Troop Beverly Hills

Never fails to be the best movie to ever exist on this planet. I'm watching it for the third time on the ship and it is my pleasure to induct as many of my friends into the world of tbh. I'm watching with lil lacey rach and sam and only lacey has seen it before and she is so on my page about how unbelievable it is and I wanna just say every line because I know every line but I'm resisting so I don't ruin the entire movie for the rest of the bunch. Its soooo good I'm actually obsessed maybe the girls will let me reenact a scene or two when its done if I'm lucky. We shall seeeee!!!
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Taj

How amazing! I'm speechless!
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Yellow Henna

In india women get henna for special occasions, such as weddings, it is said that the darker the henna comes out the longer and better your husband will love you and your marriage will be! My yellow nails are a tribute to the colors of india and were to compliment the yellow sari I had preplanned on wearing to the taj mahal...
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Finished Result

How sexual are we?
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Sorrry I mean Sari

After visiting the yoga demonstration we all met outside the port and did the 10 minute walk thru the industrail port to the main gate where we would approach hundreads of autorickshaws which has become a common form of transportation for us. While 15 men are trying to convince us that we need to go with them we accept a friendly man who immediately whips out two notebooks hidden under his driver seat filled with pictures, letters and postcards and everyone has written something along the lines of johnny is the best! Or thank you johnny! And we are happy but not suprised to find that many are signed sas spring '05 or sas fall '07. We trusted our decision and were excited to join his book at the end of the day. We had nooooo idea what we should do/where we should go so we kinda left it all up to johnny to decide and man did he do a great job or whattt. This first day in india will have later become the best spontaneous day of exploring we've had!! We had a few things in mind for the day and we made it very clear to eachother we were to get our saris and lots of soulvineers and markets and hopefully henna is we can find! So first place we go is this market shop that the drivers obviously know the people who work there because it was not cheap they wanted 40 dollars for the cheapest ones and we were like uhhh that can't be right but we stayed anyway and all tried them on which is what you see me doing here in the picture! It was so fun and we took such silly pictures with all our colors on and then left the store. Our drivers were like what did u buy and we said nothing and they didn't understand why and we said cheap cheap! (I mean were in india comeee on) so they take us to a much cheaper store and we all get saris for about 250 ruppees which converts to just over 5 dollars. Perfect. (Sorry getting nauseaus on the bus gunna pause for a while...)
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That's someeee down dog

Hello americans! To be honest, we have just arrived in cochin off the plane from dehli and it is the evening of my fourth day in india. (We have been doing an extensive amount of traveling everyday and our wake up calls were for 3 4 and 5 am the past 3 mornings) So much has happened and I've experienced so much. I have plenty of pictures on my phone documenting a bunch of different events that occured and its so difficult to really do it all when its happening because so much is going on... So ill send a few pictures here and write about some stuff but there's no way to do it all... So let's begin with the yoga demonstration that we saw when we first arrived! Looook at that formm!
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Correction

Lili says ill get neurological dysfunction if I don't take b-12.
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Life

Sooo. I'm a very silly person... Last night we were supposed to set our clocks back 30 minutes (I know howwwww weird is that) so the time here for me now is 10 and a half hours ahead of you east coasters... So anyway I forget to set my clock back anddd also the boat stopped last night at 4 am so we just drifted from then till about now. So I think I woke up bc I felt that we weren't moving and like was scared I was missing india or something.. Haha so normally when I wake up and lili isn't in her bed I can guess what time it is because lili has class at 8 am and goes to breakfast first. So I wake up and lili isn't there so I'm like aright its after 730 usually before 815 too (I don't like to set an alarm bc I like when my body wakes up naturally so I go into the day feeling fully recharged) haha anyway so I get up and press my phone so I can check the time... ITS 718 I'm like woahh lili got up and out early this morning. So I make my way towards the bahtroom (which is like two steps) and out pops lili and I Jump so scared and she screams so scared!! And we just go on with our morning routine and I go back to my phone and look at lili and check my phone and look at lili and I slap my head and say I forgot to set my clock back thirty minutes and she is so dead and just looks at me and I'm like lili does that mean its..... And she goes yes... (Have u ever woken up at 720 and then realize 30 minutes later that its now earlier than you woke up?!?!?!). Anyway I got over it being that today is my first test day in my world cities class (which means its only my second test on the ship so far) and thought I might as well get dressed and ready... Also I NEVER go to breakfast on the ship bc I didn't really think that there's anything for me to eat there and I HAD plenty of delish bars robco sent me in the beginning of the semester that I eat every morning (except for those DISCUSTING vega bars sorry mom no offence). Well my friends told me to stop eating my good ones because I'm quickly running out and they said save them for meals in india because its possible were going to get very sick there so I thought okay maybe ill start trying to go to breakfast. So I told lili I'd meet her up there and I went and got dressed in my little gym shorts (which dominique said, though she stole it from eliana, are e for epic) and one of my new super cool cambodia tanks I got for a dollar pony tail sneaks brushed my teeth took my vitamins (UGH WHICH IM TOTTTTALLY RUNNING OUT OF and its freaking me out becaue I'm sooo good about takign them everyday and I'm almost out of my multi and b-12 which lili says ill have brain malfunctions if I don't take it). And grabbed my hrm and watch and ipod for the gym and I was on my way upstairs... Now I'm so overwhelemed... There are rows and rows of biscuts, crissonts, danishs, cinnimon buns, CHOCOLATE crissonts and I'm like ugh grodyyy what am I going to eat so I turn around oh lovely fruit salad ill have some of that... Then there's eggs some undercooked gross pink meat of some kind potatoes (probablly left over from last nights meal) yogurts french toast (ew) and finally the table of cereallll boxxes and boxes of cereal... And I look at my choices.... Corn flakes, I think hmm what did I always learn about checking cereals... Turn the box over to see the ingredients... HFC, I put the box back down... Pick up the next one all-bran, sounds like a viable option, the picture on the box looks nice and healthy... Turn it over... HFC, put it back down... Now the only two left are frosted flakes and unfrosted mini wheats... I don't even have to pick up the frosted flakes bexause I already know.. So I grab the mini wheats... Interesting... No HFC so I put it on my plate... Keep walking thru and I see a hot bin of oatmeal that looks to watery to even taste... And huge baskets of bread and rolls all sorts of kinds and all the sudden a light bulb goes off in my head! I bought almond butter (depicted above) in vetinam when we went to the gourmet market!!!! That's I've been dying to try!!! I put my stuff down with lili and say I will be right back! Runnn down to my room and then enjoy a delish piece of whole wheat toast with almond butter... All my problems are resolved.... Well except for the vitamins! Ps my nails are sooooo long right now! Okay time to study with domsssss! Pps happy spring break to the miamiers I can't believe I'm half way done already!!!
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Coolnes§

Here are a bunch of cool bracelets from cambodia from cute little kiddiessss
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Red seaaa

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SEA OLYMPICS

yesterday was sea olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know how i explained in the beginning how everyone is divided up into "seas" which is like a certain group of rooms like deck 4 port side (me) we are the RED SEA and then the other side is a different sea and so on for each floor... there were 10 seas including the life long learners/staff/kids on the ship that participate..let me explain.. sea olympics=color war but with 10 teams... each sea was given a different color and we competed in sooo many different events.. each sea has two captains ours was my friend david stone aka stone and this other kid conner... sign ups for events happened lonnngg before the games began and like our sea just wasnt into it at all our llc (living learning coordinater) is like the worst of any sea on the ship bc she like doesnt do anything for us at all and all the other llcs got soo into it and basically my whole sea did not want to partcipate besides for a few of us of course.. we jut never knew what was going on or where to be or what to sign up for it was like soo unorganized... the night before was opening ceremonieseach sea had to do their team chant... we had NO idea we were supposed to do this... so all the seas come in the union with craaazzzzy decorated banners... team mascots.. like such loud cheers and formations and we had NOTHING. except for the ONE cheer our llc janelle taught us on the first day on the ship that went R-E-D S-E-A red sea red sea all the way!so thats what we didwe left there feeling so shitty lke we have no idea whats going on were gunna get murdered.... the dean announces that the winners get to get off the ship first in florida and elianas birthday is that day so i was SURE they were winning because she was threatening them ALL that they had to win hahaso one of the events we actually had to do somehting for was lipsyncing because we couldnt go up there with nothing and didnt want to make fools out of ourselves so about 9 of us stayed after and i coreographed a signing dance to the yellow submarine which was the song our captains selected out of a hat. (besdies im a professional at airband from my 8 summers  at vega) we did a silly dance (i have the whole thing on video) but this well come back to laterso by the end of that pratice we were fine and felt greatanother thing that HAD to be done well was synchronized swmmingand we have ALOT of boys in our sea... more than most other seas do.. so 4 of them insisted that they do itnow i had seen another group praticing early and theyw ere HISTERICAL so i challenged our boys cause the ones doing it are my really good friends and i told them they needed to make it funnnier than the other teams and they accepted the challenge but it was also 10 pm the night before they had to perform and they had nothing and the pool was closed so they couldnt pratice.. they say meet at deck 7 (pool) at 9 am adn they look at lili and i and said ... u guys are coming...wait i said... you guys dont have a song!!!! they were like oh yeah we need a song... and i had my ipod with me (which means i have a techno remix to every song possible) and is start thinking ... what kinda song has a story line/is a classic/will make people laugh... MY HEART WILL GO ON TECHNO REMIX.... i played it for the boys they said perfect done greatest thing everso we all call it a night and lili sets her alarm for 730 so she can get up and go to breakfast i set mine for 8 am because thats what time i usually get up and dont go up to breakfast... lilis alarm goes off at 730 am i JUMPPPP out of bed sooo excited for the day and lilis like omg please let me sleep and i just wake up and start coloring and making signs untill she gets up and we go to the school store and get red sas tshirts and cut them up and put on all our red gear bandanas tape ribbion my sequin hat everything! so great! then its allmost 9 so we go and meet the boys upstaris by the pool.. now this is their first time ever praticing and the actual event is scheduled for like 2 oclock..  theyre pratcing out of the water because another group is using the pool and the whole point was for them to be the first ones up to the pool so they can have dibs on it! so anyway all morning we got them to finalize the whole routine and it seemed pretty good and they were gunna be fine....then about 10-1030 the real events started...first was hula hoop and THE GIRL WHO SIGNED UP TO DO IT DIDNT SHOW UP so it was right infront of me and obviously i stepped in for her because i always rather do something myself then watch epople because i always think i can do it better than anyone else (haha) so anyway i was the first one out because we had to do it throwing a ball on one foot with hula hoops that werent even round they were like semi circular and it was retarded so i got out firstthen was limbo which me and lili signed up for but there were also other events going on at the same time so everyone was all over the place and all the sudden lili tells me shes not doing limbo anymore and instead is going do to the sponge thing and im like great lili thanks and im so embaressed to go limbo alone but i think i might beable to get my team a spot in this eventso that was my goaladn were going around and arund and my back starts to hurt and im dying and hurting and then its down to three and my friend lucas is like MOLLY SPREAD UR LEGS WIDE and i got down and started doing my crab walk under the limbo stickk and my whole belly hit the bar and so i got my team third place! which was better than nothing because we had not yet won an event...i go to report back to my team.. obv i had many supporters there at limbo but i go back to find out that lili and her crew got first place in the sponge relay! and that we had one first place win one second place and two third places before 1130 and all the sudden my whole team is like WOAH lets actually TRY now and maybe we can win!1130: TUG OF WARwho knew our sea had THE BIGGEST GUYS ON THE SHIP?!!?!?!?sooo out of the blue three massive guys come out and step into play tug of war and three pretty girls tooone team down... second team down... third team down... then it came down to us vs the adradic sea (white) who became our main competition for the day...WE TOOK THEM DOWN IN SECONDSand tottttally killed tug of war like in 5 minutes it was over and we took the winafter lunch we were in second place to the white teami cant even tell you how suprised we all were and all the sudden we like came together as a team and decided we can/are going to  do this!!! we were down like 40 points from white at lunch timefirst event after lunch was the singing sasers which was the lipsingwe went last which sucked because we had suchhh a silly routine to yellow submarine...teams weer coming out with thriller, lady gaga and we had YELLOW SUBMARINE AND WE ARE THE REDDDDDDD TEAM like that just doesnt make sense. the white team, they had spice girls and had 5 guys dress up as the different spcice girls and lipsync every word of the song... the room was cracking up dying and our mouths dropped like for sure for sure theyre taking the win for this... we were last and did our little gitty song and dance flawlessly but it wasnt as extravogant as theother groupsnext was synchonized swimming, i dont even remember which one was hte white team and what they did so that was good for us the boys we saw earlier werent as funny as the other day and let me tell you... SOMEONE SPRINKLED SOME MAGIC DUST ON OUR TEAM BECAUSE OUR BOYS KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEDDDD it in the swimming they were perfectly in unison didnt miss a beat everything was perfect they were histerical and amazing i cant wait to show you the video of thatso our team is now SO PUMPED UP one event left to go... apache relayi was doing flip cup and we were pratcing for sooo long just flipping cuups and all the sudden dver shows up passes me the tshirt (baton) and ew were off boom boom boom boom four in a row we finished the flip cup i POWER WALKED (be were not aloud to run) to the tieniments square for the last event to finish off the relay we picked up a fish with a magnet and then ran straight into the union for our final time 7:31 ... then the second heat went... the first team finished at 7:33 which meant we got first place in apache by 2 secondsand that was sea olympics.. delish barbeque outside by the pool with veg burgers fruit desert corn potato skins everything u could think of sooo nicely set up by our wonderful crew and then we all anxiously awaited 8 pm for closing ceremonies where we did a final cheer and they announced the winners of the lipsyncing, synchronized swiming, spirit points, banner and of course over all winner..lipsinigng we took a tie for second place- adriatic (white) got NOTHING we were sooo shockedspirit we got nothing.. cause we really didnt have alot of team spirit from the start so wasnt suprised adriatic took third.. FUCK!banner NOTHING... ours was an actually red C haha get it? adriatic took FIRSTSYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING - FIRST PLACE! ADRIATIC NOTHINGGGGGEVERYONES FREAKING OUTTHEY ANNOUNCE THIRD PLACE - GREEN TEAM MEDITERRAINANSECOND PLACEEE - DRUMROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ADRIATIC WHITEEFIRST PLACE-- THE RED SEAAAAAAACROWD GOES WILD!!!HAHAsooo expect me and my winning team to be the first sea aloud off the ship in FLORIDA!!!!!!!! wooohooooowhat a day best day ive ever had in my life legit i loved every second of it it was the mosttttttttt funnn in the worlddddthats why we passed out at 10 pmi had zero voice what so ever but it was so funn and i took tons of pictures and videos.. woohoo! go red sea

Ps this was copied from an email I wrote and there was no way I was writing this all over again. I explained everything the best that I could! So many pics and videos hopefully to be posted online in india! I can't belive we wonnnn!! We had soo much fun omg I'm like the happiest person ever woooo
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It's not over, yet

So I was just informed that we have not yet gone through the straight of malasia which is where the threat is... For those of you who are up on you're news you know what I'm talking about. For the rest of you sillies its ALL OVER THE NEWS. Point in case: I'm going to die!

Ps the "bomb" I heard last night may or may not have been a very loud/bright combination of lightning and thunder

Pps I'm sorry to those of you who have already expressed your concerns to me for blogging about this nonsence... I know its so sad for all of you to imagine your lives with out meeee haha but ill make a promise... If there is a terrorist attack on our ship I will take an extra dosage of my multivitamin and break out like spiderman and come to the rescue! Haha so nooooone worry about me! I got thisssss
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Terror

I dk if any of you heard but there's a major terrorist threat outside singapore over the oil tankers and all day yesterday our ship was stopped there refueling and then we sailed out of there last night. I swwwwear I heard a bomb/missile explosion as I was going to sleep last night. Scary stuff. If I die in these next few hours... Thank you mom and dad for sending me on this amazing trip! And I love my family soo much! And that's all folks!
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Customs

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE. Now that I am practically a world traveler... I believe customs is the silliest, stupidest, most pointless thing in the world. Um ur gunna make me stand in line after flying on a plane to look at a little blue book with my picture in it?! Is that a joke! I just wanna get to where I gotta go. The worst is like getting let out of a country (cambodia) and then going back into a country you've just been in a few days ago (vietnam) its not like I changed race or something! Customs doesn't make sense at all and it makes traveling internationally annoying and slow and tedious. That's my opinion.
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HELLOOOOO OUT THERE

hiiii!! i am in the airport in seim reap where we just left angkor wat to go back to ho chi minh city, vietnam to get back on the ship. whhhatt an experience cambodia was. ps so they bring us to the airport sooooooo early andddd check us in before hand so lili and i found computers and are raping them because its free.. i cant even tell you the last time i typed on an actual key board... anyway just to update you all my heel is okay for now.. gunna put some neosporin on it when i get back to theship but we cleaned it up with a bandaid for now which was the best we can do. i cant believe i justleft one of the seven wonders of the world... i deff would say that wedidnt have enough time to explore but sooooo many funny stories and silly thigns happened that i wishhh i could just plug in my camera and put up all my pictures and videos to help tell stories.. so were getting a little taste of everything wherever we go and icant wait tocome back to all these places already. everything is sooo cheap here and lots of great places to invest herefor those of u who are interested! sounds like we might be boarding sorta soon so no time for stories but i am going to send pictures and stuff from my phone and try and put up pictures in india of china and vietnam/cambodia! i miss everyone soo much!!! hi grammy and zayde and nannny!!!!! :)

My first boo boo

So were leaving our last stop at cambodia which is the leopard gate or palace or something and I realized I left my sunglasses in one of the many soulvineer shops we've been stopping at all along the way and I ran because even though I had 20 minutes and was wearing flip flops annnd its 95 degerees out I thought it would feel good to get my body going a little bc I haven't worked out since we have left the ship so I come back and climb up the stairs to sit down with my friends and I notice this red goo on my heal and I was like ewww what is stuck to me and I went to such it and my skin starts moving around!! How gross!!! So now I have to get some water and bandaids to clean it all up! I'm sure someone here will help me take care of it so I should be fine but to be honest our trip leaders for this trip are not very nice. But we honestly had the best time in cambodia we got soooooooo many goodie bracelets and met so many cute little kids and everyone is so nice here and the hotel was amazing ps I got this GINGER BODY WRAP it was sooooo delish she wrapped me all up after spreading ginger mud all over my body and then put towels on top of me and then gave me the best head massage of life and then I showered and got a load of ginger lotion. So good for the skin! Ok going to take care of this mess!
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Agkor

Psssssss did I mention were staying at a 5 star hotel?
RESORTTTT AND SPA BABYYYYY!!!!!!!!! Wooohoooo
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First angor wat experience!

OUR BUS BROKE DOWN. They sent us the tiniest bus of life and when we all finally get on it... It doesn't turn on... Allow me to remind you its 35 degrees celcuis today which converts to 95 degree.. Were sitting on the floor in the street and mer is reading to us 50 ways to flirt and get what you want from the most recent publication of cosmo... Ur lucky to get a spot in the shade our broken bus is providing. I'm sitting on my duffle bag crushing the bag of granola crisps (blueberry) I brought with me.. Ah alas new bus....
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