00:04:08 | takanashikiara: to the maulds before but this time I'm like chatting people up and I was just like really curious about
00:04:12 | takanashikiara: what how they live life here
00:04:23 | takanashikiara: so okay I thought this was really interesting so I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you this is my my first tangent I don't want to use up all my tangents in this Twitter space I would be a waste
00:04:26 | takanashikiara: but this is 1
00:04:29 | takanashikiara: this is 1 for the Twitter space so
00:04:34 | takanashikiara: I had this massage I'm still making
00:04:37 | takanashikiara: I had this massage from the Thai lady
00:04:46 | takanashikiara: and she was so nice and she was so good at massaging me but also she was killing me
00:04:48 | takanashikiara: um
00:04:55 | takanashikiara: so I asked her how long she's been there and she said 1 and a half years and
00:05:06 | takanashikiara: he asked her like where she's from she says Thailand I asked her how often she goes back and she said in this 1 and a half years she hasn't gotten to go back yet um
00:05:10 | takanashikiara: but yeah she wants to soon if she can
00:05:14 | takanashikiara: and what she say I asked her
00:05:17 | takanashikiara: um
00:05:20 | takanashikiara: okay let me look at my notes
00:05:23 | takanashikiara: I have lots of notes
00:05:44 | takanashikiara: oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah I was curious like they I know all these stuff they live on the island because they can't just keep on coming in and back it's like too expensive and too much of a hassle so she told me she has a little room that's like shared with another worker
00:05:47 | takanashikiara: so it seems like most of them have sharing rooms
00:05:53 | takanashikiara: and I because I was thinking when she's not working and when she has a day off
00:06:09 | takanashikiara: what does she do what do the people here do like because people like me or you guys we have hobbies like just playing games on the computer or whatever right or I don't fucking know what do we even do when we I just thought you know I wonder what they do here
00:06:18 | takanashikiara: and she said yeah they don't really have anything besides the bed in their rooms and it's like maybe not
00:06:22 | takanashikiara: not allowed but it's like it it sounded like she just
00:06:29 | takanashikiara: um it's not really common or easy to have your own thing so it's like she said she doesn't even have a table
00:06:32 | takanashikiara: is like just
00:06:34 | takanashikiara: Beds which
00:07:00 | takanashikiara: concerning but that means like you can't just have a computer as anybody like have a computer and just like no and that's like okay for me that's just so surreal because like in in in my environment everybody has a computer or stuff like that so I'm guessing like if anything they'll just be on their phones and can maybe play games on their phones or whatever but it's it's it kind of makes sense
00:07:03 | takanashikiara: but at the same time it's like
00:07:14 | takanashikiara: these people some of them work here for years you are not everybody's so fucking nerdy like we are but
00:07:17 | takanashikiara: I was like
00:07:24 | takanashikiara: and I was like what do you do then and she's like no work eat sleep you know
00:07:56 | takanashikiara: yeah I don't know that was kind of fascinating to me and then I I asked her well actually she told me
00:08:09 | takanashikiara: I don't know she just told me freely I was surprised she was so open about it but she told me her salary and I think it's probably a good salary compared to
00:08:16 | takanashikiara: like when when considering that I think Maldives overall probably has lower salaries than like
00:08:20 | takanashikiara: Austria or America or like Western countries
00:08:22 | takanashikiara: um
00:08:31 | takanashikiara: but she gets 500 US dollars per month but she doesn't have to pay rent you know
00:08:36 | takanashikiara: she lives on a Paradise Island on a in a shared room
00:08:46 | takanashikiara: if whether or not that's like good or bad they get used to the Paradise Islands so it's not even that special to them anymore right
00:08:50 | takanashikiara: I don't know how they share the tips
00:09:22 | takanashikiara: they just work here to make money for their family and I was just getting a hat tattoo by an Indian lady and she said she's been working here like also part of the spa team and she's been working here also for like 5 years apparently so that's pretty long
00:09:31 | takanashikiara: and she uh should have a similar salary I think but she also has her husband and her family in
00:09:32 | takanashikiara: um
00:09:41 | takanashikiara: in India and so I didn't ask her that directly but I'm guessing she's also sending the money back and however that she goes back to India every 4 months
00:09:44 | takanashikiara: but she's been there for 5 years
00:09:56 | takanashikiara: separated from her husband so I I'm assuming like they only to be doing such a lifestyle as to make good money because you can't make as good money in your original uh country
00:09:57 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:10:05 | takanashikiara: I'm Inked Up no but I think 500 dollars when you don't have any other expenses seemingly
00:10:12 | takanashikiara: I mean you can't even get yourself a computer like what are you going to be spending it on right that's what I was thinking what do you spend your money on if
00:10:15 | takanashikiara: if you
00:10:17 | takanashikiara: earn that money and you don't have to pay rent
00:10:22 | takanashikiara: so it seems like it's not about earning money to like
00:10:27 | takanashikiara: or like buy nice things for yourself it's just
00:10:29 | takanashikiara: to you know take care of your family
00:10:41 | takanashikiara: yeah interesting but they're all so fucking nice they're so fucking nice
00:10:48 | takanashikiara: they're all so nice I love these people it's like every time in the movie Just
00:10:58 | takanashikiara: incredibly nice
00:11:32 | takanashikiara: money only for basic necessities yeah I don't even think they have any expenses now there's this lifeguard
00:11:54 | takanashikiara: early on and so we got really friendly and we were like um I don't know he seems to have a lot of time on his hands so uh like he gives people a lot of advice on the beach like yeah you can see here maybe even in there this is a good spot and so on really really really really nice nice dude and he was like
00:12:03 | takanashikiara: offering um to me and rather than to like show us around a little bit like in the best snorkel spots around the area
00:12:07 | takanashikiara: um and he's he's a local so
00:12:14 | takanashikiara: he told me that he has a house on a local Island
00:12:21 | takanashikiara: near the main island so I'm just wondering like how people live here you know so I'm studying everything I'm taking notes
00:12:26 | takanashikiara: so yeah on his off days he flies back
00:12:38 | takanashikiara: and then the staff I now know what the staff pay for the sea planes uh by the way uh back and forth to most Resorts is like 500 bucks
00:12:43 | takanashikiara: uh to go to the resort and back in total per person
00:12:52 | takanashikiara: 500 to know I can be like 48 800 depending on the distance I guess but it's like usually around
00:13:06 | takanashikiara: 5 600 I think it's yeah they get to fly for 45 bucks so I'm thinking Hmm so you can fly for a cheaper
00:13:08 | takanashikiara: is
00:13:21 | takanashikiara: yeah I'm on I'm on an anthropology Mission I just think it's super interesting to to figure out how life is so different from here how we live so differently
00:13:23 | takanashikiara: in our
00:13:24 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:13:28 | takanashikiara: me me her first world environment
00:13:33 | takanashikiara: I don't know it's a small deeps considered uh
00:13:41 | takanashikiara: wait what do you call it do you call it second world third world wait what do you call it
00:13:43 | takanashikiara: uh
00:13:48 | takanashikiara: I mean I'm kind of guessing it's not so to say first world right
00:13:50 | takanashikiara: cultural study
00:14:05 | takanashikiara: yeah they overcharge they certainly over overcharged for everything they know that they have a great business here they know they have a an awesome um country with awesome beautiful oceans and beaches
00:14:11 | takanashikiara: you know that they're going down and about 80 years so
00:14:20 | takanashikiara: gave money now so that once more leaves is all eaten up by the ocean they can go move to another fucking country
00:14:28 | takanashikiara: like I'm still I need to talk to someone here about that I wonder what they think what they thought about that
00:14:35 | takanashikiara: because I think about it every night it keeps me up at night that the moldy is gone in 80 years
00:14:37 | takanashikiara: or 70
00:14:44 | takanashikiara: yeah moldy is the country yeah
00:15:30 | takanashikiara: I still wondering like are people like shouldn't Mall Dees like if they because the mold is like pretty serious about their beautiful oceans right and and they want to keep their own oceans clean they're like really serious about that
00:15:39 | takanashikiara: so how far does that go when your whole country goes under I would think they have some like kind of environmental promise
00:16:08 | takanashikiara: every time somebody wants to buy an island and build a hotel on it I would hope that there's something an environmental contract with the government or so where the hotel business maybe promises and and commits to eventually cleaning up the whole hotel rid of the whole building before it gets eaten up by the ocean so just that there's not millions of resorts
00:16:12 | takanashikiara: in the middle of the ocean being like
00:16:14 | takanashikiara: you know becoming
00:16:17 | takanashikiara: ancient wrecks
00:16:25 | takanashikiara: you're looking at me like as if that's unlikely
00:16:38 | takanashikiara: my brother does humanitarian work in an island nation and if it's anything like what he described the older people don't believe it and the younger people don't know that much that much that it's really
00:16:48 | takanashikiara: but Google says so and I'm pretty sure that's real like I know you shouldn't believe everything Google tells you but I'm pretty sure that's like for real for real
00:17:02 | takanashikiara: more structure for fish true I guess I mean it can be like Reeves yeah but no bro that's like still so much fucking trash you can't do that
00:17:08 | takanashikiara: these kind of runes are actually good for Core group is that the the is that the master plan
00:17:13 | takanashikiara: maybe that's the real reason all of these resorts are being built
00:17:23 | takanashikiara: to regrow Corals in the ocean maybe that's how far their love for the ocean and its cleanliness and the the fish really goes
00:17:45 | takanashikiara: the only thing as far as how much money can I make in the next 10 years no but the fucking government should be like
00:17:48 | takanashikiara: thinking about that a little bit harder
00:18:00 | takanashikiara: so long as they got the buildings what does that mean everything that's inside but leave the structures
00:18:18 | takanashikiara: that's so insane imagine like in 200 years for now from now people would maybe maybe go like I mean I can't imagine people actually really going snorkeling there when there's no land anymore but I mean it sounds like an interesting treasure hunt
00:18:22 | takanashikiara: just go on a on a trip from the nearest
00:18:23 | takanashikiara: land
00:18:34 | takanashikiara: to the X small thieves and a dive and find all these old fucking Resorts down there that's crazy
00:18:42 | takanashikiara: and I mean if completely flooded by 2,100 then by 2,200
00:18:47 | takanashikiara: I mean it's not going to be that deep it's still going to be pretty shallow right
00:18:49 | takanashikiara: go snorkeling you don't have to go diving
00:18:50 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:18:56 | takanashikiara: so shipwrecks cool but next is Hotel racks
00:19:05 | takanashikiara: I'm so fascinated
00:19:17 | takanashikiara: so yeah I got a hat too it's drying up I wonder I think it's been 15 minutes and they said to like
00:19:23 | takanashikiara: for wash it off when it's time you can peel it off ooh
00:19:27 | takanashikiara: so many details though
00:19:30 | takanashikiara: let me try
00:19:34 | takanashikiara: oh
00:19:40 | takanashikiara: I was just like a second breakfast
00:19:44 | takanashikiara: outside
00:19:46 | takanashikiara: oh nice
00:19:52 | takanashikiara: maybe I'm peeling millions of a little little dots off
00:20:01 | takanashikiara: looks nice a second breakfast small 1 and then the massage lady
00:20:05 | takanashikiara: came to me the nice Indonesian lady
00:20:10 | takanashikiara: she was like oh we're doing Hannah tattoos right now do you want to give it a try
00:20:13 | takanashikiara: I'm like for free
00:20:15 | takanashikiara: she's like yeah
00:20:24 | takanashikiara: and you know I mean most of you guys probably didn't really understand most of what we were talking about and the other Twitter space
00:20:27 | takanashikiara: but we talked about like us having a lunch
00:20:31 | takanashikiara: and um
00:20:43 | takanashikiara: the spa people they all the staff they came to lunch and were like starting to massage people for free for like 15 minutes
00:20:51 | takanashikiara: they keep on going around doing things I didn't even realize anything with more than just like offer these free massages
00:20:56 | takanashikiara: but they do a lot of beauty stuff beauty related stuff too I guess
00:21:00 | takanashikiara: so just time they came over to promote
00:21:06 | takanashikiara: just I mean this is not really I guess there's no no
00:21:10 | takanashikiara: and then a workshop where you have to pay for it I think so
00:21:19 | takanashikiara: but just in general they have a b bunch of like you know manicures so maybe in a way it's promoting
00:21:21 | takanashikiara: the spa
00:21:25 | takanashikiara: for for a little time there
00:21:27 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:21:30 | takanashikiara: yeah yeah yeah yeah so
00:21:40 | takanashikiara: so this I talked to the lady about having another massage and they have like a special deal for a massage
00:21:50 | takanashikiara: on your departure day but I was like hmm I want to do it because it's actually a relatively decent price compared to the other things they have
00:21:53 | takanashikiara: but
00:21:57 | takanashikiara: I I don't know I don't know when my flights
00:21:59 | takanashikiara: um
00:22:09 | takanashikiara: I was like maybe it's too early to get a massage because you because like when when you leave this island they usually make it in advance
00:22:12 | takanashikiara: so that nothing can go wrong
00:22:19 | takanashikiara: and sometimes you know the weather fucks up things and then the sea plane can't fly so you have to be like really
00:22:25 | takanashikiara: really careful understandable that they make you fly really early
00:22:33 | takanashikiara: so then I can't get that massage right so she was like because like normally that's only on on the departure day and she was like ah for you
00:22:37 | takanashikiara: for you will do it on the E before
00:22:39 | takanashikiara: I'm like
00:22:41 | takanashikiara: I love you
00:22:43 | takanashikiara: I'm like Teddy Massey
00:22:48 | takanashikiara: did your neck ever get better
00:22:53 | takanashikiara: oh the pinched nerve yeah it took a while but
00:22:55 | takanashikiara: it went away it went away
00:23:02 | takanashikiara: I mean besides the constant chronic pain I have in my neck
00:23:03 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:23:07 | takanashikiara: okay
00:23:13 | takanashikiara: all right I got a good chunk but there's still more
00:23:17 | takanashikiara: can I have to peel off
00:23:19 | takanashikiara: is my first time
00:23:22 | takanashikiara: getting a header to
00:23:32 | takanashikiara: washes off already in like 3 days I thought it would stay longer actually
00:23:37 | takanashikiara: especially maybe with the seawater it will go off I don't know
00:23:42 | takanashikiara: so anyway I was thinking
00:23:47 | takanashikiara: about the diving license and I was hesitating earlier in my trip because
00:23:52 | takanashikiara: it is a little it's it seems a little bit insanely expensive
00:23:54 | takanashikiara: um
00:23:56 | takanashikiara: but
00:23:57 | takanashikiara: oh yeah
00:24:01 | takanashikiara: um then I hesitated
00:24:02 | takanashikiara: a lot
00:24:07 | takanashikiara: I don't think I'm going to do it
00:24:12 | takanashikiara: and then the next days for weeks that's what I thought she said 3 days
00:24:15 | takanashikiara: maybe it's um
00:24:32 | takanashikiara: sailing instead also expensive but it's it's a bit more reasonable compared to what it would cost
00:24:34 | takanashikiara: elsewhere
00:24:39 | takanashikiara: I don't serve that'd be sick if I did
00:24:44 | takanashikiara: sucking them
00:25:07 | takanashikiara: I'm going to
00:25:09 | takanashikiara: I'm going to go
00:25:11 | takanashikiara: sailing
00:25:12 | takanashikiara: also
00:25:13 | takanashikiara: so
00:25:17 | takanashikiara: I'm actually alone now
00:25:19 | takanashikiara: and
00:25:32 | takanashikiara: I was like how am I going to put something that's like the only problem 1 of the only problems that I'm worried about in terms of traveling on my own going to the beach on my own how
00:25:35 | takanashikiara: how do I put sunscreen on my back properly
00:25:36 | takanashikiara: hm
00:25:43 | takanashikiara: and it's a simple thing just wear a swimsuit like a rash guard
00:25:46 | takanashikiara: that covers the back
00:25:48 | takanashikiara: easy
00:25:51 | takanashikiara: where do I make it so complicated
00:25:59 | takanashikiara: and so I bought an overpriced rash guard here
00:26:02 | takanashikiara: it's not super cute
00:26:03 | takanashikiara: but whatever
00:26:20 | takanashikiara: the massage that you can do now when I was yapping at her when we were doing small talk I was like yeah I'm alone now my only problem with that is I don't know how to put sunscreen on my back and she was like just ask any of these stuff and I'm like I don't know that's kind of embarrassing
00:26:22 | takanashikiara: I don't want to like
00:26:29 | takanashikiara: creep them out I mean they're all so nice to me as I said some people are obsessed with me here
00:26:32 | takanashikiara: I swear there's like 1
00:26:38 | takanashikiara: um stuff guy who has a crush on me don't worry about it but
00:26:42 | takanashikiara: um it's cute
00:26:44 | takanashikiara: it's cute
00:26:48 | takanashikiara: oh good though
00:26:50 | takanashikiara: I'm just
00:26:52 | takanashikiara: being
00:26:59 | takanashikiara: chill yeah oh boy
00:27:15 | takanashikiara: I I'm I'm like I was telling the girls I was like I think this guy has like this like developer me and and they're like are you sure like he's nice to all of us and and then the next day he's like literally asking for my my WhatsApp number
00:27:20 | takanashikiara: and I'm like um
00:27:26 | takanashikiara: um I mean I didn't say Japanese but
00:27:33 | takanashikiara: I can read signals okay I know I know when someone's
00:27:40 | takanashikiara: giving that why potential staff discount that guy has nothing he can discount me for
00:27:44 | takanashikiara: no
00:27:47 | takanashikiara: don't worry it's all chili sweet
00:27:50 | takanashikiara: that's cute it's like
00:27:53 | takanashikiara: like a little children's
00:27:55 | takanashikiara: Crush
00:28:05 | takanashikiara: she gets this all the time
00:28:08 | takanashikiara: no
00:28:11 | takanashikiara: no not really
00:28:16 | takanashikiara: not really also I don't want to like be mean because
00:28:27 | takanashikiara: I mean I feel like probably for every person who makes that kind of Step it takes them some courage in my respect that
00:28:32 | takanashikiara: it's and it's like a compliment to me so I take it as a sweet compliment
00:28:35 | takanashikiara: but I don't see a point
00:28:40 | takanashikiara: in like realistically what's the point what's the point
00:28:45 | takanashikiara: of like even in theory you know
00:28:49 | takanashikiara: exchanging numbers
00:28:53 | takanashikiara: not that I ever fucking exchange numbers with anybody
00:28:56 | takanashikiara: I am so
00:29:00 | takanashikiara: I'm saying this on Valentine's Day how depressing
00:29:04 | takanashikiara: I am so cat focused
00:29:13 | takanashikiara: you know the thing is I might come back to the mold Des but I ain't coming back to this island I always go to a different place
00:29:22 | takanashikiara: my Island pen pal
00:29:32 | takanashikiara: that kind of thing is cute
00:29:37 | takanashikiara: very sweet very endearing to to like have a pen pal the idea that
00:29:54 | takanashikiara: oh yeah but like because it's Valentine's Day this cute strawberry and whatever Berry all kinds of Barry based things that the breakfast buffet
00:29:58 | takanashikiara: and they have a discount in the shop
00:30:02 | takanashikiara: so I was a bit cheaper to buy that rash guard that was overpriced
00:30:05 | takanashikiara: and I got a magnet
00:30:10 | takanashikiara: magnet was things are decent price I would say
00:30:14 | takanashikiara: what do you think about like
00:30:19 | takanashikiara: paying I don't know 230 240 bucks
00:30:23 | takanashikiara: to see sharks
00:30:26 | takanashikiara: and Eels
00:30:29 | takanashikiara: in a very crowded
00:30:35 | takanashikiara: environment like almost like a stampede it felt like a stampede
00:30:44 | takanashikiara: cuz I didn't expect that environment
00:30:48 | takanashikiara: because from a resort that I went to
00:30:57 | takanashikiara: there was first of all they were like daily free excursions like snorkeling excursions where you get on the boat
00:31:01 | takanashikiara: and there's some other people from other Villas
00:31:10 | takanashikiara: you get on a boat and I mean they don't go all the way out to sea sharks with you but they go to a really nice Reef that's like maybe 10 minutes away with the boat
00:31:13 | takanashikiara: or 15 or 20 minutes I don't know
00:31:16 | takanashikiara: and then it's really just that group
00:31:21 | takanashikiara: but the place we went to we drove off of the boat for like 40 minutes
00:31:24 | takanashikiara: and then
00:31:28 | takanashikiara: I thought it would just be us but
00:31:30 | takanashikiara: um like
00:31:32 | takanashikiara: 10 different speed boats
00:31:39 | takanashikiara: all in this 1 area around a floating platform
00:31:47 | takanashikiara: and in the middle of the ocean although there were some big Islands quite uh in in view not too far
00:32:07 | takanashikiara: um it was like a hangout spot where seemingly every day lots of um groups of people from nearby islands and Resorts they all go to this spot because they know at this platform this floating platform there's a guy that feeds sharks
00:32:11 | takanashikiara: is this attraction I wonder how much they pay him
00:32:16 | takanashikiara: to like you know get in on the fun
00:32:24 | takanashikiara: um but there's like so many people there and they're all kind of insane because like we were briefed
00:32:26 | takanashikiara: by our guides
00:32:28 | takanashikiara: to
00:32:29 | takanashikiara: um
00:32:49 | takanashikiara: not touch the Sharks when a when a shark touches you well whatever but you don't go out of your way to touch a sharks Keep Your Hands to Yourself keep them as fists ideally don't reach out for them um but yeah keep them as fists because even when the even when these um nursing stresses are friendly
00:33:04 | takanashikiara: uh if you reach out your hand with your fingertips like stretched out they might mistake your fingers for food and then numb numb numb numb you know you don't want to you don't want to have that happen so keep your arms to yourself keep keep them in fists and all that
00:33:11 | takanashikiara: so they briefed us and all that and I already know there's some people on the boat weren't listening
00:33:13 | takanashikiara: I was telling my girls
00:33:38 | takanashikiara: I was translating for them but I saw I noticed other tourists on the boat weren't listening and then I saw I was like snorkeling I was looking down into the water I was looking at the sharks taking some videos and then 1 of our groups people right next to me she's like reaching out her hand as much as she could with spread apart finger
00:33:42 | takanashikiara: tips going straight towards the Sharks and I was like bitch
00:33:56 | takanashikiara: oh my fucking God I mean I didn't understand and didn't listen but like not just not listen but also she wouldn't even have understood they they didn't speak seem to speak any English at all
00:33:58 | takanashikiara: um
00:34:09 | takanashikiara: but yeah common sense I don't know maybe maybe they felt it was too safe because the Sharks were not attacking the hum um
00:34:14 | takanashikiara: it was kind of chaotic like not just that girl but there were so many people and like
00:34:20 | takanashikiara: partially I feel like this is almost unavoidable but like our guides
00:34:28 | takanashikiara: um and some of the other groups so a lot of them didn't have it but our guys we had like these rescue
00:34:29 | takanashikiara: rescue um
00:34:39 | takanashikiara: Donuts fucking hell I don't know what it's called
00:34:41 | takanashikiara: um
00:34:52 | takanashikiara: to hold on to and they told us to this like constantly hold on to it don't your own let me see that your hand is always on their
00:34:59 | takanashikiara: they were super super secure like they were taking it serious life preservers life Rings yeah
00:35:01 | takanashikiara: um
00:35:04 | takanashikiara: and we were doing that but like
00:35:09 | takanashikiara: it was like 5 people on the 1 small
00:35:12 | takanashikiara: donut
00:35:17 | takanashikiara: and and we had like 3 of them like we were separated into like free groups
00:35:21 | takanashikiara: and it was just kind of fucking crowded with us and then
00:36:08 | takanashikiara: the waves and everything and the people around you like it's so tight because everybody wants to get really close but then even when you try to not get close you end up like floating towards the Sharks and then before you know it you fucking in the middle of them and like then it's hard to get back out because behind you there's people in front of you there's sharks next to you there's sharks and people and it's also closed that you literally touching the Sharks and the people you have fins in
00:36:15 | takanashikiara: and make them aggressive like at least I was being careful about it I don't know if the others maybe didn't care so much I feel like
00:36:19 | takanashikiara: when I was trying to be very very careful
00:36:20 | takanashikiara: um
00:36:23 | takanashikiara: and not stupid
00:36:43 | takanashikiara: like some tourists seemed honestly so stupid it did a few classes for phobic like in a in a way more interesting sense not just being in a small room but like you you're in a small crowded space with sharks that's like a whole another level like that's that's Way Beyond claustrophobia
00:37:05 | takanashikiara: like I would normally not be closed for filming but like like a stampede with sharks and stingrays yeah that's also they were also like right around us I saw a stingray like floating through I don't know if it Wasa and Laden or Leah and loo I don't know but like between
00:37:16 | takanashikiara: tail just just floating through them like they were close together and I don't know how that even happened I just saw the tail in the end
00:37:31 | takanashikiara: and it was like what the fuck and I look up and I look at the 1 of our guards and and he was like he also just saw that and he was like ah it went right through your friends and I'm like yeah haha is that not dangerous I'm like isn't that a stingray he's like yeah
00:37:35 | takanashikiara: oh what the fuck
00:37:39 | takanashikiara: fuck are we sure those were stingrays
00:37:46 | takanashikiara: yeah the rain some more dangerous in the sharks
00:37:50 | takanashikiara: I don't know maybe he just didn't maybe it wasn't the stingray but
00:37:55 | takanashikiara: he said it was maybe he used the wrong word
00:38:23 | takanashikiara: is it dangerous drug know but I was talking a lot to the Lifeguard because of this whole Insanity I was like staying close to lifeguard and just following his many of the other tourists who are not following their instructions so I thought I was surely going to make him happy by following their instructions they eventually also noticed that I'm fine on my own so they let me take off my my my life vest because they made us all put on life vest
00:38:33 | takanashikiara: and before we jumped off the boat like oh if you like really confident in swimming you don't have to wear it but I still was like well
00:38:39 | takanashikiara: I'm just going to keep it on but I know it's a bit annoying to wear the life vest
00:38:42 | takanashikiara: like it's a bit more obstructive
00:38:50 | takanashikiara: obtrusive I don't know but I kept it on but like later they were like you can take it off and I'm like yeah you know what thank you because it's really annoying me
00:38:57 | takanashikiara: it's like actually giving me a harder time to stay away from the Sharks just making me less flexible
00:39:01 | takanashikiara: um and and then
00:39:29 | takanashikiara: um he also let me just take off on my own a little bit he was like yeah and you you seem all orders and and be mature and responsible you go ahead and swim around a little bit if you want and so the coolest thing though was actually like the whole Stampede moment was so surreal it was fucking odd to to see the Sharks and the The Stingrays but I don't know how to explain this
00:39:32 | takanashikiara: there's like something
00:39:37 | takanashikiara: so unnatural about it that throws me off like having so many and 1 place
00:39:40 | takanashikiara: like
00:39:48 | takanashikiara: how to say like
00:39:56 | takanashikiara: uh I I think I prefer a more natural experience rather than like a really forced and chaotic experience
00:40:01 | takanashikiara: like I I think I prefer just like snorkeling around and seeing 1 random shark
00:40:04 | takanashikiara: or 1 random eel
00:40:10 | takanashikiara: instead of 50 of them all in 1 place is fighting for food
00:40:16 | takanashikiara: and me wondering if somebody's going to get eaten
00:40:18 | takanashikiara: like a finger
00:40:22 | takanashikiara: from like Miss stepping in the water
00:40:28 | takanashikiara: it's just like all
00:40:30 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:40:42 | takanashikiara: like all of it felt so unnatural what's happening is fucking awesome though it was like really cool once in a lifetime experience but I I then prefer like
00:40:45 | takanashikiara: more calm natural
00:40:47 | takanashikiara: um
00:40:50 | takanashikiara: encounters
00:41:11 | takanashikiara: so anyway like we were in the water we could have been in the water for like an hour around the Sharks but the feeding kind of calmed down eventually and the groups were leaving so overall the whole atmosphere finally calmed down we were still around because it seems like we're trying to arrive for the late to the party and
00:41:16 | takanashikiara: yeah I want something more authentic I want to shock McDonald's yeah
00:41:20 | takanashikiara: what would a drop of blood do in that water apparently no problem
00:41:23 | takanashikiara: um but yeah um
00:41:32 | takanashikiara: so uh eventually 1 of the guards was like hey how about we go swim over there because there was like a a little a little shipwreck
00:41:57 | takanashikiara: and I was like hell yeah I would just uh was getting a little bit sick of the Sharks anyway so we we like I'm I'm away like me and like 5 tourists that are like a family together and it was like pooling the the life preserver while the this family was hanging on to it and he was pulling it and I was like snorkeling ahead
00:42:09 | takanashikiara: um but every time I was still responsible every once in a while I looked up and looked back and checked if they're still close by I don't want to worry the guards and we're worrying myself
00:42:15 | takanashikiara: but then yeah they were like
00:42:25 | takanashikiara: um the Sharks and the the eels were kind of leaving so I watched them leave and lower in the water and I saw that the PCS and it was like um
00:42:38 | takanashikiara: was it was in the middle of the ocean but it was still like pretty shallow in some spaces and then there was like a shelf break and went a little bit lower but still not very low like I could still see the bottom
00:42:44 | takanashikiara: uh it it was like little bit foggy down there not foggy but like
00:42:46 | takanashikiara: Blurry you know
00:42:53 | takanashikiara: it's still kind of visible and I swam and I swam and then there was this this little this little shipwreck
00:42:55 | takanashikiara: and it looked like a
00:42:58 | takanashikiara: a pretty old boat and
00:43:12 | takanashikiara: not like a modern type of boat it looked a little bit more like a sheepish probably like not for fun but when I like working boat Misty murky yeah that's right
00:43:15 | takanashikiara: my Witcher sense
00:43:43 | takanashikiara: it was already yeah of course but so I saw like when I looked into the water I saw this like long string of ropes several thick ropes going straight down and then there was like an anchor I guess I didn't really clearly see an anchor but it was like somehow anchored up in the sand and yeah um the the ropes went all the way up and then there was the boat and it was like flipped over
00:43:57 | takanashikiara: and so I asked the guy and he said that this boat flipped over from a storm uh like 15 years ago and it's been here ever since
00:43:59 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:44:09 | takanashikiara: and I thought that was that was fascinating and there are some fish that were kind of like swimming in and out not too many but yeah in a shit ton of barnacles
00:44:18 | takanashikiara: yeah and if I had the fucking courage this is next level I need to get on this fucking level but if I had the courage to actually like
00:44:22 | takanashikiara: dive down I tried it for 1 second yesterday
00:44:28 | takanashikiara: but I just I can't take Can't Stop
00:44:30 | takanashikiara: my breath for so long
00:44:36 | takanashikiara: he was offering me he was like yeah you go ahead you go free dive and I'm like um
00:44:51 | takanashikiara: but you're expecting a little bit too much from me
00:44:55 | takanashikiara: I'm not going down there but he went down there
00:45:00 | takanashikiara: he checked out the the back side the inside of the boat
00:45:03 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:45:08 | takanashikiara: I thought that's sick I wish I could go there I wish I could do that
00:45:17 | takanashikiara: you put doors for oxygen even then even though I I can't even really push myself down I
00:45:21 | takanashikiara: I'm I'm sure there's like a proper way to do it
00:45:25 | takanashikiara: the Lifeguard also trying to teach me before
00:45:39 | takanashikiara: I've just I I liked diving when I was a child but at some point I completely forgot how my body has to do it and I lost all confidence in it
00:45:43 | takanashikiara: yeah sad but
00:45:47 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:45:55 | takanashikiara: more water I'm napping so much
00:46:00 | takanashikiara: I actually don't
00:46:03 | takanashikiara: the the
00:46:04 | takanashikiara: what's it called
00:46:16 | takanashikiara: the Shipwreck I saw because at that point in time already went back to the boats like rather than went first because she was feeling sick after
00:46:25 | takanashikiara: like 20 15 or 20 minutes which is plenty anyway honestly there's nothing new happening it's just a fucking sharks fighting over the food
00:46:27 | takanashikiara: in masses
00:46:29 | takanashikiara: but
00:46:39 | takanashikiara: yeah she went uh first and then followed a little bit later and then lubaale went to the Bowl but then she came back in and chilled so like
00:46:41 | takanashikiara: um
00:46:42 | takanashikiara: really
00:46:50 | takanashikiara: chilling know but that was so happy about it regardless she saw plenty and she was so happy
00:46:54 | takanashikiara: and and
00:47:19 | takanashikiara: yeah so I actually went to the reef alone because in the moment when they were offering us to go to the not the reef the the Shipwreck it was in the very moment where um from the moment I think and the others were already in the boat so I'm the only 1 who got to see that but I follow I thought it was almost almost more cool than the sharks
00:47:24 | takanashikiara: because I I felt like the passage of time
00:47:33 | takanashikiara: I felt it there and I thought oh that's so cool I mean this is not even the craziest coolest shipwreck ever obviously
00:47:50 | takanashikiara: and it's such a natural or common occurrence in the ocean probably but I just never saw that before and I thought that was that was more natural than the Sharks all gathering in 1 spot and that's the thing like I was so oblivious of oblivious but I just didn't know
00:47:57 | takanashikiara: compared to my other trips to the maulds I expected um like a more guided
00:47:58 | takanashikiara: um
00:48:08 | takanashikiara: quiet experience I didn't think it would be like such a fucking chaotic party with other um tourists from other Islands
00:48:09 | takanashikiara: um
00:48:38 | takanashikiara: that this 1 specific spot that before
00:48:44 | takanashikiara: will be the 1 what what makes that the 1 spot I wonder
00:48:58 | takanashikiara: how how do what what is there that they know this is where they need to go I was thinking I was thinking and thinking and then yeah when we were there I was like oh
00:49:02 | takanashikiara: there's a guy feeding them there every day
00:49:08 | takanashikiara: wait I was I was out for a moment fuck
00:49:15 | takanashikiara: which part did you miss I was just saying that I was wondering during the whole boat ride
00:49:17 | takanashikiara: how they know
00:49:20 | takanashikiara: to go to a specific place
00:49:26 | takanashikiara: like what makes this this 1 place in the middle of the ocean 30 minutes
00:49:33 | takanashikiara: with a boat what makes this place the 1 place and turns out yeah okay there's a guy feeding them
00:49:35 | takanashikiara: makes sense
00:49:37 | takanashikiara: uh
00:49:57 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:50:03 | takanashikiara: but some people were definitely going way too dangerously close
00:50:17 | takanashikiara: but some people were doing it on purpose and sometimes it happens because of the yeah just floating around and people pushing the water and therefore pushing you
00:50:35 | takanashikiara: but yeah I'm just pissed off that the guys they're like giving instructions and then the the other tourists in our boat didn't even care to understand
00:50:40 | takanashikiara: I swear in the boat I was only 1
00:50:45 | takanashikiara: listening and looking at them while they were giving instructions
00:50:50 | takanashikiara: and you know I explained it to my group but like
00:51:00 | takanashikiara: like you could at least try to understand like show that you're attempting to understand but these turrets they were like looking down on their phones or whatever
00:51:22 | takanashikiara: and and not replying when you know being asked something it's a frustrating and just today when I was like scrolling through social media I saw a video from like this diving instructor um he was like uh he was instructing a group of divers give you know
00:51:28 | takanashikiara: I think it was a diving license course or whatever and where we were sharks
00:51:42 | takanashikiara: like a lot of sharks and apparently he gave them instructions several times to not touch the Sharks we were also told that to not touch the Sharks to not reach out for them
00:51:51 | takanashikiara: and to not like jump at them and the these ladies in the video did it over and over and over again and the the diving instructor was so pissed off
00:51:53 | takanashikiara: so
00:52:00 | takanashikiara: I think it's like really a serious thing if if you don't fuck around like that
00:52:05 | takanashikiara: bro even if sharks are more friendly than people might think don't
00:52:07 | takanashikiara: don't tempt them
00:52:15 | takanashikiara: yeah
00:52:41 | takanashikiara: I don't need to tell me twice for real me too I was like like you know maybe confident about snorkeling but I'm taking this stuff seriously
00:52:42 | takanashikiara: I don't
00:52:45 | takanashikiara: want to tempt nature
00:52:54 | takanashikiara: was there a liability way but yeah
00:53:00 | takanashikiara: she's in
00:53:28 | takanashikiara: yeah and the funny thing in that video was that they were all in diving gear so they were like geared up with like 2
00:53:35 | takanashikiara: um when the diving instructor asked them why the fuck do you keep on reaching out for the sharks they said I want to know what it feels like
00:53:38 | takanashikiara: uh with gloves
00:53:45 | takanashikiara: because you're wearing gloves bitch but yeah that's just the video I saw
00:53:59 | takanashikiara: some people are so dumb
00:54:04 | takanashikiara: crazy
00:54:19 | takanashikiara: um oh by the way I was curious I was like asking 1 of the like buggy drivers the golf cart drivers by the way we don't drive them ourselves we're being driven
00:54:25 | takanashikiara: that's asking whether the drivers if there's ever other people like me who are just alone
00:54:42 | takanashikiara: in the Monkees on an island like this and he said yeah yeah just like last week we had someone stay for a whole week a lady from Australia and I was like feeling connected to her even though I never met her even though she wasn't at the island at the same time as me
00:54:54 | takanashikiara: I felt this telepathic connection and then it Vindicated me I felt a little bit more like maybe I'm not a fucking weirdo because I do feel like I'm a widow
00:54:58 | takanashikiara: like it's just couples and families here
00:55:02 | takanashikiara: yeah Could Have Been Me Could Have Been Me well it is me
00:55:07 | takanashikiara: I feel a little bit more a little bit less like a weirdo
00:55:13 | takanashikiara: I'm not the only 1 who feels like going to the Maldives on their own
00:55:19 | takanashikiara: my soulmate I wish I had her number and I was thinking huh
00:55:31 | takanashikiara: I don't know if that makes any sense in the just becomes a vacation together but could go all the vacation a solid vacation with another soul of a vacationer
00:55:38 | takanashikiara: and we both have a solo vacation we have separate like Villas I suppose for example
00:55:50 | takanashikiara: we would assist in rubbing sunscreen on each other's backs like anything that you feel like you're lacking of your traveling alone
00:56:24 | takanashikiara: and and 1 more thing that I feel super awkward about is like sitting alone at dinner when everybody else is sitting with their lover or family on the table and you're the only 1 like it's just not the kind of place like in Austria or whatever in Japan there's any other I'm okay with eating alone but a place like this you will stand out so much sitting alone with dinner this is so embarrassing so imagine just having someone sitting with you you're not even going to have conversation you if you d
00:56:27 | takanashikiara: just a solo traveling companion
00:56:33 | takanashikiara: it's just there to make you feel less awkward to make each other feel less awkward
00:56:40 | takanashikiara: you know
00:56:48 | takanashikiara: just joking but yeah
00:57:00 | takanashikiara: that's just inviting people again no not really because then you still you're not going to really socialize much you're not going to you know do anything together
00:57:08 | takanashikiara: you're going to sit very far apart on the beach or not at all together not even in
00:57:09 | takanashikiara: not even
00:57:12 | takanashikiara: on the same Beach
00:57:15 | takanashikiara: once in the pool once in the beach
00:57:18 | takanashikiara: you take your alone time
00:57:22 | takanashikiara: but then you put sunscreen on each other's backs
00:57:30 | takanashikiara: no but I I found a solution just got to wear a rash guard thingy
00:57:37 | takanashikiara: yeah just to feel less awkward I also felt so awkward coming here
00:57:40 | takanashikiara: like
00:57:41 | takanashikiara: on the sea plane
00:57:45 | takanashikiara: yeah because it was all like couples
00:57:49 | takanashikiara: and that was a more tight environment
00:57:52 | takanashikiara: tiny tiny plane
00:58:03 | takanashikiara: like I wish I could just have dinner in the villa and breakfast in the in the Villa but it like costs a lot extra
00:58:05 | takanashikiara: to have it as room service
00:58:12 | takanashikiara: but that really most of my problems regarding traveling alone
00:58:21 | takanashikiara: yeah I should probably keep the rest of my tangents but
00:58:24 | takanashikiara: um
00:58:28 | takanashikiara: no
00:58:30 | takanashikiara: and yapping so much already
00:58:40 | takanashikiara: just bring the plate with you know I can't do that
00:58:52 | takanashikiara: but I had really good fish and chips yesterday
00:59:04 | takanashikiara: it was like way better than in in um England it was actually so delicious the fish and chips I had in England before was like shit
00:59:09 | takanashikiara: every was fucking fire fire
00:59:17 | takanashikiara: and um I just there's just 1 thing that I I wonder what kind of phenomenon this is but the fish
00:59:31 | takanashikiara: seemingly tasted delicious but at the same time it had this weird smell and aftertaste or maybe it was just a smell in my mouth too you know brain things
00:59:33 | takanashikiara: and I can't really describe it but
00:59:35 | takanashikiara: like
00:59:40 | takanashikiara: I don't know is it foul or so something's just like wrong
00:59:42 | takanashikiara: smiling you know what I mean
00:59:44 | takanashikiara: I wonder if it was
00:59:48 | takanashikiara: if it's just something that fish does sometimes
00:59:53 | takanashikiara: it didn't have any like fishy smell to it
00:59:56 | takanashikiara: something that just
00:59:59 | takanashikiara: it was just
01:00:01 | takanashikiara: I don't know
01:00:04 | takanashikiara: I was really trying to
01:00:08 | takanashikiara: like figure it out to see what I could compare it to
01:00:12 | takanashikiara: it was so delicious but at the same time it had this
01:00:14 | takanashikiara: slight
01:00:17 | takanashikiara: um
01:00:22 | takanashikiara: no not gaming nothing like that just
01:00:27 | takanashikiara: ammonia buildup
01:00:31 | takanashikiara: was it chemical would I call it chemical
01:00:38 | takanashikiara: metallic
01:00:45 | takanashikiara: not metallic but certainly it wasn't something that like gives me the the scent of food
01:00:48 | takanashikiara: felt more like
01:00:52 | takanashikiara: ammonia
01:00:55 | takanashikiara: what does that smell like
01:01:03 | takanashikiara: no it wasn't like spoiled no no no
01:01:04 | takanashikiara: Tangy
01:01:09 | takanashikiara: freshly caught ya been freshly caught
01:01:14 | takanashikiara: I don't think it was iron like
01:01:16 | takanashikiara: ammonia
01:01:19 | takanashikiara: ammonia cat pee
01:01:24 | takanashikiara: it didn't smell like cat pee
01:01:28 | takanashikiara: but I think something
01:01:34 | takanashikiara: foul
01:01:41 | takanashikiara: yeah like yeah maybe yeah like cleaning supplies honestly yeah
01:01:45 | takanashikiara: Loki
01:01:48 | takanashikiara: foul slash chemical
01:01:57 | takanashikiara: even though it was fucking the list shows I don't know what's wrong with it like it's probably nothing wrong with it I was thinking it's probably just some something something natural I don't know
01:02:04 | takanashikiara: I think it came from the fish fillet not the batter but I I can't be sure
01:02:12 | takanashikiara: I still enjoyed it I I tried to ignore that side scent
01:02:17 | takanashikiara: I see yeah maybe ammonia
01:02:24 | takanashikiara: I would hope it's not soap or Clorox
01:02:39 | takanashikiara: I saw a fish poop by the way while it was swimming and so it made a cloud behind it
01:02:44 | takanashikiara: fascinating
01:02:47 | takanashikiara: I'm so excited I saw a lionfish
01:02:49 | takanashikiara: that got me really hyped up
01:03:08 | takanashikiara: I feel like the like so much more corals here compared to the last resort I went to but the variety is like less I think
01:03:19 | takanashikiara: except for we never saw sharks or eels no eels I saw at the very end of my last trip but sharks know sharks are like in abundance here
01:03:24 | takanashikiara: Harpoon time
01:03:29 | takanashikiara: all right so a lion fish coming back with my harpoon
01:03:32 | takanashikiara: I didn't see sea urchins you
01:03:44 | takanashikiara: they're invasive here in Florida it's okay I'm coming to Florida and I will kill those lines do you need a license for harpooning probably right
01:03:49 | takanashikiara: so I need to get a diving license and I have P license right
01:03:57 | takanashikiara: like I'm genuinely really considering um getting my diving license in Florida
01:04:00 | takanashikiara: genuinely
01:04:03 | takanashikiara: I already messaged Jean
01:04:16 | takanashikiara: but she was um I was like can we get a diving license together unless you already have 1 and she said she likes free diving but she doesn't like diving like
01:04:19 | takanashikiara: with all the equipment
01:04:21 | takanashikiara: that makes her claustrophobic or so
01:04:24 | takanashikiara: well fuck damn it
01:04:34 | takanashikiara: and license was something in Florida that seems unlikely
01:04:38 | takanashikiara: I mean they just they just rolling with it
01:04:42 | takanashikiara: it's easy to get any license in Florida for whole
01:05:01 | takanashikiara: you don't need any specifically yeah but surely to get to use a harpoon thing surely nobody would just easily hand me a spare gun right I mean can I just buy 1 do you need a license do you have a license for that
01:05:09 | takanashikiara: maybe I can buy 1 of the Amazon or in a fishing shop when I'm in Florida and then I just go into the water with that
01:05:11 | takanashikiara: I just I just go for it
01:05:20 | takanashikiara: you think
01:05:22 | takanashikiara: you need a license
01:05:27 | takanashikiara: oh you don't need 1 okay well let's fucking go
01:05:30 | takanashikiara: less money spent on licenses
01:05:37 | takanashikiara: me with a fucking spare gun oh my God
01:05:43 | takanashikiara: do I don't look like that kind of per dive uh into the water and
01:05:49 | takanashikiara: spare guns Harpoon Gun line fish
01:05:55 | takanashikiara: when they showed it to like rather than and she was like yeah I get it
01:05:59 | takanashikiara: I see I see why you are interested in it
01:06:08 | takanashikiara: but yeah I don't know if I want to or if I even have time to do it this year in the summer sum is always fucking
01:06:10 | takanashikiara: but
01:06:13 | takanashikiara: I'm also like really
01:06:21 | takanashikiara: thinking about Bali more and more because I've been seeing so many beautiful
01:06:30 | takanashikiara: like Resort Villas in the middle of a jungle and stuff and in Bali that also creatively designed
01:06:35 | takanashikiara: and probably a lot more affordable
01:06:42 | takanashikiara: yeah but I think it would probably be more humid and more bugs
01:06:43 | takanashikiara: in Bali
01:06:47 | takanashikiara: a lot more bugs
01:06:56 | takanashikiara: and I really want to go
01:06:59 | takanashikiara: I need to go to Bali
01:07:05 | takanashikiara: so I could get my diving license to do probably for a pretty decent price I would assume
01:07:14 | takanashikiara: want to keep on talking about these things I've been trying to diving lessons or talking about it for 2 years now probably
01:07:27 | takanashikiara: you need a salt water license for spare fishing in Florida I'm on it I'm on it Florida man
01:07:29 | takanashikiara: well not on it but
01:07:31 | takanashikiara: yeah
01:07:33 | takanashikiara: I'm going to get 1
01:07:40 | takanashikiara: yeah yeah okay I'm going to now
01:07:47 | takanashikiara: be another space at home bored you know I'm alone now so I have time so those are all I
01:07:59 | takanashikiara: Happy Valentine's Day everybody you're from a Arizona World damn it
01:08:01 | takanashikiara: but you were a legit
01:08:11 | takanashikiara: Happy Valentine's day um hope you saw the new Eagle short with Qui
01:08:15 | takanashikiara: these are really doing well so far I'm glad
01:08:18 | takanashikiara: I hope you guys them
01:08:21 | takanashikiara: I'm going to go
01:08:25 | takanashikiara: about my day now
01:08:28 | takanashikiara: I'm going to
01:08:33 | takanashikiara: make my reservation for Paris sailing now
01:08:40 | takanashikiara: Paris sailing
01:08:58 | takanashikiara: has a nice contrast
01:09:05 | takanashikiara: new guy is doing a good job I was worried about going for someone who hadn't worked with before
01:09:08 | takanashikiara: but he's doing a good job
01:09:19 | takanashikiara: thank you guys have a nice day goodbye
01:09:24 | takanashikiara: goodbye and Germany
01:09:28 | takanashikiara: a little bit more vacation for the Wawa
01:09:30 | takanashikiara: back soon
01:09:33 | takanashikiara: oh I got to play and field
01:09:36 | takanashikiara: can I do my dailies
01:09:38 | takanashikiara: MO
01:10:03 | takanashikiara: events