A LA DERECHA, A LA DERECHA!!!!

so this tuesday i had my first ever fireworks kayak tour. (shelter cove has harborfest every tuesday and shoots off fireworks after dark from the harbor and we take trips out to do the 2-hour nature tour, then we stay out for the show.) first off, i had 21 people in my group. the usual maximum is 16. i figured that at least they'd all go in doubles, so it wasn't a big deal. they all wanted to pay separately, so it took 15 minutes to check them all in. i walked by the kiosk as my colleagues took their payment and paperwork, and realized that they were speaking a different language. thank GOD it was spanish, and i'm half-fluent in spanish. so 21 non-english-speaking people. but hey, they'll be in doubles. 11 boats isn't so bad. so i introduce myself and head down to the dock to load them and chris was helping get trips out. we do the paddle clinic and get pfds on everyone and they start getting in boats. apparently christopher was charmed by the cute spanish girls, so he put almost all of them in singles. so at this point, i have 21 people who can't understand me out in 18 boats. i had already given up on the nature part of the tour, so i was just focused on keeping them all together and safe. but here's the kicker. not only could i not give them instructions in english, but they wouldn't listen to me as i called instructions in spanish. so here are these little spanish teenagers paddling straight up through the middle of the boat channel at the harbor with 100-foot head boats coming right at them. "A LA DERECHA, A LA DERECHA," i yelled to no avail. needless to say, it was an interesting hour and a half.