Joe Cool
E vai!
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2000
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Hey,
I can't believe I'm leaving in 2 weeks! This is gonna be my first Disney Cruise, and I'm telling you right now. I'm a little worried. I have no doubt it's going to be a great experience, but...here's what I posted on the teen boards:
I don't know if they kind of separate the teenagers off on the cruises to give the quote-unquote "adults" their sense of a separate vacation (ech), but, I wouldn't usually categorize myself as either "teenager" OR "adult". Ha. Oh, and I can't dance...at all. That's why I play guitar. (LOL) Will i necessarily feel out of place on the ship, with the activities and all? I don't know, I carry my guitar everywhere with me anyway (not like I'll be playing out on deck but...), but do they have these big dance parties where Everyone Who Is Cool will be there? Hehe...alright, enough rambling. I got work to do out the wazoo. Catch y'all later,
...but here's the thing. I don't want to feel like I'm at camp. I mean being corralled into this program or pseudo-clique (JUST like...i don't wanna say it...shudder...high school!) with all these kids my own age. I hate summer camps...well, that's really biased, but the last time I went when i was an undergrown 8-year old with big glasses who got made fun of by the older kids. We all have our dorky stages, hehe...that was the same year I went to WDW for the first time (Disney kind of cured me of the "camp" thing).
You know, I was reading that Ultimate Disney Cruise Guide you download from some site...I, uh, kind of got the impression that Disney promotes either the parents going off doing their thing and sending the kids off to do their thing, and then the teenagers go off and "hang out" and be "cool" and supposedly make friends, but that's assuming that most teenagers fit into this type-A or, type-B area. I mean i'm not saying I want to be antisocial...but...ok I went on a week-long mountain bike trip two summers ago in Utah and Idaho. It was mostly people over 30 (and 3 or 4 over 50)...but there were 3 teenagers and 1 10-year old. The thing I liked about that was that they didn't assume the position that people get along best in the same age group. And we had a great time! Hm. I think this all is coming out of me because I'm realizing I've never really been herded into one specific age group, and I don't go go high school. I guess I'm going on the cruise to get away from life as I know it. Just...could somebody please give me some personal accounts of what it's like once you actually get on the ship? i mean, with the people and stuff? I am really dreading "doing my own thing" and feeling uh...left out for it? LoL.
When I first heard and read about the Disney Cruise, I was like "ooh, ooh, wow! look at this...euh...uh-oh.". The uh-oh came when I read about Common Grounds. 'Oh, gee', I thought. 'A cool-looking coffee house place with cool-looking people in it communicating, hey! we're late-20th century type-A uppermiddle class teenagers perpetrating everything that this corporation believes late-20th century type-A uppermiddle class teenagers think is cool! God forbid we should take them away from their native habitat, where you supposedly hang with your friends and flirt and...' GAAAAAAH! So, then I thought, ok, when in Rome, wear sandals. It's all good. For them. And i kept the Disney Cruise in the back of my mind, assuming I'd probably go on one when I'd passed the age where fitting into some prepackaged yet quote-unquote "individual" persona was expected of me.
I love coffeehouses. I really do...I love meeting my friends there but...not meeting new friends there. Ever think of all those people who go to coffeehouses, and on cruises, to meet people? Like girlfriends, or boyfriends, etc? They're everywhere! I say, way to go for doing your thing...but I'm attached. Sometimes it feels kind of weird being the only one under 19 i know who's in a long-term relationship...and unfortunately I tend to be one of those guys who can't tell whether someone is flirting...or thinks I am trying to. Ya. So, at times I guess I look at generic high school kids around here like 'children' (mostly guys...there are these 10 guys who park their cars in front of my house, I live right near the high school, and they act like 12-year olds. But they think they're all hot and mature and make the other, smarter kids who are STILL in their gawky big-glasses stage feel like !@#%&. My friends at the school i do go to can be like that too, and I've had moments where I've reluctantantly made fun of whoever for whatever reason, mostly to make myself feel good and jive with the group.
This is MAJORLY out of character for me to say on here (especially here...gawd, look at my screen name! Joe Cool!? LOL), but lately I seem to be speaking my mind even if I look back half a week later and think, oh my God, i actually SAID that crap? Heh...so you guys are great, just for listening (eh...reading?). So if you want to respond about the Disney Cruise, that'd be awesome. Or...drop me an email at koffeepothead@koffeemail.com.
So...will anyone be going on that cruise? I'll be taking my mom with me, she REALLY needs a vacation...I guess I'm so stressed out right now that most of the trip i'll be in brooding-musician-with-guitar mode, probably back on the secret deck (deck 7, i think?) with my acoustic...lol...but i suspect I'll be too busy trying to do everything at once.
JC
I can't believe I'm leaving in 2 weeks! This is gonna be my first Disney Cruise, and I'm telling you right now. I'm a little worried. I have no doubt it's going to be a great experience, but...here's what I posted on the teen boards:
I don't know if they kind of separate the teenagers off on the cruises to give the quote-unquote "adults" their sense of a separate vacation (ech), but, I wouldn't usually categorize myself as either "teenager" OR "adult". Ha. Oh, and I can't dance...at all. That's why I play guitar. (LOL) Will i necessarily feel out of place on the ship, with the activities and all? I don't know, I carry my guitar everywhere with me anyway (not like I'll be playing out on deck but...), but do they have these big dance parties where Everyone Who Is Cool will be there? Hehe...alright, enough rambling. I got work to do out the wazoo. Catch y'all later,
...but here's the thing. I don't want to feel like I'm at camp. I mean being corralled into this program or pseudo-clique (JUST like...i don't wanna say it...shudder...high school!) with all these kids my own age. I hate summer camps...well, that's really biased, but the last time I went when i was an undergrown 8-year old with big glasses who got made fun of by the older kids. We all have our dorky stages, hehe...that was the same year I went to WDW for the first time (Disney kind of cured me of the "camp" thing).
You know, I was reading that Ultimate Disney Cruise Guide you download from some site...I, uh, kind of got the impression that Disney promotes either the parents going off doing their thing and sending the kids off to do their thing, and then the teenagers go off and "hang out" and be "cool" and supposedly make friends, but that's assuming that most teenagers fit into this type-A or, type-B area. I mean i'm not saying I want to be antisocial...but...ok I went on a week-long mountain bike trip two summers ago in Utah and Idaho. It was mostly people over 30 (and 3 or 4 over 50)...but there were 3 teenagers and 1 10-year old. The thing I liked about that was that they didn't assume the position that people get along best in the same age group. And we had a great time! Hm. I think this all is coming out of me because I'm realizing I've never really been herded into one specific age group, and I don't go go high school. I guess I'm going on the cruise to get away from life as I know it. Just...could somebody please give me some personal accounts of what it's like once you actually get on the ship? i mean, with the people and stuff? I am really dreading "doing my own thing" and feeling uh...left out for it? LoL.
When I first heard and read about the Disney Cruise, I was like "ooh, ooh, wow! look at this...euh...uh-oh.". The uh-oh came when I read about Common Grounds. 'Oh, gee', I thought. 'A cool-looking coffee house place with cool-looking people in it communicating, hey! we're late-20th century type-A uppermiddle class teenagers perpetrating everything that this corporation believes late-20th century type-A uppermiddle class teenagers think is cool! God forbid we should take them away from their native habitat, where you supposedly hang with your friends and flirt and...' GAAAAAAH! So, then I thought, ok, when in Rome, wear sandals. It's all good. For them. And i kept the Disney Cruise in the back of my mind, assuming I'd probably go on one when I'd passed the age where fitting into some prepackaged yet quote-unquote "individual" persona was expected of me.
I love coffeehouses. I really do...I love meeting my friends there but...not meeting new friends there. Ever think of all those people who go to coffeehouses, and on cruises, to meet people? Like girlfriends, or boyfriends, etc? They're everywhere! I say, way to go for doing your thing...but I'm attached. Sometimes it feels kind of weird being the only one under 19 i know who's in a long-term relationship...and unfortunately I tend to be one of those guys who can't tell whether someone is flirting...or thinks I am trying to. Ya. So, at times I guess I look at generic high school kids around here like 'children' (mostly guys...there are these 10 guys who park their cars in front of my house, I live right near the high school, and they act like 12-year olds. But they think they're all hot and mature and make the other, smarter kids who are STILL in their gawky big-glasses stage feel like !@#%&. My friends at the school i do go to can be like that too, and I've had moments where I've reluctantantly made fun of whoever for whatever reason, mostly to make myself feel good and jive with the group.
This is MAJORLY out of character for me to say on here (especially here...gawd, look at my screen name! Joe Cool!? LOL), but lately I seem to be speaking my mind even if I look back half a week later and think, oh my God, i actually SAID that crap? Heh...so you guys are great, just for listening (eh...reading?). So if you want to respond about the Disney Cruise, that'd be awesome. Or...drop me an email at koffeepothead@koffeemail.com.
So...will anyone be going on that cruise? I'll be taking my mom with me, she REALLY needs a vacation...I guess I'm so stressed out right now that most of the trip i'll be in brooding-musician-with-guitar mode, probably back on the secret deck (deck 7, i think?) with my acoustic...lol...but i suspect I'll be too busy trying to do everything at once.
JC
