Reading Week

So Pac: 

This past week was reading week, a week devoted to reading in preparation for the coming courses. Some of our readings included The River Why, Holy the Firm, and Sand County Almanac.

The week was, therefore, pretty laid back and wide open. One of the neat opportunities we had was to help with Trees For Travelers, an organization that sells and plants native trees to tourists in an attempt to offset the carbon footprint of their travels to Kaikoura.

Laura (Waynesburg) clears some weeds. 

Paige (Westmont) doing her part. 

Friday was Courtnay's big birthday bash.  Courtnay is our beloved program director, so we thought we'd go all out to give her a great party.  The party was a St. John's themed one, as Court is a volunteer for the Kaikoura St. John's Ambulance Core.  It was originally planned for Thursday night, but Court was ironically, and fittingly, called out just before the party and it had to be postponed to Friday after the All-Blacks game.

The party was a production, to say the least.  Half of the students were actors, either diagnosed patients or doctors with the cure, and half of the students were St. John's trainees.  Our patients were cured of such maladies as lovesickness, tone-deafness, technology-deprivation, and the black plague. 

Chimene the Director (Messiah) cures Halle (Messiah) of her technology-deprivation.

Paige (Westmont) as Lady Gaga in her compost-skirt shows Court the cure for tone deafness. 

til next time...