Canoeing

How to hold a paddle
Power stroke
Goon stroke
Forward Sweep
Reverse Sweep
Bow draw
Skulling Draw
Inside Pivot Turn
Outside Pivot Turn
Crossdeck stroke
Crossdeck skull
Backwards stroke
Canoe Recovery

A list of the strokes/skills that we learnt today are featured above.  We went the furthest up the river we've been to date, which was cool, and we saw a dead rabbit floating in the river there, it looked weird and not very nice.  The English in that last sentence was abominable, though an admirable summary of the average standard of English that I find myself using in these blogs.  I guess lack of drafting is the cause of this, but oh well, I literally don't have the time to do one draft, let alone multiple drafts of these blogs.
When we got back we had to go speak to the new Chief Instructor here, he's nice but he was having a moan about room states.  First of all, may I say, that my stuff was ALL off the floor and relatively neat.  He also was NOT happy about the hole in our wall... oh, I didn't mention the hole?  Yes... well, i came back from writing my blog the other day to find that there was a hole in one of our walls and a lot of drunk-ish people in our room.   This new guy has laid down his ultimatum: the truth by tomorrow or he'll bill one person and they can pay it all.  The other guys in my room don't reckon he'll believe the truth that one of the holes was an accident.... oh; I only mentioned one?  Well there are two... one hand sized one just above a long fore-arm length/sized one.   So the guys in our room don't believe he'll believe the truth the the small one was an accident and that they don't actually know when the second one got there.  I guess cos I wasn't really part of it it's easier for me to say what I did, but I said that it doesn't matter whether he believes it or not, you just tell the truth anyway.  If you try make more plausible solutions up then you're lying and if he catches even a hint of a lie then "game over", figuratively speaking.
So yea... today was good.  The sun was up and shining.  I wore suncream for the first time as we weren't in wetsuits, just in waterproofs
And that was kind of today....