<p>I’ve never been on a cruise, but I’ve travelled a lot. For me, there is definetly more than one type of vacation. If you go to a big city with museums and monuments, or on an “adventure” holiday or something like that - you’re going to discover things. A cruise, or in my case a beach vacation, is just for relaxing. I’m usually really busy during the school year so it’s nice sometimes just to sit on a beach for a week and read (and not school readings either). It is possible to relax at home, of course, but why not just escape from it all? Bad winter weather, computers (yes, the net too), cell phones, and people everywhere. Besides, if your parents are paying for you to go on holiday… it’s not all that bad. :)</p>
<p>Ive been on 3 cruises. The first two I was too young to enjoy, because I had to stand next to my parents the whole time. The last one, this past spring break, was awesome. My parents didnt make me go to dinner with them, I only saw them about once the whole week. We had different rooms too.
The key to having fun is meet people. You’ll be suprised how much easier it is to meet friends here than at school or at home, because everyone else is looking for friends too. </p>
<p>One piece of advice: hook up with someone. It makes the trip soooooo fun. Nothing cooler than a guy who can recite the periodic table and hook up with a girl.</p>
<p>What cruise line/ship are they going on? It depends… if it’s a nice one, you should really go. I’m biased (I’ve been on five cruises, and I’ve loved them all), but it’s really a nice way to travel and see a bunch of places that would be much harder to do otherwise all without packing and unpacking.</p>
<p>It’s really situational as well (it depends on who your parents are).</p>
<p>One of the reasons why I’m so reluctant to go is that I’m not on particularly good terms with my parents. While they say that they would prefer me to go, all previous vacations have been marked with violent conflicts.</p>
<p>And a lot of them are related to the fact that I have different sleep-wake cycles from those of my parents. On a vacation to Oregon last year, I went to the bathroom and brought some notes to write some thoughts down on.Then one of my parents found that I was awake in the middle of the night, went up to me, and kept on slapping and hitting me.</p>
<p>Okay, decision official.I’m staying home. I might have gone if I had more liberal parents.</p>
<p>liberal parents, by any definition of liberal, aren’t always better.</p>
<p>my liberal parents are obsessed with ‘critical thinking’ so they question everything i say and do in efforts to get me to follow suit. i think they think i dont notice.</p>
<p>i also think it’s to get me to realize that spending your time doing schoolwork or ECs is pointless.</p>
<p>when will i learn? :P</p>
<p>So hit them back.</p>
<p>You’re an adult. You shouldn’t take that sort of excrement from them anymore.
You’ve got to shift the balance of power so you at least have control over your own self, and they don’t think you’re a slave, to be whipped whenever disobedient.</p>
<p>Eventually, parents just get tired of fighting you and let you be. Especially if you’re good at arguing with them, and can beat their arguments into the ground. ([url=<a href=“Google Search”>Google Search]This[/url</a>], or queries of similar nature, might give you some good ideas.)</p>
<p>(You should’ve seen the fights that broke out in 8th grade over letting me use the Internet instead of studying for an AP Bio class I wasn’t guaranteed to be enrolled in. Let’s just say they’ve never heard the end of that.)</p>
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<p>Haha, I guess it depends on how rational “liberal” parents are. Some “liberal” parents are quite irrational, especially if they try to move their children towards liberal philosophies. My connotation of “liberal”, btw, was just “liberal parenting.” Obviously, a political conservative who unschools his children can practice “liberal laissez-faire parenting”. </p>
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<p>I’m hoping that is the case, but one of my parents seems to forget A LOT OF THINGS. There is probably a correlation between stupidity and reflexive actions. I know that one of my parents is going to say SOMETHING to me whenever I he sees me on a casual glance, and he just says those things to me out of habit. It’s almost like he’s conditioned to making those responses. So long as I avoid him, he won’t really say much to me, but I like running around the house every so often, which makes it harder for me to be avoided. It’s kind of pathetic that he loses his anger whenever I don’t eat dinner with the family (or watermelon). </p>
<p>It DID work when I became vegetarian like 5.5 years ago. Clearly, vegetarianism would affect his life FAR MORE than my erratic sleeping patterns.</p>
<p>That said though, my parents don’t seem to mind TOO MUCH the fact that I seem to sleep all over the house, and that I often don’t sleep on beds (my room is next to their room so any of my movements could wake them up - hence why I just fall asleep whereever I study). </p>
<p>The other thing is that incredibly stupid people never appreciate arguments where they’re pwned (I don’t think he’s even processing my arguments). That said, he’s not that comfortable with English, and as a result, I can swear A LOT around him (my mother really minds my swearing though)</p>
<p>Hey, I think you should give the Cruise a shot.
Like someone mentioned, there is a 24/7 wifi connection.</p>
<p>Also it’d be a fun (well to me it’d seem fun) to try out the various activities they offer, such as rock climbing or even scuba diving (def. give that a shot if you go). And if you ever get bored during the day, just go to the room and hit the books. The surrounding enviorment will also be very relaxing.</p>
<p>IMO just give it a shot and try to relax.</p>