Entries this day: Afternoon Brandt Bright Keiko Natalie State_of_my_Life Zzz

Afternoon

1:41pm CEST Tuesday 28 June 2005

This was the first day of classes.

There was a cool ass amusement park ride. I was alternately on the ride / watching the ride / watching the ride on TV. There was an enormous water slide with dudes coming down the slide and rubber rafts everywhere. Some could fly and tried to sabotage the other rafts. People were not getting hurt, per se, no broken bones.. They were going down mountains and up mountains and all this crazy stuff. I was racing some guys and trying to slide down faster than them using some cheats like grabbing legs and pull myself down, etc.

I just got trounced in GO by my teacher who has played for 25 years. I was like, "I haven't played in 5 years and I have never played a human." He didn't teach me shit, just was like, "that's a bad move," when I tried to make moves. I don't even remember all the basics. I can't even tell if stones are dead or alive. These are pretty basic issues that must be resolved before I can play.

Brandt

8:03pm

It seems I am always competing with Brandt. I see in him the things I don't like in myself. It just pisses me off when he gets the girls that I had been going for. His Japanese is way way better than mine. I met Keiko in Port Said and we danced in the street and it was tons of fun. Now he is in the belly dancing workshop with Riko and Keiko, et. al.

During Audrey's Thai massage workshop, it was Brandt, Keiko, me, and some guy all in a row-ish. When it was time to find a partner, Brandt was all, "well, I don't mind being your partner, Keiko" or something and I was like release release release and went straight for the 40 year old guy, who massaged me and hit every bone in my body in a painful way. Argh. but it's all good.

Bright

8:48pm

It's still blinding bright outside, since we are so far north. Or maybe cause of timezone silliness.

Keiko

12:50am CEST Wednesday 29 June 2005

At 9pm I met Keiko back at Sports Bar. She taught me a bit of salsa, but I soon busted back into Rob's crazy dance. I was there about 30 minutes doing crazy dance and then scooted out, but not after inviting her to meet me at a lecture in Broadway, about fighting over oil. He said production will peak in 2006.

Brandt showed up in Broadway as well, and gave me my blue schedule thing which I had left somewhere, so I was really thankful for that. To the girls, he was like, "hey let's go to the movie on top deck," but I had forgotten about the movie. (Whale Rider, about a maori girl who became a chief.) This time I arranged it so Keiko sat in front of me and I gave her a massage. She scooted over after a bit and since Riko had sat in front of Keiko, she was now in front of me. I scooted Riko back and massaged her about 45 minutes during the movie. She massaged my calves and I massaged her back. It was cold so I had towels over my shoulders. Keiko asked me if something was wrong with Brandt, who got up and walked away. I had a good guess as to why *I* would have been upset, but I didn't suggest that as an option.

Natalie

After the movie I got ready for lessons tomorrow and Natalie was there and I definitely wanted to chew on her. We joked about that a little bit and nothing came of it. At the very end she asked if I was tired, and I was like, "yep," while biting her ear. She got cold shivers and was like, "aight; gotta stop there," with a big sigh.

Man I am so horny.

State of my Life

1:06am CEST Tuesday 28 June 2005

State of My Life Address

1. I figure that I need to have these more often, as time is strangely affected while onboard.

2. Since the last SoML, we have been to Athens, Greece; Catania, Italy; and Barcelona, Spain.

3. I called my dad from Barcelona cause Allison gave me the rest of her unused phonecard and his number is the only one I have memorized.

   I was really glad to talk to him and he seemed really happy to hear from me. Sometimes he seems too busy to talk, but not this time. yay!

4. I've been chatting a lot with Niveen, who has become like a little sister to me. I've listened to her stories and given some feedback / advice on handling some issues that have come up.

   She has told me some of the history of Palestine and the Israeli occupation of her country, plus given me a list of Arabic characters so I can start studying a new crazy language.

5. Part of me is considering moving to Palestine so I can see what's going on there.

6. We've played a few games of Silent Football, but they are not much like the games we played in YRUU. We don't have the Senor Schlong Spud rule for addressing the dictator, and the native Japanese speakers have been too timid to try really expanding all sorts of convoluted tattles.

   We have played with wormholes though, especially tonight when we only had three players not including Dictator.

   Niveen is the only non-Japanese player who has played. Audrey came to watch today, but there was only one other player at that time so I just told Audrey a brief version of the rules.

7. I couldn't find Francois today. I remember having him at Niveen's lecture, but not after that.

8. Last night I was basically up all night finishing my curriculum. Got it done 4 hours before it was due. Tomorrow starts Term 2 of classes.

Zzz

1:00 am CEST Wednesday 29 June 2005

Oh, also today, after GO I was sitting with Shawn on the top deck. That was a short chat, but definitely good. I walked with Audrey on her walk around the deck, for which no one else showed up. I guess getting a couple of people to show up for Silent Football is better than zero. I wrote a postcard to Bryn. Actually 2: one in English and one in Japanese. I squeezed in double lines on the English version.