Hockey Eh

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Sorry about the delay everybody. The internet cannot be trusted down here. I have found a spot to steal internet but as soon as I found that our interenet started up again. Its playing jokes on me. You have missed a bit since my last post so I will get right to it.

This week is the annual Tarpom Bay festival. If you didnt know that you are prolly living under a rock because it is being broadcasted on every station worldwide...well maybe not every station...but while I havent turned a TV on in about a month, judging by the turnout there had to be a spot done on BET. The festival is of the chain. I mean there are people dancing, drinking, gambling, singing, eating, shooting some bball outside of the school, theres a couple of guys their up to no good, trying to make some trouble in the neighborhood, there was one little fight and my mom got scared she said your moving with your aunty and uncle to belair....Ok well maybe the second half of that is from the fresh prince of belair theme song.. But otherwise everything that is going on is nice christian stuff right?!?!?! The festival is actually pretty cool for the town of Tarpum Bay. It brings lots of people into the community and is actually somthing the citizens have to do. The kids hang out at the bbal courts and have a great time.

The second major thing that I have not reported on yet is that we have our third and final group of our Eleuthera trips. They also happen to be from Canada....eh. I have been asking multiple questions from trying to figure out different myths from our friendly neighbors to the north....Canada...Americas Hat. My first question I threw at them is how many people in Canada actually wear canadian tuxedos? Most of them did not even know what the heck a canadian tuxedo is. I mean talk about not liking your country. Thats pathetic. For those of you that dont know what one is...your currently on the internet so look it up. If you are to lazy here is a link that will display many canadians rocking their best. thecanadiantuxedo.com. I know what you all thinking. why didnt us americans think of that first. Its alright. I dont think it looks that good plus we have the dickie anyways. The next question was do you really say EH after everything they say eh. They said that they usually dont eh. But sometimes it sneaks in there when they dont notice eh. They arent embarrased to say eh..eh.. Its not like they try and broadcast that they say it eh. So all in all, they say it sometimes eh. Third I asked what they thought of america. At this point I think they were all a little ticked about the questions I was asking them so they made fun of me about the US changing from french fries to freedom fries after they didnt back us in the war. So then I came back and said. Im sick aboot all you hoosers teasin me eh. Go back to americas hat and make me some bacon and wear your tuxedos at your stupid hockey game hoosers....then I said. Hockey sucks eh. That shut em up pretty good. Except little did they know I wore my badger hockey shirt the night before....Canadians are so gulible.

Well that about it for the night. Its like 435 degrees here and I need to go to bed. Its been awesome writing to you and have a good monday. Dont get caught reading this, your boss will be mad....unless they read it too. Which they prolly wouldnt like it...so keep your cursor on the minimize button and have a good day.

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: My hair is turning blonde. I think its about time to get out of this country. If one more person says I look like Lance Bass someone is going to lose a finger.

Interesting Fact: A small girl on the trip told me that my name Matt is short for madam. Then she said I should wear a pink dress, blue wig, glass slippers and purple makeup. She then stated "If you shave your armpits you will look more like a girl". I told her to go move rocks because no one touches my armpit hair but me....

Ladies and Nerds.

This is a quick post. My internet doesnt work downstairs. I am up in the girls room before they get here stealing our neighbors internet. This means that I will not be able to write later due to the fact of no internet....unless I were to sneak in here...but sexual harrasement lawsuits arent cool. These will also be canadians so they will be smelly so I dont want to be in here. Thank you for your sweet sweet time during your not so busy workday ( bc ur reading this). Thanks and hopefully I can write later.....

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: there is no interesting fact....

hello

Welcome back everyone.

Not much has happened in the past couple days as much as trips go. I am happy to say however that my wonderful mother and girlfriend were down here visiting, thus, the reason I have not been writing. Dont worry all my fingers are still in tact. Today was a hard day of work. I tied rebar and worked on getting materials ready for the next crew. I was rewarded by a nice dinner though. My crew and I went out to eat on our weekly budget and got some good grub. I had a ribeye steak with fingerling potatoes and a desert of raspberry pound cake. It was great. Tommorrow will be much of the same work. Getting the site ready. I may bring clarise to the site with me tommorrow just to make sure all gets done. I feel I have a lot of athority with her in my midsts. To bad she does not scare away cockroaches from my bedside table.....Yea tell me about it. I know you dont think thats cool either.

Well its been fun.

Just like always,.....

Why stay up late and read this aweful blog when you can do it at work tomm.

For all my fellow next steppers that read this......we all know you have enough time to read this at work tomm. Dont think your fooling me.

Love

Matt

Interesting Question: Who is a better hero to society? Captain Underpants or Captain Sully Sullenberger. Discuss amoungst yourselves

NERD ALERT

Ladies and Germs:

I have not been writing for awhile. I lost the tip of my right index finger in a circular saw accident. Im sorry for the inconvenience but im sick of getting blood all over my computer. Its hard to clean under the keys so it was best to avoid the situation all together. My blood type is O so if there is any need for a donor you can consult my computer.

I am very upset I missed comic con this year. I always go to San Diego to hang out with other nerds. I tried to send drew (One of my BFFs) haha instead. I was upset when one nerd stabbed another this year. I mean come on. Those nerds have bad raps anyways. Why do they need to be attackin others because they sit to close to one another.

Night

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: I will start writing heavily again tomm.

Interesting Fact: Everything above has been made up....except for the nerd stabbing the other....what are nerds doing these days. Please yell nerd alert to warn others of nerds. Its for the common safety of society

Fire

Welcome to the fire.
Its only burning hotta.
I need to get some Wata.
Cutting weight like a wrestla.

I was working in the pit today and it was hot. The only way I stayed sane was by telling everyone I was hot. Then I would say....."Im also a little warm tempurature wise too. haha gets them every time. We got a lot of work done today and I attribute it all to my leadership. I stood there and watched all the work get done but I mean come on. If i didnt watch them, they would have slacked off and not done anything. My select crew of kids i picked worked well. I feel a little bad that we chose kids for a certain crew. I mean its like being the fat kid picked last on the dodgeball team. Just rediculous. If the big kid were to get picked first this time. He would have melted away 30 pounds down there...Missed the opprotunity I guess.

Spending time in the hood
Ive learned to rap pretty good.
If you could.
you already would.
if you wanna try you should.
I work alot with wood.
Not just plywood.
I dont deal with driftwood.
But am close to sainthood.

Thanks for reading. Thats all. Sorry very tired.

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: Today a Tarpum Bay mans dog was barking. So I witnessed him pick up the dog. Carry him to the end of the dock, and throw him in the ocean. Toooooo funny.

yo

How yaaaalllll doing. We have had 2 groups from the carolinas and suddenenly I am catching myself almost saying yall. This sucks. The projects have been going awesome. After some time away from the systern pit we will be back in tommorrow. Which means I will have a crew down there and thats it. I have selected all the most physically fit members to go in the blazing heat chizel rock. I guess I am the supervisor because the say the perfection in my abs and wanted that same bodywork down in the pit....I can iunderstand that. But o well. Heres to another day of losing 10 pounds of water weight. It will be fun and there is nothing but great things to look forward to. Im happy to be showing off this beautiful area to my lovely mother and girlfriend starting this thursday and going until monday. Maybe then ill actually have time to take some pics and get a nice tan in. haha

On a more serious note... I would like to say that one thing that I have learned over this summer is not to judge people by what they look like and diffreernt stereotypes. I would encourage for you guys to do the same. For weeks I have dealt with groups that are strong christian organizations that claim to be right minded yet they come down here and judge people instead of helping or aiding them when they can. People have great conversations with locals then joke with others that they cant believe they werent asked for money. These people are rich in their own way. Other countries are not as rich as ours but they dont sit and whine about it. They live the way they like. These people value time with others and friendship which are values that our statesman should hold more dear as well. It hurts to make good friends and then see them cast aside by people that dont know them or their story. Donovan has a great restaurant and loves to talk with visitors but people belive he only wants buisness not friendships and good conversation. James asks to come to worship and be helped as a struggling christian and the groups youth pastor remarks about not being hit up for a buck. Its a cruel world that we live in but quite honestly...why does it have to be on our parts.

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: That was prolly the only serious thing I have wrote on this blog. But I mean every word.

In the words of Tebow...>God Bless

Barefoot Bandito

Well just another day at Next Step. Soaking in all the flirting comments of a bunch of 15 year old girls. I try and fend them off but with this mug it can be to hard at times. Thus I have recieved the nickname of the Barefoot Bandito. Im not a criminal but it is a crime what I do....What is it I do you ask. Well I will tell you. I unknowingly steal the hearts of high schoolers from states around America. Do I want to. No. Does it happen accidentaly. Yes. This is A gift but a disease as well. Keep me in your prayers so I do not get mauled or attacked by gaggles of women. Thank you.

I have been getting close over the past couple months with the man that owns the restaurant next to our mission house. His name is Donovan and he likes to ryhme every single sentence with the one before. He also has dollar sodas and conch fritter baskets......... that may be the main reason but he is awesome none the less. He claims to be the mayor of Tarpum Bay. He prolly should be seeing as that he is the nicest and straight forward guy here. So what he sounds like he is always hammered. The guy is cool to be around. Everyone that sees him instantly likes him. He claims I have secret bottles of cologne that make all the girls want me. I dont. But I am telling him I do to try and swing a deal for some conch salad.

Found another prayng mantis today. It was a male tho so I wasnt afraid. The females you have to worry about. I feel like thats the same for all species tho. Also there was a very chipper girl that found some baby geckos today. She kept showing everyone on the site and thought it was the coolest thing is the world. So. Naturally I told her that baby geckos are like baby birds and if you touch them, none other of their species go near them therefore they die. Yea. Nobody is happy on my construction site. Thats the way I like it. Increased productivity when everyone is sad. hahha

Have a good day today/tomm

Love

Matt

Interesting Fact: Today I went swimming with about 20 people...As soon as I got out...75% of them got stung by a school of jellyfish. Rookies. Then I told one kids to go pee on his to relieve the pain.....He did...I laughed.......Hard........Rookie