Paradise day 1:

July 8^th, 2012

Hawaii: 4:30

New York: 10:30

It’s four thirty in the morning Hawaii time so everyone else is asleep and it is still dark. You could say I am jet lagged.. It is 10:30 New York time and I feel weird knowing that everyone I know is waking up in their cozy New York City beds and I am here. By here I mean sleeping in one of two guest beds in my cousins two children’s playroom on their lands on the big island of Hawaii.

I recently broke up with my boyfriend of over a year, Irving and just wanted to get out of the city. I was looking up some teen wilderness programs but it was too last minute. Then duhh we realized my cousin is a freaking organic farmer with his wife on the Big Island. I don’t know what we were thinking before that but we booked a flight and I left the next day.

My day of travel was not fun. I’ve never flown alone before and I get freaked out by planes. Luckily I knocked out on my second flight and was here in no time. But first I flew to LA. My plane ride wasn’t actually that bad, I met a girl named Sarah from Australia who was my age. She had been in America traveling up the east coast with a model UN conference. She told me about her adventures in central park and I told her about my daily bike rides in central park and it amazed her that people actually lived there. We bonded over trying to break into the Internet on the plane. Really American airlines 18 dollars for Internet for a 6-hour flight?

Once we landed in LA we said our goodbyes and I was left in the airport with nothing but a burger king, Starbuckes, duty-free shop, and a Chilies. I hadn’t eaten much on the plane other then a back of Crunchy Cheetos, my plane junk food shh. So I toughed up and went to chilies I needed to get something substantial or at least close to it so I didn’t pass out on my way to paradise. I don’t know weather to be proud of embarrassed but I ordered off the healthy menu.. I got a grilled chicken breast on whole wheat bread with lettuce tomato and honey mustard. It was.. eh. Seeing the size of that poor chickens breast I should have protested that animals rights but instead I devoured it. Oh and they gave me a side of steamed broccoli, thanks Chilies.

So here I am, it’s almost 11 o-clock New York time and its dark. I haven’t yet seen Hawaii in the light but I honestly cannot wait. I have been promised oh so many lychees for breakfast. Oh they pronounce lychees differently here, the “y” had an “I” sound. But as along as I can eat as many as I want it is fine.

I will be blogging about my whole adventure so stick with me!

How is everyones summer going? Is anyone else in paradise?