halfcactus

Just got back from a sort-of bachelorette vacation, which is either my least documented trip, since I didn't take a lot of pictures or bother taking notes... or my most documented, since it was a group trip and most of my friends and their SOs actively document their lives on Instagram and engage in photography (which I've learned to appreciate as an art, now that I'm trying, and failing, to take decent photos). Most of the pics above were probably taken by someone else!

Otherwise, the week passed like a smudge of memory. I feel like I didn't do much except to be around people, but at the same time I barely had time to relax, and I hardly slept, if at all. At some point I had a stomach bug, maybe from un-fresh food, maybe from being dehydrated and my immune system being weaker from sleep deprivation. And the only bananas I could find were from my own country, which was ironic and amusing and comforting, but also incredibly frustrating because they were the variant that was least representative of the bananas I actually eat at home.

Born to eat Señorita, forced to eat Cavendish. >:(

On my last night, there was some drama at my hotel's laundromat at midnight, which was very exciting (though a little scary at first, because I thought I was gonna end up in a fight). And in a way, affirming—I've never been happier to be trylingual. I always say there's no language I speak well, but I realize now it's because I overthink and compare myself to native speakers and monolinguals/bilinguals who don't code-switch as much, and in real life it's a matter of communication and meeting each other halfway; of being human. And anyway, who doesn't want to gossip about the stupidest pair of people who've been monopolizing machine #2? XD

Anyway, offloading some museum photos so I can add some notes about them.
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