Meleny's Exiled trip to Peru left her stomach in knots -- and then all over the floor. The dirt floor. This is one ex-Super Sweet 16er who wasn't a happy camper during her journey abroad. Check out Meleny's diary below to get all the gory details...
THE NIGHT OF THE INTERVENTION
Tonight I’m leaving for Peru. My dad told me that I'm going to be living 12,000 ft up in the mountains. I'll also be meeting a girl my age named Helen, as well her family, who are a part of the Quechua people. I’m going to be living with them for a week. This is the first time I’m going to be away from my family for that long. I'm really nervous about the people, where I’m going to be sleeping, what I’m going to be eating, etc. I hope that I come back as the person my family wants me to be...
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Ex-Super Sweet 16er and self-proclaimed pink princess, Marissa, stepped out of her time/comfort zone on tonight's Exiled when she went showerless for five days, cozied up to bugs and made Mac-n-Cheese from scratch. Marissa's trip to India opened her eyes to how different things can be outside her swanky Scottsdale, AZ, home... and believe it or not, she's thankful for the opportunity to see beyond her bubble. Just check out Marissa's diary entries from the adventure:
THE NIGHT OF THE INTERVENTION
I just found out I’m going to India and I’m a little shocked. I know very little about India but I guess I am going to a little village in the jungle. I’m staying with a girl who is close to my age named Pramilla: I’m guessing it’s tiny, and from what my parents say, lots of bugs! Everyone knows I hate bugs. I understand that there may be no beds, showers or toilets. I might have to bathe in a river. Scary for sure. My parents don’t think I can do it, but I want to prove them wrong.
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Now that I've grown addicted accustomed to seeing My Super Sweet 16ers getting Exiled each week, it's become easier to predict a pattern here: Parents get pissy their kid is still taking the luxe life for granted, so they send ungrateful daughter to a land far far away, where people eat poop and do hard manual labor 24/7. Ultimately spoiled brat learns big lesson: there's more to life than Gucci. However, tonight's episode introduced a new twist -- it was reeeeeeally cold up in those mountains... and Chelsi reeeeeeally fought against it.
So did Chelsi walk away from that Norwegian snow village any more enlightened than before? Good thing she kept a diary during her rough and tumble excursion. Get a blow-by-blow account below, then tell us: Would you have been able to hack it?
TRAVELING
To get here I had to take a seven hour flight to Munich (or Munchy as my brother calls it). Then I took a two hour flight to Oslo. From Oslo, after a long layover, I flew to Kirkenes. Then I drove to a town about 2 ½ hours away called Tana Bru. After that I was supposed to come to Meehan, but the road that connected the path was blocked with tons of snow. So instead, I drove around, which took seven hours. When I arrived, members of the Seda were there as well as the family.
The Seda is like a cooperative which works together to heard reindeer. Maret and her family were dressed in the native outfits. I was also given one to wear. It was a beautiful coat made of reindeer fur which would cost about $6,000 in the stores. Maret’s mom told me I looked like a Sami when I was dressed because I am not too tall or short and not too fat or thin. When I first arrived, Maret told me this was my new home, but there was nothing to live in. That’s when I found out I had to actually build the lavu...
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