Boys and Girls club

Really, I'll get to the leftover Catalina Journals at some point. They just seem so stale now. Eh. But Boys and Girls club is still interesting, and it turns out that we have one more week still. This is very good news, in the event you were wondering, because it means one more week of wifi and phone service before I head out into the hinterlands of Mendocino to:

Cut, burn, chip area around ropes course – 5 days
Cut, burn, clean up area around archery – 1 day
Clear out oak trees around Shawnee – 1 day
Walls at Arts & Crafts – 1 day
Doll House Floors - 1 day
Organize / Empty nail + tool shed - 3 days
2+ miles of dirt road brush back/clearing – 3 days
Tear down bathroom – 2days
Trim 30 Apple Trees – 1day
Garden: planter boxes, greenhouse, stonewall, worm bins – 2 days

that's the official itinerary they sent us. I would say the most interesting thing so far looks like tearing down a bathroom, but that could change based on how much they let us use sledgehammers.
Boys and Girls club though? This week there was no dodgeball, unfortunately, but they still don't usually have much work for us to do in the mornings. Meaning that from around 11 to about 2:15 I serve America by lavishing time on lunchmaking (grilled cheeses, carbonara, you name it), reading books, and playing starcraft, which I happen to have on my flash drive. It's a good life.
Usually our days at the Boys and Girls club are all about playing with the kids/helping with homework, just kind of drifting among the groups and making sure no one hucks dodgeballs at peoples' faces (or when they do, stopping vengeance and providing ice bags). But recently I have become a little boy's private tutor. His mom is really intense about him getting his homework done, and asked me one night to check over ALL of it before she left. So I took a good while to go over math and reading homework that gave me ugly flashbacks, and now I am the boys official go-to guy for help. Actually, even more than go-to guy, since he won't let anyone else help him. What can I say, why would you settle for less?
Kidding aside, he's a really nice kid, I just miss some of the mingling/not really having to do any work bit. This guy has an amazing work ethic; Friday we were hard at work while everyone else was running around (the club doesn't even HAVE homework hour on Fridays). But it's cool. Changing the lives of America's youth and all.
One more week, then off to mendocino. And for the record, I finally got my camera cord in the mail, so I can finally upload photos from my camera. I am thus far trying to figure out how to put them on here in a less obnoxious fashion than copy/paste. Here's Silver IV at the end of wildland firefighter training in our bangin' yellow and greens, btws PICTURES!!!! that I can put in with my uber html skills