Rites of Passage

[Eliza Orlins]

it's been a long, and fun season. well, it's been shorter for me than it has been for some. although, sitting in pre-jury for awhile there made things go by kinda slower...

after a lot of struggle and a lot of ups and downs, i've reached the final four. 13 people have left the game, including me, but my name won't be mentioned today.

now it's time to remember everyone who is out, the people who, for the most part, i got the pleasure of getting to know, and then had the challenge of voting out to make it where i am.



starting with...



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[Eliza Orlins]

awwwwwwww. poor rob never even got to make it onto a tribe, never really got to play the game

he's my friend from pre-jury, the person i talked to the most for the first half of this game. i've missed him while i've been back in, fighting against monica and losing everytime lol


he'll definately be my friend after the game. well i mean, if it's up to me, he will be. i was sad that i never got to play in japan with him, but atleast we got to spend time in pre-jury together, and got to know eachother there.


ur awesome rob!!!! even though u sucked at that puzzle a long time ago, i still luv ya!!! ;D

[Eliza Orlins]

and next is...








i never got to talk to JT at all... or atleast i don't remember ever talkinghim. we may have exchanged a few words... "hi"... "how ya doing"... but never got the chance to get to know JT

for shame that we never got to talk!!!


if we had, i'm sure i'd have liked him. never met a JT i didn't like, i don't think.


hehehe...





and next up is.........


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[Eliza Orlins]

*shivers a bit*... na onka!

i don't know what to say. you REALLY didn't like me, for the short time i was in the game with you. i never actualyl got to talk to you, but something i did seemed to piss you off quite a bit.

ah well, it's the past now.

you did give me something that i have been saving up, hoping i'd make it this far so i could use... which is you cast the VERY best vote against me so far of this game... and i've had 8 of them now.

my personal text for the end of the game will have the name you gave me: "E-LIE-ZA".

hehehe. that's in honor of you, na onka!

[Eliza Orlins]

benry... benry.

i really enjoyed benry's company. i LOVED talking to him. literally all you gotta do is say "hi benry!" and he just starts going, talking about everything that's going on in his life, telling all these funny stories and stuff. you never even have to try to come up with something to say cause he's always got something on tap.

BEST person to talk to while i was in the game originally. didn't do a whole lot of game talk, just sat around and listened to benry stories.

i'll miss that. unless we get to keep talking, which i would loooove!



i think benry just didn't have his head in the game enough. otherwise i'm sure he'd have done awesome!!!

[Eliza Orlins]

john kenney is pretty hot...

but i think we all know who was playing as john kenney. but, i'll look past that for this rites of passage.

in this game he seemed pretty nice to me, for the couple of times i talked to him. in fact, the very first time i talked to him, i didn't even realize who it was. blew my mind cause that's the first time i've not noticed

i'm happy to say he still has never beaten me in an ORG, since he went out before i came back.



hmmmmmmmm... john kenney. i don't know what else to say about you. LOL

[Eliza Orlins]

the next person is...







if you stare into charlie's eyes for too long... you'll forget where you are.

to me, charlie was the cutest guy out here. easily. it's a shame i didn't get to talk to him more. we talked a few times while i was in the game the first time, but not nearly enough

and then he had things come up and he had to go away... and inside i cried a bit because i do that when cute people go away hehehe.


wish i'd had the chance to get to know you charlie. you seemed fairly outspoken and stuff. you never know, we might have gotten along well as long as i didn't get too lost in ur eyes!

[Eliza Orlins]

mmmmmmm another really sexy guy. what the hell japan was just full of hotness!!!

but again, i barely got to talk to this guy. me and brad talked i think twice, once at the very start of the game and then once when i got back in the game.

he was the first person voted out after i got back. and he got that dreaded position as the last person out before jury

i love that shirt that brad is wearing in my memory pic... mmmmm that's what i'll remember


sorry we didn't get to talk more...





and now onto the people i got to know a little bit better...



starting with...



the one...



the only....




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[Eliza Orlins]

without a doubt the single most beautiful person to ever step foot in japan...

and my biggest regret of this entire game


when i got back in the game, i completely expected jaime to be gunning for me. but she surprised me, and she didn't come after me. in fact she was super sweet to me.

ever since i voted her out, i have wished that i hadn't, and i've felt bad about it everytime i thought abt it.


i think you're probably one of the nicest people that was in the game. and i think you deserve to be here still, or atleast, i don't think you should've been voted out when you were voted out

i said some bad things about you, early on, in my confessional.

i regret those things too. cause now i can't think of a single bad thing to say about you. only nice stuff

sorry for voting you, more than anyone else i have voted.


stay awesome, jaime!!!

[Eliza Orlins]

and that brings us too...


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the person who got the drama queen award and deserved every bit of that honor...


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amanda!!!

the crown is out of respect for ya babe! usually i am named the most dramatic, but you totally outdid me in japan! grats for causing such a scene before you left.

it was entertaining. japan was a mad house for that round, and definately nobody went out with the bang that amanda did.

hehehe i like amanda, to be honest. she can be a bit crazy at times but it keeps you on your toes

i hope we can stay friends. it's nice to surround yourself with a colorful group of people, and amanda definately fits this bill.


love ya and all your craziness, girl!!!

[Eliza Orlins]

and now the last of the kansai girls to be voted out...






this is another sad one for me, although i never voted her out, i still regret seeing her go.

there was a tribal council question awhile back asking if i had gotten to vote when christy went home, would she have gone to the jury?

i said yes, she would've still gone to the jury, because of the people that were left in the game at the time... but the answer is actually no. i would've voted fairplay that round, and christy would still have a good shot at being in the game.


i liked her, when i got to get to know her a bit after i came back. and even since voting her out i've talked to her a few times and she is just awesome everytime. really fun to talk to.

seems like she has a good personality... rather light hearted. and like just nice. pleasant to be around.


not a bad thing in the world that i could say about christy. it's just a shame she couldn't get fairplay out when she tried




miss you, christy!!! hope ur enjoying yourself in the jury, can't wait to see you at the final tribal council or maybe even a little sooner





and we all know who comes next...

lol...


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[Eliza Orlins]

that's right, it's fairplay!!!

lol what isn't there to say about this guy? he was a real character.


at first when he learned that the outcast challenge was going on he kept wishing me luck and giving me motivation throughout that night of posting when i stayed up to get myself in. that's how i got to start talking to him.

it was very positive at first, and that's how i'm going to choose to remember fairplay now. the positive, motivational, uplifting and talkative guy that i came to love when i first got back in the game



also, you gotta give it to fairplay for surviving long past what it looked like should have been his due date. he kept getting votes at every tribal but he just wouldn't ever quite leave hehehe.

and then when he did he took all our booze. son of a bitch !



you better have some left for final tribal there fairplay.


love ya, you made the game interesting and you played it hard. after everything... it wouldn't have been the same without ya!

[Eliza Orlins]

the penultimate player in my walk down memory lane...








marcus was always nice to me, from the moment i came back, he was sweet, kinda, and caring, and he came to talk to me just as much as i went to talk to him. i really appreciated his companionship... whenever i got into dramatic situations, i could count on him to put a more positive spin on things. he was a true optimist, atleast with me.

and i never felt alone with him around. even though i didn't feel like we had as deep a connection as i was looking for, what we had worked for me.


i don't think i ever really felt anything unpleasant towards marcus. he was very steady, and the way i felt about him never really changed from the time i started talking to him until now. he was like... of anyone other than alexis... my rock, in this game. VERY dependable.

when i voted him out, it was strategy, 100%.



miss you too, a bunch, marcus!!!

[Eliza Orlins]

and finally...


last but DEFINATELY not least...


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poor jane

i feel bad about this vote, too. it was one of those last second strategic things that just sorta came up out of the blue. i loved the alliance she named for us, even though it didn't last long. of all the shaky alliances i had in this game, this is the one i trusted the most and got behind the most. it just sucked how short it lasted.

i thoroughly enjoyed the times we talked though. i wish we'd started talking sooner because as it turns out, jane was one of my favorite people in the game


i respected her going after me too, and i really got a kick out of talking to her about it after. she was funny, honest, and real.

not a lot of better people to play a game of survivor with than you, jane.


sorry i voted you when i did.


you're a really really cool chick!!!

[Eliza Orlins]

and that concludes my rites of passage, one of my most favorite parts of survivor...


thnx to everyone who played for putting up a good fight and making the game interesting.

i'm so glad i could make it this far, to do that...



and now, to move onto the final challenge of can you survive japan.