Bang

Today was Community work day, where we all pitch in for four hours (from 1-5) to help clean up camp. Altogether, the work we do in those few hours would take the Emerald Cove staff weeks to do. This is part of our community service through school, and part of our leadership class. Faculty split us into groups to complete three main projects: painting, clearing up brush, and digging. In my head I was thinking, "please, not digging, not digging!"

Guess who got digging. But I'm actually really glad I ended up on that team--it was really fun! We had to dig a trench from a building to the caboose so an electrical cord and water pipe could run to the caboose. The 18-inch deep 4-5 inch wide trench doesn't sound so bad, but there were tons of rocks and tree roots that we had to pickax through.

Pickaxing a nasty root.

Don't worry--no one was hurt.

The Digging Crew

Walking to put our shovels away, I saw this hilarious sign that said "Testosterzone," so I took a pic by it with some of the guys. Unfortunately, it's a bit blurry:

"Testosterzone"--I love how I'm the most manly-looking person in this picture, lol

 

Later on this evening my trek team had a reunion at DJ’s (the professor who was on my trek team) house.It was so great to spend some time with my trek team again. We had dessert, then played games. The group I was in played Bang, a really fun card game that's kinda like Mafia, but a lot better. It is a western game, where there are outlaws and deputies and a sheriff and renegade. I was a deputy. DJ was an outlaw. The sheriff shot him...can you imagine playing a card game with your professor, and then beating him? Ahh, I love High Sierra.