10.1.24

last week i went on an island for a school trip. and sadly, i mean like a school trip… with no showers and camping and all of that. it was a cold rainy day when we got there, so imagine all that while on a ferry…! but alas i was excited to go. unlike our previous trips this place did have people and it was… a place where people existed. i heard they had stores and restaurants and cats and ice cream so i was excited. plus one of my favorite studies is understanding pacific islands so, while this is the wrong ocean, i was still excited!!
this is a fishing boat i saw on the way there. the way i edited this photo makes the blue a lot more striking, which im a fan of… but i felt kind of lonely there. i had a group of people that we were put with, but i only had one acquaintance, and while i did talk to him, it was not much because we’re so different from eachother. im so different from people at my school that its beginning to make me feel very paranoid… and i don’t mean that in a im special way, but there’s barely 220 people at my school, and only 55 people in my class anyway.
well, i spent a lot of time walking. maybe way more than i should, pokemon go says i walked over 20km, but it feels more like i walked maybe 8-12km. regardless it began to get painful because i kept getting left behind by the group. the island floods so i developed the worst sores on my feet ive ever seen from walking with water in my shoes… i did not have any dry shoes the whole 3 days, so it was not so fun
there was one day where we were walking down to the beach to camp for the night, and my group left me behind while i carried at least 50 pounds with my boots full of water… it just made me sad, because it took me 45 minutes to get there– and it seems nobody noticed or cared to ask. maybe that’s me thinking i’m more important than i am, but still
i met many cats while walking and one friend i know on a different island brought cat food, so there were a lot of cats eating.. they were so cute. especially this orange one who wouldn't stop meowing… i felt really bad for him because i wondered why he was meowing so much.
i spent time walking on the beach when we had to. i have a lot more photos in my photobook (here), so maybe you should go take a look. or maybe its december by now and i uploaded a million pictures after. anyway, i took a lot of pictures of these really cute sandpipers, and im quite proud of the pictures…
i was in a lot of pain afterwards, but i was really happy to just be home… especially since i didn’t have any canvas assignments. while i did enjoy going to the island and seeing all the people and the environment; i feel like i would’ve been able to have a better interest and understanding of the place if it wasn’t conducted so poorly. that was my trip