Day NINETEEN | The Freaks Come Out at Night

After awaking from a nearly sleepless night due to the raucous activity of the native island wildlife (bloodhounds, foxes, barracudas, heat-seeking missiles) some of the students ventured out early to explore and watch the sunrise. One student in particular had a wonderful night's sleep after confiscating a sleeping bag from another unsuspecting student...who tried to sleep in multiple pairs of shorts and a hotel towel. But who can complain, all the students were happy to be camping on an island in the Gulf of Mexico for school, and during a cold Iowa November nonetheless.

After a highly nutritious breakfast of poptarts and sauteed stingrays, the students quickly set to sculpting immaculate castles made of sand. After several continuous hours of nonstop sculpting the teachers had the students, many of whom had bloody fingers by now, abandon their construction sites to move 10 feet down the beach and resume construction to very strict specifications. Some of the students used trash in their designs, while others relied on the natural elements of the beach. The task was to build their dream Landscape Architecture firms, complete with rivers, roads, bridges, studios, lakes, airports, jungle gyms, nuclear weapons testing facilities, petting zoos, volcanoes, ski resorts, amusement parks, sweatshops, furniture stores, and Lebanese food courts. Some of those may not have actually been in the design requirements, but we'll leave it up to you to ponder. After the students finished their masterpieces, they retired for a brief lunch of crunchy sand-wiches and seawater and began mapping the topography of their creations. Some of the students fell asleep in the sun, and while some of them went for the flaming hot cheetoh appearance, others turned a heavenly bronze that would rival most Greek gods.

Unfortunately the sand mites had other plans. Burnt, bitten, and rested, the students were split up into two groups, one to gather firewood and the other to pick up trash along the shoreline. After wiping out several acres of island forest, and gathering many tons of washed up tar and oil, the students had enough fuel to roast maybe two or three marshmallows and one hot dog to divide amongst themselves. They all pitched in and helped Michael Martin dig the most awesome sand bench ever created around the furious fire. As the little kiddies roasted marshmallows and listened to Gary's ghosts stories, wild boars began ravaging the campsite and flying jellyfish invaded the beach. Everyone ran into their tents because the children knew that "if you wanna live a nice quiet life do yourself a favor, don't come out at night, 'cause the freaks come out at night, the freaks come out at night."

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Kasper and Jordan