SUMMER CHILD

Im young. Im only 17. Im fit and adverturous. Then why am I spending my time working my ass off? I feel like I havnt seen any of my friends In weeks (Its been 8 Days). I havnt been in comntact with my boyfriend because we are both working what feels like everyday. Im still a kid. I need to play, right? There is one month and a week or so left of summer and I have only been to the beach once with friends. How sad is that. I dont know about you but I feel like there is a pit in my heart. Its summer, i should be out and about with my friends on the beach and at the river. Staying out late on warm nights and just hanging out. I will have worked 6 days in a row on monday. The week before that I worked 5 days. This is my summer between grade 11 and 12. Im supossed to be partying and having the best time of my life, but instead im stuck working all the time. Its not that I have a bad job or anything. Infact I have an amazing job. But if you have ever been homesick, thats what I feel like, but Im friend-sick.
Sometimes I wish there was a real place called never-never-land. I dont whant to grow up. There are too many responsabilities that people push on you to do. After school you have to go to school again to get an education (what the hell do you think I have been doing for the past 12 years of my life?) or you will never have a decent job, with a decent pay that will support a family. You must learn how to do all of the things you dont know how to do in a very short amount of time. Not all of us can keep up with the information that is being regurgitated out of the mouths of teachers, elders, moms, and dads. Their verbal diareah of knowledge is a good thing but I cant hold it all in. I learn something new, I remember it. I learn something else new, I make room for it by forgetting the first thing I remembered! what to do.
I feel like I have no friends at this point. I havnt heard from them or seen them in ages. My pho ne ran out of mins and the unlimited texting ran out so I can't even call them. And so you say, "why dont you use a landline?" well I could but Im working during the day and Im usually eating and sleeping in the evining. Oh dear. I think I complain too much. but im only 17. Actually im not even 17 yet Im still 16 until July 27th! Im still a kid, Im still growing. Then why dont I get any of my own play time?

The travel itch

Next year I graduate. Its my time to have "Freedom". My best friend; Cara, and I have always wanted to travel after we finish school. Although surching the internet for RTW tickets is harder than it sounds. Iv tryed LOTS of different sites but they all seem to be UK websites. That isnt much help for me, living in British Columbia. We were thinking that we would start in Europe and travel all around there. Fron there we want to travel down to a few places in Africa. Later we would like to travel into Asia, down to Australia and then to New Zealand. Then we would fly back over the pacific ocean back home. I know it sounds like a lot to cover; and it is, but we both really want to go travel the world. and when we say world, we dont mean just a couple locations in the world, we mean all around the world! One thing I would really like to do while traveling is to see the 7 natural, and ancient wonders of the world. well good luck to me later in life. Iv got a lot of traveling to do! Traveling is not easy. You think that you can just pack your things and catcha plain, its not that easy. You have to plan everything. were you are going to sleep, eat, shots, what attractions you want to see, activities you want to do, plan and manage yor money. Its hard work. But I think if you can manage all of that before you even leave home you are going to have a great time traveling. But there is nothing that can pepare you for culture shock. Traveling in strange places were you do not know how to read, write, or speek their language. You are a stranger in their territory. They are the locals and you are the freak tourists. Now I think that is the hardest thing to do when traveling, communication. Being a student I think that traveling is the greatest thing that you could ever do. I am a student and after 12 years of school do not want to go to school for another 4 years. Thats 16 years of school and learning. Thats just too much, you need to have a break and experience the real world. Not what is just in the small town outside the school classroom window. There is so much more to life that just school and grades. well I think Ill leave this right there. If your going traveling and you are reading this, do everything you can to have the greatest time of your life. Experience different cultures, eat strange food, make some friends! Experience life.