Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Hejsan,

Things haven't settled down yet at Fladan, and I don't think they will for a couple more weeks. Next week, over 1300 Sea Scouts are coming to spend a week at Vassaro. And trying to fit that number of kids over that small amount of time means nonstop morning, afternoon, and evening sessions, and supposed (I hope they're only rumors) dawn and midnight sessions as well.

The past two days have involved taking care of large groups. Monday was sailing all day with 50 scouts part of a "Spy Kids" themed camp. It turns out the whole theme didn't really work, because no one ended up dressing up, and the surprise that happened for the kids was a big boat driving around pretending to be a party boat, but no of them understood it. It was kind of awkward. Monday night involved us cleaning the outside of the Fladan house so that it could be repainted again. It's a big project, not to mention the house was built before the U.S. became independent.

Today again involved taking groups out. The "spy kids" took out canoes, boats, and optimists all day. The afternoon was dominated by taking care of a group of about 20 Belgian girl scouts in optimists, who of course could not speak English and had never sailed before . Since the wind was blowing out of Fladan as it usually does, it was only a matter of time before all of them had drifted out into open water and onto shore. So the rest of the afternoon involved taking out all the motorboats and towing everyone back to Fladan. It was kind of ironic because I was teaching someone new in the morning today about how to use a motorboat and how to help swamped canoes and boats and how to tow stuck boats. I think he got a lot of practice in...

Tonight, we continued painting the house and started oiling all the wood on the docks. Again, something that is a pretty big project and will take up a lot of time. Its a different experience this time, being a lot more busy and not having an evening off yet. Its definitely more tiring, but a lot more rewarding.

Tomorrow should be more of the same, I'll try to put up some pictures soon. I forgot how much light there is at night. It's incredible, there's almost no need for a flashlight unless you go into the woods. But, I guess in the winter, its the opposite, and everyone gets pretty depressed. To be a Swede...

-Lukas

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