prank. wars.

we just heading off now to get spray paint, food colouring, jelly and cups. lots. of. cups.

why? because last week we returned from outreach to our old rooms at the base. unpacked everything. and had a great graduation night. we come home, into our rooms... disaster. toilet paper everywhere, hanging from the lights and bunks. caution tape is in the most strategically annoying locations and worst of all - rice. rice everywhere, rice on the floor, in our bunks, in our clothes, in our shoes, in our bags, on our pillows, everywhere you can imagine rice fitting, there was rice. best part of all, when you vacuum all the rice off the floor, more just falls out of your sheets, shoes or clothes and once again, your walking on rice. its like we had a wedding in our room. so after a few days of investigating. we've found out the culprits. the new DTS. so nice work on a good prank, but cam'on guys. you must not know who your messing with.

AND... yesterday they left for a week to go to outreach in Tasmania. ...Amateurs.

so this is all in good fun. and really, nothing makes living in community run smoothly like a few good pranks. and i would say this is an area that our DTS has excelled in. i can think of about 4 or 5 since the beginning of February. let me tell you my two favourites. the first one was a prank on raf in march, by the girls. but it's actually a few day prank, so let me start at the beginning. raf mentioned to me one day that he felt like his boxers keep going missing, and it seems like he loses some everyday. and im pretty sure he even mentioned that he was down to his last pair and if he couldn't remember where he put them, he would start having to wear spandex.

Two Days Later: I saw raf wearing spandex.

Four Days Earlier:Raf is notorious for leaving his laundry in the machine after the time is done so i guess one day one of the girls

Five Days Later: after an announcement to the class after lectures if anyone could keep their eye out for his boxers cause hes missing a 'few' pairs, he would appreciate it. Raf stumbled across a sign that directed him to the freezer. where he found this.

A great prank by the girls, and honestly, i think raf was just happy to have his underwear back.

and of course retaliation was in order. and with the beginning of april just around the corner, what better time. we planned this one for a few days untill the conditions were perfect. the matthews (a family on base)had gone for vacation and it was the night before april fools. so we all dressed in black (for style mostly) and we snuck down to the girls dorm. so now, you need to know how their dorm works. they have a main room, that is essentially their living room, with couches, tables, cabinets, and a t.v set. and beside that is their bedrooms. just outside of that is a courtyard that the matthew's maintain and keep dozens of potted plants. so at about 2 am. dressed in our best possible prank-ops gear. we broke into their room and started removing their livingroom piece by piece. first the couches then the tables... you get the picture. We took all the furniture and brought it all to the court yard where we set it up, exactly the way it was set up when it was in their dorm.

THEN... we took the courtyard. the potted plants and foliage. and brought the courtyard into their room. must have been two dozen full sized plants and trees in their room, that now had a sort of 'jungle vibe'. we had separate missions to 'borrow' the matthew's live chicken, and one of the rabbits on base and chucked those in their as well. for best effect we set up some creepy as, cackling music and set it off at 3 am. in hopes that the girls would run out of their room to turn off the music. then get hit by the jungle of foliage. the only thing that we could never have anticipated or dreamed of, is that when they opened the door to shut off the music, the chicken ran into their bedroom, and woke the rest of the girls up.

this prank was talked about for quite a while on base. many who were woken up by the commotion didn't love it, but they couldn't deny it was a good. when the Matthew's returned it was a different story, but in the end they were cool with it. so apparently, it was the story of this prank that, inspired the july dts to 'rice' us. that's cool. were about to give them another story,

...for inspiration.