Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

The DJ in the cruise port of Ocho Rios welcomed my friend Andreas and I with Bob Marley songs, while overseeing one of the greenest islands from our balcony. I was eager to get off the boat to go to the nearby Mystic Mountain. Right outside of the port I haggled with taxi drivers, who tried to charge a too high price and told me to walk when I said I would pay half. When I started to walk he came back to me and said "OK the price is fine!". I asked if I could pay by card but I couldn't so he would drive me in to town, which was like 3 minutes away, so I could withdraw money, but that would cost me extra of course. They just tried to get every penny of me they could and I'm so bored with that. For me it's better if you act nice and then you can get a tip instead, instead of trying to take 40 dollars for a 5 minute ride. It turned out the trip to withdraw the money was almost longer than the ride to Mystic Mountain, so we should have just walked there. Especially...

When I was a kid and came home from school with my friend Marco, we went up to my room to play and suddenly my mom called me down to the kitchen. She told me she had a surprise for me, that me and her were going to the outskirts of Chania on the island Crete that belongs to Greece together with her new boyfriend since my birthday was coming up. I couldn’t believe it, Greece, that was far away and with sunny beaches and swimming pools and it all seemed so amazing! I remember I bragged about it for Marco and I felt like the coolest kid in the world, me, I’m going to Greece! It was the first time I ever went on a trip to a country that didn’t remind me of Sweden, like the neighboring countries or Scotland had done. This was going to be something completely different and I was looking forward to be seeing a new side of the world that I already loved beforehand. It felt like the best birthday gift ever. When we arrived, it was just like I had imagined, I fell in love with all the whi...