June 12th, 2006

By the time I woke up everyone had already gotten cleaned up and was outside doing their daily work. I noticed a bit of drool coming off my mouth as I got up and quickly wiped it away before anyone else saw but it was too late, Tara had spotted me through the window. "Oh man that's gross!" And with that she went out shouting, "Brian was drooling in his sleep, I saw it!"

There was laughter after that for the next five minutes it seemed like. Finally when everyone settled down I came out and saw that they had been working on the hut together. I faintly smiled and went to the water to wash myself up. As I cleared my face up I saw something green and yellow floating around in the water, it was a tennis ball!

I ran into the water grabbing it, "Hey Jason looks what I got here!"

He looked over at me and started laughing, "Dude what are you going to do with that, we have nothing to hit it with!"

I came back on shore and grabbed a stick, "We'll play like the old days when all they had was fruit and tree sticks!"

So we all agreed to play a game later on when we were done working on the hut.

"Hey Jason, do you know what yesterday was!" I shouted as we were holding up the roof off the hut.

"No Brian, what's so special about yesterday?"

I took a few seconds to reply as Cree and Tara added some palm leaves below the roof. Then as we set the roof back on, I cleared my throat.

"Today, well yesterday was the most important day of anyone's life! I now have the ability to drink…beer…and legally!"

They all looked at me like I had too much to drink the night before, "Brian, it doesn't matter, no one is here that could tell anyways." Cree said.

I shrugged and continued working.

I asked axel to come help me get some vines for the hut. He agreed to and we went off into the forest looking about.

"Wow I didn't think these kind of plants existed!" As I spotted a very exotic red and orange flower that looked like it was hundreds of years old.

"Oh that thing, it's nothing special Brian, I've seen plenty of those around here."

I shrugged and picked it up and decided to give it to Tara when I got back. Axel gave off a big smile in knowing that I was learning more not to think about myself only. I smiled a bit and continued on looking for a vine to use on the hut. We needed it to hold the roof down when it rains hard with the possibility of hurricanes as well. Axel was the first to spot a vine and fortunately it was on the ground. I wrapped it up into a bundle and stuck it in axels mouth. After a while my feet were hurting from the little pieces of stone that were slipping underneath my sandals. I thought to myself that I should start washing some clothes when I get back so I'll have something new to wear in the morning.

About an hour later we started to head back towards the main land. Everyone else was going about their own business.

I looked at the hut which looked nearly twice as long as it had when I left. It felt good to have more people around you who cared and actually wanted to do something for a change. Tara was trying to tie a knot in one of the ropes that were attached to the hut. I snuck up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. Immediately she turned around, her face turning red.

"Ha-ha sorry about that, I wanted to give this to you."

She took the flower and smiled back up at me.

"Oh Brian that's very thoughtful of you, I'll have to put this is some water later." She gave me a hug and went back to tying the rope.

It felt like we had no sense of time anymore, so Jason and I started working on making a sun dial.

He knew more about those than I did so he arranged the stones in a circle.

After a while he had the dial made and all he had to do now was line up the circle so that it reflected off the sun. The time read 6:25pm. By now we had completed all the tasks that were necessary for us to get done.

Axel didn't come up to shore like he normally did. So we had a problem of getting food since we weren't used to doing it on a regular basis. Everyone volunteered me to go out and get something.

Cree found Bud over by the palm tree, "Hey let's have some coconut!"

Bud started rolling around in her hand shouting, "Oh please not this again!"

Cree screamed and dropped him, fortunately for Bud his hard shell kept him from cracking.

"Brian how long have you been talking to these creatures and coconuts?" Cree kept asking me.

"You tell me, I've pretty much become used to it now."

I made my way into knee high water and watched for anything that might be moving and alive.

A jelly fish slowly waded towards me. A sense of panic grew in me and hopped out of the water.

Jason happened to see me do it.

"Hey Brian what's the deal? It's only a jellyfish."

I looked at him in disbelief, "I was stun by one of those little bastards when I was about six years old! You think I'm going to take that risk again, you know how long their legs are!"

He backed off a bit, "Ok take it easy, and let me handle the food situation for the night."

I sighed and went back towards the fire. Forty Fives minutes passed before we saw Jason again, "So Jay, where's the food?" Tara asked impatiently.

"Calm down you should be lucky I have anything at all, he held out two roasted crabs, one smaller then the palm of his hand.

"Um Jason, that won't be enough for right now. I guess we don't really have a choice, we'll have to divide up who gets what." I told him.

I ended up getting a leg and an arm for dinner, well everyone pretty much did. I noticed that Tara's dinner was a bit bigger then mine but I didn't say anything.

I pretended to rub my belly, "Wow that was sure filling!"

Everyone else looked at me with a frown, "Oh please Brian, spare us your bruised ego and let's have some real food! We're sick of having the same thing over and over!"

I tried to explain to them that we had no other choice.

"Try to imagine this like you're in college, when you get there you'll be having the same stuff over and over, no matter what else you want the only thing you can have is fish! We should be lucky in the first place that we have even a little bit to eat. Let's just get some rest and worry about breakfast in the morning."