It's Thursday,

and also the last day of the first week of sailing camp.

Campers:

Me

Mei Mei

Tanya (the cat-walrus)

Briana Chen (nothing to say here)

Olivia Carson (Ms. Novick [her mom] works at SHS)

Sam (was here last year and is really good at sailing)

Krishanu (EXO Kriiiiiiis >_<)

Ben (ugh)

Andrew (stepped on dog poo today)

Michael (always wears aviator sunglasses while sailing)

Hannah (wears a new bikini every day, always from Justice)

Alex (Hannah's little brother)

Helen (whose dad is a police officer)

Aidan (who lives in Virginia and missed the first day)

John (goes by "Fishcat")

Instructors:

Solomon Tarlin (head)

Jonathan

Meghan

Pauljack (PJ) Solomon

Ben (volunteer, aka Merrick)

We've learned:

points of sail (no-go zone, close haul, close reach, beam reach, broad reach, run)

how to tack

how to rig a Sunfish

how to de-rig a Sunfish

parts of a Sunfish

what "The Monster" is

flip flops are horrible for sailing

how to cross the road safely

how to play "everyone's it"

how to tie square knots, bowlines, figure 8 knots

everyone's names

Jon's hand game (put both hands on a table, right hand over the left hand of the person to your right, tap your hand when it's your turn; double tap = switch direction, pound fist = skip one hand; when you tap out of turn, you lose that hand)

how to jibe/gybe

how to launch safely

capsize recovery

how to return to the dock safely

how to annoy certain people once we've sailed with them

Tanya and I tied up Ben's hair. Kawaii desu chan~

When playing Everybody's It:

Tanya the walrus:

While other people run around, sweating like crazy, we do this.

Today, Ben took a picture of Michael and I when he told me to sheet in and I didn't comprehend:

Wuuuuut?

It was an interesting week.

#sailing