Hey you guys,
Yesterday I happened to be in Bath and had more time than I thought I was going to so i convinced my dad to let me go visit the Wonk! It was amazing, I missed everyone so much. I recently got my hair cut super duper short and it took the majority of people a moment to recognize me. I think Adam had the funniest responce. He saw me get out of my car in the parking lot behind the dining hall and he was up at the top of the hill by the adirondacks and just stood there with an incredibly confused look on his face as I charged up the hill at top speed, nearly falling flat on my face repeatedly and excitedly yelling his name.
I got there part way through last period and burst into PSniff's class. The first thing I heard was "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" from Lyllie, the girl whose there from my school right now. Then Peter turned around and said hello then told me to stop interupting and Ruth hopped off the counter by the hood where she was sitting and adorable Ruth that she is gave me a big hug =] I talked quickly with Ruth and then was once again reminded that they were in class and I had to leave, so I ran up stairs to go bother Marjolaine and her french class! I got a big hug from her too and we chatted in the hallway while her class took a quiz. Finally she remembered that she was supposed to be teaching or something ridiculous like that so I told her I'd see her later and went down the hall to go bother everyone's favorite Scotsman. I peaked my head in and Scot also took a minute to recognize me with my short hair. We briefly talked about the differences between history at Waynflete and history at Chewonki, while talking over the very loud requests of two girls for me to take the quiz for them (I'm not really sure why I would be able to do any better at it than them...). Then I went and saw Ben Redman and he asked if I wanted to sit in on math and I politely declined (grr math) and that was it for folks in that building.
Sooooooooo, I headed over to the dining hall! There I payed a hearty hello to the kitchen crew (Bill and Matt were there) and snagging a banana and some tasty bread sat down at a table with Leah! We had a brief chat (I was sort of maybe interupting a meeting...) about why I was there, how school was going, my hair cut (Shes not a fan) and of course Outreach. I then ran to said Outreach Lab and gave metaphorical hugs and kisses (not really cause I'd either a) crush the animal b) get a disease or c) get eaten/mauled) to all of my wonderful animal friends. With that done it was a trip to the farm where I met two new students (one of whom is a friend of Laura's. I don't remember his name but apparently he dated one of your friends? /Shrug) and helped sweep up while talking with Megan and farm Adam. Unfortunately Jeremy was not there BUT NEVER FEAR! He was on the lower field behind SoHo doin' some wood work. This was actually perfect, cause it gave me the idea to go visit the cabin which I otherwise probably wouldn't have done. I saw Jeremy (Hes as cool as ever). We talked about The Gunsling by Steven King because he asked what I was reading in English. Turns out he read it when he was a junior although not for a class. Go figure.
So I went into my cabin. There were a couple of weird things about that. The first was that there are now EIGHT guys in our lovely South Hall, so the bunkbeds had to actually be used or something like that. The second was The SoHo Creed, as scribed by the brilliant Walker Conyngham has been maliciously painted over extremely poorly with red paint. I was angry. The final and most shocking of all how ever is that my bed is now a wood storage closet. That was an event (although very inventive and chewonki spirited of the new guys) that I was not prepared for and it struck me to the core... for about four seconds. The new SoHo Bros are pretty chill, although they don't come close to comparing to the marvelous 45ers. I didn't meet any Binacle-ites because everyone was getting ready to go play snow slaughterball so they were in their cabins changing. They've never played slaughterball before and someone asked if they should wear snow pants. I cracked up at that and cryptically told them definetly, they'd be on the ground a lot.
Having completed my examination of my home I ran up to the quad to go see Anika as she gathered people for OAP. I managed to sneak up behind her and stood next to her without anouncing myself. She screamed and gave me a huge hug as soon as she looked over at me (the hair cut didn't fool her for a second, although shes not a big fan of it either). The first thing she said to me was "Are you happy?", well after lots of screaming and half finished Oh my god-esque phrases. She walked me to the CEE and we had a really nice long chat, it was great. She was one of the people I needed to see the most and she was by far the most excited to see me, if really made me feel the Chewonki love <3
Unfortunately it was then time for me to leave, but I could leave with a huge grin on my face. One last thing, the majority of the girls in 46 are REALLY loud and over excited about everything and chatty and yelly. It was rather overwhelming, I don't even know what they were saying the majority of my short interactions with them. Ruth agrees with me on that, she says the type of people and the semester dynamic is ridiculously different this semester (I forgot to mention I talked to her again in the dining hall) and that it was really disconcerting for her at first having them be so different from us. She sends her love to each and everyone of you.
Well that concludes my long, rambling, poorly written, in depth explanation of my visit to the holy land. I love and miss you all, hopefully I'll be able to visit you all soon. Hope everything is going well, cheers,
Eric
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