FINALLY

HEY!!! So, thank you to Neesonfamily (grace, is that you?? lol) for the topic about how teenagers think about their parents and what they expect from them, that will DEFINITELY be fridays topic, however, before i forget, I want to blog about something that i did these past couples days.

On sunday night, me and 4 friends started a village simulation. We slept outside, had to cook our meals outside and fetch water and food from a few kilometres away. We walked to and from school and did our homework and all the stuff we needed to do outside. in the cold. in the rain. with no proper jackets. or adequate shelter. But it was really fun!!!

So, on Sunday night, we pretty much got our stuff organized and set up and went to bed, we stayed up pretty late but woke up at 5:30 because the STUPID birds wouldn't shut up. Me and 2 others went for a little jog to kind of wake us up, then we ate a huge breakfast of tea, fruit, nuts, more fruit, a lot more nuts and more tea. The reason we had so many nuts, is because Catherine, who was in charge of supplying the nuts, must of brought at least 1 kilo of "assorted nuts" from the yates street market. We didn't bring a lunch, because we were doing a VILLAGE simulation, and we figured that kids in little villages in africa and asia wouldn't be able to bring a lunch, so we went hungry.

On Monday, Cassidy had to go to her piano lesson at uvic, so me and catherine walked to UVIC with her (ella and karine had to go to some other stuff, so they couldn't come). We were supposed to meet ella after the lesson was over, but the lesson went longer then it was supposed to be and she had started to walk home by the time we had gotten to the meeting place. After 2 hours of walking and trying to locate each other, we FINALLY got home and ate a little bit. We needed a tent for storage, so while Catherine and Cassidy set the tent up (because Karine was still gone and ella and I are totally camping impaired), Ella and I went to go fetch the water and rice so we could have dinner.

We walked for at least 2 1/2 kilometres, then we finally got to the place that the water and rice was. there was 2 containers of water that were 2 litres each, a big tupperware full of rice and a giant 10 litre container that was impossible to carry because there was no handle.We walked at least 4 kilometres (it was longer on the way back because in my attempt to to take a short cut, i accidentally added a LOT of distance to the walk. haha, oops). 11 funny looks, at least 45 switches and arguments as to who would carry what and which way to take later, we finally got home and were ready to cook. it took us forever to figure out how work the stupid stove, but after trying for 20 minutes, it lit then blew out once the water was boiled. We all worked together to try and get the stove to light, and about 15 minutes into out efforts, someone suggested that the rice might have cooked form the heat that was already in the pan. They were right and we had the most "worth it" rice ever. It was bland and a bit watery but so hot and so filling and sooooooo worth the effort. Karine came back, then, we tried to sautee bananas and it failed so epicly that I'm not even going to go into detail about it...

That night it rained. Hard. poor cassidy had her sleeping bag soaked and every one's pillow (except for karines 'cuz she slept on the side opposite from the pool of water) was wet and every ones mats and blankets were absolutely drenched. However, we survived and walked to school just fine. It was pretty cool, actually, because we made an EPIC musical about being cold and hungry. So awesome. We're looking in to getting together and writing a legit musical, lol.

We got home and my mom, being the caring European mom that she is, had taken our sleeping stuff and put them in the tumble dryer so that they we didn't have to sleep in water:)

Wednesday, today, wasn't part of the simulation so we woke up, went inside and totally pigged out on chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. We all washed our faces and looked in the mirror for the first time in a couple days. We got a ride to school and celebrated with starbucks after school.

It was really fun, and I'm really glad that we did it. We we're eating such fresh, healthy food and spending so much time in the sun and fresh air, my skin (which had a big ugly rash on it because my skin is so sensitive that it breaks out to the cheap foam that my karate sparring helmet is made out of) had totally cleared up and I felt great and full of energy! I have made it my goal to exercise more and eat healthier so that I'm fit for summer so that i can do lots of swimming, beach volleyball and hiking:)

So, empty handed, i leave you yearning for the next post.AND THERE WILL BE ONE, about How teenagers think about their parents, and again thank you to neesonfamily. lol.