WF Recap
Friday
Rush to finish packing. Cut and build full set of poles in ~75 minutes...victoriously. Fly to site in time for kitchen org meeting. spend next 4 hours trying to get in a swim. Finally succeed after dinner. Exhausted, get in a half lap of the lake before declaring defeat. Lots of hanging out, watching spinning, and some chatting.
Saturday
6am, start breakfast. Crew is late, flat top is gross, breakfast is rather late. Refrain from being annoyed at myself. Took some classes skipped others, spent time catching up with some people.
Swam more.
Spun a lit staff for the first time in two years. I think I'm no longer burned out on burning. Kind of a nice feeling. Proceeded to get a second degree burn on my back that coincides with the first degree in my left elbow. Got all patched up and spent more time hanging out.
Also, defeated the Kraken.
Sunday
Breakfast was actually almost on time. It helped that I had ten [10!] volunteers. This is surprising in more ways than one.
Read Lucky's letter at lunch. It was awesome.
Took more classes and did a bit more hanging out.
There was a non-fire dance party in the mess for a while. it was mighty awesome.
Performance class was amazing, though looooonnggg. thinking i may try to write something for the fall. we'll see if i have the energy.
Monday
Woke slowly. We were short on almost everything. We were ridiculously lucky that so many people left early over the course of the weekend or we never would have made breakfast work for the day. [We were short a case of eggs for the weekend]
Packed slowly, eventually left around 4. Had a difficult ride home [on the verge of sleep constantly].
This is a poor description of the weekend. I had a great time. And a couple personal moments of growth. I don't know that it's one of my favourites, but after 10 of them, there's a lot of stiff competition. Also realized that J and I have both been at all the "WildFires," we've just been calling the previous MayFires part of the count, and thus never considered ourselves in that list. This is sort of an exciting concept to me, and I'm not entirely sure why.
Rush to finish packing. Cut and build full set of poles in ~75 minutes...victoriously. Fly to site in time for kitchen org meeting. spend next 4 hours trying to get in a swim. Finally succeed after dinner. Exhausted, get in a half lap of the lake before declaring defeat. Lots of hanging out, watching spinning, and some chatting.
Saturday
6am, start breakfast. Crew is late, flat top is gross, breakfast is rather late. Refrain from being annoyed at myself. Took some classes skipped others, spent time catching up with some people.
Swam more.
Spun a lit staff for the first time in two years. I think I'm no longer burned out on burning. Kind of a nice feeling. Proceeded to get a second degree burn on my back that coincides with the first degree in my left elbow. Got all patched up and spent more time hanging out.
Also, defeated the Kraken.
Sunday
Breakfast was actually almost on time. It helped that I had ten [10!] volunteers. This is surprising in more ways than one.
Read Lucky's letter at lunch. It was awesome.
Took more classes and did a bit more hanging out.
There was a non-fire dance party in the mess for a while. it was mighty awesome.
Performance class was amazing, though looooonnggg. thinking i may try to write something for the fall. we'll see if i have the energy.
Monday
Woke slowly. We were short on almost everything. We were ridiculously lucky that so many people left early over the course of the weekend or we never would have made breakfast work for the day. [We were short a case of eggs for the weekend]
Packed slowly, eventually left around 4. Had a difficult ride home [on the verge of sleep constantly].
This is a poor description of the weekend. I had a great time. And a couple personal moments of growth. I don't know that it's one of my favourites, but after 10 of them, there's a lot of stiff competition. Also realized that J and I have both been at all the "WildFires," we've just been calling the previous MayFires part of the count, and thus never considered ourselves in that list. This is sort of an exciting concept to me, and I'm not entirely sure why.