The Red Dawn is Breaking.
By: Dani Nieman
This week has been an adventure. Tuesday we had a simulation of Monticello Town being invaded. We watched the movie “Red Dawn” it simulates the North Koreans coming to Washington and taking over Spokane. It was a little weird for me because that is my home area. The simulation was to plan what we would if anyone invaded. Dr.Brooks even had his police officer neighbor come in uniform to make it more dramatic. I got thinking how ill prepared I really am with having supplies ready to go at a moment's notice. It was nice to get a wake up call in the form of a simulation. Instead of the real thing happening.
We also had oral exams this week. The format is you stand up at the front of the room and three judges (in this case Mr Hurtado, Dr. Brooks, and my roommate Miss Dupuis) all fire questions at you to check for understanding of the material. It made me realize that I have a lot to learn. The muse has struck me and I came up with this thought or poem if you will abou that I am learning:
The more you learn, the more you realize, you have more to learn.
Learning is only a light that shines on your own ignorance.
Humility and eagerness are the only things that will pull us from the cave of our own ignorance. Though paradoxically the more we travel out of the caves the more we find, we have still to travel, and in fact we find we are traveling deeper and deeper into it.
Some may scoff and say: “It is not even worth the journey at all. For you will never get out.” They will never know the one that scoff and scorn, for they are not willing to pay the price to find the merits the cave has to offer.
They will never know the light of their own ignorance.
Saturday we put up the telephone posts for our pull up bars, we will be using for our physical training. It was a physical workout in and of itself! Check it out!
The fixings for concrete! So that the poles will be secure in the ground.
Go Hailey!
Dr.Brooks is THE man. (yes, the only one.)
Getting it into position!
Getting down to Dr. Brooks “level”
I am braced for it. 
Tamping! 
This rock was really heavy in actuality. 
Mixing concrete! The secret recipe is one part cement, 2 parts sand, 3 parts gravel. Sh…. do not tell anyone! 
pouring it in! Well, scooping. 
the poll was to big. So we got to saw it in half. I felt like a pioneer. 
Finished! Well, at least for that day.
