So for the past four days I was in Los Angeles, California for a choir trip.

We went to Disney land and Universal Studios and then Disney land again and then we went to the supermarket.

But Los Angeles is four hours difference from Spring TX and I just got back at 10:30 last night. I have jet lag and I'm on California time and I'm really tired so I'm just going to type out my thoughts and maybe I'll be able to sleep easier. Sound good? Mkay.

First off; California has a shizton of palm trees. Like where I live, we have a heck of a lot of pine trees. Any tree not planted by a human, is most likely a pine tree. If a human planted it, it's probably not a pine tree because we have enough of those. Like my house is next to a forest of pine.

In California, for some reason there are just Palm trees everywhere. I don't think Palm trees are even native to California, but I could be wrong, but still like wut???

And trucks, are not there. I really don't think about this much, but Texas has a lot of trucks. Here the words car and truck are completely interchangeable, because most people's cars are trucks. I will probably call your minivan a truck. Like I'm in my hotel and it was only one truck in the parking lot. I drive through my neighborhood and I cannot pass three houses without seeing a truck. This is not an exaggeration.

Okay so I was in a room with strangers sort of. Not exactly strangers, I mean they're in my choir class, but I didn't know their names. Now I do though. We were in chaperone groups and each chaperone was in charge of maintaining a boy group and a girl group and we had to get our tickets from them and stuff. So our chaperone was a man. One of our girls actually started doing that monthly thing while we were on our trip. You know the whole waterfalls of Satan thing. So she pulled us aside cuz she didn't bring anything for it, and I gave her an emergency thing I had in my purse and Jacky gave her drugs (aspirin), but while we were trying to handle this like women, holding a meeting, cuz you know how boys are, and the guys in our group started following us as we walk away from them.

And we go "no you stay there."

And Robert was like "but I thought we were moving?"

And Jacky goes "no it's a girl meeting."

But Ricardo was still following us and I tell him it's girl talk and you know what he says?

"BUT IM GAY!" Jacky had Robert pull him away.

And we sang as a group and that was cool. But like we deprecated into groups and I grouped with some semi-strangers (none of my friends came), and about ten minutes into the day one of the girls started crying because her ankle hurt a lot and she couldn't walk anymore. So my teacher rented her a wheelchair.

We all took turns pushing her around in a wheel chair. That was the worst wheelchair I've ever seen though. The breaks didn't work, and the wheels would turn at odd angles and we had to kick it back into place ever time. And people are really rude. To the disabled. Like I know my friend wasn't permanently paralyzed, and she actually could get up out of the wheelchair if need be, but no one else in the park knew and they still acted really rude. Like we're trying to maneuver this big old wheelchair around and they just keep walking straight at us, and expect us to move around them. And when we were trying to get through places people would walk right in front of her like she wasn't even there, and some of them actually stopped in front of her. There was a different choir that was standing in a blob in the middle of the road and their friends had to yell at them before they moved at all for us. I actually had one woman tell me I needed to pay more attention to the people around me, while I was trying to turn the stupid chair around. If she had been paying attention, and just walked around us, we could of moved the thing ten minutes earlier.

Like I get people are paying attention to themselves, and they don't really think about it, but could you just check your prove late real quick? I mean look at her and then take a good look at yourself. If your legs are working, it's a lot easier to take three steps to your right, than for her to move in figure eight shapes around the park because you're an entitled ignoramus.

Certain aspects of it weren't that bad though. On most rides the only handicap accessible Lane was the fast pass lane, so we had really short wait times for rides. In Harry Potter world we got to go up an elevator and wait in a secret passage to do the Hogwarts forbidden journey, and I was kinda geeking out. It was this simulation like we were flying with Ron and hart and there was a dragon and spiders and demented and we went over the quiditch field. I subconsciously lifted my legs up when we "flew" near the bottom of the quiditch field, because for a minute I thought my feet were going to hit the ground, and then I tried to grab the snitch. It was so cool.

Also we avoided a two hour wait line for small world, and we chased each other around pushing the wheelchair.

But seriously like you are privileged. You have certain advantages in life other people don't. This is in regards to everything. Whether it be race, sexual orientation, gender, physical conditions, money, you need to check yourself, because there are other people in this world, and yes you should go out of your way to make sure you're a nice person, even if it doesn't benefit you. You can care about other people's feelings (and their safety), without caring about their opinion of you. You can care about people's opinion of you without caring about their feelings or safety. You should care about people's feelings and safety. I don't know why but you just should. I for one don't want to be the cause of anyone's misery or self loathing, if I can help it.

I'm privileged because I'm a white, cisgender girl, I'm not gay, and I live in America where I have certain freedoms and access to resources and education, and I can walk, see, speak, and hear. Those are advantages. I have some disadvantages, and I know that, but it doesn't mean I should ignore when other people have different problems.

Also I'm going to stop cussing. Not because I think there's anything actually wrong with these words, but because it offends other people. I don't want to be the reason a kid gets their mouth washed out with soap. Plus I don't think we should just throw words around like that anymore. What you say is kind of a big deal, and if what's coming out of your mouth is 'shit' . . . Well that can't be a good thing can it?

Also just because your baby cousin knows that word doesn't mean that every child the same age as your baby cousin knows that word. Be mindful. If you don't have a verbal filter, you probably shouldn't be in places with kids.

You cannot drop the f-bomb in Disney land. It is not okay.