Board Thread:Season 27 - Alsace-Lorraine/@comment-26043170-20150726222817/@comment-25317303-20150726231845

Simon:

I loved talking to you about silly little things like the weather, skiing, mountains sunsets. I usually enjoy indulging in those kind of conversation topics a lot more than most people do and I felt like I could have done so with you and you wouldn’t be bored by it lol. But I never really was able to. Busy work and such. It’s sad but it is what it is. I enjoyed the little bits we had here and there though.

I really admired the effort you put into the challenges this game. You never held back. You gave it everything you had and then some. As someone who isn’t particularly good at challenges myself, I could never do that but I was amazed at watching you go hard round after round. It’s quite the feat in my eyes.

One of the things that was always present in you, at least as far as I saw was your paranoia. But when I say paranoia I mean healthy paranoia. Even when you were the best performer in the challenge on the tribe, you were still worried about being a possible target. Hope for the best, prep for the worst is something I like to live by and you embodied it so well. It made me feel like I could trust you a lot and helped me want to work with you.

Your desire to be in the game to get to know everyone and be friends is also something that I have a ton of respect for. The people who play these games are so varied and diverse but at the core we are all Survivor fans who have some spare time on our hands and want to interact with like-minded, good people who we share a few interests with while also getting a chance to play this ever so wonderfully complex and beautiful game. For me you were the best example of this and it is the reason why, I think, you were taken out when you were. But I admired that and I honestly can’t imagine being able to write your name down even if I knew you would wipe the floor with me at the end if you were sitting next to me.

Lastly I love the fact that you are calling all three finalists out here at the end. I have been a juror a few times myself and at times I don’t feel comfortable or courageous enough to let people have it and tell them what I truly think of them. I admire you for speaking your honest opinion and really making the final 3 earn your jury vote. I will answer the first task later. I hope that is alright. Thanks for the question Simon.