Busy Day

Friday June 6, 2009

Last night was the last night for the volunteers; I was hanging out with a couple of them because I had gotten to know them over the past two work days. I ended up staying up ‘til about 12:30 playing cards with them, which is a big deal because normally people go to be at 10:30 when it’s lights out (and the night before, I had fallen asleep by 8:45). So I said goodnight, and they told me they were going to pull and all-nighter. They invited me to stay up with them, I couldn’t I was way too tired. But they told me they were going to watch the sunrise. I told one of them to wake me up before they head out because I had wanted to see the sunrise at least once while I’m out here. At 4:30 they woke me up and the now only 5 of us (there were about 12 people at midnight) walked up the hill behind Re-Member to watch the sunrise. I was glad I got to see it. We hung out there for a while, talked a bunch and got to know everyone. I’m glad they woke me up so early.

So all the volunteers left, everyone was gone by 7:30 in the morning, last week people were hanging around ‘til 10:00. Us interns, now including Naomi, were all going to go to Rapid City again but those plans fell through because all the keys to the Re-Member vans were locked in the Office and no one had a key.

So we waited around for a while, in the mean time, we watched a movie, did laundry and dog-sat for one of the other staff members. Naomi, Breanne and Bekah took Maggie (the dog) out for a walk. As they were walking down the road Maggie suddenly jumped back and then Breanne jumped over Maggie. A snake had tried to bite her. Breanne came running inside calling for me because they needed my “man strength.” I got outside to see what was going on, and then gave me the pleasant job of killing the snake because it was hissing like crazy and started to coil up. I was extremely hesitant but, to spare details I ended up killing the snake. I told myself I was protecting the girls and Maggie and that is why it was OK of me to kill the snake, I kept telling myself I was on defense. More than almost being attacked by a snake, Maggie stepped on a cactus and has needles in her paws, and later on puked all over the rug in the girl’s room. We shouldn’t be allowed to dog-sit. 

Eventually we got some keys from a person who had keys to the Office and decided instead of going north to Rapid, let’s go south to Nebraska. It was great, on the way we saw the biggest brightest rainbow ever, and the full rainbow too, both sides, it was cool. We went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and then went to see “Up” in 3D in this small, old, 50s style theater. It was great, there were 15 people in the theater, and we made up 8 of them. The movie was great and we had a lot of fun. All 8 of us bonded together so easily, I was afraid Naomi wasn’t going to fit it but she fits in perfect.