I hate to admit it but I've been a big fan of the show Survivor since the very first episode. I think a lot of my attraction has to do with the tropical locations on which it is filmed. Who among us hasn't thought how easy it would be to compete on that show given the skills we acquired as kids? Maybe they should have a Guam season featuring the Dean's Circle gang? Now that would be some good TV.Speaking of Survivor, check out this video with Survivorman Les Stroud.
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RAC, are you sure it's the tropical locations that attracts you or the fact that the women on the show usually are wearing very few clothes? and yes, I have thought I could be good Survivor contestant.
Scantly clad women? I never noticed.
Suvivor Guam! The producer wouldn't even need a casting director!
How is it everyone is posting comments on the 1st? are you people all on Guam?
is our time clock off?
..where there are scantily clad women, there are usually scantilly clad men! it's all good.
Kelly, RAC has the blog clock set up on Guam standard time...where Americas day begins.
Survivor Skills Acquired by Deans Circle Rats
This is by no means all inclusive, feel free to add.
1). Climbing: from climbing the outcroppings on the Science Building all the way to the roof to scaling the water tower to climbing the roof of the GW Gym to retrieve errant handballs this was a skill honed to a fine edge. Rock climbing walls don't have anything on this. Safety ropes are for ninnies.
2). Diving/Swimming etc.: if you weren't a powerful swimmer than sooner or later a trip to the Pago reef was going to do you in. Jumping off the rock tested ones timing skills since if you jumped too soon or too late well let's just say your actvities may be rather limited in the future due to your being confined to a wheelchair.
3). Competitive sprinting: one never could know when this event might spontaneously occur. However in most cases the start was dictated by how serious the angry locals that didn't much care for your looks were about kicking your ass. Rarely would this involve a distance event. Rather, the event would play itself out over the course of sevaral days or even weeks in the form of a daily 500-1,000 meter dash. No medals involved here. Winning the sprint was its own reward. You got to keep your face.
4). Improvising and adapting: it's not everyone that can say they can construct a decent bong with nothing more than a used toilet paper roll, a piece of tin foil (gum wrapper will suffice) and a sharp object. In the interest of decorum I won't even begin to name the things we used as rolling papers at times.
5). Knowledge & awareness of ones surroundings: I can only speak for myself but I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the people I've met since leaving the island that actually know where Guam is located, the West Pacific. It's not "near Hawaii", And yes it really is part of the US and believe it or not they don't run around naked or practice human sacrifice there. Unfortunately most of our fellow citizens are more like Miss South Carolina, who would have some difficulty differentiating her ass from a hole in the ground, let alone finding Guam on a map. Having been a world traveler by the time we were in our mid teens has served me more than ANY schooling. I would not trade my experiences and the friends I made there for anything.
Well said, Doug. Well said.
Doug, you're a great writer, I always enjoy your comments.
LOL Doug. I never did pass the pago bay Rock test. I Remember all you talking me down off the rock, me crying, because I couldn't jump.
Rac, glad to hear your on board the Survivor bus..I too have been devoted to the show since its conception..It reminded me so much of life on Guam, and skipping school, and "surviving" the trip home..
Doug has it right!
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