Lopevi is on a hot streak boys and girls. Since, to borrow words from The Apprentice, the corporate reorganization a few weeks back, Lopevi hasn't lost a challenge. More importantly, things seem to be going well at camp. Everybody is working hard, in an effort to make life at camp as easy as possible on everyone. There is, of course, one exception to the rule, and that exception is John. John could theoretically "do work", but he really just wants to kick back and nap. Perhaps the heat has hit John especially hard, but I would think a person in his position would not want to be the laziest person in camp. Maybe I am being too hard on him. You see, John is an aspiring actor, and which means he doesn't actually work a lot, unless he needs to pay rent, and then he waits or bartends. The problem is that everybody else takes notice of how little John works. He was never close with the other guys, and even though the girls in camp would seem like much better targets, he should think about not pissing people off.

At Yasur, we see that Rory is still in the fight for his life. Lisa made a mistake and Rory slid on through, but he is having a hard time getting through to Leann and Ami that he is worth keeping around another week. Rory makes the case that he works hard and has never done anything to make them guess his loyalty. Leann and Ami come back and play the gender card. Ami says that no woman's alliance has made it all the way through, and that was their goal. She said that idea is what keeps them going. Quite plainly, Rory didn't fit the makeup for their dream. I have to call a little bullshit on this. Gender alliances rarely ever work, and its not like women have had a difficult time competing for the top prize. There has only been one case where the final two were men, so it's not like an all women's team is necessary for a woman to be successful in making it to the end, let alone winning the top prize. Perhaps Ami was upset that she betrayed her female alliance by voting out Lisa and wanted to get back to Lillith Fair roots. I think that Ami has been able to consolidate a lot of the power, and was just giving a lame excuse to vote Rory out later that evening. For Ami, Vanuatu has turned into sort of a Lesbos South Pacific, but without the poetry. Rory brought a little joy to my heart by saying that if he was going down, he was going down in flames. Something I always revel in witnessing.

The reward challenge featured the two tribes competing in another food challenge, this time for a Home Cafe. Basically, it was a coffee shop featuring croissants and a lot of gourmet coffee, if you consider Folger's gourmet coffee. The teams had to go through an obstacle course one at a time, but had to carry a small bowl of coconut juice through this obstacle course, and out it into a glass jug. Once finished, that person goes to the end of the line and the next person goes, until they fill their team's glass jug to a black line. First team to bring their full jug back to the start was a winner. It looked tougher than once can visualize, but the everybody had shaky hands as they passed through the course. The more coconut juice spills, the more trips a team would have to take. To nobody's surprise, Scout mailed it in. There was no rule that a person actually had to complete the obstacle course, so she simply poured out her small bowl, and ran to the back of the line each time her name was called. For the women, Eliza went first, followed by Leann, Ami, Rory, and Scout. For the men, the order was Jon, Chad, Chris, Twila, and Julie.

Posted by J-Unit on October 29, 2004 1:30 AM