FIVE MORE DAYS!!!!

-jumps around like madman and does happy dance- Seminary is SO close. I can't wait...

I like it. -nods-

So uh, yeah. Youth activity. It was good, we swam in a creek-like-thing. And there were RAFTS! Wood ones that you can jump on and flip over. And a low bridge that three different people ran into! -thud- Shallow water it dangerous though. Lots of rocks... I like DEEP water. Where you can't touch the bottom. ^^ But that was good, too. I liked the rafts. He had little duel things where you tried to knock everybody off without pushing them. Woot!

Uh, what else... Oh yes, SEMINARY!!!!! Wait, I said that already. -paces in anticipation-

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Fishes can't really scream well...

Um, I gotta go again. -waves-

I'm late!

Hello!

I'm running late today. The activity last night was good. More later!

Goodbye!

Reinforcements. Helping Hand. Guardian Angel. Whatever you call it.

Brother M is very, very nice. ^^

Okay, from the top! Um, I've got about three hours before our ride to YM/YW, so I'll do this quickly.

Scouts last night was an improvement over it's predecessors. Good thing. Yes, the announcements went a little longer than I had hoped for so the boys were getting restless. Anyway, I decided it was a good idea to get them involved before someone fell asleep. The sign game! Took a little while to get going, but it worked out alright. Brother M really helped. He had played the game before and was good at explaining the rules and such. Then afterwards he went over some planning ideas for what the troop might do. -nods- The man is a genius. ^^

Yeah, I gotta eat my words now. I'm happy. Gotta hate it when you're wrong... Anywho, I'm not going to get lazy. I'm going to see if I can confirm my new patrol leaders tonight. Oh yes, we have an ASPL now! Two more people I can look to. (both of which in Sutter Ward) Very nice!

I just have to ask the patrol leaders, get in touch with Bro M, do regular schoolwork... Not so bad. But I should probably stop hanging around here all day. Um... Eat strawberries, they're super food! Some magazine or news thing said so. ^^

Towel (in satchel), notebook (has there been a time when I haven't had one with me?), phone, Japanese symbol notes, and –WHAT THE HECK??? Um... It seems my brother has stepped on another bee... The one that starts with an A. Yeah, mom said I should remain anonymous when I write. -nods-

Uh, I'm going to go see what's up with A. He made a very funny yell (not really funny) and ran inside. Now Joe is doing something to his foot. Remember everyone. Shoes are important. Yep... uh, I gotta go... -scurries off-

Show time...

I don't write like that. Either it's negative or positive. Rarely can it be seen as both. It isn't interest that's the problem. It's capability and fulfilling the duties that come with the good. They'll do campouts, they'll do activities, but they don't listen or participate in meetings. It all comes down to one thing. Discipline. I had it when I was younger. I learned that work needs doing. They, it seems, did not. And there are a precious few ways I can teach them that. We aren't allowed to discipline, we aren't allowed to suspend or anything like that. At least, I can't. We'll just see if we can get one thing into their heads tonight. I have a small idea for instruction. As for the activity, I'm going to try a little less moving. We must have ORDER.

And by the way, if leaders are supposed to make others capable, why haven't any of the three SPLs that have served with a certain boy been able to make him "capable." You'd think a year or so would have done the trick.

So, um... We had smores last night. It's surprising how well grills work for that... So that was... nice.

One. More. Week. One. More. Week. Plus, after tonight, I might get a small break from this evil chaos. Then I have to write a talk... Life isn't fair sometimes... -sighs-

So yeah, I gotta go.

Oh yes, I forgot about that one...

There are four. One written in the English alphabet, like this, then two for writing plain syllables, then the last one for words. (one symbol for each word) Yeah, it's great.

Yeah, Friday and Saturday were Youth Conference. Very fun. I almost forgot howw stressful my life was. But then... POW! Hello life, you've got to decide the fate of the troop. Assigning positions, planning activities, "Delegating?" hmm, to who? Everyone that I'd trust are no doubt getting tired of it. I know I darn well am. I feel like I could knock the living daylights out of some of those boys. Zero discipline whatsoever. I have determined that I can trust NO ONE with some things. Such as bugler. Once again, Logan is the only one likely to be suitable for that. No one has any liking to getting up on time. Scribe? Librarian? Courter master? All those jobs and I've got two or three boys I can count on. There is absolutely no way I'm leaving some of these people as what they are. Except in the case of L, I think he's fine where he is as Den Chief. The man has some crazy power that he is not overwhelmed by annoyance. D I suppose could be librarian, for lack of any better ideas. bugler may be terminated as there are a shortage of boys, otherwise, double tasking. Wonderful. I. Need. A Patrol Leader's. Council. The SPL and Scoutmaster can do the patrol leaders, sure, but the WHOLE troop? Especially as the Scoutmaster has not given any viewpoint on the subject as of yet. It /sickens/ me. Hey, mother, can I move to Alaska? Please? If only for a few years. I do not enjoy my life. I'm beginning to wonder if I ever will again. Week after week. I'm tired of it. Seminary seems ages away. I need joy. There is supposed to be something happening from all of this. Some growing experience, but I feel nothing. I feel more like I'm sinking than anything else. How is someone supposed to grow while being drowned?

I'm sorry to inform you all that you'd do well to find another uplifting, cheerful blog to read, because I doubt I'll be able to play that role for quite some time.

What the heck it wrong with this text???

All day the computer has been changing what the text looks like. Not just for this, for Gmail, neopets, everything! So yeah, don't expect Hubert to be able to do anything. He's kind of working blind at the moment. The book? Maybe, but copyright would be murder. I think I'd rather be a writer than a internet smilies specialist. This font is huge and ugly. -grimaces- I'm getting distracted just looking at what I'm writing. It's terrible. I miss the old stuff. It was much better. So yeah, I had the responsi- I mean honor of going to Scout Committee Meeting last night. (committee has a lot of double letters. XD) It was good, I didn't know what I was supposed to do.

Yeah, Japan is one of the fastest growing business countries in the world so I figured it's a good idea to get in there. You know, at least know what they're saying. I never really trust translators. I've seen too many shows where wars have started because a translator lied during negotiations. The language doesn't seem all that horrible once you look passed the symbols. And I like how You write things how they sound. I think Tom would love it. Just the three different writing languages makes me nervous. Not so bad once you learn what the symbols are, but still scary.

So yeah, as always, I have to go now. Bye!

Konnichi wa, Jake Renolds desu!

He he he, that book is crazy. So, how is everybody? Yes, I'm upset that blogger always seems to ruin my pictures, the sand castle did look better when I was making it. But I was rushed and it was beyond repair anyway. Hubert made a new one though.

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So yeah, yay for Hubert.


Okay, moving on. Last night's scouts activity went okay. Only one injury and the scouts were keeping active. Yeah. Not the worst.

Anyway, so that's my life. I've said this already, but I'm taking Japanese. Tricksy stuff those symbols. Very interesting. So yeah, I have to get back to work. It seems that as my life gets busier, the less time I have to write about it... Bye, everyone!