ALOHA - 21st DECEMBER

The 20^th was cloudy and lazy and I spent it at home writing an essay for school so nothing worth mentioning happened.

But on Sunday we woke up into an amazing morning. Sunny and worm just as it should be in Hawai’i. We quickly decided to go skydiving on the North Shore. We got dressed and were soon on our way.

When we finally found the skydiving center it was quite crowded. We first watched the video about the possible dangers of the jump and signed 10 pages long contract where we literary agreed that we’ll do it on our own and that we will not sue them if something goes wrong. “You can get serious injuries or killed” was written on all of the pages. We almost changed our minds. But we signed it anyway.

Than we waited almost an hour to be on turn watching people taking off and landing safely. Another comfort was that we didn’t pay yet. So if they’d kill us, they wouldn’t get their money…

Then finally our instructors came. They buckled us up in practically the same way as if we were about to go climbing. Our photographers were around us all the time taking pictures (so all the pictures were made by them). It was soon time to go. We went to the plane with sea decorations…

…and took off immediately…

…the view was not great but awesome…

After a couple of minutes (I’m not sure how many) the bip was heard. “That means we have to get ready,” my instructor from Austria said with Schwarzenegger accent. The door opened and Manca was gone just like that. Wow! The second later was Tjaša’s turn and then me. Wow!

I didn’t have time to think. We stepped to the door, I had my head back and we jumped. First we made a back flip and then we were approaching the earth. It was amazing!!! Suddenly my photographer appeared in front of me and started taking pictures. I tried laughing and posing… I kind of did it but the pressure was so huge that I still look like Miki Mouse…

After 1 minute of falling the parachute opened. The photographer was gone. And everything was much calmer. I had time to look around and enjoyed the view. I even got the chance to “drive” a bit…

I had fun but it ended too quickly. We landed…

We then went on the beach where we spent the rest of the afternoon. On the way back I was finally driving. What can I say about American automatic cars… Too easy, too gas consuming and no… I didn’t like it. Well I did ‘cause I love driving but I really prefer our cars with the gears where I have total control over the car.

ALOHA - 19th DECEMBER

This day started in clouds but we still went to go to the beach to fulfill the mission. We dressed up in Hula dancers and posed there. I have to say it was really really funny. First the shore was quite empty because of the weather. But it soon began to fill up and we became an interesting Hawaiian sight.

After that we went again to Honolulu, this time to Ala Moana where we just walked around in the cloudy weather.

If something Americans are really communicative. So this time I mate a local lady whose daily routine is walking along the shore. We started talking. She again didn’t know anything about Slovenia so I explained it (again). Unlike the guy yesterday she seemed to get it. And instead on focusing on Europe she started speaking about the USA.

She began talking about the financial crisis and that she doesn’t know what is going on with her country. She looked scared but suddenly changed her face and happily but with a bit of a caution asked what I think about their newly elected president Barack Obama. When I replied that in Europe he’d be elected with at least 90% majority and that we all like him she put a big smile on her face. She started talking about how great he is, that he’s coming from the Islands, that his grandma died during the elections and many more things I already knew. But nevertheless I also learned something new. He’s coming to Hawai’i on 10 day vacations and he’ll be staying in Kailua where I am. Maybe I’ll be playing paparazzi in the next week…

Here’s the view I had while talking to her…

After that Ana and me went to find something to eat. Near the beach lies really huge shopping center with Foodland. That means you have many more or less fast food restaurants placed in a circle with the seats in the middle. The choice is big – from Chinese to Japan, Italian, Hawaiian and so on and on food. It is not that expensive – you can get a decent meal already for 8$. That and the American way of life cause that the place is full all the time. But take a look at it yourselves…

We ended up again on Waikiki where we watched real Hula girls dancing. They were amazing…

As it was Friday night we went out. So after the whole day spent in the city we just changed in the restroom and went to one of the clubs. I think it was called Mad Dogs. By the way in these clubs the security is really strict. You can’t get in if you’re under 21 and sometimes just ID is not enough and they want the passport. Well this time I got VIP entrance thanks to some Peru guys… The night went on and we were dancing and having fun until tree or so…