I don't really remember what days one and two were like. The red green game took place then as did the whole funeral thing. I guess the red green game was supposed to send the message that you should work together rather than try to beat each other. It's a little difficult to remember. I never had to do anything like go into Bonners Ferry and talk to people. That never happened. I guess in the first couple of days there is just a lot of bullshit. They take an obscene amount of time to do everything. It took like 2 hours to go over the "Agreements" of the Summit. You were supposed to sit while the "Agreement" was being said and if you agreed with it, you stood up. "All those in agreement please stand (brief pause to look who agreed). All those standing please sit, all those sitting please stand." Then they would go over with you why you didn't agree with that particular agreement and why. Basically they made it appear that you had the choice to agree with the "Agreement" yet even if you didn't they would yell at you until you did. For example: I didn't agree with the "Agreement" that you would do anything they told you too. They said that "you have to do anything we tell you too, even if it means hitting someone" or something to that affect. I didn't agree with that. I said, hell no. I'm not going to hurt someone just because Steve Rookey wants me to. Fuck that. Well, it was either agree with the "Agreement" or I guess leave the Summit. I wasn't about to leave the Summit, my high school education depended on it, and since I was so close I figured that I would just comply. The first few days were spent doing a lot of bullshit. I remember there was a TON of "break" time where you had really long journal assignments. At one point they read your journals and since the assignments were so damn long, no one ever had time to finish them. So at the end of like day 1 or 2, while the staff went to sleep in the dorms or something, they made everyone stay up until they had finished their assignments. That took forever, to say the least. Most of the people in my Summit were only like half done, so instead of sleeping for like 3 hours everyone had to write. But since it was like 3 or so in the morning, no one could focus. It was a bunch of bullshit. The "Agreement" where you were supposed to hit someone if they asked you came into play. It was like "Partner up with someone (I think you were assigned a partner for the whole Summit though, and you had to keep tabs on them. Like were they not sitting with their hands in the neutral position, or had they masturbated, which you weren't allowed to do either) and slap them as hard as you can. "One the count of three, partner A slap partner B. One...Two...Switch partners. Partner B slap partner A. One...Two...Hug." It was pretty lame, but I already knew about this becuase I had read someone elses Summit Journal. There were some yelling excersises too, but nothing too weird, or too weird in CEDU terms. Basically after you got your "Contract" it was a state of euphoria. Everything after that was no where near as intense, but still just as weird. Near the end, they brought in all this dank food, but instead of eating it, you had to feed it to someone else, and they in turn had to feed it to you. Fucking weird, I know.
To sum it all up to the best of my memory: Day one is spent going over the agreements and doing some other bullshit. Day two was the red green game and some yelling shit. Day three was the Costume party. Day four was the "Contract". And day five was the feeding people and like reveling in the fact that you were almost done. Day five I'm sure had some smooshing and some other gay ass shit in it as well.
