4/29/10
Today was a relatively successful workday—free of disasters and random, unforeseeable mishaps— which is always a pleasant surprise. Emily and I were on door duty again, which we finished up pretty quickly before moving onto to nailing trim over the screens on the cabins. We almost finished up all of one unit, and we’ll tackle the rest tomorrow.
After work, we did a team trainer workshop that involved drawing flowers to plan our futures, and afterward we watched clips of canoeing videos featuring Ranger Bob. One of the videos was on VHS, and the others were technically on DVD but might as well have been VHS between the faded, grainy image quality and flickering screens. The videos were somewhat odd and featured long intervals of people canoeing in slow motion on repeat in gigantic rapids set to cheesy background music – it was impressive, but just not something I’d spend hours watching on video. Words really cannot describe, however, the delight we found in seeing a significantly younger Ranger Bob with an Al-from-Home-Improvement beard demonstrating canoe techniques in one video, and Ranger Bob in a frilly white pirate blouse freestyle canoe dancing with his fiance in another. The reason for all of the canoe videos is that we’ll be doing canoe training back at Camp Todd this Sunday to become canoe certified… Yet another sport that I’m nowhere near qualified to teach, but will somehow be certified to teach.
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