Pi
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Post by Pi on May 1, 2007 20:34:00 GMT -5
I lived on an island up until just two years ago, so I know exactly how you feel about the swimming thing. I used to be on my school's swim team, and they'd force me to wear a swim cap. That thing was the bane of my existence. D: A friend of mine's hair does that same thing, Fox. He gets so frustrated with it. XD
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Post by starvingartist on May 2, 2007 0:44:28 GMT -5
Swimcaps are our friends! Those of us with curly hair which lends itself to afro-esque porportions should revel in them! (She says, voice full of sarcasm) Curly hair is a bitch to deal with, at times. In the winter, when have to shower in the morning (anyone care to guess why, hygiene notwithstanding?) and run for the bus? Icicles.
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Post by Clover on May 2, 2007 0:49:00 GMT -5
Mmm... because curly hair has a distinct tendency to make snarl-balls and tangle-nests after an evening of sleeping? But that happens with all hair... ahaha. I remember in grade eleven, so two years ago, when I was on the swim team. Our practices were before school, and we used the community school pool, which meant we had to walk back to the school. In a Canadian winter. There were icicles happening all over the place. It was a half-hour walk on the best of days. More if there was snow. <3 And PS. Its is a creepy night outside, here. Its a full moon, and its cloudy, and it looks EVIL.
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Post by starvingartist on May 2, 2007 3:34:33 GMT -5
That sucks.
I never did more than casual swimming - except in 10th grade, when I had to do the same thing as you. My best friend and I both had super-long hair then, and it was hell. Seriously. Three feet of snow at seven in the morning, for about a kilometer and a half.
Ooogh. *shivers*
Thank GOD there are no windows visible at the moment. I dread passing through the living room - it's a weird feeling in the dark.
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Pi
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Post by Pi on May 2, 2007 16:52:33 GMT -5
I... have no snow horror stories to tell. I'm too far south for snow. All we ever get is hail. And even then, the hail normally melts before it hits the ground. : x Instead of snow days, we get 'hurricane days'. They're not fun. At all. You have to spend all your time packing and boarding up windows. And then you have to fight in the supermarkets for water/food and at the gas stations for gasoline.
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Post by bubbles on May 2, 2007 17:24:51 GMT -5
Uphill, both ways?
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Post by The Star Fox on May 2, 2007 19:48:17 GMT -5
when my hair was long, and it froze when I walked to my car, it would remain the same exact way it froze in.... the whole day... So it looked like I had wicked curly hair.
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Post by Clover on May 2, 2007 20:29:24 GMT -5
HEE! I spent my childhood in the Dominican Republic, and THAT'S hurricane central. We'd have school closures all the time-- I remember once being told to go to bed with my shoes on by my mom, incase we needed to evacuate quickly. XD
To this day, I STILL love inclement weather, and hurricanes are fun. I love them.
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Pi
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Post by Pi on May 2, 2007 23:23:25 GMT -5
Oh mannn. And I thought it was bad here. : x I can't imagine the Dominican Republic. Evacuations are actually kind of fun, in an abstract type of way. Luckily there's a nice air force base that we duck into whenever we need to take shelter. I always get stuck with the most awesome people, in the shelters. : D And I've had to sleep with my shoes on, too. Although we normally get to higher ground for anything above a cat 3. I used to think hurricanes were fun, until my house got repeatedly trashed by them. Living in a teeny-tiny apartment with 7 people for 6 months = not fun.
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Post by Trey on May 3, 2007 3:06:12 GMT -5
Know how I do my hair for the day?
I take a shower the night before and sleep on it. Wala, instant Trey-hair.
Which reminds me, I want to chop it off again, but I have to leave it long enough to do a greaser hair-do T_T
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Pi
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Post by Pi on May 3, 2007 15:19:57 GMT -5
If that's instant Trey-hair, then I must have Trey-hair. That happens to be my same routine. I MUST BE YOUR CLONE. HOSHIZWTFOMG
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Post by Clover on May 3, 2007 17:11:17 GMT -5
Oh man... see, in the islands, we tend to get either very lucky, or very NOT. But I don't think we've had a 'disaster' in recent memory--Florida gets it, Honduras and Puerto Rico get it, JAMAICA gets it. The DR? Not so much. There was actually a local story in the city where I lived [on the north coast of the island] that the city was protected by the Virgin Mary (because we had the oldest church to HER in the Caribbean, so she took care of us). And that's why Puerto Plata never got heavily hit with the storms. But I do remember having to board up windows, and schools being cancelled, and getting really scary lightning storms-- one of my coolest childhood memories is watching a major hurricane pass offshore (in the deep water). You could SEE the lightning and the rain from the coast, and that was scary.
mmm. I wish I could get away with Trey-hair. I end up looking like a frickin' hobo.
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Post by Trey on May 3, 2007 23:43:41 GMT -5
Pi you must be my long lost twin sister I never knew I had!
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Post by MHnA on May 4, 2007 2:24:59 GMT -5
xD HOMG thank GAWD I don't live down there anymore. lol Hurricanes never scared me. But, the only time a Hurricane caused trouble for us was... I think Hurricane George. Wasn't bad, but the basement was flooded, and that was just-un-coolll.
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Post by The Star Fox on May 4, 2007 16:10:55 GMT -5
Ahh yes.... Vampirates( meaning the forum) bringing long lost( maybe not THAT lost) family member( The possibilities of actually being related is infinitesimally small) back together again, Probably.... Maybe
Sounds like a sales pitch to me
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