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• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
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• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory

myOtaku.com: SomeGuy

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Florence to Paris . . .
One more post and I'll wrap up the Contiki tour! Goodness . . . anyways, you wanted some info? Let's see:

Re: Venice and no trees/plants: Being that Venezia is a city built ON the sea, it's a completely man-made city. The whole city is basically floating, or sitting on poles; thus, no earth and as such no grass or trees or plants that aren't just potted or vines. I felt oddly strange until I figured out the lack of plantlife was why (they do have lots of vines, though).

Re: Gypsies: Gypsies . . . make an entire career out of looking poor and impoverished so that they can beg or steal your money from you. Our tour manager told us to be extremely careful of our belongings while in Italy (and especially while in Rome). As he put it, "Italy is the only place where you will be allowed to kick a beggar."

Re: Pigeons: Oh no, believe me, English pigeons are infinitely better than Venetian pigeons. See, in Venice, they're EVERYWHERE. Further, they're protected by law so you can't touch them (goes back to the founding of the city, where pigeons flew over the shallow sea). The pigeons know this, too, and are fearless - they'll dive-bomb ya if it'll make ya drop your food. That, and they're powerfully dirty there . . . rats with wings indeed . . .

Re: Gondola driver: He was funny, he sang to us, he danced, he picked flowers off some vines and tossed them to the girls in the boat . . . he took group photos with our cameras for us . . . he kicked ass. I have some video and such which will eventually go online at some point.

Re: Dirty Rome: The Vatican may be holy central, but it's the bright clean spot in a big messy mess of a metropolis. Rome was great, make no mistake . . . it just ain't the cleanest city you'll ever see.

Re: Italian Cosplay: Italians sitting against the Colosseum dressed in gladiator garb. There was also one dude dressed in Senator's robes elsewhere. Yeah, 'nuff said.

Re: Fighting Gypsies: After the tour manager gave us the prep-speech on how to watch out for our stuff and to be wary of gypsies . . . we weren't scared. We were excited! I'm not kidding, we were suddenly all scheming, planning for how we'd bait the gypsies, catch them in the act, and beat the hell outta them! We got pretty ridiculous with all this . . . I even came up with a "gypsy formation" for when our groups got separated . . . this became a running gag for the rest of the tour (it'll come up again later on . . .)

Re: Skateboard boy: "Skateboard-boy" was a gypsy/beggar in Rome. He sat on a skateboard and pushed himself around with one hand while holding the other out for money; you see, his legs were completely emaciated and possibly broken as well. Worst part about it is that his mother probably did it to him at a younger age just so he'd have this sympathy advantage for begging later in life . . . that's how it was over there . . .

Re: Sistine Badassery: Hey, places can be holy and badass all at once. I reckon so, in any case . . .

Today we shall cover Florence (great, relaxed Italian city), Lucernce (neat little Swiss city), and our first day in Paris (crazy cool gigantic city). Again, any points seem too weird or random, tell me and I'll elaborate:

Rome -> Florence (May 24):

"Destination unknown...known...known...known..."

I'm having too much fun speaking sucky Italian.

Florence is so laid back . . . I love it!

Mmm . . . leather . . . I have assassin gloves finally!

Not . . . not, not, not enough time to see anything!

Freakin' line-up for David . . . ruined everything . . .

Tuscan dinner . . . we kicked that other Contiki's asses!

"Heeeey, Macarena!"

Discoteque-ah! Um . . . less said the better . . .

Little Michelle thinks of Jessie and I as protective brother-types . . . aww . . .

Gavin didn't wanna leave . . . . . blah!

Florence -> Lucerne (May 25):

Yeah, Gavin didn't make it . . . MIA . . . a shame . . .

And now bus-sleep time!

Oh yay! We found Gavin!!!

Jessie: "I'm not a gypsy, damnit!"

Huh . . . Switzerland is way more militaristic than I thought . . .

Francs . . . blah!

Fun night, though. Very relaxed.

116, 201, 207 . . . Jail hotel!!!

Lucerne -> Paris:

People are REALLY getting worried about speaking French!

Petite Michelle = French master!

Bus drama . . . blargh . . . . . bus coughing . . . blargh . . . . .

"The frog eats the grapefruit."

Yeah, long-assed bus ride . . .

Drove through the storm . . .

Jess' hit the Carolingian power on "Little A" . . . 3 cheers for Booker!

Yeah, we all got sick . . . . . blargh!

But here we are! And Paris isn't boiling hot!!! Yes!

Bus tour . . . good times . . .

"Danger Zone", seatbelts, Arc De Triumph . . .

Sean = badass bus driver!

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