Tuesday, June 30, 2009

From Phillip


I don't really know if there's very much new stuff to talk about. We just
had a surprise overnight Come Back Alive class the other night. We had no
idea it was going to happen, but they randomly sent us down into the Gorge
to spend the night with only a few items. We had no sleeping bags, tents,
etc .. we had to build our shelters, fires, and we had to use a GPS to find
where our food was.... which turned out to be a live chicken and a bag of
rice. It was really cool, because we've done a bit of all that stuff in the
bush so far, but this time we were alone and had to fend for ourselves. We
were divided into two teams, each having their own shelter and food. Someone
else beheaded our chicken on our team, I helped pluck it. Karina killed the
other team's chicken, but Tom the African gutted and cut it. I gutted our
chicken and got what little meat I could off of it, but it was skinny. We
slept around the fire and it got pretty cold. But we survived, and it ended
up being a lot of fun!

I've really gotten into Rugby and soccer. We play whenever there's time and
we watch the games.

Well, that's about it. I'll let you know when anything else happens.

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