Sunday, July 19, 2009

13 - 15. May be interesting.

Friday the 13th. 13th day in Georgia.

Friday, we had class and got out 3 hours early today. We went and got another rental car and went straight to the beach. We hung out there for about 2 hours, it was fun, I spent about 15 minutes out of the water the whole time. We saw a dolphin about 50 feet off shore and we all thought it was a shark at first since at first, we only saw it's fin. After that, we came back, showered, ate, and went downtown to hang out. We were having a good time, walking around, checking out some cool areas, when all of a sudden a girl comes up and asks us for a light, my buddy had gotten a cigar earlier so he had a light and got her smoking, and he started talking to her, this girl was not that pretty and not that great looking either. She started telling us that her fiance dumped her 2 days before the wedding and she has been walking the streets of Savannah for two weeks and hasn't eaten hardly anything in those two weeks. We kept talking to her and my buddy (he was a little drunk) invited her to come hang with us. We walked around the corner and stopped to talk again (we are still in public, lots of people walking by) and all of a sudden she started grinding on me, I had no idea what to do, so I just had my arms folded and gave weird looks to my friends, then she grinded on my friend and grabbed his you know what.. and then she started talking about how she had the choice between the three of us, and well, one thing led to another AND... we basically told her that we couldn't help her out. she asked us for money after we stopped her from grinding on us. so, we were pretty positive she was a prostitute, and we took off, she tried following us, but we told her NO. it was funny and kinda gross. Anyways, after that, we went back to base. When we got here, everyone had been drinking, and there was one kid surrounded by everyone and he was sweating way bad. I didn't know what was going on, but someone pointed out his Elbow and it was all large and misplaced looking. Apparently, one of the girls here was mad at him because he put his hands on her face and she tried picking him up and then they fell and he dislocated his elbow. Some people took him to the emergency room, and he stayed in the hospital all weekend, and even had to get a surgery on his elbow.
That wraps up Friday.

Saturday. Day 14..
Today we got up early and drove up to Charleston, we had a full day of stuff planned. We got there around 11:30 or so and we went to the place called Patriots Point. We started exploring a Navy Aircraft Carrier that was used in World War 2, it was massive and we explored for about an hour before we had to leave to go on a boat out to Fort Sumpter, Fort Sumpter is an old Civil War Fort. The Civil War started there and was a big part of the war. The boat ride was about 15 - 20 minutes and the fort was on an island in Charleston Harbor really close to the Ocean. We spent an hour at the Fort. It had original cannons from 150 years ago and original walls and brick and all that, it was pretty cool. I also learned that the North used this Fort until the South took it over, and everytime the North tried taking it back, the slaves would help the South rebuild the fort and fortify it's defenses, which kinda seemed funny to me, since the Slaves basically helped the south keep them as slaves longer. Anybody else find that kind of ironic? Anyways, after that, we went back to the Navy Aircraft Carrier and explored for a couple more hours, we saw a bunch of navy airplaces and basically saw everything about the ship, the living quarters, places they ate, all that. And I can honestly say, I am really happy I did not join the Navy. After the ship, we went on a submarine to explore it, this only took about 20 minutes, it was also cool and living quarters were even tighter then on the navy ship. After all this, it was about 6 pm, We were all super tired of walking almost all day, and so we went to get some dinner, TGI Fridays, I wasn't very impressed though, I don't think I like that restaurant, it's the 3rd time I have had it in the last 2 months and it hasn't been that good any of the times. After dinner we drove back to base, I went in my room and watched the tv show "chuck" and went to bed.

Day 15. Sunday.

Today I was woken up by a text from the kid in the hospital, he needed a ride home and said he was about to be discharged.. So, I was the only one around, I went to pick him up. I got there and he was waiting for a doctor to sign him off and let him go. I was hungry so I went to the cafeteria and got food, and got Peters a coke. I came back, I ate, we watched scrubs, watched more scrubs, he showered, we watched Taxi, started watching Anger Management, and finally the doctor showed up, about 4 hours after I got there. They took off his bandages and I saw his elbow, about a 6 inch incision and about 50 staples were in his arm, it was gnarley looking. They gave him some metal arm brace and rewrapped his arm. We took off, got back to base just in time to leave again to go get dinner with some other fellas. They went to Zaxbys, I ran across the street to Arbys. We then just came back to base, it's 8:07, I am going to go to my room soon and shower and get ready for bed. All is well here. Looking forward to coming home. I hope all is well back home. Bye everyone.

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