Rainy Day, 28 June 2011

Today started out fairly sunny, actually extremely sunny. So sunny that you would mistake this place for a cozier place nearer to hell, except its Florida and way hotter and muggier and so on and so forth. There was this one asian kid named Thomas, who was extremely late to Field School. Only by 30 min but who's keeping track? Everyone was minding their business and a few guys were flicking away their long worn out cigarettes into the dirt of sorrows, when all of a sudden a boy named Sean Collins heard cackling in the clouds! I told him that this wasn't Blair Witch Project and there weren't kids around cackling, cuz that would be freaky. I think what he meant to say that he heard cracking of thunder in the clouds! The kind that rips ones eardrums apart when thunder is an inch away from contact. The clouds were forming and it was almost mesmerizing, then all of a sudden we hear our Field Director, Brian Mabelitini say, "Pack up your stuff, cuz its gonna be like Nam in a second!" So we started packing up like there was no tomorrow, then when everyone thought it was all over, it started raining, gradually and slowly at first but then the thunder cracked the sky in two and rain answered with more rain and poured on us like it was the Amazon rainforest. Except 10x hotter. The crew finished packing up and started heading back as rain slowly enveloped them in wetness. As the crew started heading back, an asian fellow and his companion were left behind but for a good reason because they both noticed that the gear left behind needed to be covered by tarps so it wouldn't be damaged.

Fast forward and we meet ourselves in the site house where we redo our paperwork cuz of mistakes. It was fun for a while, then someone mentioned the Donner party, then people got hungry inside the site house....