Day Fifty Three August Fifth, 2015
Wednesday
I wake up to a world shrouded in fog, which makes getting up so incredibly repellent. Even though it is gorgeous and makes the lake look amazing all I want to do is curl up in my bed and never get out. If there was ever a morning for Baby It’s Cold Outside this is it. Once I do get out of bed I head over to flags with Oscar and Ferdinand and a couple of the other guys and we are barely BARELY late. We get to the curve right before the parade grounds when they are calling up the troop to raise the colors. As punishment Tadleigh tells us we get to do a quick clean up of the dining hall bathrooms, which honestly isn't anything bad at all. Some of the worse punishments include learning the entire parade ground of the rocks that kids kick down from the gravel around the dining hall. It takes eons. Or refilling the lake, which would be a great one because of the drought the lake is CRAZY low. Seriously, we have so much more shoreline than we should. Anyway, how you refill the lake is you take a ten-gallon bucket, fill it up with water at the dining hall, and then dump it in the lake. And you continue to do this until your supervisor is satisfied.
Another four boys join my eleven o’clock cinematography, sorry, Moviemaking class. The Tongan boys have all decided to do their own rendition of rocky, which will be interesting to say the least. They didn't finish their homework yesterday so they spend a majority of class doing that today which takes a LOT of yelling from me to keep them on task, but I don't mind. Like I said this is my favorite week, and I love these boys to death so even when I’m yelling at them I am having fun. Weird I know, I should be annoyed that I have to yell at them so much but whatever.
At lunch, Handicraft has a party. Oscar and Ferdinand went into town and got a BUNCH of pizza during the eleven o’clock classes which were promptly devoured by the handicraft staff. With the help of Randy, Makenna, and Leah. It was a pretty cool party. We chilled, music was played. Wrestling was definitely a thing that happened. A LOT of wrestling. Randy and Adam went at it. It was pretty intense, and we are probably lucky that they didn't get seriously injured.
After lunch, the day runs pretty smoothly. Since I don't have a class at 2 o’clock I head out to the docks, send some texts and just sit out and enjoy the view. My original motivation to go to the waterfront was to tan, but once I get there I am more focused on the view and taking pictures than anything. The amount of photos I have racked up this summer is RIDICULOUS. And since I have Ferdinand’s camera for the week I am taking double the photos and dumping the card at least once a day. If I don't have my phone in my hand I have the camera, and if I don't have that in my hand I am either eating, teaching or at flags. Wednesday Race!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!!! Last one of the Summer, so it has GOT to be good. Who are we kidding it is amazing, it always is. Both Jasper and Penny are human buoys this week so double the fun and double the amusing pictures. The Race is made doubly as amusing because Jasper has the brilliant idea to throw skittles into Penny’s mouth while the both of them are floating in the water. Of the two packs of skittles I threw out to Jasper, Penny catches four. MAYBE five. But watching them is still hilarious, and I got some PRIME footage of their shenanigans. After the race, it is time for one final game of D&D, but before that I sit and watch some good old, nitty gritty, dusty to high heavens Tongan rugby. Watching them play is something else, and never fails to captivate me. The amount of dust they kick up is impressive, but their playing... Man, it is something else.