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Early swim

8-ish am July 2001

AJ and I walked down to the dock after taking a picture of Sean sleeping. It wasn't quite light enough so AJ had his flashlight, but it was more light than the flashlight really made a difference.

Funny that we had no trunks and he carried his flashlight to the dock in the bright morning sun.

Don't tell anyone, but I just changed into swim trunks in the walk in refrigerator. just once. Just to have the experience.

Swimming now. (not now, but now.)

I got to meet Tina P; this is her first and last SWUUSI (she's graduating) and she wants to attend UH and get a degree in education I think. And live out by the museum district. Cool, G! That's near me and Wen!

AJ told a funny funny joke: (set it up however you want, but a dad and his kid are driving down the highway and a penis hits the windshield)

kid: "Dad, what was that?"

"Um, uh, it was a bug!"

"Wow! It had a huge dick!"

11:42 am

Just got out of advisor meeting, which was supposed to be from 9am to 11am. But a great meeting. I am the Adult Head Hydrator, and I have asked AJ to be my Youth Head Hydrator. Youth have to have water bottles at spirit circle each morning, and at each meal.

First day

1:01 pm Sunday 22 July 2001

People are arriving, but there is no registration information until 3pm. I'm kinda supposed to tell anyone who comes in that they can't register yet, but I think further information (signatures) might be needed for some people, but there's no way to know who. Stinky.

2:16 pm

Been talking to tons of peeps - remet some people who I've totally forgotten - Tim, Amelia (sp). Tim cut his knee but we found first aid relatively quickly. small cut. One band-aid worth.

Ameilia is from Springfield Missouri, and she knows Karla Gilmore, who used to be an advisor with her daughter Heidi Jean. Very cool. Amelia doesn't come to many rallies, except Tulsa and SWUUSI - otherwise it's too long of a drive. They apparently hosted a rally in Springfield in 1994. Nice.

afternoon

7:08 pm Sunday 22 July 2001

Spent time swimming and chillin' on the floats with Grantly, Amanda, Laura C, and someone else - Amelia?

Back to the front to register and I got to say HI to Jonana and some other peeps. Registered and then went back to swim. This time there was quite a lot of people swimming. The most hilarious fun was getting Meg Robinson up in the Darth Maul chair floatie thing. We tried to get Bryn and Amy Leyenberger on it, but they fell out pretty quickly. It was quite difficult to balance on it.

Back toward the front, where we had opening circle. I got to sit by Bryn, .. very smiley. We sat on her cool big OZ beach towel.

9:29 pm

At dinner I sat with Joana, who told me some of the German customs that she found strange. At meals, they have no manners. Elbows on the table, eating like crazy. And at restaurants ya have to ask for a menu. And they won't give the bill until you actually ask for it. They don't try to move people out of the restaurant; customers can stay as long as they want.

We just played a primo game of ultimate after dinner. About 8 on 8.. Tanner, AJ, Bibby, Amy L, TJ, me, Joana, Hillary, Noah, Ryan, Mattboy, and others I'm not remembering.

The most injurous events: disc into the endzone toward Amy, who tipped it. Noah and Tanner were speeding in from opposite directions. After Amy tipped it, Noah leaned forward, Tanner leaned backward and then BAM as Tanner was layed out flat onto the ground as Noah crashed into him. Landed on his back I think, plus a half twist and lay on his stomach as we all approached. He was able to get up and shake it off. Awesome.

The other big bump was a four way thing I think. The disc was way up high floating down. I was reaching/jumping up for it as Noah was running and about to jump, but saw Tanner was coming, so Noah ducked/dove across in front of me, as TJ was hauling butt up behind me and leaped forward, basically over Paul, as TJ's knee BAM in the back of my hip bone. and TJ did a front flip mostly over Paul and dive rolled onto the ground. Wow.

My hip said ow.

I walked out of the game for a bit, but then played again. We played until it was basically dark and we couldn't see anything. We would throw the disc down the field and not be able to tell if someone caught it, much less what team they were on. Very challenging play.

Altight, this is Ben again. Just feeling somewhat philosophical. (I know I proably misspelled that, but whatever) I just got through ranting at a friend of mine and realized that friendship is being able to yell at a guy for about 5 minutes straight, and then have him ask you "Alright, so are we ok now?" and you be able to answer "yes." That's basically it, I'm done here.
~Ben

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~Ben

z sleep.html

1:03 am Monday 23 July 2001

I went to the touchgroup check in and promptly fell asleep. I was pretty much fully conked out by the time the whistle was blown. I asked my peeps to wake me up by 12. I woke up at 1am when someone came in. so a good 2 hours of sleep. I'm starting roving now.

3am

Roving was fun. So tired. Roved with Pat; we walked around the camp twice, checking each cabin, and the dock and the big field. Talked a lot. She is cool.