Episode 5: ISLAND DAIRY FARMER VOTED OFF

Challenge I: Choose Your Weapon
    An accuracy contest consisting of three disciplines: blow dart, slingshot, and spear throwing. One person per discipline competed for each tribe.
Winning Tribe Gets: Fresh fruit and three live chickens.
Winning Tribe: Pagong

Challenge II: Shipwrecked
    A kayak race, where one team member picks up other team members bobbing in the ocean.
Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity
Winning Tribe: Pagong

The Vote:
    Dirk- Susan, Kelley, Richard
    Rudy- Sean
    Susan- Dirk

My comments:
It was nice to see the competition for the fruit on the episode, you could tell in their eyes that each group really wanted the fruit and it was extra special that Pagong won. I was a little disappointed in seeing Dirk go, because being a Christian it was nice to see a few Christian on the show and I am really glad that they did not kick him off because of being a Christian.

What CBS had to say about the episode:
    Dirk Been, Pulau Tiga's 23 year-old Wisconsin dairy farmer, became the fifth castaway voted off at tonight's Tribal Council. Many of Tagi tribe saw Dirk as an asset, for his physical ability. In fact, Dirk's position on the island was seemingly safe just days ago. His spectacular performances in Immunity and Reward Challenges were sorely needed by Tagi. Their tribal membership has dwindled with every passing visit to the Tribal Council. Tagi are older and slower than their Pagong rivals, and as a result more susceptible to the physical nature of Challenges.
    But the young man's frequent expressions of his devout religious beliefs rankled a few of his fellow tribe members. "It's not that I'm against his faith or nothing," noted Tagi's Susan Hawk. "But he spends all day reading his Bible and praying."
    Some members of the tribe had another, more concerned, motive for voting Dirk off. "He's getting way too skinny. If he loses much more weight he'll really be in trouble," Richard Hatch pointed out.
Day 13: State of Affairs at Tagi and Pagong
    But Tagi has been successful catching fish, which has given the tribe confidence and an energy boost. Pagong -- who have caught small fish, but otherwise subsist on a sparse diet of Malaysian Field Rats -- are lacking.
    In fact, with the exception of Pagong's "cheerleader" Jenna, Pagong were looking listless and lethargic before the fifth Immunity Challenge. And while Pagong managed to prevail, Tagi felt confident enough in their fishing ability to let their top athlete go at a time when they might need him most. Pagong's membership now outnumbers Tagi's by a majority of six to five.
If not for the Choose Your Weapon
    Reward Challenge, Pagong would have been in dire straits. Their low energy was obvious to Tagi when the two gathered at Ramis Beach for a blowdart-slingshot-spear throwing competition. The winning team would receive fresh fruit, a source of simple sugar and vitamins Pagong sorely needed.
    The first stage of the competition was a draw, with Sean and Jenna each hitting several of the fresh fruit targets. Pagong won the second stage, with Gretchen showing amazing accuracy with the slingshot and besting Richard.
    The competition came down to the spear throw. From a distance of thirty feet, Joel and Sue would throw at a man-sized target. Five throws. Closest to the bulls-eye would be the winner.
    And while Sue gave Joel a run for his money, the Arkansas financial adviser put her away on his final toss. Joel won not only baskets of fresh fruit ( Pagong's victory feast) but also the surprise reward of three egg-laying chickens. "I'm going to name them breakfast, lunch and dinner," Jenna quickly joked. All that extra energy paid off. The next day Pagong won another challenge, Shipwrecked. And that was the end for the dairy farmer. Dirk was voted off.

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