That's pretty much the same schedule as when I was there.
They always put you on bans from things you enjoyed.
1/2 mile walk.. did you live in the swamp? I dont know if it was called the swamp then.
Which one was the duplex? I remember there being murkwood, swamp, hobbit, crystal cave, and the girls dorms under the house (previously the bingo parlor) and the garden house.
I remember having to cut up articles. We still had that bullshit even when the academic building emerson was built and were supposedly having better classes. We had to focus on one type of issue, like education or the environment or some such thing, and cut out relevant articles to paste in our notebooks. Granted, the academics did improve once the building was there, and upper school students finally had classes all day, except for when they had to be in raps. I remember when we finally got computers: DOS with word perfect and a typing tutor program. (am I showing my age?)
Experientials, what a bunch of shit that was.
I remember them running out of food, too. Or at least, the good food. We would rush to the line and everyone would joke and make cow sounds because it was such a stampede to get to the food. Then the staff started this whole thing to criticise that situation, by stating that the kids were "coming from a place of (false) scarcity", and then that developed this whole "fear of scarcity" line. So when kids would grab for food other students would be joking and saying "scarcity! scarcity!"
I actually had a dream a few weeks ago where I was there and they were having pb&j day, with those huge bowls of peanut butter and jelly, and it was always the most god awful peanut butter. And we never had white bread, either. I remember I always skipped lunch when they had pb&js.
I think probably my favorite meal there was when they had chicken curry. Granted, it was not exactly fine cuisine, but I'm a curry whore, so whenever I can get it, I'm happy. The fruit compote for saturday pancakes was also good. The food overall seemed to be on the healthy side, and I was satisfied with it, it's just that it made everyone fart a lot. God I hated that. People farted so much during social time in the house. That whole place smelled like ass.
I remember when we were in middle/upper school and we were finally able to go to bonners ferry to the pink lion supermarket to buy real, brand name food, and I was so happy to be able to get chocolate milk mix and instant coffee.
A lot of the evening classes you are referring to were optional ones you could sign up for if you wanted to. I remember I would always take Kristen's drawing or watercolor classes, and Chuck Selent's stop motion animation classes. (Except we didn't have a stop motion film camera, so we had to use a video camera, and everything was in sucky slow motion.)
