The Melancholic Death of Oyster Boy

haha. i was given this book to read this morning and its so funny. its written by tim burten(from nightmare before christmas and big fish fame?) and its super funny and whacky i was having a ball just reading. life here is great. i don't even know where to start. okie lets just recount from where i left off. does anyone think this is all too draggy and longwinded? if u do then dun read lor! haha.

okie so yesterday was another lobo day. woke super early at 7am and after breakfast went to find things for myself to do. notebly go and find other staff and ask if they need help. ended up helping chris miller, the camp nurse(he's supposed to be the coolest guy in camp before i arrived...hehe), andrew, the maintenance head, and ranson, the facilities head or smtg lidat. was doing boliao things lah. but i guess what's important is to give the let people around here know that i'm useful and not some leech. so for the whole day till dinner time i ended up picking up trash, cutting up boxes, mending a fence, and disposing of paper trash. haha was quite fun.

now one thing to take note was that yesterday's weather was way cool. not cold, and i found myself wearing a tshirt and sports pants whereever i went. super shiok can finally wear so little.

at night i was invited to the kiva gym to play basketball with some of the older staff. and it seems like people are really taking on to me. people are coming up to talk alot more to me and blah, saying i got game, i play hard blah blah blah. so i just tell tehm the same stuff they wanna hear and blah...i think americans super love to be praised. so the more you praise them the more they think you're cool. especially when its obvious that i play better but i remain modest. haha. okie that out of point. but really the staff here are the best man. super easy to warm up with and everybody treats each other like good friend and all. so its really good.

okie so today was a totally different story.

in the morning i got the chance to go denver with brandy and michelle. they're really great and i really appreciate them letting me tag along. anyway it was still sunny on our drive to denver. we had to cross a mountain to the other side just to reach the highway to denver. whole journey took us about 2hrs. denver's pretty huge city and i think there's quite alot to see. but this tmie around we had no time since we had to go pick up another staff member from the airport. so when we finally picked him up, we went to walmart!!! yay. now walmart here is like carrefour in singapore, only much much bigger. and u really can get anything and everything here. so the first thing i when to grab were hiking boots. in the end i got myself a good pair for only us$40 and a pair of trainers for us$15 and then got myself some moisturizer, socks and a nice brush for my lovely hair. haha. then we had subway for lunch. its more expensive here than in singapore. the prices are almost the same 'cept here its in us dollars.

okie so finally we're on our way back, and as we start going up the mountains, guess what? it begins to rain...then this super huge fog starts to develop across the mountains where we were heading. as we got through the fog, it got thicker and thicker so we had to drive slower and slower. the know what? the rain turned to snow...at first a little bit by bit the rain still splattering on the windshield, then after awhile to more sound liaoz. the snow just blows by. so cool!!!! and cold!!!!

so this went on throughout the mountain drive so we thought it was just a mountain thing but nooooo....turns out its snowing in camp chief ouray too!!! wow!!! fantastic and it was a snow storm, so the ground and the trees got white super fast. so cool!!!! its amazing how we can have sun one day and then snow the next. wow.

okie so next up was dinner. today we were all invited to maryanne and andrew(they're married)'s house which was near the lodge, for dinner. it was a byob which mean bring your own bbq. cool! haha. i didn't have anything to bring but i asked molly to bring buy me smtg. and of all meats u can find she bought me crummy hamburgers haha. but thanks anyway. so we had a bbq going outside where it was freezing cold(was snowing tons!) and the food eating session inside. there were quite alot of people, most of whom i already know, and everyone brought their own food to be bbqed. so cool! haha. and we had a ball talking and stuff, and as of now i lost count how many times i replied with the same answer that singapore's a 17hr plane ride followed by a 20hr train ride from chicago. wow long journey eh? yeah, long journey. *brief silence* cool!

haha people here say cool and sweet and great and lovely ALL THE TIME. its like a must say when someone tells u smtg. haha so i do the same. and i think i say it real well cos most of them say i speak really well and they can immediately understand what i'm saying as compared to previous asian counsellors whose english is terrible. hmm. makes me feel good about myself. haha. after dinner we all went to play basketball again. i think playing with them bonds us all.

well i havent received any gossips lately? hopefully someone could drop me an update about hte latest things that're going on back home. will almost cfm reply wan. haha.

kie anyway i'll stop here liao. take care everyone.