October 17, 2007 (Day 5)

Before we had gone to sleep the night before Jacqueline told Shelby and I that she would wake us up at 10 AM the next morning so that we would have time to get ready for practice at the Youth to Youth Center. Of course I was still experiencing a little jet lag because of the enormous time difference in the Marshall Islands. I woke up right about the same time as the sunrise, which was at about 5:30 AM. I figured that it was probably way too early to be awake, but I couldn’t get back to sleep. At around 6:30 AM, Shelby came and knocked on my door, apparently she had woken up very early as well. She asked what time it was because we thought that maybe Jacqueline had forgotten to wake us up. We talked for a few minutes and I told Shelby to go look what time it was and she came back saying that it was still really early. At this point I was already awake so I decided to take a shower and get ready, since Shelby already had. Then Jacqueline came by when she was supposed to and she was surprised to see that I was already awake and ready to go, but she wasn’t. After everyone was up and ready to go we practiced our speeches a little bit and then we left to go to Youth to Youth to practice for our performances the next day. When we got there Lunes showed us around some more and then we started practice. We attracted a little crowd and it was interesting. After we had practiced for a couple of hours some more Youth to Youth performers came and they all started singing us songs. They were practicing which songs they were going to perform during our presentation the next day. This went on for about an hour and a half and it was really fun, it was so awesome to just sit and relax. During this time it started pouring down rain, it was torrential, it was awesome. It was so loud that we could hardly hear each other talk. I really wanted to go outside and run in the rain but Jacqueline wouldn’t let me, so I went and took pictures of the little kids running in the rain, it was really cool. After it stopped raining we broke for lunch for about an hour. When we got back we practiced more, more, more, and more, it was LOADS of fun. Finally around 6 we left to go home for dinner. We ate cheese pizza again, and it was still pretty good. Mr. Fielding and Jacqueline had moved into the hostel that morning so we now had a living room to practice in, which is exactly what we did. We practiced until about 10:30 or so and then we went to bed. Shelby and I were now sharing a room, to try to save us money all together.