Fish printing and football!

A little bit of crab talk with the kids

Well I do not generally put one foot forward to things I have never done before, but something was different about how I felt when I went to Courageous for the second time. I really had the urge to go fish printing. Then again, I had no idea what fish printing was or what I was putting myself into. Turns out fish printing was painting a fish and then blending all of your colors and patterns together, to paste it on paper to get, well a print of the fish, hence the name fish printing. But when it comes to kids it is a lot easier said than done. I remember my last group perfectly, because the difficulty escalated tremendously after two of them went. There were groups of four, and the first two just wanted solid colors. I put the colors on and they did there part, and the print came out nice. Then came a little girl who wanted to go above and beyond. She wanted a unique stripe pattern that does not blend in. It still came out beautiful. The final kid's print was the most difficult. The boy was vegetarian so he had no interest in touching the fish, but wanted the fish print on a real fish. He wanted different patterns at different places; stripes, dots, x's and colorways. However he could not really spot it on the real fish, and he wanted some spots blended some spots not. It was fun trying to get everything he said down perfectly, but I tried my best, and he walked off with a piece of art that put a huge smile on his face.

Game day!

Now I am back at Spectacle Island, and it's time for sports. One of my coworkers is a football fanatic, and Tuesday was just his lucky day. The kids that got on the boat who came to sports really wanted to play football, and on top of that a really nice ranger named Tyson set up a football playing area, and even joined them. I played some, and I also learned how to throw a Frisbee from Jenn, and like I said before it is way easier said than done. Does not mean you don't give it your best!

Talk to you later! :)
Qalid Hassan

Staff day, Chaff day

 I enjoyed staff day the most out of all the days that week because we were allowed to wind down and relax with each other for the day. I went into the field at the top of the hill for the first time on spectacle island and I played an intense game of frisbee with my staff, such as Luke, Bridget, Amy, Kristen, Ian, Amanda, Ary, etc. We wanted to hit a streak higher than the one before and the highest we got to without dropping it was 25. It took a long time but we were determined to do it before lunch time. Or else no lunch (jk).

After lunch we went to the beach to go swimming, the water was freezing, it must've been high tide since the water was super deep. I took like five steps and it was already up to my shoulders. The waves weren't crazy that day and everyone got in. The water felt really cold but also really refreshing since I was on the hill roasting in the sun earlier. I certainly got to know more staff and socialize with them and I'm much more comfortable with everyone than I was at the beginning of the summer.

All Summer 16

Kharliyah Ortiz

Staff Day!!!!

Hey guys, Monday was staff day for the Save the Harbor/ Save the Bay crew. It was a pretty lit day. In the morning there was confusion on what island we were going to go to. But eventually we really did end up going to Spectacle Island. The boat ride was fun, as we had apples and cheese and danish to eat for breakfast, courtesy of Bruce and Patty. When we got to Spectacle, the staff was split between people who wanted to play football and the other half that wanted to toss a Frisbee around. I never thought that I would ever say this, but it was an intense game of Frisbee that we had going. There were people diving for the Frisbee, sliding around, running to catch it. It was pretty crazy.

This was a nasty dive I took, but I saved the Frisbee from hitting the ground.  After, we went down for lunch. There were great sandwiches from J. Paces. After lunch, we went down to the water to take a dip. Again some how we ended up all tossing that Frisbee around in the water. Staff day was pretty successful. 

'Til next time

-Ary 

Ultimate Frisbee on Staff Day!

Hey Guys,
So we all know that staff day was Monday, and we all know how fun it was. But I think one of the best things about staff day was playing Ultimate Frisbee, well not really. It was more like "throw the frisbee around in a circle and lets see if we can catch it". Either way it was still a lot of fun. The best part was seeing Kharliyah come so close to catching a Frisbee but not quite close enough. Somehow we got on to counting how many people could catch the Frisbee. We got all the way up to 24! But no further. It took us almost half an hour just to get up to 20. The motivation being that we could only eat lunch once we reached 30. And for some reason we had decided to play on a hill so of course we

were struggling a little bit to even throw the Frisbee well enough for someone to catch it. It was honestly a lot of fun, which says a lot coming from someone who does not play much frisbee. I only wish that we had been able to get all the way up to 30, but that was not all that happened on Staff day. On the boat, the Ptown 2, I was one of the people to tell a story. I decided to go with when I had dropped my phone in the Harbor at Piers Park. That tragic story may not have been my best story, but it was the best I could come up with.
 Wow, we look amazing caught off guard. I gotta say that I really liked Andrea's story about the lobster trap. I couldn't believe that they had so many people helping to pull up a trap and they couldn't even pull it up! Or Ahmed's story about how "Save the Harbor" "Saves the dogs". It was stories like those which made me wish I had a better story to tell. Oh well, Until next time!
Amanda