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Sooooooo, let me just start by saying today was a crazy day. It begun normally with breakfast at Dunkin Donuts and seminar. It was after lunch during our free time that life got hectic. Like 12 of us decided to go to downtown Ithaca. We just left without an inkling of a clue where we were going. We took pictures at the Cornell sign, visited the waterfall, got ICEES (I just got ice) (because it's free) and walked around. Well, Ithaca is a very steep hilled terrain. So walking can easily turn from a nice stroll to a constant battle between you and gravity to keep your body up while walking down at like 90 degrees. So we are just walking and strolling for at least 40 miniutes and we happen upon downtown Ithaca. Yayyy. We saw an art store and a Starbucks (more free ice).  It was at Starbucks that I realized how hungry I was from not truly eating lunch earlier. I remembered that I have a $5 gift card to McDonalds that would be great for the occasion. Because it is hot and everyone is tired no one really wants to go with me but two of my friends end up coming.  I always thought there was a McDonalds on every corner. WRONG. We walked for TWO HOURS to get to this Mickie D's. Now that sounds ridiculous, but that's because it is. My friends phone told us the restaurant only took 40 minutes to get there which in our minds was nothing because we had already walked a similar distance and that wasn't so bad and we would see stuff along the way so why not? Why not? Allow me to explain why not. Ahem. The terrain. Going up hill for a mile will take 80 years longer than just a plain mile. Also, no one told us that Elmira Road is like the Pierson Road of Flint. IT DOESNT END. So yea it took us 2 hours, 2 mormon witnesses with poor senses of direction, some frantic white lady at a stop sign who almost sent us outta town, a lot of ice and a broken Siri to get to McDonalds. We kept thinking "Oh it'll be right around the corner....any minute know....I think I see it......it's coming..." No. It was not coming. Not to mention we were all wearing cheap, flat sandals. Can you say "blisters"? Because our feet sure can. When we finally arrived we were pleased to see that the customer service was good. Shout out to Alex from Elmira Road McDonalds for making me feel like the adventure had purpose and that I wasn't absurd for my choice in endeavors. So thanks Alex. The walk back was worse. I was dehydrated and full and exhausted so I was waaayyy behind the other girls. So behind that we had to cross the street separately. As a matter of fact, when we joined up we saw a bus headed straight for where we needed to go. It was across the street at a light and betwixt us was like 4 lanes of fast heavy traffic. The light had just turned green for the right-of-wayers and they hadn't really moved yet so I ran after the bus. My friends called me like nooo but I was already halfway across the street. I kinda hopscotched about it because I wanted them to come with me. Some car started honking REAAAAALLLY loud and i got scared so I ran really fast to the bus. In this sprint, my phone jolted from my bag and crashed to the asphalt. Everything fell apart, my screen busted for the first time (I cried) and some jackass called me a bitch. So I was pretty distraught for like the next hour considering that all went down within like less than 10 seconds. But thank God that we all had 1.50 and the bus literally took us straight home in like 15 minutes. We even beat our other group back to the meeting spot. After that it was just dinner, poetry, nail painting, a presentation and partying. Curfew wasn't until 1:30 so the turn up was real lol. Sadly, the screen of my phone is so acutely cracked that glass keeps coming off on my finger. And on top of allllllllll that, I lost my brand new, 7 dollar, quality, cute headphones. It wasn't the best day but it is what it is ya know.

Love, your favorite sporadic teenager,
Cam L.B