Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20170806113609

If you noticed in my Im'ma be gone... thread, I told you guys that my cruise wasn't exactly the best. Maybe my expectations were a little too high as my first cruise was amazing while my second was...horrible!! Why did my second cruise just fail to compare to my first cruise? Glad you never asked! I shall explain. Short answer: My sister. Time to explain why it was her fault.

Long Answer!

This cruise was put together by my parents to be a birthday present for my older sister. And because I went on the cruise a few months ago and loved it, and because I apparently I had a lot in common with my sister (we don't btw), we were put on the cruise together. I was optimistic at first, hoping maybe my sister would actually get out of her gamer's bubble and enjoy the cruise. No. No she didn't. She brought her laptop, complained about not having her play station (calling it her child), refused to do anything with me during the day, got sea sick (apparently) causing me to find the things I liked on the last cruise to be really horrible.

I'm someone who, if I do something alone and everyone else has someone with them, I freak out and run for it. I hate being the only loner in the room. I like doing things with people. And because she refused to do the activities I wanted to do and no one wanted to befriend me, I got bored and frustrated because I couldn't do anything at all! This caused my sister's attitude to rub off on me, making me start impatiently waiting for the ship to dock at the place it was cruising to in Australia to so I could escape to the internet and talk to someone I like! So when we got back to being surrounded by water, I lost internet connection despite everyone else having internet still and my mood for the rest of the cruise just become sour (when I spoke to people, I put on an act and sounded happy). You can imagine how fricking excited I was to get off that boat when it docked yesterday.

The good thing is, when night came, my sister actually decided to do something because there was production shows in the Marquee (the stage/theatre place) so I wasn't alone at night. Thank the lord!

I don't think my sister has noticed, but ever since that last night on the boat, every time I go downstairs (where she lives) or she knocks on my door or tries to boss me around, my mood changes from being happy to "go away...please! I don't want to talk to you!". That cruise wasn't good for us (or me anyway). It doesn't help that before that cruise, I was getting sick of her. She is always bugging me to take her to the local supermarket so she can get her junk food then go to McDonald's, interrupt my recordings or my conversations with people here to make ME do the housework when she could as well because "I'M AN ADULT. AS YOU'RE AT UNI, AND I'M NOT, YOU HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING AROUND THE HOUSE WHEN NO ONE IS HOME SO I CAN PLAY MY GAMES IN PEACE". OMG, no wonder I'm not around on this wiki as much anymore! Maybe I should say this to her face...maybe...yeah I'll do it later when I've gotten over this cruise.

I forgot to mention, this was the same cruise ship I went on for my first cruise with my family (excluding my older sister). And there was a major difference, which surprised me. The activities on this cruise were way more meh than the last cruise. Last time, I was 17, still a child. This time I was 18, an adult, so I couldn't do most of the children things. That could explain the lack of activities during the day all of a sudden. It didn't help that I had seen some of the production shows before on my first cruise (the magician's show and the first production show was literally a copy and paste from the last one). The entertainment director was not good or as funny as the one on the first one.

And last but not least, my favourite activity, Name that Tune (music trivia) was absolutely ruined because of my sister. Her fricking gamer attitude! OMG. Last time, I always did the Music Trivia with my parents, where we had a blast: dancing and singing to the songs (with everyone else that was there competing) as we tried to guess the names and artist of the 20 songs. When I did the trivia session every night with my sister: my sister hardly listened to what my answers were, writing down what she thought the answers were (and what I said was right btw), never did anything interactive while I sat there, ready to cry and sitting as far away from her as possible. On the final night, she literally got up and walked away, leaving me to alone. If you read the secondish paragraph, you can guess I just bolted out of the bar to get food (food calms me down ok!). Gosh, this is sounding like I had my expectations up very high and that I'm hating on my sister. To be honest, yeah, I guess that is what is happening.

Let's change the mood shall we. I hope, when I go on another cruise, it is:


 * 1) With anyone but my older sister (preferably my friends or my parents or my little brother)
 * 2) On a different cruise ship (not a party ship)
 * 3) Fun and relaxing
 * 4) Full of nice people around my age that want to befriend me and talk to me

I definitely recommend going on a cruise. Trust me, it's a lot of fun when you're not on your own or with someone so anti-social. Before you book, make sure you know you're going with people you know will have a good time and not lock themselves in the cabin. Cruises are a lot of fun when you make the right decision. Also, if you're a partier, I recommend the ship I was on twice. You will probably have a blast. If you're not a partier but still wanna enjoy yourself and make friends along the way, then pick a smaller cruise ship that you think isn't as wild XD 