Utopian wrote:
Eliza,
Would it be accurate to say you miscalculated during the initial stages of the game by choosing the wrong folk to align with? I mean, I don't get why you didn't align yourself with Parvati and Amanda immediately. You've said here that such an alliance "wasn't in the cards." But whose fault was that?
Did you regard Amanda and Parvati as being too frivolous. Were you thinking you had little in common with them because neither could match your curriculum vitae? What was the cause of the apparent initial animosity among you?
Thanks.
I don't think I miscalculated anything those first few days except Fairplay's desire to be in the game and Cirie's closeness with me and Ami.
At that point in the game I did not feel that I could have been in an alliance with the couples. Ami and I did discuss it, though. I wasn't going anywhere
(to another alliance) without Ami so it could have been the showmancers and me and Ami, but they liked her better than they liked me so that meant that I was
at best, sixth place which was not acceptable to me. I felt I was in a core final 4 alliance (with Ami, Jonathan, and Yau) and Ami and I had made a final 3
alliance (with Cirie). I thought I had done well those first few days.
I had difficulty connecting with Parvati and Amanda early on because they were cliquey and exclusive. They talked a LOT about Los Angeles so I had difficulty
participating in their conversations and I have a tough time caring about if the manager at the bar one of them cocktail waitresses at dates the other
one's former roommate. They talked about spa treatments and microdermabrasion and I couldn't relate.
