These damn captions with our names on them are to small for me to see clearly. Christina, I am sorry about the confusion, I must have read Emily's message about the fp-co leader deal and mistaken that message for yours because of the tiny names are virually unreadable. Emily, don't worry about it to much. I have permission from the Atheletic Director to move in early for cross-country. I should be able to get my key Sunday now so its all COOOL, although I am not. Damn it!

Emily says:
Brenna, i'm in Michigan until this coming Monday. i wonder if we could do something Friday... i'll give you a call if something will work out. it'd be cool to see you!i think i'm going to just miss Christina. Drew, i'm going to my uncle's wedding on the 23rd of August, so there's the chance that i'll be in Galesburg then. we'll see, and i'll let you know.

i am so confused. First of all Drew i am not an FP coleader, I didn't even apply to be one. Emily is one. Seccond of all why would you have to come to school early anyway drew? Third of all, You have a videocamera Pete? And then last of all I AM GOING TO WILD WAVES ON THURSDAY!!!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!! also i played mousetrap today. the end

To the Crew,
I wish I had as many interesting stories to tell everyone. This monday included me scrubing a godforsaken bathroom in the bowels of a grade school. Congratulations on the fp co-leader deal, Christina, I know you'll continue to make us all proud. I have a feeling that Emily will be the brains/steam behind our little townhouse this year, and I am really excited about it. Now I can be her chief assasin/enforcer of house rules that is if she'll give me the job! Hehe. Just my way of saying thanks on taking care of the room arrangement Emily, you rock! By the way, will you be around the townhouse on the 24th of August? I may have to come down there early beofre the lords of the College of Hard Knox can give me my key. I'm not sure about this yet, but please keep the date in mind. Take care you guys and continue to rock out the summer.

Hey hey hey. I am also back though not from as far as Guatemala. (Though if i want to, i can go to Little Guatemala AKA Kurt's house) New York was fun and exciting and tiring. Here is a brief list of stuff i did. Drove for four hours, laughed with my cousin at our awful recordings of the Galva performances, played kickball at dusk with my cousins and thier crazy-ass friends. Played Taboo (fun game) swam, used a "surf bike" raced kayaks with my cousin, introduced my aunt to Utah Phillips, went to a class on green architecture, went to a Binghampton Mets game, watched the sunset over the mountains surrounding the stadium, watched foul balls hit parked cars on the street, had a pillow fight with my cousins, drove through Owego NY (now on the list of future possible hometowns) and visited Ithaca NY (now on the list as well) Toured the "eco-village at Ithaca" a place so cool i wanted to move in right away. (I want to tell you all about this place, but i won't do it now because this entry is long enough as it is, and because i have a feeling i will be talking about the place all year until you get sick of it) Discussed diversity, land-use, the cohesiveness of ethnic neighborhoods, and the schedules of busy bus drivers with Aunt Nancy, bought a bumper sticker that says "KILL YOUR TELEVISION" at a used bookstore, Played croquet, had a campfire on a lake at my cousin's boyfriend's lake house in Pensylvania, played "the penis game," (if you'll remember the fun game of screaming introduced to me by Vicky) (changed to the "monkeys game" due to the young age of some of the participants) at the top of our lungs, out over the lake, at 11 p.m. (My cousin's friend Leigh wanted to change it to "the neighbors are losers" game) had tons of good food, made a video of fog blowing gently over the lake, played badminton (a surprisingly fun game), slept outside a lot, got beat 8-0 in "bike polo" (using a two-foot-high rubber ball, croquet mallets, mountain bikes, and benches for goals) by my 14 year old cousin Dennis, and then drove another 4 hours home. It was a dandy vacation.

I didn't even know you were going to guatemala. or maybe i did know and then i forgot. how was it? what part of guatemala? where did you stay? what did you do?

lordy, lordy. i'm back from guatemala ... and tired ... and am going to go absolutely nuts being back in this society ... but it was the most incredible experience ... so y'all are going to have to hear about it. sound good?

*looks back at the last week and a half of posts* what've i got for recipes? i have a whole book of spanish food that i received from my host family, and i've already managed a paella. :) woohoo! and i bet i could convince matt to bring pies every once in a while when he visits (mmm, soooo good). so ... does anyone have a really big pan for wonderful paella-goodness?

em -- it makes me more sad than i can properly express in writing to hear that in general your survey shows that girls are ignorant about iraq. *le sigh* and yet we stll demonstrated/volunteered more. hm. but huzzah on being an fp coleader! and hooray for knowing what rooms everyone will be in. :) can i visit in august?