Do Do's and Whoa Ohs

This week was full of stress, sickness of two sorts, real sickness and homesickness, and laughs THE END.

Really I just told you everything you need to know. On Sunday I woke up sick, and so did Rene, weird. I laid in my bed mostly all day watching General Conference, reading and writing. It was nice to take a break and relax. Monday was no better, the whole village is sick right now, some people with what they call Gastro, Hay fever, bronchitis, or whatever I had which was basically a head cold with drowsiness. Monday I woke up early like I have been doing because of camp and I went shopping, It was really hard to walk that far, and its only 15 minutes away!! Class started at 12 because some guys had to implement their event that they have been planning for the last 5 weeks and wow surprise, they didn't have anything, it was suppose to be a basketball shoot out and no one had a basketball or a ring or anything, the lecturer showed up and was really UNIMPRESSED. They ended up doing it at the beginning of class in the gym where we were suppose to do potted sports, this is basically circuits like you do in elementary school or primary school as they call it here. I had no idea what this was so I had thought of some games but nothing like the lecturer wanted so we made some stuff up and were lucky that our group was last and we didn't have enough time to do ours. Then we headed in to our usual room for a lecture about theory which is basically the lecturer reading off of the PowerPoint. I hate that, I feel it insults my intelligence. I think I went home and took a nap, or watched a movie, or laid around like I did all week this week cuz I felt like crap.
Tuesday, went to class, then for the afternoon class we headed off to go dingy sailing. It was a beautiful day so I was in shorts and a t-shirt but when we got on the water I was freakin freezing! We went back and forth tacking which is turning, it was really cool, we rotated being the skipper, Rene and Vanessa and I were in a boat together. Then we headed out to go across the Swan river. Basically for Dingy sailing you have to hold the rudder strait and move it side to side to go which ever side you want. The sails are pulled in or let out depending on where the wind is coming from and how much they are flapping. Well Rene was holding the sail really tight so every time we hit a wave the boat would rock more than my liking and I was holding on to the main mast pretty tight and getting soaked by the waves coming over the front. Yeah it was good fun. We came back and I was freezing for about 2 hours afterwards. I think I was feverish the whole week as well so that didn't help.
On Wednesday I had a 9 o’clock class that had Mike Wood come as a guest speaker, this guy is super cool!!! He is owner of the company Mountain Designs, which is like REI or Patagonia in America, yeah he is the man. He climbed Everest in 1993 where there was a disaster and 3 guys died out of 8. He showed us slides of this event, he also talked about his history, what he has accomplished and he gave great references for adventure tours or people to work for. He is the man. I had to leave an hour early!!!! I was soooo bummed!! Ok so I left because my group had to run our event on campus which was a Capoeira Martial Arts demonstration!! It was awesome!!! The people in my group are great and worked really hard to make this happen, it is a 30 minute demonstration. Anyway, We handed out fliers, and got a speaker and microphone from the library, Steve was suppose to do the announcing but when it came down to it he was a bit shy so he handed the microphone over to me and I made a fool out of myself as always. I really have gained confidence in public speaking from being an RA and taking the comm 101 class. It was a blast, I was laughing and people were laughing at me and we had quite a crowed show up. The Capoeira guys were awesome, they had students play instruments, I got to play the bells, well all I did was hit two cow bells with a drum stick. It was really fun though. I came home and took a nap for 3 hours, it was a good day. A lot of people are having their birthday this week so I went to a few birthday parties, this was alright. I don’t' really like just standing around small talking to people, but it was cool I talked to Mac about foreign policy, the end of the world, and global warming. Aww yeah. Rene and I were walking from somewhere and ran into Brian from Canada, I don't know if it was his accent, my sickness or homesickness or a combination of all three but I just started crying. I didn't realize how much I missed hearing the "American" accent. Brian offered to let me use his camera to talk to my friends and family so if anyone has a video camera or speakers I can talk to ya! Well I will have to figure it out but let me know! Later Rene and I were watching a movie and I just felt like crap and was really homesick and tears were just coming out of nowhere so I had to leave the room and have a little cry. I made myself go back out to hang out or else I would wallow in my own self pity. But later I made a video because I wanted to document this tragic event haha. Then I made a video for my family but it is to big to send to them. =( Wow ok Thursday I worked on assignments and then Thursday night we watched a soccer game on a lap top Germany against China and Germany won. It was pretty funny though because Frank from China and Rene from Germany were beting on who would win and Frank claimed Germany before Rene so Rene had to cheer for China. It was a kind of boreing game and the loser was supose to make everyone dinner so Rene went up to make it cuz someone slipped and told us the result! After this we had a push up contest, it was pretty funny because we did 10 than 20 but only 2 people did 20 and Rene was gone so we decided to pretend we had all done 20 and were on 30 and it was my turn and when Rene walked in I was on 25 but it started from 18 and I made it to 27 because I was laughing so hard. Then it was his turn and we made him do 27 as well. Jasmin told him later what we did and he called me a mean gurl. It was really funny though. Oh and the picture of the dude standing as if he was a statue is Adam or Adsie. Sofia cut his hair and it looked really nice so I took a picture. this guy is the craziest guy ever. He is so hyper all the time and can never be serious, and he loves to surf.
Friday I felt A LOT better and actually went running instead of the pathetic jog/walk I attempted while I was sick. Then I met my friends from Fairbridge camp and we looked at portfolio, this gave me some good ideas and I was actually excited about doing it. I came home and got sooo much work done!!! I have 4 assignments due next week and I got 1 done and ½ of the other two done. On Saturday Rene and I went shopping, ok Saturday was the hottest day it has been yet, it was like a end of summer day in Washington, I guessed about 75-80 degrees. It was hot to say the least. Oh we got a beach volleyball from a sports shop and came back and played for 2 hours outside just in a circle with a bunch of people then only 3 of us and this was a blast!!! I worked on more assignments and then Jasmin came to visit and we went to watch Dukes of Hazzard. This is quite a funny movie, I didn't think it would be but it really is. Then we came back and played volleyball in the dark for an hour then watched road trip. Wow we watch to many movies. That will change now that summer is on our doorstep. That’s about all that happened this week. THE END.