Location: colone
Hello lovely humans! Today started off with me waking myself up at 3 am, 6 am, and 6:30 am just to make sure I didn’t sleep through wake-ups because, you know, I have responsibilities. I waltzed into the galley at 6:50 after thoroughly scrubbing my tooths to see the first non-stressed-out chef! Daphne woke up and absolutely MURDERED our normal burritos. She stressed that they were, in fact, NOT breakfast burritos because there was nothing breakfast-y about them. Shout out to Daphne for keeping it 100. Anyway! Right after breakie, we cleaned up and went straight into nav master. If you are wondering how we students and probably drew as well felt going into the exam, see reference one down below featuring Gabby, who cried not once but twice during our last unit. Besides those initial feelings, we went in ready for battle, and I do believe we conquered. Maybe, to be honest, I have no idea. Drews is next to me now. I’m gonna go ask him. —- After the Nav exam, we had lunch, which included some tasty pasta and stir-fried veggies that hit the spot! Sitting in the cockpit, we discussed our next plans for the day. These included going on a 4-hour hike, writing our essays by the pool, and world domination. It was a very hard choice, but 5 of us ended up picking the hike while everyone else chose to be lame and studious. Kirby tried to pick world domination, but sadly, he was denied. After clean-up, we split up into groups to go to the cafe, pool, hike, or stay home. I chose to go hike for miles because smash said there was a possibility of sloths and monkeys. My fellow hikers and I struck off and only got just past the harbor before we were stopped by some friendly military men who said that the road closes after 2 pm for unknown reasons. We, unfortunately, had to discontinue our hike. Feeling dismayed that I wasn’t gonna get to walk for miles (much more than my regular 112ft pacing ritual), we trudged home. No sloths….. no monkeys… no heat exhaustion… but then! We saw a big fat lizard swimming in a stream! upon closer investigation, it was a baby crocodile! That was a big highlight for me because I’d never seen one before, and the baby was harmless and cute. I find it fitting because I think if my first crocodile sighting were a massive one, I’d probably pass away. As I am writing this, Sammy is next to me because I am co-dependent and also can’t spell on my own. I wrote alligator and crocodile, thinking they were the same thing, just fun little names. That is, in fact, not true. They are different, and this is how; crocodiles “live in all the places hell exists and will eat you and your canoe.” Alligators are cute and smaller and will not eat you and your canoe. You learn something new every day! Once we safely returned from our not hike, Kirby and I struck out to find the others and lounge at the pool. We put on our bikinis and went to soak up the sun finding many friends there too. After spending a luxurious hour in the pool, we went and picked up some snacks at the market, and I scored some electrolyte drinks and MULTIPLE snickers bars! Snickers in hand, sun on my face, I headed back to the boat to help put away some provisioning! Once at the boat, hell broke loose as millions of grocery bags fell from the sky and through the gopher hole. We all banded together to protect the boat and organize the overwhelming amounts of canned veggies and apples. Our little treat after that was to gobble down four bins of ice cream in the shade up on deck. After that, we got to do some school work and then get ready for the amazing dinner my girl Daphne had prepared. She made bbq pork sandwiches which were INSANE especially topped with garlic bbq sauce and a side of homemade fries! We ate and chatted until it was squeeze time. My appreciation of the day was getting to lounge at the pool and do some homework, and my long-awaited question was; if you could successfully spread a conspiracy, what would it be? My answer was that #1 people in Florida don’t actually exist (sorry, Matt) and that everyone has an exact doppelganger from some point in history. A few funky responses from the collective included; eating silica packets to get out of this simulation, ferrets are just two mice stuck in a tube circus style, and dogs are actually spies that the government unleashed (no pun intended) on us to collect information. We wrapped up dinner and cleaned up and then skedaddled to leadership class, in which we all performed plays to act out leadership roles and conflict resolutions. My group definitely won after using marriage to solve friendship troubles as gabby and Charlie did previously on watch. If that wasn’t enough, Kirby and Fargo ended our play with a beautiful baseline from Stand By Me, which we all joined or should have, but they sucked, and I ended up being the only one who actually sang. Either way, we won and gave everyone a good giggle. Exhausted from that performance, most of us migrated up on deck to call family and friends. I got to facetime my little sister for the first time, which was AMAZING, and I miss her more than anything (hi Danica, heheheheheh). After we got pau with our calls, we all hung out as one big happy family and then hit the sack. Can’t wait for tomorrow!!!
Special HI to my mom, dad, sister, and Gramma tutu for chatting with me today, miss you all so much. PS Mom, I love that you play meditation spa music for the chickens to keep them quiet. Say hi to Nalu and Mia for me <3