Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Boating at The River Project, River shopping, and a new broken record

Two weeks ago, Tuesday, what I was to do was measure oysters. Not that was a problem or anything it's just that my fingers felt really cold after measuring the oysters because the water they were in was very cold. The day after that, Wednesday, I went to The River Project again so I could finish measuring oysters of a certain tier (we have the oysters in this oyster trap kind of object and so they're divided into five tiers so I was supposed to do Tier two and my friend, Cairo, Tier one. The same day I went boating! except we didn't use the motors that day so instead we rowed, me, Chris, and a kid named Solomon (Solomon is kind of an oddball sometimes but he's ok). The reason why I went boating was because three weeks before that Cairo, head-assistant intern Jeremy, and a staff member Tiago put up traps on the pilings on pier 26, (which is where the River Project is at). So that's why we had to go and check the traps. The week later (last week) I was meant to measure oysters again and I also met two other interns who usually go to the River Project on a weekend. The girl's name was Kerry who kind of curses a lot, and a guy in 10th grade named Devant. We finished measuring oysters of Tier four and Tier five and went home.
That's when the day after that, Wednesday, we got a call from Jeremy saying that the tide is good enough to go boating. So that day we went boating. Oh I forgot to mention a guy named Scott became the new head of interns so he was there that day. This time we used the motors on the boats. We used two boats a big one which was made of steel which had a kind of turquoise color on it saying "The River Project" another one, which was smaller and was green which was the one me and Jeremy were on. The other one carried Kerry, Tiago, and Scott. We didn't check the traps this time but just wrote them down and set up some new ones, we were trying to use a power drill but it couldn't drive the nails in to keep the traps up so that's when we just tied the ropes that the traps were connected to to the pilings. After doing the traps we went for a few rides. Jeremy went at the motor's top speed which made me almost lose my hat and sent the boat flying in the air and smacking hard against the water which gave me a neck cramp but wore off quickly. Between the piers 26 and 27 we found a good piece of wood and found a decent stool in the water. What Tiago and the other guys got were lots of tennis balls and baseballs. That's what I call River shopping (instead of street shopping).

Also the new broken record is of how long it took me to create a new post. - Alex