The Great Cucumber Battle of 2007

Sarah and I were at odds with each other as we were working in the greenhouse tunnels today, so as we stood on opposite sides of the tunnel, taking down dead cucumber plants and not speaking to each other, I slyly took a nice, rotten cucumber and chucked it at her. It missed, and I calmly continued, as if i was completely innoccent. A few minutes later, I chucked another. Again it missed. After throwing about five cucumbers and repeatedly missing, Sarah turns to me and says "Hey Jen, remember that one time when we were in the greenhouse and you tried to throw cucumbers at me, but kept missing because you can't throw?" and then proceeded to throw a cucumber at me, and actually hit me in the arm. This caused great rage to stir in my soul and I grabbed the nearest and largest cucumber and tore through the dry crumbly plants after her, chasing her down the rows and outside the greenhouse, throwing the cucumber at the last second (of course, it missed) just as Werner Rusch (the principal) walked by with his grandson. Now, it would have been a better story if I could now say I had hit the principal, or worse yet, his grandson, with the cucumber, but luckily for me it didn't, and he just laughed at me, and I ran back in the tunnels real fast.
Back to taking down dead plants (I'm allergic to those things and now have a nice rash on the insides of both my arms), Sarah and I continued in silence until a little while later when i challenged her to a duel, and got hit in the face with a nice chunk of rotting cucumber (pleasant).
In the end, we declared an unspoken truce, but I intend to get her back the next time we have to work in the tunnels.

Life here is slow for the next week, as quite a few students are gone, as well as the agriculture program is over, and the evangelistic meetings were finished on Sunday night. We have a test on Thursday, and other than that its just all about the packing and preparing for Tanzania/Honduras, for which I am very excited, and am anticipating greatly.

Happy Halloween tomorrow :) I'm wearing my candy-corn socks and trying to get over the fact that I did not carve a pumpkin this year for the first time in... a long time. It's sad. Although I did carve one on Facebook, but somehow without the whole pumpkin guts and seeds and mess and all it's just not the same, but I think I'll manage to get over it, somehow.

<3Jen