Annalise

Let me preface this by saying that is a competition entry for Stayz.com.au Back in the day, back in 2005, back when I was 15 my parents decided to spoil my little brother and I with a trip to the magical land of Club Med - Lindeman Island. This was a time where I was, as the great Britney Spears so powerfully put it “not a girl,  not yet a woman”. But not in a gross way, in a kind of exciting way.

On the first day of the trip my translucent skin got so severely sunburnt that the photos I have from that evenings dinner and activities are actually scorched with the colour of my skin. A boy I met and crushed on broke his collar bone on his second day and had to spend the remainder of the trip playing xbox one handed in the totally kool kidz club for kool kidz with a k.

I made friends with a large group of kids from the totally kool kidz club (mentioned above) and we got up to a medium to high amount of mischief. Because I was 15, I remember feeling very ~independent~ and ~mature~ The rag tag group of kids that I made friends with decided that it would be really cool to do shots of straight red cordial, take photos and pretend that it was alcohol. Mature. Independent.