A piece out of one of my dairy entries

I'm on a roll tonight, so I thought I'd end it by including a piece of one of my dairy entries, yes the one Tom asked me to start, so here's been my thought processes and radical thoughts, well I'll keep some parts just for me :).

So tonight I witnessed a scorpion vs a black widow vs another black widow vs the Godzilla of all wolf spiders. With the unbelievable outcome of the black widows getting destroyed both of them, a wolf spider paralysed getting it's legs ripped off. All because of one bad ace...the scorpion king. yep now I'm definitely sure I'm in America.

I let my boss know how much he's affected me in a positive manner. the week with hopi is over and what a week of getting to bond with them, watching the boys slowly transform from shy recluses to outgoing estranged characters. Especially David, every part of the day he song the siesta song and ran to all activities with excitement, never fear. No wonder we gave him the courage bead. If anything this week these boys inspired me to better myself and strive and work for what I want.

On another note we won cabin clean up, our points through the week just beat ottawa, the oldest boy cabin was beaten by the youngest, well they were dq'ed on the last day. So we drank our soda's smiling as all of our weeks work paid off.

qoute:

'Boom head-shots are free bee-otch'

.....We were watching a scorpion cage match, he stabbed a spider in the face, so epic ha.

Later :D

Nice qoute!

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise

Politicians will philander, you too will get old and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your Elders

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good!

Legen....wait for it.....Dary

I couldn't honest to god think of a better title, so forget the counterfeiting use of such an appropriate quote. These past few weeks, as I have written since the 20th of June. Wow they've been a blur, were halfway through session 6, two more sessions after this, then the normality in my life which has become camp is over.

So let me walk you though what has transpired, I was given a cabin of older boys, there language was foul when they arrived which meant we had to have a talk about being leaders and inspiring role models to younger campers. I know me having an adult conversation, I feel I arrived here aged 20 and I'm leaving 30. Through that last week of July the Gulf of Mexico was hit by a hurricane, parts of the storm broke off and re-formed over hunt Texas, more importantly Camp Flaming Arrow. I mean it seriously rains back home but here....when it rains the river rises, lightning flashes and rain falls like a blanket of water. BooYah emergency poncho, Angel said something to me that i thought I'd quote,

'Our Sky's like a Woman, It can never make it's mind up.'

Yeah that's something else I've started doing not sure if I've said, writing a dairy and adding quotes of the day. I think I'll pause and the reason why, is because as a person I think I've changed and grown. I can't summarise it in all of this blog so I keep getting off track adding points that appear fresh in my head, I mean it has been a month since I last blogged.

Back to the boys each time I gain a cabin, I think yeah they'll be all right then they're the best friends I have for a week, little brothers. Who when leave I feel like I crumble inside.

Literally my last week of boys, hopi the youngest male cabin, we bonded we won cabin clean-up the youngest boys stole it in a devastating last attempt for victory, all of them demonstrating unique caring attributes and when they left I nearly broke down. One of my boys dads actually hugged me as I composed my self....no more slipping ha.

For that week I received top dog at camp, that's when a counsellor brings his A game all week, now as a reward I have Starter camp, they sleep early but my god you have to be such a constant in their lives, or they go off the rails. But so far yeah, I say it's been an awesome ride.

This is getting long so I'll write another blog, this experience all i have to say is, everyone should try it at least once, I'll write again once I can compose my thoughts more.

Later :D

That's how country boys roll

Well I'm finally back on a computer after about 4 days jeez, it's hard going getting onto a laptop with about forty of staff competing for a laptop or the only pc around. But this week has been one hell of an awesome week. This was our first week with kids and it was one of the best weeks of my life, I took care of cabin navajo with Anthony and Darren, naming ourselves the navabots seeing as we're just that awesome. Well we called ourselves that so ottawa couldn't call themselves the ottabots lol.
This week started with swim-checks watching the kids swim and sorting them into groups of who could and who couldn't, it's hard looking at someone you know who's trying there best and telling them they have to wear a red band staying in the shallows. Though it is definitly for their own good, I'd rather them swim in shallows then have them drown.
I walk around to each water activity and check up on how the life-guards are doing and how they feel along with my co head lifeguard Gemma. I mean yeah it's hot but I get to do each activity as part of my check-up it's what I have to do lol.
My boys this week were as great as they come, outgoing, caring, responsible and respectful, even if I had to shhh them during flag lowering loads. But they gave their all at what they were doing and opened up to one another. And watching them go at the end of the week was hard, how do you do that every week, I guess you find a way to do so :).
I'm thinking of getting a blog section and calling it Alex Coyne's qoutes, after another awesome 24 hour off he's done nothing but been a pure camp-ass and made me laugh lol.
Oh and I found out I can't wear a bag into stores.....racial profiling, I mean really? wow.
I'm about finished with this blog so i think I'll wrap up here and end on...
Happy Fathers Day!.
p.s. James you camp ass.
Let this week roll on, bringing new kids and great experiences :)
NAVABOTS ASSEMBLE!!!

Change of Stroke

Last time I was blogging I spoke about how unfit I was, but I guess things must have changed from all the 7.00am swims. Because along with my good friend Gemma we're the head life-guards :). It's responsibility added to what potientially could already be a hectic job. But I'm happy i've been given the oppurtunity.
I swam 40 widths of the pool plus two lengths, doing another 500m. All i can say is props to the man who can come out of that feeling pretty good after. My leg cramped in the last 10, i just swam through with it and it still hurts lol.
Over 40 staff and they're are some of the most amazing people i've ever met, so forward and friendly all willing to go into deep conversations bearing themselves to one another, in an attempt to further our relationships. It's something new and exciting. We sing at breakfast, lunch and dinner and at campfire, such energy all the time, i'll try and commit myself to it.

That's my goal, give my all into camp and watch how it affects me and my growth as a person.

Until I blog again Peace!! Xxx

swimming i'm awesome, awesomely bad

Today I finished my pre-requisites for life-guarding, 500 metre swim, that was only the first test :o. Yeah I feel like i'm toned and super fit for swimming, man I struggled, I did it but I know I struggled.
What I can take away from that is seeing as I have no body fat, I sink, floating and me don't mix. So maybe I need to load up on the supersizes, but saying that I need to get fitter and clogged arteries wouldn't help.
Everyone from all the friends I made, to Bill, Ryne and Angel (pablo angle) all encouragerd me, and it's comforting to know everyone's here for you, they cared about you even before they met you. What an awesome way to lead your life.
So from now i'll be up by 7.00am every day, perfecting my techniques so when the 800 metre final test comes, I'll be half-man, half fish.
Chilling here wondering why my right eye is starting to swell, pretty sure Tom waited till i was asleep to punch me, but it's going down so all good.
Hope all is well mum it's mandatory for you to read this.
Stay safe, I'll try to :)

Crash landing in Texas

Standing on top of Mount Vesper watching the sun set made me think things have definitely changed. I could never imagine being somewhere so awesome. The camp is sunny and the people i've met are all amazing in their own ways.
In the camp their is a small army of dogs all of which are possibly plotting to overthrow us humans and make us follow their every whim and desire. But seriously Texas is beautiful so far, in the day nothing but massive trucks, big malls and car dealerships as far as the eye can see. At night lights, these guys do not care for the economy ha.
Today life guard training started, passed basic swim, then the written test....I failed epicly, 10 minutes later i realise like an ass i've taken a totally different test from the rest of the class, a test with a subject none of us had studied and i silently took it without objecting....good one.
I brought a camera so I will upload pics, but so far I have 8, a good use of $142 dollars.
I'll update some more later as it's nearly lights out and i really can't think, it must be the benodryl Ryne gave me. So peace out! n_n

p.s The 100ft water slide is nothing more then kick ass!

Trainer infatuation

These were the last trainers i bought and I love them, I wear them everywhere, I just thought everyone should see them as I like them that much. I don't know how much they we're original retail price but Tk-max had them for 29.99, that place is so hit or miss, but when it hits like that it really hits.

What I really wanted you take a look at were these bad boys,

I mean yeah they look like boats but what do you want me to do? I'm size 12. Once again I have no idea why I'm showing these, but the phantom blue colour with the rubber white soles, and the dual straps for secure fit/ style lol just look great. Well if anyone who knows me wants to get me a present, they can actually be bought for £30, kills the retail original price.

My odyssey through space

I still can't sleep, not because the big headed baby keeps creeping into my dreams, nah it's because quite possibly a monolith from space may stalk me and turn me into a foetus that must hurtle through space. 2001: A space odyssey......my god where do i start, you realise it took a whole minute and forty something seconds of viewing landscape before you saw the first sign of life on the screen and it was a fucking monkey, it took about twenty minutes before you see the first human and about half an hour before the first piece of dialogue!

But I don't want to rip this movie a new hole, good it was slow, like my god it was slow, but Stanley Kubrick was a cinegraphic master, as I heard in a review he was definitely ahead of his time, his shots were long but pleasing to the eye. Whilst his script writing dragged on and was offensive to the mind.

I also believe me and my friend Tel deserve major props as we watched it from beginning to end, despite the fact half an hour chunks could have been cut from that movie, Stanley trim the fucking fat!

Finally the only strong character with human presence was the HAL 9000, a super computer, i only say this as basically the computer f'ed up it's 100% correctness chart by making an error, *slight spoiler alert* this makes Hal panic so to cover up his mistake he tries to kill the crew, and when Dave realises this and begins to kill the machines mind, it almost cries and begs for it's life, their is a dispute whether this computer has human feelings, to try and convince Dave and beg for it's life makes it a human, regardless of skin.

He's also quite intimidating as you pray a villian is disfigured or looks in a way you can identify him as the villain, but Hal has no facial features, making him that more scary.

SPACE FOETUS!!!

Red, Silver then Road

Yesterday I was walking home from tescos, as many of you probably know it was pancake day and I was ready to stuff myself, I was standing at the lights there was this five year old kid he was screaming and laughing at his older brother who was standing across the road, unexpectedly with a car in sight the kid stupidly runs out, but I guess the actions of a five year old kid can't be called stupid, it was just unpredictable, the kid runs out and is immediatly hit, his body went limp as it made contact with the car, his head hit the bonnet and he was still on the car for about 5 meters until he came flying off and flew another say 4 meters across the the road like a battered raggedy andy. Their was silence, the world stopped I was snapped back to reality by his mothers screams, she dropped to the floor in a faint but immediatly awoke, to the kids credit it must of been the adrenaline, he got up and staggered back to the pavement and fell again, I suddenly rushed forward to help yet I remembered you can't grab or hold a victim if they're in an accident and i'm definatly not qualified to do anything, lucky a nurse was standing at the traffic lights too, and she helped get the kid to the curb and check if he could still feel pain, he could......all I could do was stand by and watch as he was helped, I attempted to call an ambulance but as i rushed forward a man already got his phone out and was talking to the 999 call centre. All I could think was if I moved faster I could have grabbed him, taking the brunt for him or dragged him back if their was time, it was like a flash all I saw was his redcoat run out in about o.1 secs he was hit. I can only thank a higher power that he was okay, he could feel the pain and the ambulance collected him, I felt powerless just standing their with my tesco bags full of pancake crap.
Another person I feel for was the elder brother the mother immediatly put all blame on him despite the fact he wasn't walking with them and had crossed the road, pretty sure he was across the road from when the mother left tescos, he clawed at his hair under the pressure that was suddenly put on him, breaking down in tears that's a pain i hope I never feel.
And to the driver I sympathise I mean fuck, that shit would make me hate driving for a long time.
Just gald he was all ok.

In my day petrol was 42p for a gallon!

I caught the national express today and usually I sit down and immediatly pass out, or I'm enveloped in my music, enjoying my solitude, as I said in my previous Blog which I felt ran on a bit long, I'm now taking public transport without the comfort of my 2745 varied songs. I boarded the bus and sat down next to an elderly man and I asked whether the seat was free and he said yes, we drove on for a while and he started a conversation with me about how busy london was and how he was currently on a trip from Dover to Solihull, I remarked how it was a bad idea to get a coach going through London seeing as the traffic builds up at the time we left and remarkably as I said it we we found ourselves in a considerable amount of traffic.
He said he usually drives through from Dover but had an operation on his hand and quite liked the idea of being driven for once, I know your thinking why the hell am I writing about this stranger who I didn't even get the name of, i'm writing about this experience because I became amaingly interested in the ways of communication, I hardly had said two words to this man and here we were having a full blown conversation, about how the last time he took a coach was when he was 7, around the early 1950's!

I honestly learnt from this man, like did you know back when he was first driving i'd with 42p you could buy a gallon on petrol and a pound could get you 3 litres with change, not sure if that was an exaggeration but damn! How in dover you used to be able to get to france with your car for like a fiver, now it's drastically changed to 20 pounds each way. During this coversation I think I gained a slight distaste for our current finacial enconomy. I can only liken the conversation to that of a transaction between a client and a prostitute....yeah I know your thinking wtf, not that i'm experienced but he was like the prostitute and I was paying, with general conversation, about current times and my life, for information that I wanted to hear, I wanted to communicate both parties getting what they wanted, he a sense of chatting and being listened to and I, well listening really.
It's weird how we choose to block ourselves out from something so interesting as other people, other peoples lives are sometimes just simply crazy, when there was silences I went against my n natural nature and picked up the conversation fanning the flame rather then letting the sparks of the converation die. He even waved goodbye as he got off the coach and looked through the window at me.

I genuinly felt like I had gained an insight into another persons life and I liked it.

Baby oil rub down

I thought I'd start by saying hi my names Daryll and i'm new to blogging, sounds a bit like an AA meeting, I mean how else are you menat to start? I thought i'd give this blogging thing a try due to a request from my tutor. I don't know what to talk about in general on this blog but an idea is forming and when I grasp it i'm going to blow your minds like a frickin mind grenade!
Well I decided i want to talk about another request from my tutor, 'Do any of you take public transport?' mostly the replies were yes, he then proceeded to ask whether we wear mp3 players on public transport, images of me blanking out every other living creature on the bus earlier that morning whilst Toni Braxton played in my ears suddenly came to mind, Un-break my heart if your wondering, don't ask why. Once again being the age of 20 just above and below most of us said yes, are tutor then said please do this no longer and bowed to us in a japanese fashion, by far the most interesting tutor i've had so far.
Now i've explained the why i got onto buses and trains thereafter without my beloved ipod i can get into my first story, this thursday on the 11th I caught the national express back home to london, then I proceeded to get onto the northern line, I met a charming older woman who saw me cracking my neck, i've really got to stop doing that, she came up to me and offered to massage my neck on the train, I laughed and said I was alright she then said she was really really good at massages, I honestly paused for a second, I mean yeah my neck was hurting and this would be a great story/source of relief, but I still passed. She then questioned whether I had caught the arsenal liverpool match, being a gunner myself i perked up and pressed her for her views on the match, she said it was a dissapointing outcome, even more dissapointing as she found arsene wenger to be a wanker, I listened and then reminded her it wasn't so dissapointing seeing as we won, I then argued Wengers case like a defense lawyer to a jury, this carried on till we pulled up to our station, as we parted she asked me to consider a massage for my neck, just so you know the reason i had to decline again was, I have an issue with someone possibly the same age as my gran trying to massage me, images of a baby oil rub down made me politely say thanks for the nice chat and offer, I wished her good day and I briefly cursed and thanked my tutor Ian for the encounter.

P.s: Happy Valentines people, well actually forget that, happy sunday to everyone whose single like me :)