The last fun-filled weekend.

Amy here:
I'd like to start off by wishing my friends Heath and Kylee a very happy wedding day. Yay! Anyone have news about that? I actually looked a newspaper yesterday and saw that there are like 3,000 hurricanes heading toward the three places in the south where I know people are vacationing, so that was a bit disconcerting. Although I find it a little funny that we're in Alaska enjoying beautiful sunny summer days while everyone in the tropics are being evacuated and such. C'est la vie, non?

So Friday was pretty normal, just took the group shopping at the "mall", and then got them up early on Saturday for some sweet community service. We went out to a migratory bird sanctuary and worked on some boreal forest trail building, and though everyone bitched about getting woke up at 8:30 on a Saturday they all felt pretty good about it afterwards. Saturday night was Girls/Boys Night Out, so we kicked the boys out to go get sweaty and play video games and the ladies had a spa night. Nothing like reinforcing gender stereotypes while they're young. Ours was really fun until we decided to have an open panel where the girls could ask us any questions they wanted via an anonymous question box. This was amusing until a couple of the RM's turned it into an STD awareness program (?). I was incredibly pissed because everyone was having such a great time, and then it's like, "So, Joanne, how exactly CAN you prevent the clap?". It was a bit of a buzzkill, and I was enraged that the male faction wasn't expected to do any kind of awareness because, "They're boys." What kind of bullshit is that?

Then we watched Coyote Ugly. Girl Power!
(That was NOT, I repeat, NOT my choice of movie.)

After everyone went to bed I sulked for about two hours and then went to sleep. Eros - any comments?

Yes...first off, boys night rocked!! It was waaaay cooler than STD girl night. We started off the evening playing dodgeball...well actually we started off dodging wrenches then we moved up to balls. After about an hour of that the kids and 3 of the guy RM's played kickball while another RM and I went to the big auditorium to set up the game consoles (2 PS2s and 2 Xboxes). If you'll notice on the pics below, the setup in the middle and the far left are each playing Halo 2 (they were networked together so we had 5 people playing at once). The big screen on the far right is playing a basketball game and the tiny screen on the left is playing a racing game. It was an awesome setup. Plus, the funny part was that we had them all convinced that we were going to the opera. They were so pissed before they got into the room.

Today was pretty low key, Amy and I spent about 3 hours at a coffee shop with 4 students so they could study for ther upcoming finals. The coffee in Alaska really isn't the best, but this place has a cappuccino that will rival Chicago. That was about it.

Since we are on our last week, I'm looking forward to coming home to Chicago to see everyone. Plus the big move is going to be going on which will be horrendous. If anyone has heard of any jobs in the NY area, please let me know because at this point I may be working at a coffee house myself once we get there.

Later