Day 20:

So, when I got up this morning, I noticed that Divad is obviously trying to sell extra food from the kitchen for a profit, and who can't blame her for trying to do that, her green team is in desperate need for some extra money. However, no one bought a single item from her, partly because according to Greg "five cents for a piece of food is too much, you can get a piece of candy for the same price or just wait until meal time to get fresh food for free. What's the damn point of this anyway, bribing for the gold star?"

Then all in the sudden Greg confronted Divad face to face and said, "If you are in a desperate need for money, finish better in the challenges and start saving your god damn money for once! The bank needs some customers right now, anyway so why be smart and not be a dumbass."

While all of this is going on, Jared decided to destroy Divad's stall and signs all over the place, stating that the idea is stupid and idiotic.

After breakfast, the council decided to make an announcement, Alex then spoke out and stated the following "I understand that the majority of people have been complaining about a lack of money in our economy and not enough people are saving for the worst case scenario. So we, the council has decided to go to the old mine outside of town limits and see what can we find there, and as soon as we get back by lunch time, we will make an another announcement."

While we are waiting, for that follow-up announcement, I started to realize that we haven't got any new clothes for close to 3 weeks or a better more effective way to do the laundry. As a result, no one is willing to trust the laundry at this point, which I kind of feel ashamed of. And by the way, we are only allowed a shower once a week before bed time.

At lunch time, the council came back with a boatload of stuff. Making this announcement is Laurel "when we got to the old mine, we found 500 buffalo nickels, but instead of giving it all to you, we decided to save 10 cents in the bank for all 37 of us, and spent the rest on fun items that will hopefully boost morale of this town up, because right now, we need to relax and take a break from the hard work we are doing the last 20 days!" Everyone was so relieved that they finally have fun with baseball, football and jump rope for at least 3 hours.

The host then rang the bell, for the showdown, which happens to be at 4 in the afternoon. This time, it was Mike from the orange team leading the town to the showdown site.

The host then explained what the challenge is about. It's basically you need at least two people to launch eggs over a 20ft wall. While the egg is in the air the council leaders will try to communicate where the egg is going because they are the only people that can see both sides of the challenge. On the other side, you need 3 people to catch the egg from mid-air using a giant cushion. If you are successful catching an egg, you need one district member to run to a box and put in it. The time limit is 15 minutes and you need 60 eggs for the reward.

Before the challenge started, Migle decided to place Kennedy, Savannah and myself catching the eggs with the cushion. And the other 5 people are going to launch the eggs over the wall. 5 minutes into the challenge, I realized that it's going to be tough to get the reward and I already run back to the box at least a dozen times, and yes the box is indeed far away.

After 10 more minutes of running back and forth, the host said it's over, and right away, I have a gut feeling that we didn't get the reward, despite me running back and forth a boatload of times. But let's wait and see what happens.

This time the host will start out with the last place team from the last challenge, which was Green team, then red, yellow, blue and orange.

First, let's count the green team's eggs here we go: 1, 2 "OMG! You can only muster two eggs in 15 minutes, that's terrible!"

Next, it's the red teams eggs: the host then started counting 1, 2, 3 . . . 14, 15, 16 eggs.

Third up, it is the yellow teams eggs: the host then counted again 1, 2, 3 4 eggs

Here's the situation right now: You have 22 eggs, so you need 38 for the reward, and then the host asked "Sophia, can you guys get the reward at this point?" She responded "nope!"

Next up, it's the blue teams eggs: the host then resumed counting 1,2, 3 . . . 30, 31, 32 eggs!

Before we move on to the orange team's egg count: I will remind you that you guys need 6 more eggs for the reward, so here we go!

The host resumed counting 1,2,3,4,5 . . . Orange team does indeed have the 6th egg, and the reward, but wait, there is more eggs left inside, Right now the Orange team has enough for merchants, to get the banker class you need 17 and for the upper class you need 33. Let's resume, 7, 8 eggs. So, you guys do get the reward for the second straight time!

Blue team is the upper class for the 6th time in 7 showdowns, the red team are the bankers, the orange team is the merchants, the yellow team are the cooks and the green team are still the laborers.

Now, this reward choice is all about money laundering, well it's actually money and laundry. Your reward choices are either a set of new clothes for everyone and crank operated laundry machines or a complete Laundromat with a washer and dryer, but its 20 cents for each one! So, council, take a walk and talk it out, it's going to be a tough decision.

The host asked us, what should the council chose, Blaine said, "the new clothes, because the Laundromat is too expensive for 40% of the town to use" Likewise, Taylor said, "we all need new clothes, because we all have been wearing the same clothes for the last 3 weeks now, and I personally love the outfits!"

So, council, what's going to be "convenience at a cost or new clothes and more money in your pockets?"

Laurel made the announcement: "this decision was ended up being an easier one for us to debate on. In the end, we all agreed that you guys are going to get the new clothes and the old school crank machines!"

I was like, "hell yeah, It's about damn time, we got a new outfit!"

And I'm sure everybody is relieved that they got a new set of clothes to use for the second half of the season!