TAMARACK BBQ

I have to write about the 2 funniest days of the month.

On Friday we didn’t have class, but we (tamarack nice and cool students) had a BBQ to set up. I woke up at 8 and I went to Brad’s house, we stayed there watching TV until around 14:00 o’clock. So I went back home to make my salad (my contribution to the BBQ) and Brad stayed at his place to mown the lawn. Valeria came over to my place we were going together to Brandon’s place at 15:00. So we all got a ride with Leslie, when we got there Jordie, Zac and Craig were there already. So I got a beer from Brandon and we stayed there chilling. When was around 18:00 the parents started to show up, at this point none of us had beer or any alcohol in hands.

The BBQ was kind of fun, all my three host parents were there for me, and it was really kind. Mr. D. Steer gave a speech and everyone thanked everyone.

We played volleyball, horse shoe game and there was a nice playlist playing at the speakers. I think everybody had a good time. The adults were supposed to leave around 8, but it was 9:30 and there were so many parents still there. I think we got too much food as well, because there were a bunch of buns, hotdogs, pop and hamburger left over.

Whenever all the oldies were gone we started our party. To be honest it was to cool to have everybody together, except for Sarah of course, she left still in the beginning. I didn’t expect that some specific people to drink, but they did, and that definitely made my night. Brad, Scottie and Val.

Everybody was drinking pretty much, what was kind of fun, I had some beers but I didn’t get drunk unlike some other people.

Valeria in special was drinking a lot the whole night, but she appeared fine as far as I knew. I was having a lot of fun watching Brad’s first time drinking. He was super funny, but not ridiculous, just funny but fine. Scottie had some drinks too and he was really funny too, he didn’t want to get off the chair that he was sitting on, because apparently it was so comfy, I got some hugs from him, I confess I was taking advantage of his conditions LOL. I didn’t really follow Val to see how she was doing but I think she was okay, just having fun. Craig, Zac and Brandon kept going in and out, a little escape for a ssssmoke. Smokes let’s go!! LOL I laugh so much with they hammered. Jordie was deep in the beer and so was Aaron.

Sarantia got so mad because somebody drank half of her buzz, so she was bitching at everybody. I’m pretty sure that it was Craig drinking it the whole time.

We got bracelets made from rope as everybody has, and the coolest it that the rope glow in the dark. Almost everyone signed my flag, what was really nice too.

So then later around 11 it was when the thing started to get really intense. Valeria got really drunk, she was so funny though. She kept saying no sense things and laughing really hard of everything, trying to do the four with her legs and walk in a straight line. Until she falls in the middle of the deck. Pretty funny, so people started to worry about her and somebody gave her some of the left over buns, I got a grape pop and give to her to drink. I left for a couple minutes and when I got back I asked about the pop and she said that she wasn’t drinking it because she didn’t like purple. LOL I laughed so much. But this was nothing, she started to get really bad and this was scaring me because she was going to sleep over at my place and Leslie was picking us up at midnight. It was around 11:30 and she was puking. So I asked her to keep drinking a lot of liquids and to go pee a lot. There were a lot of people with her helping, amongst them Val, Aaron and Beth.

I was spending some time with Brad because he was so funny, I was good already I didn’t want to drink anymore so I gave the rest of my beer to Brad, he was just sitting there in the chair with two beer bottles in his hands looking like the Most Interesting Man in the World. Emilia came over once to talk to us, and she was talking about how much she was sad because she and her boyfriend Tim were going to break up in the next day, because he was leaving for trekkers and she would leave town for the summer and he was going to leave town to university so their relationship was in its end. Brad was probably complaining as well about how he will be alone from the summer on, because I will be gone. I told Emilia that she could take Brad to herself if she wanted, with a condition that she would take care of him. To be really honest I think she is the last person that I would like to date him after me, but if she takes care of him and made him happy I will be happy too. It’s actually really hard to think about that, it hurts me a lot but I know that it will eventually happen. If I could choose somebody from Tamarack to date him I would pick Beth, she is so nice and cute, and I am sure she would take care of my love for me. I can picture everyone in love with Brad, but it fucks my life whenever I imagine him in love with somebody else. It’s just a huge pain inside.

When Leslie got there around 12:15, I ran to get Valeria. She was in a terrible condition to be honest. So I heard about the sink from the bathroom that Vale pulled off. Apparently she was at the washroom with Emilia and she grabbed the sink and fell over still grabbing the sink and it kind of pulled it over from the wall, not completely though, fortunately. I brought her back to the bathroom because she wanted to pee, and I told her to breathe deep and doesn’t talk at all whenever we get in the car, so Leslie wouldn’t realize that she was wasted. Brad and Scottie were supposed to come back home with me but they wanted to stay more there enjoying the party. Chantel decided to go back with me and Valeria, I guess to help me so this way Leslie would talk to Chantel and not to Valeria (who couldn’t talk like sober of course). Vale lost her flip flops and she was looking for it, so I said give up on that and Leslie was there just watching it. We got in the car and Chantel and Vale sat in the back sits, I was in front just wishing that she wasn’t going to do any stupid move. When in the way i heard a terrible vomit sound. I knew she was throwing up and there was nothing that I could do. The first one was really quick, right after she did it again longer this time; so Leslie stopped the car and asked if someone back there was feeling sick, then valeria said that it wasn’t puke it was just her Nalgene (the water bottle) in her backpack that was making those sounds. I knew that try to pretend that this wasn’t happening was really damn, so I told Leslie that she was actually puking and that she had a few drinks. I was so worry about it, because Leslie is so restrict and i didn’t want to get in trouble with her. Lucky me, I was perfect sober at this time. We got home after Valeria puked all over the car. Leslie asked me to bring her to a bathroom, I brought her downstairs and he sat down on the floor with her head on the toilet just puking. She threw up all the water that the guys gave to her, but there wasn’t as much food, all liquid. Leslie asked me what she had been drinking, and I actually didn’t know specifically but I guessed that it was vodka with pop. We asked valeria and she said that she drank a mixed drink, and that she just knew the name of the thing on it in French, Leslie asked anyway (because she knows French), so Valeria answered to convicted: “pamplemousse”and Leslie said Grapefruit. It was so funny but we didn’t laugh because we were really worried about Vale. We stayed down there for a while until it feels that she was good enough to stand up again. Big illusion we had because she wasn’t. Anyways we got her upstairs for a shower but she kept on falling down and hugging the toilet. Leslie left the bathroom and I promised that I would call her for help if it needed. I spend more half an hour with valeria in the bathroom while she was puking, there wasn’t anything left to throw up but she was feeling dizzy unable to stand up. In between this time when she was trying to puke something that wasn’t there I went to call Brad because i was so worry about him, I had told his mom that he was getting a ride home with me and if he didn’t get home I would feel so bad. I call him twice and he as always didn’t pick up the cell phone, so i called Aaron, he got it and I asked about Brad and Scottie and he said: “Oh Babi don’t worry Brad is fine and he will walk back home with Scottie and Emilia.... Oh no, no, never mind that, LOL not Emilia because you will get mad” So I said: “Aaron i don’t fucking care if he is walking with Emilia I am just worry about them walking at night drunk.” He kept asking about Vale and if she was going to get in trouble all worried and i didn’t know what to say. Then Aaron said to me to call Brad’s cell phone because apparently i was going to waste all his minutes, what i didn’t understand since i was the one who called. Anyways, I called Brad again and he answered I asked him to get a ride and not to walk, he said ok. I went back to the bathroom, Vale was crying the whole time feeling really sorry and everything. Finally i got her under the shower. We fight between hot and cold water for a while. The shower helped a lot she was feeling better a bit but still dizzy. She got off the shower and I dressed her again. She wanted to go sleep but I said that would be good to go for a walk, so she said that’s ok and started to walk around the tinny bathroom, so I light once again and I told her that i meant actually go for a walk, she said: “No please, I am so tired, i want to go sleep” I said ok and I put her the bed I turned the fan on to get some fresh air on her, at first it felt good but after she was cold. I got a bowl for her to sleep with and I told her to drink lots of water during the night. I was going to share the bed with her, because I didn’t want to sleep in the other bedroom, if something happened to her i would be just beside her to help, but she took the whole bed somehow and there wasn’t room for me at all; I called Brad again to make sure he was fine and he was at his trailer with Scottie and he kept saying that they were having a good time, and he told me to not call again. I went downstairs and got my sleeping bag and I tried to sleep on it. It was kind of hard because i didn’t find the thermarest. It was a tough night for sure, the floor was really hard on me, or I was really hard on the floor... I dunno!

In the next morning I was broken, my body all sore. I went take a shower and Leslie asked about Vale and I told her that she was still asleep. Then she woke up, we talked, she apologized. I sent her to a shower again. I called Brad because he had called me before I wake up and he was in his basement with Scottie. He told me that they had been drinking the whole night and I believed because I am gullible. Vale ate, still feeling dizzy and after we went outside so she would wash the car that she threw up on it. Suddenly Brad and Scottie showed up there, and we stayed there just chilling for a while, remembering stories from the past night and stuff.

Brad called Valerie and we went Dairy about it. Val drop off Vale at her place and we all head out to Brad’s trailer. I left for an hour to see the MacCready’s what was kind of fun, we went to a gift store in the high way where i got a bunch of native stuff to bring back home with me.

Then i went back to Brad’s and we stayed hanging out there the whole afternoon. I got mad with Brad and Aaron because they spent 2 hours by themselves playing Halo and they didn’t even let me play too. Besides the antisocial move, they were being so mean to me. Anyways we went to Tim Hortons to get a drink and when we came back Brad was mad because we didn’t call him to go too, but he was playing Halo. We had a nice dinner at Brad’s house, his mom made hot dogs and burgers. I washed the dishes for her and after that we went to Val’s house.

We all stayed there just chilling (Brad, me, Zac, Beth, Scottie, Jordie, Aaron and Val), the movie Step Brothers was on TV, so they watched while I was playing The Most Addicted Game in the World.

After that we went to the hot tub and it was really cool. Watching the sky and listen to music around.

Those were really good times and I cry every time because I will miss them so much.