A Thorn In My Side/Confessionals

These were the confessionals made within this episode.

Day 6
"none"

- Of course we have a tribe swap today. I swear to god if I end up on a tribe of randoms I don’t know I will literally blow my lid! I predict we’ll go from 4 to 3 tribes though so it’s entirely possible!

"none"

- Honestly, this tribe swap is gonna fuck shit up, I have no idea how to approach this situation, it's like a completely new game. We literally have 2 people from every tribe with the exception of ours with 3, this should definitely be really interesting

"none"

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"malama"

- I get to this new tribe and I look to my right and I see this Brandon guy that has stolen my New Zealand look is Brandon and why did he steal my yellow sweater from New Zealand. Henny you are dismissed.

"kyrenia"

- I hope this swap is not killing me. Anyway, Este and Toby still in a same tribe with me, and we should be work together. Besides, I will to talk to the others and get more info for myself. I'm playing for myself not for Este, Toby. But i need them at this point. I just need to 2 peoples more to make sure I will be safe if my tribe lose at the challenge. I hope everything gonna be okay with me. I need to go the merge.

"kyrenia"

- Okay I’m not annoyed at a swap anymore! Because now even if Brittany isn’t with us I can claim majority from Linh or Toby! I love being on the other end of this spectrum from Svalbard!

"malama"

- I FOUND 2 IDOLS. I figured if one host was the answer to an idol then the other idols must be hosts and lucky for me I correctly guessed it for Malamal that hasn't won immunity.

"kyrenia"

- Tribe swap couldn't be any better, I have Craig, my #1 atm, I now have my first alliance of the game!! Luv these favs. I lowkey want Ci'ere to go so I just don't have to deal with anyone thinking we close or him bein a #fake lmao i wouldn't mind rekindling with Ci'ere but like I just don't know how we could work out

"kyrenia"

- I was REALLY hoping you'd swap us into three tribes! Now we have 4 fans and 5 faves on each tribe, but it's time to talk talk talk! I REFUSE to get swapfucked again. I can't take it

"malama"

- What the hell! Ahhhh! I thought this swap would give me a new chance in this game, but no! It just places me with the same exact person I have been trying to avoid on the Protaras tribe! Guess, I'll just have to get chummy with the people on my new tribe, even though this shade of yellow is an atrocious one!

"malama"

- Alright, so here's a breakdown of what happened in the first night. Mai formed a chat with me & Ci'ere and wanted us to stick together basically, which I am actually glad about, because SHE is the person that Ci'ere felt like he had a good relationship with anyway, so that will probably encourage him to stick to it. On the other hand, Mai also approached me about trying to work with the favorites and take the fans out, which I think is bullshit, I mean, this is Survivor and not Family Feud, I'm not here to play strictly with favorites, so I was trying to lowkey make that thought disappear from her head. That's when Ally & Adrian started talking to me, the two fans from the Cyan tribe. I love Ally a lot, she's a really sweet girl and easy to talk to and Adrian is just a mess, but a likable mess. He also dislikes Toby, who I am hoping to see booted like asap, because I really don't want to play with his shady ass, despite him being a nice guy, he's just gonna fuck me over again. Either way, Adrian kinda proposed the idea of him & Ally working with my tribe (aka OG Troodos) and I actually supported that statement, but had to get to know Ally a little better first. So as I got into a better conversation with Ally, I mentioned like Adrian saying all these good things about her etc. etc, hoping that she would get the hint of me being interested to work with her and at some point we just talked about the possibility of working together. I'm gonna try to solidify something with her & Adrian & Mai/Ci'ere and hopefully we can form a fivesome against the other four. Personally, if we had to go to tribal council right now I wouldn't be bothered to vote Priscilla or Jimmy out, because both of them are not really trying to talk to me.. like you are playing this game for a second time, do you not know that you are meant to hardcore socialize in a tribe swap event? Don't just sit there and look pretty, because there are five favorites on this tribe, because I'm not going to draw that line in the sand in this game. If that doesn't change, there's a good chance that I might just propose the idea of voting one of them out. Brandon & Shannon need to step it up, I can (sorry) totally see why their tribe flopped the first two challenges, so I might try to motivate them to do better, it's difficult though, because the one conversation I had with Shannon was acutally awkward as fuck and Brandon didn't have a conversation with me whatsoever, but difficult doesn't mean impossible, so hopefully I get to do that within the next days. About Immunity Idols, I am actually very ecstatic to be on the yellow tribe, considering they haven't received a single clue yet, so their idol is probably still up for grabs and I am gonna be guns blazing ready to find that shit, ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

"kyrenia"

- I'm also dumbing myself down a lot more this game because in Azerbaijan my intelligence was seen as a threat, or maybe just a scape goat to vote me out. But either way I'm playing the dumb card so no one would expect little me to actually have a brain

"kyrenia"

- So I’m pretty content with this tribe! Obviously Craig and I are going to stick together, but on top of that we have Eva and Rob with us which I am very happy about! Toby seems very keen for me to work with him, and I just need to check in with Linh! On another note Brittany seems to have let her guard down with me a little more than before and on top of that I LOVE Estefana! She’s so bubbly I love it! And there Kaitlyn who I haven’t really interacted with, nor does anyone seem to have... easy 1st boot maybe?

"malama"

- Mai guessed Wesley and she must've done so like a second after me because she said there was no idol there unless she's lying.

Day 7
"kyrenia"

- The tribe swap is a lot like toiler paper. Once you think that it should go one way, theres always someone who will flip it on you and you're completely blindsided.

5 favorites? This could work! But why not give the fans a chance to show what they got why dont we :)|Rob}}" "malama"

- So... I got to talk to Ally & Adrian a bit more about working together and such and it seemed like Ci'ere, Mai, myself & those two all had a mutual feeling about this alliance happening. We called it the 'Lovatics' because supposedly everyone in the group likes Demi Lovato. I feel pretty good about this, but I'm also slightly paranoid LOL, because what if this is just a play by Ally & Adrian to try and take a favorite out. I would definitely give them major props for that happening and if it really does.. I do hope that it will be Ci'ere who gets the bad end of the stick #whoops, this tribe in general does really piss me off though, because the others seem to refuse to socialize, really, with the exception of Jimmy, whom I had good conversations with, but Brandon.. I didn't even have him on my friendlist until today and we've been on this tribe for like 48 hours.. this is gonna be interesting

"kyrenia"

- Toby is so much fun to talk to idk what it is. I really enjoy talking to him so I can see myself using him to my advantage down the line. I usually work with people that I actually can hold a conversation with so this is great for me

"malama"

- How ironic is it that I was talking about how great of a physical player Lihn is during the first challenge, but she got a strike. Honestly just praying that Ci'ere can get two more, and he'll literally be out!

"kyrenia"

- 2048... the return of my kryptonite game (other than Hexagon which if I have to play this season I will abstain just as a middle finger to the creator!) let’s hope I haven’t fucked it up too bad though...

"malama"

- This tribe swap has been a thorn in my side in all honesty. I've never been on a tribe this big before so it's pretty weird to get used to talking to so many people at once. I haven't been doing a good job of that by the way. I've been pretty sad so I've just been playing video games to cope, which means less talking to people. I'm sure a lot of people think I'm shady or something like that. Mai suggested a favorites alliance but that hasn't come into fruition yet. I've only talked to people that have come up to me and even then I don't respond with anything meaningful. Just this morning actually, I screwed up a conversation with Drew. I might have weirded him out a lot and scared him off. So yeah, probably not looking good for me if we lose this, paired with my low challenge score.

"malama"

- I feel slightly comfortable with this swap. There are bigger threats suchs as Alex as a shield. I love that theres 2 tribes now because there's more room to play behind the scenes and build those relationships and I don't think people will catch onto me being. On Troodos I was kind of an information center. Everyone came to me and told be some info here and there because they trusted me.

"kyrenia"

- So this tribe is pretty lit. Right away there's a Big Deal with the fact that there's a Favorites majority on both tribes. But I don't expect it to last on Malama because Alex and Ci'ere are totally gonna gun for each other at the first chance they get. But enough about that For my tribe, it's looking good. I have Rob and Rhi who are my absolute ride or die bitches. Brittany I'm open to working with but Rhi doesn't trust her. Craig I haven't talked to yet but Rhi's enthused about us working with him. As for the fans, I love Toby but I don't trust him for a second. He has no chill and is so messy, he's not reliable. Estefana seems cool, so does Kaitlyn. Linh I adore, hopefully something can be made there.

"malama"

- So we won the challenge and I'm pretty fucking excited, because that means I get to search for the idol again, because we received a new clue. The first thing I realized was that the first part is literally the same, so apparently all of the idols are gonna be on wiki pages. I have no idea what this "lucky" shit is supposed to mean, but in order to get to it, I have to do my research. The unfortunate thing is that I can't guess immediately after 12 hours because I have my final exam today and that cuts into it so.. rip.. LOL, but either way I have a better feeling about this one than the last, because that was dumb lol

Day 8
"malama"

- I'm very....frustrated. Leading up to tribal, the mindset was to get Ci'ere out. It was planned out PERFECTLY, but of course, the inactive Brandon decides to screw everything over by telling Alex he's heard Ci'ere's name pop up. The Lovatics alliance wants to vote out Pris, but the girl hasn't been a threat at all. Shannon, Adrian and Jimmy actually have a brain to realize this is the perfect time to take out a threat who is probably the biggest wild card right now. There have been talks about a possible tribe swap again, but I would rather take my chances with Pris then Ci'ere manipulating everyone. His ways of bonding with me is "ILY" and tons of hearts. Sorry hunny, I'm not stuck in 2012. Anyways, all these new conversations are really shaking the boat. I'm very paranoid that the Lovatics will find out about all these spells in casting and I'll be getting the boot, but worse comes to worse I can convince someone to use the idol. Why does all this nonsense have to happen now? LOL

"kyrenia"

- actually having people to talk to on my tribe is nice because the people on mafloppa were all rly quiet. i really like rob so far, and i've talked to craig a fair amount as well. so it's definitely a step up from no one speaking on the other tribe but still. ugh. honslee though, when am i going to be on a tribe with jimmy??? like pls. we played malaysia together, i just wanna be #secretpairbeware with my second favorite australian. this vote though has me shook. i'm hoping that it'll be as easy as just voting linh out for not submitting. it's too early to really start rocking the boat too much imo. she's told me how she's struggling with the time difference so i'd rather not play that game with her much longer. but easy votes scare me because things are usually never that simple though so we'll see.

"kyrenia"

- So as much as I idolized and respected Britt in NZ, she is going to stick with the estrogen! I cannot have that in my game, we need to pretend we are favorites strong but when the time comes, this guys needs to make sure she is gone! I know Rhi is not a fan of her and I am already whispering in Craig's ear about how she was all about Girl Power in NZ

"kyrenia"

- Ugh we lost....great. Hopefully the favorites majority holds strong. I kinda hate that Linh is the target because I trust her but I really don't want to shake things up yet. I mean I could easily rally the fans and 5-4 it but......why the hell would I do that? Burn bridges this quickly, especially with Rob and Rhi? Nah, I'm good.

"malama"

- I know I messed up and got a strike and now I can't hide. I need to push myself to prove to these people that I want to play this game and that I'm here to play.

"kyrenia"

- I am trying to go far with Craig, I feel like we can be a dynamic duo especially with Eva and Rhi's close bond

"kyrenia"

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"kyrenia"

- The new dynamic duo is about to take over: THE BACKPACKERS ok its an ok name but Craig and I are gonna slay this game

"kyrenia"

- This needs to work for me, I need Kait out, I have Toby trusting me the most so far and he mentioned Kait so if I help push for Kait he will trust me even more so that helps a lot and If I message Linh and tell her I'm trying to push for her to stay then hopefully that helps my connection with her for the future. This is all about building relationships with the fans. I haven't talked much with Kait or Estefana so it really doesn't matter for me who goes out of those 2 but Kait is better for my relationship with Toby.

"malama"

- Hmmm, many options have been presented to me. Maybe this swap will end up with me putting my thumb in every pie! >:)

"malama"

- So I made a spreadsheet with all the possible names that could be the solution for the Immunity Idol and I shared it with the Lovatics. I genuinely hope that sharing that kind of information with Ally, Adrian & lowkey even Ci'ere doesn't bite me in the ass lmao, because at the moment Mai is the only person I truly fully trust in there at the moment.

"kyrenia"

- Well friggity fraggity it seems that these people won't budge for shit. I've been pestering them all day, and I get the same response from everyone - "I'm hearing Linh" WELL WHO IS FUCKING SAYING JT srsly

"malama"

- Okay update, thankfully my social butterfly ass was able to get a better understanding of where everyones heads are at. Alex talked MAJOR shit about some tribemates and I honestly can't wait to use it against him at one point. I love the kid, but I know he's gonna rage once Ci'ere leaves. I'm pretty sure I have more than the majority of votes. Mama isn't here to play it safe at tribal, it's go big or go home.

"kyrenia"

- I really don't want to go with the Favs but this is only way could help me at this point. I have no choice :( It sucks but I need to think about my game first...I hope I could still stay after this TC

"kyrenia"

- apparently toby doesn't trust me :'( Could be over before it even started, I dunno what I did wrong even. I was real social with Toby

"kyrenia"

- If this is my first vote, the other ones are definitely not going to get easier. You're such a sweetheart but you should have touched base with the other favorites :(

"kyrenia"

- Okay so Brittany likes to think she's running the tribe... but just you wait, once 2 fans go down, she is following them.