Day One:
Was on way to London w. class for field trip when plane crashed. Am on deserted island w. class. Boys included. Phil taking too much responsibility. Thinks that he has to do everything at once. Poor Phil. Phil is being a pest with the leader thing though. We are taking votes and Lauren won instead of him. Would think he would be v. happy. He got voted vice. In other new Ms. Whiteman died in crash, had to bury her. Friend had bible and we read out of it over sandy grave marked with coconuts.
Day Two:
Have been voted head of my area of expertise: cooking. Have made rules and stuff for kitchen area. V. v. happy with way this turned out. Lots of driftwood. Have made small cabinets. Odd Chris. He brought nails and a hammer. Lucky though.
Rules:
Kitchen people wash their hands. No hoarding the food. Always keep cabinet with knifes locked. No poisoning a certain plate to bump somebody off.
I made that last rule. Is funny. Go me!
Day Three:
*sigh* Voting for names was a bit annoying Lauren had to rally the hunting party several times before they calmed down enough to listen to the names.
Name list:
Miserable Mudpit Haven New Hope Giantkiller Island of the Damned Coconut Island Excessive amount of palm trees Island 30 people out of the thirty voted. Haven won by one point. It was my idea sort of. I got it from one of the books that I was bringing to read in London. I voted for Island of the Damned anyway. Christian always has good ideas. We made a flag too. My friend Rhiannon brought paint markers to draw on her white shirt. Ended up cutting up a total of four white shirts. Have sewed them together with sewing kit Laura brought. Picture of flag below.
New rendition of the come and take it flag. Replaced star with coconut. Most people like it. I like it too.
Day Four:
Ms. Whitman ghost is haunting camp. Oh joy. Am v. v. angry with the ghost. Scared me when I was making the fish and accidentally let it burn. Have poured rotten coconut milk over the grave. Go me.
Day Five:
Phil still acting a bit pompous all to community disadvantage maybe will go against cooks honor code. Maybe poison his food. Then pour rotten coconut milk over his grave. Perhaps just do the latter. Will be more enjoyable.
Day Six:
Phil is mad at me for pouring the milk over his head. Serves him right. He was being a right git to me last night. Am mad at Phil. Maybe shall pour more milk over his head.
Day Seven:
Did not pour milk over head. Am making lots of empty threats these days. My eyes have sunspots that bother me.
Day Eight:
Forgot to explain how we sleep. Building people build two person huts out of driftwood unless you make one yourself. Took building group up on the offer of making one myself. Took hour off on first day so Jonathan (the second head cook) could look around and help make the food first. He wanted too. Anyway made house out of driftwood yes but also added wet sand and mud in between cracks in the wood. Then covered wood with mixture of wet sand and mud. Made roof of palm leaves. V. v. comfortable when you lay out a sleeping bag along with some fish I caught myself and cooked for me in case I got hungry during the night and a book. V. cozy. Must ask Lauren to borrow her scissors. Have got to cut hair. Has been growing like a dervish. Must keep it at earlobe length.
Day Nine:
Am bored with surrounding and cooking. Took the liberty of cutting coconuts off trees for an hour when I got up at midnight on accident. Not too bored with cooking to make coconut porridge. My recipe. Go me!
Coconut Porridge recipe:
Take ten very big coconuts and crack open. Pour milk into container and set aside. Scrape coconut meat off sides of coconut and mash. Pour some of the milk into the mash. Cook for five minute. Serves twenty or so hungry sixth graders.
More later
________________________________________________________________________WAHO O! That was awesome! This came about as a Social Studies thing. We did a simulation of being on a deserted island and Ms. Whiteman had died in the crash. At the end she asked us questions and we wrote answers. The first two I wrote were boring but then decided to make it like a journal. Got extra brownie points for that. The first four are a mix of the answers to the six questions. Then I just elaborated. And yes. Phil and Rhiannon and Laura and Lauren and Chris(tofer) and Jonathan are real people in my class and yes Phil really did get on my nerves and Jonathan was in the unit for me. I also told my teacher in no uncertain terms that I wish she would drop us off on a deserted island and die and that it would be much eaiser for us to rule ourselves that way without her telling us we were too loud. As always review.
Was on way to London w. class for field trip when plane crashed. Am on deserted island w. class. Boys included. Phil taking too much responsibility. Thinks that he has to do everything at once. Poor Phil. Phil is being a pest with the leader thing though. We are taking votes and Lauren won instead of him. Would think he would be v. happy. He got voted vice. In other new Ms. Whiteman died in crash, had to bury her. Friend had bible and we read out of it over sandy grave marked with coconuts.
Day Two:
Have been voted head of my area of expertise: cooking. Have made rules and stuff for kitchen area. V. v. happy with way this turned out. Lots of driftwood. Have made small cabinets. Odd Chris. He brought nails and a hammer. Lucky though.
Rules:
Kitchen people wash their hands. No hoarding the food. Always keep cabinet with knifes locked. No poisoning a certain plate to bump somebody off.
I made that last rule. Is funny. Go me!
Day Three:
*sigh* Voting for names was a bit annoying Lauren had to rally the hunting party several times before they calmed down enough to listen to the names.
Name list:
Miserable Mudpit Haven New Hope Giantkiller Island of the Damned Coconut Island Excessive amount of palm trees Island 30 people out of the thirty voted. Haven won by one point. It was my idea sort of. I got it from one of the books that I was bringing to read in London. I voted for Island of the Damned anyway. Christian always has good ideas. We made a flag too. My friend Rhiannon brought paint markers to draw on her white shirt. Ended up cutting up a total of four white shirts. Have sewed them together with sewing kit Laura brought. Picture of flag below.
New rendition of the come and take it flag. Replaced star with coconut. Most people like it. I like it too.
Day Four:
Ms. Whitman ghost is haunting camp. Oh joy. Am v. v. angry with the ghost. Scared me when I was making the fish and accidentally let it burn. Have poured rotten coconut milk over the grave. Go me.
Day Five:
Phil still acting a bit pompous all to community disadvantage maybe will go against cooks honor code. Maybe poison his food. Then pour rotten coconut milk over his grave. Perhaps just do the latter. Will be more enjoyable.
Day Six:
Phil is mad at me for pouring the milk over his head. Serves him right. He was being a right git to me last night. Am mad at Phil. Maybe shall pour more milk over his head.
Day Seven:
Did not pour milk over head. Am making lots of empty threats these days. My eyes have sunspots that bother me.
Day Eight:
Forgot to explain how we sleep. Building people build two person huts out of driftwood unless you make one yourself. Took building group up on the offer of making one myself. Took hour off on first day so Jonathan (the second head cook) could look around and help make the food first. He wanted too. Anyway made house out of driftwood yes but also added wet sand and mud in between cracks in the wood. Then covered wood with mixture of wet sand and mud. Made roof of palm leaves. V. v. comfortable when you lay out a sleeping bag along with some fish I caught myself and cooked for me in case I got hungry during the night and a book. V. cozy. Must ask Lauren to borrow her scissors. Have got to cut hair. Has been growing like a dervish. Must keep it at earlobe length.
Day Nine:
Am bored with surrounding and cooking. Took the liberty of cutting coconuts off trees for an hour when I got up at midnight on accident. Not too bored with cooking to make coconut porridge. My recipe. Go me!
Coconut Porridge recipe:
Take ten very big coconuts and crack open. Pour milk into container and set aside. Scrape coconut meat off sides of coconut and mash. Pour some of the milk into the mash. Cook for five minute. Serves twenty or so hungry sixth graders.
More later
________________________________________________________________________WAHO O! That was awesome! This came about as a Social Studies thing. We did a simulation of being on a deserted island and Ms. Whiteman had died in the crash. At the end she asked us questions and we wrote answers. The first two I wrote were boring but then decided to make it like a journal. Got extra brownie points for that. The first four are a mix of the answers to the six questions. Then I just elaborated. And yes. Phil and Rhiannon and Laura and Lauren and Chris(tofer) and Jonathan are real people in my class and yes Phil really did get on my nerves and Jonathan was in the unit for me. I also told my teacher in no uncertain terms that I wish she would drop us off on a deserted island and die and that it would be much eaiser for us to rule ourselves that way without her telling us we were too loud. As always review.