Day Seventeen

What a scorcher. Seriously, I think that I got sun poisoning, mild heat stroke, and generally over-cooked. Too hot and sunny.

But now I'm in the air-conditioning, and I'm not leaving. I am tired. Yesterday's sloshball made me exhausted, and the heat today didn't really help. So it's bed time.

Sweet dreams.

PS. I made an egregious mistake in an earlier post: watchya say is by Jason Derulo, not David Guetta. Whoopsie

xoxo

Day Sixteen

I'm back! Just got off the ferry at 11:30, went to work, and the did capsize drills with the kids so I could go swimming. Not a bad day. I'm off to sloshball in a bit, but figured I'd catch up with the blog quickly beforehand.

Not much happened friday, work was good and then I hopped on the ferry back to the mainland. I went to the beach on saturday, sailing with my rents on sunday, watched the fireworks back at school, and then caught the bus back this morning. Pretty busy weekend.

I hope everyone had an awesome fourth of july! I'm too tired/have too much of a writer's block to write more.

P.S. Here's a pretty song that I heard over the weekend:



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Days Eleven and Twelve

OHEMGEE TWILIGHT!!!!!!


Everything that has happened in the past two days has totally been eclipsed... BEST. MOVIE. EVER. Go rpatz!

But seriously, I thought the first two movies were better. I just got back from eclipse, I dragged Muffy and Bunny with me. They won't admit that they loved it too.

Quick recap of everything else: We had a long break between the morning and afternoon sessions today, so Muffy, one of the irish lads, and I went to Menemsha to get lunch and hang out by the boat place where some scenes from jaws were filmed...scaryyy. Then work was fun, we had the adult session today so it was a bit stressful but otherwise not bad. After work Muffy and I checked out the restaurant where one of my future housemates works as a line chef. It was a bit upscale so the waiter didn't ID (yay!) and my housemate sent over a mozzarella/tomato/spring mix appetizer. I had scallops and linguini, and Muffy had swordfish. It was a nice night out for us to reward ourselves for our hard work these past two weeks (with all the sailing around and windsurfing... that's bound to make a person hungry). Then on our way back to the car we went to back door donuts (fresh donuts!) and I had a butternut donut (my fav)... so between the food at menemsha and the huge dinner and donuts, I'm totally stuffed. Tomorrow I have to save room for a Frappe at mickey d's(on the drive back to boston). Which reminds me... I'm heading away for the vineyard for two days :'(.

Last night was typical. We went to the irish house for one of their 21st birthdays. Muffy and I brought the game "telephone" over... and a few bottles of champagne. We played some chandeliers and then called it a night.

I believe that's enough rambling for right now. Happy fourth to all!

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Day Ten

I legitimately strained my quad yesterday playing sloshball. I think that may be a first. It was totally worth it though, I'm kinda getting better at the game. And my cousin just arrived on the island yesterday and she joined us for the game, so it was super fun. And work today wasn't bad, Muffy and I went up to the pond today (where we will be working with one of the irish lads for two weeks during the mornings). People allegedly travel long distances to see the scenery around the pond, so we're pretty lucky to be working there. And only three students are signed up to sail tomorrow, so its going to be really chill. Here's a quick pic of the pond:



After hanging out there and moving boats around, we went back to the boathouse with the other instructors for the afternoon. It was pretty chill, and then Bunny and I went out windsurfing again after work. I can sail on both tacks now (lol)! I'm going to be a world-class windsurfer at the end of the summer.

And.... good news! I'm going to be leading a back packing trip of freshmen for an orientation group at the end of the summer! Yay!

Cheers!

xoxo

Day Nine

DUCKIES!


Cutiepies. Today was the first day of work with the kids. It was nuking out so we didn't take the beginners out in the boats in the morning. Instead, I helped with the windsurfing class. Yup, that's right. I don't even know how to windsurf, really. But it was fun, and we ended up playing capture the flag with the windsurfing boards. Then in the afternoon, we reefed the main and took the kids out on a capri, but it ended up being a pretty chill day regardless. Mucho divertido.

So now I'm on my way out to our second game of sloshball. Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll last week; nantucket red is a smash hit apparently. Make sure to vote again this week for seersucker! Google it if you are unsure of what the print looks like.



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Day Eight

At the beach yesterday, this seagull tried to steal our food. A different seagull stole the irish lad's sandwich. And I saw this cute bunny on the path.



I snapped this photo quickly before it ran away.

Day eight: One full week at the vineyard has passed. Today was pretty low-key, we watched sleepless in seattle, ate lunch at the yacht club, hung out with some people from school, got dolled up and went to an art gallery opening show, and ate dinner at an awesome mexican restaurant. This week, I've been sailing, swimming, windsurfing, and running around. And I am exhausted. Work officially starts tomorrow (the kids start coming for classes), so I'm calling it a night early and going to sleep.



xoxo

Day Six & Seven

Sorry guys, this ones gotta be a quickie.

Cilantro. Yesterday was great, we did a few things around the boathouse during the morning for work and then went to the other yacht club on the island for some more team racing. After the races we went back to Muffy and Archie's house and had a cookout for the instructors for both clubs. Then we went back to the instructor house for some drinking games (I learned a few new ones to bring back to the mainland at the end of the summer!).

Today, I woke up at noon, watched Rookie Blue (it was amazingly awful), and then went to a beach out in the shticks with everyone. The waves were huge, so we played in the surf for a bit, then the boys (lads) found a huge log and everyone played with that for a bit too. On the way back to the house we heard a lot of David Guetta on the radio. Remember watchya say? Love that song. Especially, "when the roof caved in and the truth came out I just didn't know what to do,". Seems like the truth has a way of confusing everything, right? This is totally not pertinent to my life on the vineyard right now, but the mainland is a bit dramatic so I thought it was fitting.

Here's some more David Guetta, enjoy.



xoxo