NO MORE BEATCH!

Friday 18.7.2008

I woke up 7 o clock and thought I had slept in. After rushing to shower I was told that family Wise is not coming until 12. So I laid waiting, I had no idea what kind of family was going to pick me up. Finally, an American-Philippine Ms. Wise knocked the door and it was my time to leave Hollandsworths for a weekend. There was Donát, Mr. Wise, Blakely and Benton in the car. Blakely is the older daughter, aged 19, and Benton or Ben is at my age. Ms. Wise is from Philippines, Mr. Wise is American and kids are something between. Mr. Wise has a really strong southern accent and I had at times problems to understand him. Blakely told me stories about American college life; she is studying in Spartanburg College. First evening we went to beach, nothing special, I hate salt water. We ate delicious pasta and watched Batman Dark Knight in a cinema. It was just okay! After the movie to Japanese restaurant, I loved the food even it was quite sweet.

The Beach

Saturday 19.7.2008

After a long and refreshing night it was time to go to the beach! A typical American breakfast; bacon, sausages, pancakes, eggs and blue berries. It was raining and blowing in the beach, Donát tried to surf with a low success. The coldest (or windiest) day so far! Maybe ONLY 25 Celsius degrees. Soon came Paul and Giulio and we left for playing miniature golf with boys to a really fancy Mini golf course that Myrtle Beach (the #1 golf destination in the USA) is full of. I was leading until trying to hit Giulio by a golf ball (he irritated me) and so the ball flew to the street outside the course. I lost the ball. :S We got more balls and messed around with the balls a bit. Giulio shoot balls as hard he ever could. Also Donát used much too much strength and we lost more balls! After a few attempted murders we had lost 5 balls, so we continued the round, trying to behave. Giulio managed to make a hole-in-one by hitting the ball as hard he could. NB! The fairways were quite long. Few balls flew to water, some to the street and some got lost to bushes. But it was fun! Fortunately no one asked us to return the balls, I think it’s quite natural that balls do get lost in such a hard course.

Miniature golf and Giulio

Benton surffaa

Back in the Wise’s beach house Giulio and Donát needed necessarily to go to smoke, so we left for walking down the beach. Walking and talking, we walked without noticing many miles and we were almost in downtown! Giulio embarrassed himself few times thoroughly. I asked if they have many blacks in Italy, so he answered: “Not much but a little… I hate them!” and at the very moment a black kid passed us by :D She looked us a bit angrily. Then Giulio demonstrated what he does in Italy when he gets bored, improvising himself hitting a hood of a really fancy car. In Italy he really touches the car so the burglar alarm goes on, but this time he just improvised, not touching the car. But at the VERY MOMENT the owner of the car was right behind us, looking VERY, VERY ANGRY :D He much have thought that Giulio was about to hit his beautiful Mercedes. After this happening we went back to “home” and the Wise were quite nervous about us being out so late in Myrtle Beach. Anyway, they left for searching Benton, who was surfing and no one had found him. Giulio is not actually the best in English and didn’t quite understand what’s the problem and asked after they had left: “Is it a problem if they don’t find Benton??”. :DD Poor Giulio was looking us puzzled when we started to laugh. “Yes it is, ‘cause then he may be dead!”.



Benton was found and we started to watch Step Up 2. It was very good! After the movie we discussed with Blakely, Maria (Blakely’s friend), Benton, Donát and Giulio about the differences between our countries, school systems and stuff like that. We couldn’t help laughing at Giulio who’s English is quite… unique :D We kept repeating: “is it possible Giulio??? Or impossible??” because, for some reason, he used it all the time, for example:” A Mercedes can cost 50 000 euros in Italy.. if it’s possible!!”. I was laughing so bad that night. Donát laughed maybe 3 hours continuously. When it was time to go to sleep, Giulio and Donát couldn’t sleep in the same room with Mr wise because he snored so loudly, so they slept in sofa. Ms. Wise wasn’t too happy about that.

Sunnuntai 20.7.2008

Sunday 20.7.2008

The day started with catholic church. It was so weird! They all even drank the Eucharist from the same cup. I kept asking questions to Giolio about what were they doing, it was all new to me. After the church Giulio left for Winsboro with Paul and we headed for the beach. It was sooo hot there. :s I went to water every 15 minutes but it didn’t make the situation any better. I suffered for 2 hours and then left back to beach house with Donát. The door was locked so we rang the bell. Five minutes but no one came to open. We supposed that Ms Wise may be in shower or sleeping. We waited another 5 minutes and figured out that one of the doors in balcony may be open and Donát climbed up there. It was open and we made in! Unfortunately Ms. Wise didn’t quite appreciate our attempt to break in. We went back to beach and I was about to die. I don’t want to go to beach for a looong time! About 6 in the evening we left back to Marion, bye bye beach.

Family Wisen Beach House.. ja Bentonin trucki