The Weekend of Weekends

MYKONOS MYKONOS MYKONOS!

I had so much fun this weekend, if you tried to jam all the awesomeness of it into one room, you'd have things hanging out of the windows, sticking through the ceiling and poking through the walls. AMAZING. UNBELIEVABLE.

1. Five of us got there and immediately I split up from the group because I had an itch for doing something crazy even though I got less than 4 hours of sleep the night before and didn't sleep at all on the 6 hour ferry ride. I told the other four that I was gonna go jetskiing, which is at a couple beaches over. I went to this little store and asked for bus tickets to the beach but the name of the beach slipped my mind at that moment (Platys Gialos). I remembered the name of the other beach across the island though (Kalafatis Beach) and asked him for a ticket there because I knew there was windsurfing over there. He said I would have to take a bus into Mykonos town which is where we just were when we arrived in the ferry. But then I would have to take a bus all the way to Kalafatis Beach from town. It was already like 2:30 at that point and I was afraid windsurfing would be closed by the time I got all the way across the island but I bought a ticket anyway. It was cheap as hell. When I got to town, I asked around and finally found the other bus station up a hill where I was supposed to take a bus to Kalafatis. Unfortunately, the next bus wasn't until 5 and it was now about 3:15. I was not going to wait that long so I had to find another way to get there. So I rented a 4-wheeler and drove myself! It was so badass. There was a point that I was so thrilled by the absolute beauty of my surroundings, the exhilaration of taking this trip on my own and obviously the excitement of driving fast that I stared yelling "WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO YEEEEEAAAAH! I SOUND LIKE A GIRL!" and then I just went ahead and yelled "I'M A GIRL!!!" even though it made no sense but it didn't matter. I was fucking alive. LIVID. My engine did overheat at one point though and I had to wait by this farm for a while. There were two cows that I tried to feed grass to but they just stared at me, unassuming, not scared, just dumb and interested enough to look me in the eyes. It was funny. The 4-wheeler would not start and I was scared I was going to be stuck there I would have to call the rental place. Finally it worked and I finished my drive there.

2. Windsurfing - This typical surfing dude kind of guy was my teacher. Yes, I decided to get a lesson in windsurfing instead of wasting my time not knowing what the hell I was doing. All I'll say is that by the end of the hour, I was going away from the shore, catching the wind, turning back to shore, going back out away from the shore and heading back to shore without falling once. And it was SO fun! Oh and I asked him if the job ever gets boring or frustrating (cause at the beginning I was falling a lot but I just kept getting back on and either saying, "All right, doing it again!" or started singing a song like "Let It Be" haha). He said with people that take a while to learn it gets frustrating but with me it was good. YAY! I can't wait to windsurf again cause I know how to do it now! SO COOL! One lesson and I could go out alone probably.

3. I drove back to town and we all had dinner. By the way, the island was incredibly beautiful. Driving on the edge of mountains overlooking water and rocky cliffs is breathtaking when you're zooming by with wind in your face. At dinner we talked about what we did. They all stayed at the beach and relaxed. I felt so good at dinner I wanted to climb on the table and dance but I played it cool. I was happier than I've been in a very long time. I was fulfilled. Ahhh. I ordered Ouzo for the first time and it was ok. I don't like it that much but it definitely got to me because on the way back to the hotel in the bus I was laughing at the strangest things to myself. I think it was because I was feeling a buzz on top of being high on real happiness from the day.

4. We sat by the beach for about three hours. I couldn't imagine the day getting better. But it did. It was so fun being on the beach at night with beers in our hands, listening to the waves on the beach and later climbing on this cool tree that you could climb and sit at the top like you were in the Sea God's thrown. I got up there at one point and talked to the others in all these weird-ass voices while they took pictures of me. And yes the alcohol had me in a good place by then.

5. On Saturday, I took a walk to Platys Gialos which I realized was only like 15 minutes away by foot. Now that was a nice walk. The views I saw were the views I imagined when I thought of Greece before coming here. Rocky cliff hills, ocean crashing at the bottom. I found myself stopping and whining like a dog at some points because I couldn't take what I was looking at. I couldn't believe I was there. I finally got to Platys Gialos and they said the wind was going the wrong way so they weren't doing jet skiing. I was upset but I just bought a Bud and sat by the ocean in one of those beach chairs. That was amazingly relaxing. I sat there for a while then walked back towards the hotel. I was told by a waitress that another beach a ways past the beach we lived at might have some other things to do (she wasn't sure if they had parasailing but figured they had some things) but I knew that would be a long walk from where I was. I needed to think of something else to do. I remembered that on the way to Platys Gialos, there was a beach with a lot of naked people on it. I was going to stop there to check it out. I remembered seeing a couple topless girls. Yes, and also some old naked men haha. I got to the nude beach (I found out later that our beach is also a nude beach but I never saw anyone naked there) and sat down on a lawn chair by some naked men and women. Then I said what the fuck and took my shirt off, dropped my swimsuit, and sat back down. I even took off my glasses and my watch. I was completely naked. I even got up to swim a couple times and didn't cover myself as I walked back to my chair. Then I saw this girl walk by and take a gander at my slightly spread legs. She was topless. She walked by again and I was happy. I decided to walk to the end of the beach and strut my stuff since other people were walking around haha. I did that and got back to my chair. Suddenly a man came over to me and said, "Hello." I was confused and covered up quickly by putting my swimsuit over my area. He said, "You have to pay." I was glad that was what he came over for cause if he was going to hit on me I would have been VERY awkward obviously. Finally when I decided it was time to go back, I turned around and pulled my swimsuit back on and then realized that I was directly facing about 4 or 5 old women staring at the bottom half of me. One of them had this open mouth smile that suggested that she hadn't seen a young dick in a long ass time. Hahahaha it was hilarious. I think I just smirked. I was glad I could give that to them.

6. The rest of the day was hang day. I mean hang as in hang out. Not hanging our dicks since that was the subject before this paragraph haha. We, normally clothed in beach attire, stayed on our beach, hit a ball back and forth with these paddles Cody bought. There were some intense rallies. It was fun. We also talked to some girls which was nice. At one point, I was sitting in a beach chair and I found myself right where these people were making a movie so I might have ended up in a scene cause they told me to act normally and not look in the camera. I just kept watching this girl, who was an extra in the movie, throw a ball back and forth with another guy. I was content.

7. We all went to town, had dinner, I had a shot and half of this really good Greek wine. Later, I had some good talks with Ricky (he's a cool guy!) while waiting by the water for a 6th member of our group. She was at the same island with her cousins. We met some other study abroad students from another school who are also studying in Athens and there are like 200 or 400 students in that program. YEAH! Hopefully I'll be able to meet more of them. We got some tips about where to go clubbing from a couple different people back at the beach and from the people we met in town.

8. We went to a club called Scandinavian club or something and it was a blast. I ended up dancing on the highest riser against the wall for like thirty minutes so everyone could see me. I got a couple high fives from these random girls in the club. One of them even got up and danced beside me. Score, haha!

9. One of the members in our group got in sort of a fight which was random but everything worked out.

10. The 6th member's cousins stole a boat supposedly just to have fun. That was a weird story to hear about and I was glad I was not part of it.

11. We took a taxi back and everyone went to bed except for Michael, Ricky and me. We ended up going down to the beach at like 3:30 in the morning and it was HOPPIN'! We danced until 5 in the morning and I met this girl that was interesting haha. A very strange girl. She was really cute with dark hair and piercing brown eyes and kept dancing next to me. Finally I got up the guts to ask her where she was from. She said, "Guess." I swear, it was so embarrassing. I could NOT figure it out and she said at like two occasions, "Fucking Americans," in jest. But it still hurt haha. I felt so dumb. My first guess was Spain and she said she was half Spanish. And half Greek. But every other guess just caused her to drop her head in laughter. She pointed at the poster for the movie that was being filmed at our beach and said that it was on the poster. I was so scared and couldn't hear well that I couldn't figure it out. Finally she told me she was from Australia. What the hell? That never even crossed my mind. Later she was beside me again and I said to her, "Don't tell me I have to guess your name too." She laughed and said, "Guess." Hahaha. So I just said, "Ariel." She looked at me with wide eyes and said, "How did you know...that was my name yesterday, Murmaid boy." Strange haha. But that made her appealing. When we finally left I said, "By Ariel" even though I knew that wasn't her name. Or was it? I don't know.

12. This morning, Ricky, Cody and I had breakfast at the bus station near our hotel. On the ferry back to Athens, I wrote on a little pad of paper pretty much the whole time. I've been on this streak lately where I just write an entire story on the spot and see where it goes. Usually it doesn't go all the way to the end cause I don't like it. But my goal is to make one of these stories into a musical. Today I was on a role. I really like my idea! I'm excited. I decided here that I wanted to be inspired by Greece to write a musical with a fresh, new experience driven story. I think starting over like this and not using any other ideas for musicals that I was thinking about before is the best choice right now. And it's been fun. If all else fails, it's been nice writing a lot anyway. Eventually, I'll find the perfect story and write an awesome musical. I've really been getting excited about that lately. People have always said I should do it and for once I really feel like it's also what I really want to do!

S.

P.S. I also saw the most beautiful girl and the ugliest girl in the world this weekend. The pretty girl walked by me in a crowd of people. Her eyes looked like the inside of one of those rocks that has diamond like things in it when you break it open. She had some freckles on her olive skin face and her hair was dark, wavy and silky smooth. I couldn't believe how amazing she was. Unbelievably, mind-shatteringly stunning. Then at multiple occasions, first on the ferry, I saw this woman with a normal top half of a face but the bottom half was like twice the size than I would expect. Her mouth was humungous and looked like a bee the size of a dog stung her there. I felt so bad for her but then later saw a guy with his arm around her and walking with her. That made me feel better cause most of my hard feelings towards her came from pity. But seriously, she was so intensely ugly. I feel awful saying that but it's true. She was so repulsive that every time I saw her, I literally got sick to my stomach. For some reason, when a mouth is fucked up, it gets me the most. I think it started with the Twilight Zone movie that I watched when I was really young and there was a girl in that movie without a mouth. THAT FREAKED ME OUT. So seeing this woman with such a dysfunctional looking mouth (that I found out later could in fact hold a cigarette) really disgusted me to the core. But to end on a good note, YAY a weekend to remember forever! Haha. What a change in mood. Sorry bee sting lady.