We arrived late in the afternoon, had tacos for dinner with everyone and were ready to go off to our host families for the weekend. It almost went according to plan, but we had to huddle in a corridor for a while because we got a tornado warning. It ended up being fine and we were on our way.On Friday morning we met up at the Pelham High School for a tour. It was very interesting as most of what we know about American High Schools is based on movies. It did not disappoint with the walls lined with lockers, their gymnasium, and their football field.
Next we went to the Autry State Prison. It was opened in 1993 and houses minimum, medium and close security inmates. We went right inside the prison and into a dormitory that held inmates. They had to stand at attention while we were there. It was an interesting and eye opening experience.
After lunch went past the Ethanol plant and went to an alligator farm, It houses over 100,000 alligators used for meat and skin. Then that evening we all had dinner together. The weather was very wet all day so we didn't get to play golf in the afternoon, as planned.
On Saturday we went to a camp where we kayaked, swam, played tennis, basketball and learnt how to play Danish Longball, which is a bit like rounders. It was a really fun day and everyone got a bit sunburned. I spotted a snake swimming when I was kayaking it was little and moved very fast, I'm not sure what it was. We also found a baby turtle stuck in the skimmer box in the pool. We got him out and put him closer to the lake.
That evening we all had dinner with the local Rotarians. We also put on a bit of a talent show for them where there were varying levels of talent.
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