I’m kinda hungry now.. Had Pork Chops with apple sauce and beef and some kinda rice.. I think its kinda Italian… and greens.. din fill me up.. sigh.. Got some Orange Sherbert Ice cream.. Cereals and Milk… now I’m full.. happy guy.. hahaha..
I slept quite ok.. No signs of missing home yet.. Sorry folks.. was kinda tired.. not sure what it was from thou.. I haven’t been doing an aweful lot.. Had some cereals and bread for breakfast…. And headed down to the sailing centre.. Some thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon.. So.. we prepared for some games.. Steve tried to have me with the string hooking up game.. ya know.. da one that you get two pieces of ropes and u tie to fella hands to and try to disentangle yaself? Yeah.. But I knew that one already.. then Sam came in. n we had him try… Joe arrived next.. and he took over my miserable position.. ahha.. we had fun watching them trying to figure things out.. Then come the blondie girl.. Katie.. well.. she made some comments that weren’t exactly smart.. but that got us off the rockers… so it was fine.. We finally showed them how to do it and they were like.. Shucks! I knew it’ll be something simple.. oh well.. haaha..
Steve went on to tell him about how I got ‘drunk’ last nite over one glass of wine.. and how I was too ‘Chicken’ to take over the boat last night? Well. They had a good laugh abt it.. I just hope they din take it too seriously…. Ahha.. cos it just wasn’t true!!!
The kids came.. we ran thru our little prep talk.. told them what we were gonna do today.. showed them how to change hands properly and sheet in.. and launched! We did some tacking.. some follow the leader.. some tack on the whistle.. It was not too bad.. pulled Andy aside… prep talked him a little.. and wow! Suddenly he was just out there leading the pack! Andrew din quite get his main halyard up.. dats why he is all the way behind. But then again.. he is a kinda weak sailor.. so.. yeah.. Matt seems quite bored with sailing..he was last.. found out from him over lunch that he prefers racing. Oh well.. shall see how to make the drills fun..
We had hamburgers for lunch again.. kids were asking if they could bring stuff and cook on it.. answer was a flat no.. sorry kids..
We got the kids out again on the waters… and we were the only ones there.. haha.. Fig we are more on the bolla.. We were gonna do some racing.. and stuff.. so.. we set up the course.. 2 mins start… the kids did not too bad at all.. I had a good time chattin with Christina.. she’s gonna take me to the drive-in! hahaha.. nice!! I’ll prolly be working with her on a video clip for the sailing centre too.. so.. gonna be seeing lotsa her.. Garett came in 1st for both race.. and Eric for the 3rd race.. Sam was racing with them.. he came in 2nd a coupla times.. he was having a bad shoulder.. so he used his leg to control the rudder… haha.. thought it looked kinda funny.. but it works.. Then.. Chris took over his boat to race.. and I noticed that Sarah’s got her boat turtled.. darnit.. I hope the mast wasn’t stuck.. well. The mast did exactly that.. sigh.. what n ass.. we pulled up the anchor line.. and went over to her.. I tried to upright it.. it just wouldn’t come out… water was cold thou.. brrrr… thought I heard Sam saying that they release the main halyard to take out the sail.. I’m like ok.. since u are from arnd here.. u should know something.. so I did that.. but it still din work.. he said to hold the rudder.. and use the powerboat to pull it out.. and it worked kinda.. so I went to upright it.. but it capsized again.. but this time round.. the mast din come up together.. it snapped.. It’s a kinda sinking sucky feeling.. its not always nice to spoil a boat… but I did.. I finally manage to upright the boat. Using the mainsheet.. and that’s when Steve came over…. Oh well.. we took the mast out.. and we towed the boat back.. we went straight out again.. cos the wind picked up and the kids were capsizing all over the shop.. pretty crazy day.. but well.. it was fun.. and memorable..
We put some anchor and mooring lines up.. I had to go into the water again.. it was might cold.. Contemplated running back after.. but it looked like its gonna rain.. so decided against it. Went home.. went for a short run.. to the clearing.. and along the road.. ran for 28 mins.. Ran past some blacks.. heard them go.. ‘She Bangs’! She BangS! And then William Hung! And they went again William hung! Well. I think they meant me.. so I turned and waved and went.. ‘yoh!” and they cheered.. oh well.. I hope I don’t look like Mr Hung.. Do I?? Hmm.. hope not.. anyway.. I got to clean the toilet when I got back.. Sam got the vacuum job. I generally like cleaning toilet.. do them a lot in the army. And when I was looking after frances’s place…
Steve drove me to change my shorts that Suzy got for me.. they were kinda small… funny.. I swore I haven’t gain weight yet.. but oh well.. size 32 doesn’t seem to fit anymore.. darnit. I need to run to the sailing centre… so we went to Target.. they ran outta L’s for the khaki pants.. so we got some army green ones instead.I ‘m not crazy abt those thou.. he wouldn’t let me get light blue.. they would have gone really well with red thou.. sigh.. pity.. so.. anyway.. I lost my waterbottle.. so thought I’ll get myself a water bottle over there.. go a LExan one.. some kinda nalgene wannabe for 5 bucks.. its yellow in colour.. Jeff’s colour..
They wanted to get me a bike to go arnd.. but we coudlnt’ find any nice cheap ones at Walmart nor Target.. or ‘Tar – Gea’ as the French call it..
Anyway.. I’m suppose to go study the safety book for my Maryland Powerboating Licence.. so.. that’s what I’m gonna be doing next! Cheers!
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