OK, I’ve been on this trip for 5 days and I just realized that I could get internet connectivity on my laptop. So, I’m finally able to make a new post about how this Spring Break trip to Cabo has gone. I never went on a Spring Break trip during my undergrad years because I was always working, so I was hoping to get that experience all at once on this one. To put it simply, this has been a GREAT trip. As the break approached, I had visions of all of the wild things one would see on MTV’s Spring Break telecasts, like people running around half naked on the beach, all-night outings at clubs, and other assorted craziness. While I have seen some of those things, they haven’t even been the highlights of my time here.
Before going into details, I’ve got to give a huge shout out to my classmates Kim S. and Amy J. who organized everything for this trip. They made it so simple to get in on this that all we had to do was call the resort to make our reservations and book our flights and we were all set. We’re staying at a brand new resort down here with everything included: all food and drinks and most activities. We knew from the start that we weren’t staying at the standard Spring Break spot because we were the only people here in our age group…everyone else was either much older or were the kids of those older folks. We soon found all of the young folks when we started hitting the town at night. The two main spots down here are Squid Row and Cabo Wabo, which were both decent spots and were filled with some of the wildest partiers I’ve ever seen, but they were both so packed that it was overwhelming. Anyone who knows me knows that I like to throw down on the dance floor, but trying to do so in an overcrowded club with people’s drinks spilling on me is NOT the move for me. I think it’s safe to say that I’ve outgrown that sort of partying.
The real highlights for me have been the opportunities to get to know my classmates a little better. There are several cats in my class who I considered my friends that I’d never had a chance to hang with for more than a minute or two at a time. One of my missions for Cabo was to spend some significant time kickin’ it with these folks. Also, there are a bunch of folks on this trip that I barely knew and had had no interactions with outside of seeing them across the room in class. I definitely wanted to spend time getting to know that they were all about, so I’ve been randomly rolling up on these people and asking them to give me their 2-minute elevator pitch about their lives. I know that I can’t learn everything about all of the folks on this trip in such a short period of time, but I’m hoping that this serves as a starting point to build off of over the next four academic quarters.
I guess I’ll jump off of here now and get back to resting. I caught some sort of 24-hour bug yesterday that had me down for the count. I had a terrible fever, aching body, congestion, runny nose, and it got so bad that I felt like my eyes were throbbing. I ended up stuck in my room sleeping for most of the day, but the fever finally broke at about 4am. Now, I’m just trying to get enough energy built up to go out for a little while tonight…it’s our last night here, so it should be off the chain.