards and Jacquelin liked to get uncomfortably close to people.
Hannah and Michelle were both halfies and really tall. Hannah was quiet-ish, but she was really funny when she was louder. Michelle was really close to her mom and was nice to pretty much everyone.
Jia Jia was the other girl and she was really skinny and looked a bit fragile, but she was really funny at times. Today was her birthday. She was younger than everyone else though because I don't think there was room for her in the younger group.
My sister's roommate was... strange. She cried for the first two nights and had to borrow my flashlight for the third because she was scared of the dark. Also, if anyone was even slightly kind to her, she'd cling to them like plastic wrap.
OH, AND GUESS WHO WAS THERE?
MA-CHEW!!!!!
I laughed so hard when I saw him.
The food there was really average. Extremely not that great.We had like and hour for lunch, so we just played card games after we finished. The popular one was James Bond, which is another name for Stress. So fun. All the guys kept playing BS, though. There was a huge debate about the meaning of BS, as there were small children around.
I got seven mosquito bites in one day. They were all swollen by the day after. They're also in really inconvenient places like the back and front of my forearms, my elbow, my knuckle, and my finger. Pain.
I really really really really really need to bake. I haven't baked in a month.
I'm leaving in two days for STUPID MEXICO AND I CAN'T BAKE.
We had a huge water bottle fight last night. Some people ended up mixing green oil and dish soap and hand sanitizer in to their bottles. So it'd hurt when it gets in your eyes.
I was also wearing a white t-shirt, but I didn't realize it until after I got soaked. A guy counselor saw... really awkward.
Also that guy was one of orchestra peoples' brother.
I slept with these other people because there were a bunch of bugs in my room and I was really uncomfortable. Other people slept over too because one was scared (we told ghost stories XD) and the other... I don't quite know why.
We had several asian classes, chinese knotting, lion dance, folk dance, chinese yoyo, calligraphy, clay, and chinese painting. Most of them were really fun, but some of the teachers were really bad, like the knotting teacher. She talked so slowly and with such a strong accent (I think it was guangdong) and every time she demonstrated a knot on someone else's thing, she would finish the entire step.
The clay arts teacher was really bad, because she just gave us an example and told us to make it. Little to no construction. 2/10 would not take again. Most of our clay things ended up sucking.
My bird broke too.
The lion dance was really boring because only the people who were being the lions got to do anything. I was put on gong, where we just... hit it. There were two gong people, but I don't see the point in that. The teacher didn't give that much instruction to any of the music people but the drums. Not fair at all.
Chinese yoyos were really fun, and the teacher was nice and really helpful. She was sent from Taiwan. We were split up in to group and my group had to learn a trick called "Doggy jump suicide" or "Doggy suicide" and one called "Golden stick". They're both really cool but the first one is a bit harder. We also had to throw the yoyo up in the air three times in a row before catching it in a "V-catch". During the performance, my string got caught on Matthew's string and I dropped my yoyo... >.<
The dance teacher was also from Taiwan and she was really nice and pretty and really small compared to the guys. The dance was... A little embarrassing. We had to carry around ribbon pompoms and wave them around and jump and spin and lift them high in to the air and then back down. Six others were chosen to handle the ribbons, which were much easier to wave around. Those are sooo much fun to wave around.
I really sucked at painting and calligraphy. At one point, I forgot how to paint a certain type of fish and so I was just drawing random ink blobs. I also drew this really pretty one, but it was ruined because my eye spread out way too much. My morning glories were pretty, but my chicks turned out really really really really fat. Like... Fat. And everything just spazzed out. Some water spilled on my paper too so the butterfly I drew grew a beard. D:
On top of that, we had to dance this:
I think the quality might kinda bad though.
The title of the song translates to "You are my flower bud".
We had to dance to this twice every night.
Oh, and at the end of the day, everyone would get together and be forced in to poorly planned games.
There was one where we had to link hands and they would tear a hole in the newspaper and then they would try to get the newspaper through one person and on the the next. I'm not sure how to explain it...
There was a final performance and everyone did okay, but still pretty bad. The really little kids were SO CUTE THOUGH.
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Sadie was so happy when I came home. I feel so bad that we're going to ditch her again in two days D:
Tomorrow is the Chinese Immersion Camp. I will lose touch with the outside world from tomorrow at three until some time on Thursday. Dread... I have no idea what we are doing, all I know is that at least my sister won't follow me around everywhere and maybe I might see Daniel because he is also at a camp there.
