Well, I'm back. Back from THE BEST 2 WEEKS OF MY LIFE! I want to MARRY Costa Paradiso (and also Michele, but that's another story), it is the most wonderful place on Earth and I must go there next year. I cried when I left, along with everyone else. I do not have words for how much I loved it. What I do have are pictures. Many many pictures. You can go see them by clicking the photo linky in the top right hand corner of this page then clicking the Costa Paradiso link. Also, because some of them need explaining I'm gonna do that here. Firstly tho, look at this:
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That is me when I first arrived. Black hair, black clothes, very very pale.
OK, now look at this:
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What the hell happend?! Blonde! Tanned! White dress! Where did the goth go?! I've also put on a bit of weight but I'd appreciate it if everyone just ignored that thanks. So yeah, Scary.
Anyways, on with the guided photo tour. This may take some time.
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The, for lack of a better word, beach (and my host sister Giuditta). Not a lot in the way of sand but gorgeous water.
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The finale of the Junior Club 'Music From Romance Movies' show. I'm being intorduced by the lovely Michele My host aprents have video of the whole thing but it's on tape so I can't put it on the net. Don't worry, you're not missing much.
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Me and Giuseppe, who I sort of dated for 4 days before he went back home to Sicily. He didn't speak a word of English and had a Sicilian accent that I could barelly understand half the time, hence the 'sort of' before 'dating' coz we didn't do a lot of talking. What did we do with our time then I hear you ask? Weeeelllll..... http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/sweetfreedom1/Costa%20Paradiso/Spotorno169.jpg
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Michele! Love love love love love! There are photos of him with me but I chose that one coz he looks so darn cute. Due to the fact he was gorgeous, sang like a pro and was one of those flirty types (cue flashback to that time when he stroked me face and said 'Rachel, you have such beautiful eyes' and then me struggling to remain concious) he had every single girl under the age of 18 (plus uh, me) chasing after him. Problem? He's 25. Hence lots of statuary rape jokes were made. The less said about the night we all found out he has a girlfriend the better.
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Me singing 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight' dressed as a lion in the Junior Club 'Music From Disney Movies' show. Ridiculous costumes. We have video but once again, on tape.
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Me and Naked Daniele. There were two guys called Daniele so we had to nickname them. Why is this one called Naked Daniele? http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/sweetfreedom1/Costa%20Paradiso/Spotorno218.jpg
That's why. In somewhat related news, the adults only cabaret was awesome. I have video but it's to big to stick here. Sad.
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The wonderful job I did of plucking Naked Daniele's eyebrows, despite the fact I had no idea what I was doing.
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Just about all of us after the farewell show. How I'll miss those people.
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My host family just after they won the raffle for a free week's stay there next year. Plus, sigh, Michele.
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Me, Daniele (other Daniele) and Giuditta on the last night.
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Me and Daniele say goodbye. Yeah, it turned out he'd like me the whole time but assumed that my mega-crush on Michele meant I wasn't interested in anyone else (completely false) and so didn't say anything until we were just about to leave. Damnit.
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Me and Marco, Carlotta's (my younger host sister) holiday fling. And yeah, you know what's coming next....
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That falls into 'dumb dare' territory. God I love Italy.
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Nothing says 'goodbye' like fire.
And that's it. Well that's not it, there's a million more photos, I just put the ones that needed explanation here. Gop check out the rest now.
Oh yeah, we also went to Rome for a week. Met these really nice Venszualan gusy who spoke perfect English which was fantastic seeing as I haven't spoken face to face with anyone in English for at least 6 months. One of them said that if I'm ever in Caracas in the summer I can stay with him at his uncle's beach house. I'll load all the photos of Rome next week
God I love Italy.
PS: How the hell do you spell Venszualan?
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