EXIT - Real Life Escape the Room Adventure!

Hi ya'll!

So i promised to update on Thursday which never happened and now it's already Monday (my apologies. It wasn't a legit reason this time but i guess i can say that i got sidetracked…?)

So anyway, today i went for a nice day out with one of my maybe-besties! (maybe for reasons seen below; when she's not being bitchy and clingy she's a fabulous person but when she is i'm just done)

It started out early morning with the movie "The Breakup Guru" which is surprisingly funny and pleasant. I've gotta commend that girl on her taste in movies. I liked it very, very much.

We shared a large fries, Sour Patch Kids, a large Sprite, and then off we went afterwards, clomping to the bus stop to get to our next destination.

(Did i mention we ran into a classmate of ours? She recognized me before i recognized her, shame on me!)

So we made our way to a nearby mall since our appointment wasn't until late afternoon.

Sitting in the food court and eating, we talked about university and courses, and a bit about our past.

I mentioned that i'd like first year university to be full of firsts (as promised by its name~!) to her;

Me: "first hand holding, first hug, first kiss, first cuddle…first no pants dance ;D"
Her: "Aw i want that too!"
Me: "…you can always get amnesia."
Her: "List some things that can be firsts for me?"
Me: "…open mouth kiss?"
Her: (shakes head) "I'll count silently in my heart."
Me: "…on a tree?"
Her: "WHAT?"
Me: "on a boat?"
Her: "…"
Me: "on a rock? on a dock?"
Her: "…"
Me: "On a drying machine? while running and screaming? facing a wall? hanging from a tree? while he whips you?"
Her: "….I never understood why some people like whipping others while doing the dirty."
Me: "That's like asking why we purposely make video game characters die or attack their own party members. Because it's amusing."
Her: "oh, you're evil."
Me: (smirks)

Soonafter we made our way to Exit, but we bypassed it and got lost, so we asked two other teenagers in the area how to get there, and it turns out they were going there too!

So we followed them.

Once there, we had to pay and put our things aside. Then sign our names and listen to them tell us the rules.

(Dont' move anything, listen to instructions, don't use violence, don't touch the corpse, et al et al et al)

And then we had to put some blindfolds on and stand in a line.

So we stood in a line and the two others seemed to be okay but me and Mango were panicking because there's just something freaky about not being able to see while being lead through many twists and bends with ominous music blasting in our ears.

At once point we stopped and then the staff had to separate us. Blindfolds still on at this point.

All i heard was "step over, sit down."

And then the staff came to get me and Mango, and we were both clinging to each other and squealing.

Him: "you need to let go of each other."
Us: "ARGHGHGSKNDGKSNGNS"

So he leads Mango in first, sits her down, tells her to scoot to the far right. Then puts me in, sits me down, and then something clangs close.

I reach out instantly for Mango, pitifully, "where are yooou?"

We grasp hands and i draw my legs up, knowing there's a corpse in the room (a prop, mind you, not a real one) and she notices me shifting so she pulls her legs up too, and we're clinging to each other whimpering loudly and i'm sure it was a sight for sore eyes XD

Then we're told we can remove our blindfolds and i do so, at first confused why i can't see anything.

(because oh yeah! My glasses were not on my face. genius.)

I put on my glasses and we hand back the blindfolds. We are given two clue cards and then he leaves.

Now at this point i look around. There's two light sticks, one for each pair.

We're all stuck in a tiny jail cell.

We start off needing to find the way to unlock the door, which takes quite a while.

But we do.

Then we scramble outside and eventually figure our way out of the first room and into the second, where we begin rifling through everything but time was ticking and we knew that we really had no chance of getting out at this point.

Mango at this point finds a pair of functional handcuffs.

Her: (tries to put it on me, but can't)
Her: "you're too fat."
Me: "…I'm wearing a jacket." (pulls up sleeve)
Her: (clicks it on) "oh!" (clicks it onto herself)
Me: "….."
Her: "….."
Her: (starts walking to the other room and i'm forced to follow since we're connected)
Me: (starts walking back to the room we were in and she's forced to follow because we're connected)
Other Girls: "you handcuffed yourselves to each other?"
Us: (proudly) "yup."
Her: (unclicks it off her wrist) "hold still."
Me: "…What?"
Her: "I want to handcuff you to this table."
Me: "What?! No!"
Her: (struggling to attach the cuff to the desk)
Me: (squirming and struggling with the cuff) "Noooooo i don't want to i'm scaaaaared"
Me: (suddenly yanks myself free)
Me: "…."
Her: "…."
Us: "…."

Evnetually thought we don't really get anywhere and time runs out, and we're told to line up once more.

Blindfolds are given back to us and this time i'm determined to see what the last room looks like, so i leavce a tiny bit of space at the bottom of the blindfold and as we pass i keep my head up to see.

And truly, there was only one room left.

But i won't mention what was in there ;)

Then we are allowed to take pictures with FAIL signs and we bid the other girls goodbye, and then leave.

We walk together towards the busstop and talk about university and how we intend to come back to Exit and finish what we started.


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Some time passes
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Her: "i want to do a real life Jigsaw experience."
Me: "in which you are actually killed?"
Her: "….no….?"
Me: "I saw the hesitation."
Us: "…."
Her: "like with devices and everything."
Me: "If you wanted that you could just post an ad on Craigslist and end up in someone's basement…"
Her: "…well i dont mean it THAT way."
Me: "…pfffwahahahahaha"




Her: "we should get together again and do fun stuff during Frosh week."
Me: "Frosh week is just an acronym for Fuck Everybody Week."
Her: "you're on fire today."
Me: (batting at my hair) "oh, i thought you meant literally."






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My Mom's Opinion of Exit
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Her: "If you're paying someone 25$ to throw you in a locked room, i'll gladly take that money and lock you in the house."






Overrall, very fun day. Had lots of interesting conversations and interesting new experiences ^_^

Can't wait to experience this sort of fun again near Halloween. (maybe?)





Mother Statement: "why you insist on scaring yourself silly i'll never understand."




I say that's all part of the fun. Yeah we get scared but it's a good scare! that's why we watch horror movies, go to haunted houses, and everything in between :)

And i'd say that just a few days made a difference.

We've graduated.

We're grown up now.

And i think it shows. :3

Welcome to the new world ;D





~DoReMi~

I Don't Like Breakfast

Soooo… It's Tuesday!

I think i said i'd update on Tuesdays and Thursdays right? I could be wrong.

Today, for the first time in the entire summer, i actually got up early!!! Which is actually not that early, just 9:30, because usually i sleep until 12:00.

I wanted to eat breakfast with my Mum today.

So i rolled out of bed and we go downstairs to eat with the family, and i come to realise that  breakfast is the most ANNOYING meal of the day.

Like, with breakfasts on school days at least, i get to eat yummy foods like rice noodles or whatever left over for what i have packed for lunch,

but with everyone else breakfast is a DISASTER.

Everyone on the table falls either under the category of "I don't like it" or "I can't eat it" which does me no wonders.

Back a long time ago, in grade school, when we went to camp we'd all eat together in the Lodge for breakfast, and naturally they were all yummy foods, fruit salads and basics like scrambled eggs and bacon and cereal and sausage and stuff.

Today i'd at least eat maybe a strip or two of bacon and have a sausage (the last full camp i went on, breakfast = two mini sausages and a juice packet) but back then, i HATED meat.

like, i'd go to McDonalds and order a cheeseburger, but "ONLY CHEESE AND KETCHUP PLEASE"

So basically for breakfast i'd have the fruit salad (if it didn't contain fruits that i am allergic to) and cereal with syrup instead of milk since i hated milk. …I also hated cereal, but sometimes you just gotta fill your belly, even if you're eating strange things.

Needless to say, i've never finished a bowl during camp.

Oh yeah, and there was toast. but i hate how bread tastes so i didn't eat that.

And at home it's no different,

blueberry bagles, muffins, some sort of oat pancake, coffee, avocado smoothie… all staples of the house but i would literally eat none of it, even if i was starving. i'd rather not eat than eat something i don't like. :/

And i remember in France, breakfast every day was basically two spoonfuls of chocolate cereal and a mug of tea. and for the matter, i don't like chocolate, i don't like cereal, and i don't like tea.

The only time breakfasts have been actually good, though, i'd argue, is in Taiwan. because we'd eat this thing called "Shao Bing" and it's REALLY delicious. it basically is like a crepe but less savory and it is flaky and yummy and has sesame seeds on the top but i hate sesame seeds so i don't eat the top.

top that off with syrupy soy milk and Mmmmm <3 that is a delicious breakfast.

Sooo… yeah.

Not the biggest fan of breakfast, tbh.

I can't understand the people that say that'd like to have breakfast for dinner. I'd rather just not have dinner than to put up with breakfast foods.

unless, you know, it's Shao Bing, then i would eat it.







Speaking of, 3 more weeks until we leave. ahhh, that's a long time T_T



~reRe~

Summer Has Come At Last!

Okaaaaay so it's been a long time since i last updated and also i haven't been sticking to a regular schedule but hey, i'm back, WHOO!

and it's the season we've all been waiting for! Summer! Yay!

Remember how i travelled alone this spring? (sort of alone, not actually?)

Well, we're going back! Yay! :D

The only major difference?

It's summer, summer is hot and humid, i hate hot and humid :D

But i'm glad to be back, truly, even if it's in the dead heat of summer, i'm happy to be seeing my family again, it'll be the highlight of summer, i'm sure :)

Like usual i'll probably need to be dragged back by the feet, but hey, beggars can't be choosers :)

Anyway, no real update or story for ya'll this time, just wanted to hop back online and prove that i'm not like, yanno, dead.

update on the Mango topic… it'll hopefully, probably become a nonissue soon.

That aside..

Happy summer everyone :)

From now until departure, updates will be every Tuesday and Thursday and will be on random topics :P

After departure, updates will be most likely nonexistant until we're back :P

(unless something awesome happens, like that time when i pierced my ears) :)

Alright, that's it for now :P

Happy summerrrrrrrr!!!






~Rena~