January 19, 2001 Friday - Aitutaki / Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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| Aitutaki lagoon from air - Aitutaki, Cook Islands |
I caught the first flight back from Aitutaki to a rainy Rarotonga. I caught the bus back to town and back to the AreMango Hostel. It was a little weird to walk back into a hostel where just last week was filled with new friends and this week I didn't see anybody I knew. Julian, the big Brit was still there and I talked to him briefly.
The hostel was filled with mostly young Brits this week plus a few other Scandinavians. It was interesting to see the different dynamics of the hostel dwellers from one week to another. It took me a few hours to start getting comfortable talking to the different groups of people but for some reason, I managed really well that afternoon.
Linda and Steinar, the two Norwegians who everyone thought were a couple were still at the hostel also. I went around the hostel and got to know them a little bit. I also met my new dormmates - two Scotsmen who were pissed most of the time. We went snorkeling together that afternoon at Fruits.
I told them all about the Island Night I experienced last week at the Banana Court so I got the whole hostel together as a group that evening and took the bus to the bar for the Island Night. I rode a moped with Johnny, a young Brit I met earlier. He let me ride his rental manual-shifting moped and I learned pretty fast on it. It was nice to be riding a moped again, especially at night, but I wasn't completely comfortable on it because I wasn't familiar with the moped.
Johnny, who is 23, turned out to be a pretty decent bloke and has a more mature view of the world than most blokes at his age. The rest of the group joined us and we just mingled and partied for a while. Eventually I headed home on the 1:30 bus. Eventually, I went to sleep and the two Scotsmen never came home that night.
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