Switcheroos and Devious Players

[Gary Hogeboom]

Okay, a lot has happened since I've last wrote, so this confessional might be a longer one!

Okay, first off, we WON the second immunity challenge! 2nd place...I'll take it! Only La Molina ended up going to Tribal Council. Anyway, after we came back to camp I had to really major conversations.

The first was with Robb. We talked about how we both really liked the tribe. I told him I was planning on sticking with anyone on San Antonio (besides Susie). He agreed with me. So basically I had told him that if San Antonio went to tribal council I would vote Susie....so any plans I had about voting Robb out I pretty much dropped. He also said that while he liked everyone on the tribe, he thought Sherea wasn't gonna stick with us 100 percent. I tried to stand up for her but be subtle about it, but all in all I just tacked that up as something I might have to watch out for in the future 'cause I don't want Robb to turn against Sherea since she's my number one alliance partner and all.

The second conversation I had was with Dan....where something very interesting happened. He actually revealed to me that he was an ALIAS. And what's more, I KNOW him from a previous game! In reality he's not Brett, a retired history teacher from New Jersey...but he's actually Charles, a college student from...Texas? I KNEW there was something fishy about him...I mean, I don't really always have the best strategic mind but I feel like I AM very good at reading people, and something about him seemed off. I know Sherea has felt the same way, as we've talked about it before. Anyway, I played a game with him a long time ago..like maybe two years ago? And he won. Anyway, he was a really snake-like player throughout the whole thing. So, anyway, he said I'm the only one who knows and such and asked if we were still cool. And of course I was like "Oh yeah! LOL!" but in reality...no, we're not cool. I like Charles as a person, but as far as the game of Survivor goes I don't trust him worth a lick! He's gone from a possible Final 3 alliance partner to a target for me. I am gonna try to get him out, but I have to be smart about it.

Sooo, I planned on talking to Sherea about it and strategizing about what to do about it. But then it happened. Tribe. Switch.

Soooo, I'm still on San Antonio, but with two less people! Robb and Sherea are both on a different tribe (don't remember the name, I'm not familiar with the new names yet) but Now it's just me, Dan, Eliza, and Susie.

So, now the tribal dynamics are shaken up and I'm TOTALLY in a not-so-comfortable position. I'm with Dan, who I'm totally not trusting....Eliza, who I have an aliance with but also am not sure that either of us trust each other 100 percent....and Susie, who hasn't been that much help at ALL and is probably gonna receive a self vote because I doubt she's made that many confessionals. So I'm kinda in a pickle.

If we do go to TC, Susie will have to go, that much is totally obvious. After that though I'm not sure what I should do in this new situation. I'm debating whether I should tell Eliza about Dan and his devious nature, but I'm not sure I trust her all the way, and I'm not sure she trusts ME 100 percent either. However...I feel like if I wait and tell her down the road, that will cast even more doubt on my trustworthyness.

The other option is that I could stick with Dan, who while I don't really trust, I feel that he thinks that I trust him and so won't vote me off 'cause he thinks he can use me. So I'm not sure what to do....I really need to think this through, and plan it right. I DON'T feel comfortable right now, and I don't want that paranoia to cause me to make a dumbass move. So I think I have to sit back and think and not be a dumbass.

However, if my move is to team up with Eliza, I need to tell her soon...

[Gary Hogeboom]

Weeeellll, we're just about to finish up the immunity challenge! And, ugh, I would be surprised if we weren't headed to tribal council.

Dan, Eliza, and Susie had all told me that they would be showing up for the immunity challenge yesterday. And then the challenge rolled out....and I was the only one who showed up on time, lol! Well, the challenge is pretty much a puzzle challenge, we all had to do a certain puzzle and turn it in for points. At first I tried to do the jigsaw puzzle, and then I was like helllll no! Because I didn't even have a mouse, and there were like a million pieces so it would have taken me like 7 or 8 hours at least. So I switched to the Cryptogram puzzle and finished that....and no one was online still.

So I started working on some of the other puzzles to help out other people who hadn't shown up. I finished the crossword puzzle and started working on the math puzzle when Dan showed up. I gave him the answers to the crossword and he posted and then left right away. I finished up the math puzzle (after a REALLY long time, I HATE math, lol, I'm not good at it at ALL) and about an hour later Susie showed up. And I gave her the math stuff and she was like "kay" annnnnnd never posted them. So I sighed, PMed the math answers to Eliza and went to bed. Eliza posted today, so at least she showed up!

I'm kind of disappointed that we sucked it up so bad in this challenge. Lol, our schedules just didn't line up right and things came up, so we kind of screwed up and I don't think the other tribes did. Plus with Susie with us in a group participation challenge, I doubt she would have ever posted anything. Sooo, I'm just gonna wait around for the results and maybe for some miracle someone did worse than us and we ain't going to tribal council.

[Gary Hogeboom]

Ganamos!Ganamos!Ganamos! We WOOOOOONNN! Oooh, this was a really good surprise for me. Like I was actually thinking we were going to be going there. And I was preparing myself to get sent there. And I popped online to look and lo and behold, we came in 3rd! Apparently San Isidoro had two people who didn't do the challenge so they beat us out! I'm glad I don't have to go to TC, not because I thought I would have been voted out, but just 'cause I don't like going to tribal council in general, and it's nice to feel like I was a big part in the challenge win. MMkay, I think I'm gonna talk a little about my San Antonio tribemates.

Eliza: Eliza is still rocking my socks. I actually took a chance with her and spilled the beans to her about Dan and his alias status. I was a little nervous she would run and go tell Dan, but she's told me she hasn't. She's told me she trusts me, Sherea, and Robb in this game and wants us all to stick together and try to make it to the end. As of right now the two of us are sticking together on this tribe, and we're hoping to meet up with Sherea and Robb when the tribes switch up again and try to make it to the end. I think that'd be a pretty cool alliance if we can make it happen. Hopefuly Sherea and Robb will feel the same way when we meet up with them.

Dan: Dan has made me a little less nervous now that I feel like I have a handle on the situation. I'm not stupid though, and I am still trying to be really careful with him and stay on his good side and not make him susicious that I'm plotting against him. I actually think I COULD have a really good ally in him....but I don't trust him. I know he's a really good player and he has the tendancy to come from behind and win. So for now I'm just going to have to keep making him think I'm totally down with him. So here's hoping he doesn't realize what's going on!

Susie: I'm really annoyed with Susie at the moment. It's one thing to be an inactive player...but she's a player that when she IS online she refuses to help. Even worse, she tells you that she'll help and then doesn't do what you tell her to do. However, as much as she annoys me....I want to keep her in the game as long as I can. I consider Susie my Free Tribal Council Pass card. If I go to tribal council with her on my tribe, she's going to go, no question. She'd even self-vote 'cause of the confessional thing. What's more, if there's a tribe switch and she ends up on a different tribe than me, she's only gonna hurt that other tribe. So, really, I feel good about Susie sticking around, 'cause she's only gonna help me get a little farther by being such a shithead in the game.

Anyway, that's our little tribe! Hopefully we can rock the next immunity.