Long Blog part 2, the Guys
right, where was i? (i had to go to bed last night, and so i decided to do my long blog in parts. thankfully i had just reached the end of my Soul time and so i published it all for you, my dearly loved readers delight.)
monday morning arrived. it was only Laura (of the Beimers varitey) and Jess (of the yits wyngaard variety) left in the tent. oh and me ofcourse. bec had come for a couple of days at the start, but had to leave for work and secret Gush meeting purposes.
(oh yeah. i met Jas at Soul survivor too... but more on that later).
anyway. Jess decides that she wants to stick around and help the soul survivor team clean up monday morning, and because shes my lift home i decide to stay too. not that i really minded, it gave me a chance to help the people that helped me during the week.
(oh yeah. did i mention the fact that i met [another] second cousin at soul. her names steph, and shes the daughter of one of my oma's brothers. see andy, there are hundreds of us. its so weird being related to people you dont even know...)
jess and i, eventually, found our way into the cafe type thingy at the top, revive its called. we cleaned, we prepared the last of the food, and we served lunch to the Soul team. i get a message from Bec saying "paul and jas and john are coming around to my house today. come down whenever you like".
finally, after much checking of the time (my phone was almost dead), and looking basically just impatient, and wanting to leave. jess decides she has a headache and we go. we did finish what we were doing, got thanked profusely by the team, and took home left over food. (mm, avocado!)
i arrive home, call bec, find out the guys are there already. i decide that, for their sake, i should really have a shower before i go down, for the fact that i haddnt had a proper shower all week (my last shower had turned freezing cold) and i smelt. the joys of camps.
i was nervous. i always am before meeting people i know, but not really know. i'd met jas before so that was alright. and as i walked down the road i was having to be very stern with my head, telling it to stop being silly, to just be myself and to calm down. ha, i dont know if i listened.
i arrived at becs house, said hi to the family before going out to the verrandah (decking thing) to present myself.
they asked if i knew who each person was. i could easily identify Jas, as i'd met him only the week before. but the two others. now, i dont like guessing when i could be wrong, so i just said two names very quickly. i did get it right mind you, but they decided they wanted to try and trick me. i however caught onto this, by the huge grins on all their faces, and relaxed. what followed was an afternoon and evening of much fun. home made pizza for dinner was delicious!
the three guys left, and i hung around becs house a little longer until it got satifactoryily duskish enough for me to go home.
first thoughts. jas was different to how i imagined him. i think i had this picture of him in my mind, that he was very tall, and very thin. he had nice eyes on the other hand. very strange. blue and brown. but the two colours werent mixed. very strange, but nice. i was standing outside of becs house, saying goodbye to them, and i realised who it was that he reminded me of. a guy called nathan from yits. i mentioned this to bec and she saw it to. strange how things work. he was nice however.
i didnt really have any expectations from Paul. i didnt talk to him on msn, so all i really knew about him was from bec. i think he was tired. he seemed rather mature, and when he talked he said his s's funny. i noticed that because, i also slightly draw out my s's. something to do with my jaw or something. it doesnt bother me. but i do notice it in other people.
paul seemed nice, but i got this impression that i was annoying him.
john had darker hair than i thought. he was rather chatty and very friendly. it was actually rather nice. i could definatly tell he was a youngest child. i have this model for youngest children in my mind, and nearly every youngest child ive met has fit into it in some form. john was also more touchey feely than i thought he would be. also a good thing.
i got home, the computer was dead, and the net wasnt working. i had gotten the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, all four books in one, from bec's house and i started reading that. i fell asleep reading, with my light on. i do that sometimes.
i woke the next morning, and bec called me. she mentioned something about going into the city to meet up with paul and jas and john, and if i wanted to come. she knew that as soon as she had mentioned it to me i'd want to go. she said she was going to get back to me, becuase paul wasnt awake yet.
so i waited. silly me should have gotten ready in that time, but i didnt.
i get a call from bec 10 minutes before im going to get picked up, that yes, infact, i was going... if i wanted. i wanted.
and we were going to box hill instead of the city. apparently they were meeting joel at the maccas there. however, much to bec and my dissapointment, there was no maccas in box hill. apart from the one in box hill central, and i wasnt that one either. so bec and i walked around trying to look for this maccas, and finally paul and the others drove past and we jumped into the car with them. it was the maccas in balwyn that we were meeting, not box hill. a bit too far for bec and i to walk.
anyway, what followed was them meeting up with joel, going to a resturant (colombos) and progressing to talk about gush stuff. i was really only semi listening, and ive been sworn to secrecy from any of the stuff i care to remember. bec and i had eaten before hand. chips and gravy.. mmm!
we said goodbye to joel, and went back to pauls car. after much thinking (not by me) we ended up at blackburn lake (yes, we drove there, not just though our way there.).
i had forgotten what it was like to have male friends around. when i was in year 7-10 two of my closest friends were guys. called dave and dave. i was used to the picking on, the irritating things they did to annoy me. and i knew exactly what sort of reaction they wanted to get.
so when jas and john started doing the same sorts of things i reacted out of instinct. giving them the reaction they wanted, and so they kept on going. i got a little annoyed when they put my thong into the water. i was rather fond of that thong, and kinda needed it to walk on. but paul got it out. mind you, he was the one who put it in there in the first place.
and i would have appreciated john and jas not decide to grab my arms and drag me backwards, for it is rather hard to walk backwards when your getting pulled. i attatched myself to a tree at that point.
but all in all it was very much a lovely afternoon. i ended up back down at becs house, and stayed for dinner.
got walked up the hill by bec and job. we had a conversation about why guys play like that with me, where as they dont with bec. i told her it was reaction. bec mentioned tone of voice, i thought that thats a possibility.
i didnt really mind it, infact, the attention was rather nice, but thats a different story...
