Survivor Blog #8

The tribe is split into two factions where one faction is being led by Jeremy and the other by Josh. There is a lot of non verbal communication being thrown around by the aggressive feelings from the two factions that have been formed. In the last episode there was a plan put into place by Josh’s faction where they would have had the numbers to vote off Jeremy but this plan was thrown off when Julie quit the game.

The first tribal challenge, the game required splitting into two teams. where the tribe was split evenly into half’s. Ironically the two teams had their own colors to tell them apart which were blue and yellow. Which sounds familiar since that was the color of the two tribes in the game. During the challenge the yellow team was pretty far ahead of the blue team. This I would say had to do with the verbal communication they had. They were communicating very well with one another which allowed them to work together and be organized with achieving the main goal of the challenge compared to the blue team that was scattered all over the place. At the end of the challenge the yellow team ended up winning the reward.

While the blue team was enjoying their reward it was hard for the team members to talk to one another. This had to do with the team being mixed with two alliances. So during this time the team was sitting down enjoying their food in basically silence. There was much non-verbal communication going around with everyone being silence and feeling awkward due to the silence. Keith tried to spark a conversation but it basically failed.

While back at the camp, Josh and the members who lost the first challenge took this opportunity to talk to Blare or I should Josh took this opportunity. It did not work the way Josh hoped though because Blare was sided with her mom and her mom was on Jeremy’s side with taking out Josh. Josh tried pulling the “I saved you earlier in the game” card on Blare to try to make her feel bad and side with him for the next tribal council but it did not work and if anything it upset her and made her to not want to side with him even more.

John was sent to exile island, while their he gets a clue to an idol that is hidden someone on exile island. He is able to find it and now it is a game changer for him as now he has power.

The tribe all gets back together at the camp and you can start to really feel the two factions really starting get verbally/non verbally aggressive with one another.Jeremy starts to get offended with how Keith is acting with his son and other tribe members around the women of the tribe because of how Keith is also a firemen and as being a firemen like Jeremy himself he feels that their is a standard when it comes to manners around women as being a firemen. So he expresses this opinion with the other tribe members, at least the ones in his faction.

The women start to express their opinions about how the men are acting in the tribe with one another by using verbal communication. Jacklyn is starting to reconsider voting for Jeremy because of how the men on Josh’s faction has been acting around the women. This may become a problem because it may either make the vote even at the tribal council which would call for a re-vote or it would men that it would give Jeremy’s faction the upper hand which would ultimately lead to voting off Josh. In addition to this it may create problems between John and Jacklyn when it comes to deciding which faction to stick with. Keith and the other men in Josh’s faction don’t seem to be worried about this as they feel that Jacklyn will still side with John when it comes to deciding who to vote for.

In the second challenge the prize was immunity. During the challenge it came down to Josh and Jeremy competing for immunity from the next tribal council.Jeremy ended up winning the challenge and receiving immunity from the next tribal council.

At the end of the episode, Josh ended up being the person voted out at tribal council