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It’s always the two days before the end where it really gets hard. We’re not quite in the mindset of one day left. However, you know that you’re just right around the corner, so it’s agonizing. With the same passage routine of waking up for lunch and classes, it’s hard to keep your sanity, especially when it’s almost the end. So, to save you all from the monotony of repeating the same passage day in the life as I’m sure you’ve heard 15-17 times by now, and since it’s my last time as skipper for the entire trip. I’m gonna talk about some of my favorite parts of the trip so far and the almost video-game-like NPC situations I’ve encountered along my travels, whether in a group or solo.
I’ve just about done it all at this point, with more than a couple of grey hairs to go with it. With the guys from the starboard three-stack, I’ve eaten cactus fruit off the side of a trail in the Canaries (which, in all honesty, is actually amazing but really stains your whole entire mouth purple!).
I’ve been inadvertently shot at by somebody who must have thought I was a rabbit (this was also pretty deserved, but it’s not like there were any signs that said it was a hunting reserve) (or maybe there were idk I can’t speak Spanish).
I’ve gone through not one, not two, but THREE different hairstyles in this passage alone, much less the time we thought we were dyeing my hair silver when halfway through the process, we realized it said chestnut in Spanish. We really didn’t think that one through.
The watches, although very boring at times, sometimes had some of the more interesting conversations on the boat that usually involved Liz and I entering some form of argument over the dumbest and most minute things. We went at it for 45 minutes in circles over A. what is the best ride in Disney World? (It’s OBVIOUSLY the Rockin roller coaster. Any other answer just doesn’t cut it) or B. whether or not rats were gross (I’m biased because I have a deep-rooted fear of all rodents and especially squirrels, so I will die on that hill, thank you very much)!
All in all, it was a very eventful trip so far, with some very interesting conversations scattered here and there. I’m just excited to make it back to land, especially so I can go galavant off once again, sticking my nose where it shouldn’t, getting some cuts, some scrapes, and laughing about some maybe ideas that I know I shouldn’t do but naturally am gonna try anyway.
You’ll have to hear them from other people this time, though, as unfortunately, this is my last time writing the blog. So to all the parents reading this and getting bits and pieces of my misadventures and those pictures of my mullet circulating around, which I did cut off, don’t worry. It’s been a hell of a run so far, and I’m very excited for you all to hear about what sort of trouble I get into next. Signing off one last time, Lariccia out
My three favorite pictures of the trip so far.
1. Charlie on the edge of the world
2. Taking pictures of the moon is really cool
3. One of the greatest views of my life