Day 34
Hallie's first day on cook's crew went well. Breakfast was toast and eggs. Meh. In Spanish... we spoke Spanish. I sat next to David and Rachel, for something interesting to put here. Pat talked about plate tectonics in New England in E. Sci. That was alright. I got a pancake with honey in the break. I didn't really do much in History. I sat next to Sam S and Phoebe. In English I became annoyed with Lex's voice, but another one of my frontier words was picked, so that's a plus. For lunch there was all manner of leftovers: I had lasagna and the too-rich sweet-and-sour meatballs. I had two whoopie pies for dessert too! We composted all of it, though people kept coming into the kitchen for whoopie pies.
I dashed to Miles to throw on some snow pants for Outdoor Program, and David, Rafi and I loaded into Alden's car, which took us first to a small area where I found our location on the map, and then to a second, further spot on the other side of Hemenway Tract. We strapped on our snowshoes (mine were from two different pairs) and headed up the hill, wondering about the history of the land. It used to be a farm, good for grazing, until the farmer couldn't keep up the costs. As we reached the summit of the hill, we headed left (northwest-ish) down to Back Brook, where we would then take back to the Sugarhouse and campus. Heading down, Rafi got stuck in some thorns. It was very funny.
When we reached Back Brook, it was at a spot where there were two small holes in the ice, one about the size of a dinner plate, the other the size of a small fold-up table. We lay there, taking a half-hour 5-minute nap. We took pictures, we ate Powerbars, we threw snowballs into the Brook. We marched upstream, eventually finding ourselves and Shizue, Charlotte, and Katja. We walked with them for a bit (they had to find Orienteering points, we didn't), tried to break Back Brook by jumping (and succeeding at times), and pelting Charlotte with snowballs when their group left. My feet were wet. We kept finding new holes in the Brook; they're reaching a respectable size. We found the sugarbush; I drank some sap that tasted like sugar water; we admired a tractor left in Siberia; we walked back with Sarah and Rachel.
During my free I read most of the English story and tried (and failed) to go on the slow internet. Derby minus Aidan was in the library. In Precalc I was sitting with David, Rebecca, and Rachel. It was a sick table. We were progressive in math and History, discussing Rachel's essay topic, and doing some homework. I had one problem on a mini-quiz that I thought had me draw a massive tree diagram for three rolls of an eight-sided die, but instead just for the rolls that were a seven or not a seven. It was a great class; I'm really getting probability.
Dinner was potatoes and pot roast. I approve and I enjoyed. We took the dishes away too quickly- Sam P and Matt came up asking for more potatoes. Hallie did a good job on her first day; it should be a good week. We did math homework after dinner; she was not as ambitious with problems as she was with fitting lots of food into small jars. I did the rest of my homework, or at least and English reading and a Spanish composition, before messing around with a third of the kids, taking pictures sitting on the balcony, doing the Scrubs EAGLE!@!! and having a good time.
I returned with David to Miles, he scared me on the walk back, not in the common room (he was waiting for me to enter; I threw my laptop on the couch and he knew I knew I was there so he left), did a quick E. Sci. reading, tried getting him by hiding under the table (the turned-off lights clued him in), talked with Dad about bus times and Mom and Grace about Blair, wrote this and talked with Miles before bed. I keep wanting to read more Spivet, but there's not enough time. These take so long.
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