You Have Reached The End Of Camp.
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bliumchikO RLY?
YA RLY.
And that was the end of camp. Pretty much forever, I think. It was the last school camp, and you don't go on camps as Adults. You go on road trips, which are fun and awesome, but it's like there's a little door of childhood that's just closed forever. No more making fun of the terrible food, no more giggling in cabins in the wee hours of the morning trying not to wake the teachers in the next cabin, no more whining about vertical hikes and gluing paddle-pop sticks to things, no more hot chocolate (well tea, in my case) in sleeping bags...
Actually I forgot my sleeping bag. Yeah, my mum spent all of Saturday and Sunday morning going MAGGIE DID YOU TAKE A WARM JUMPER and MAGGIE WHAT ABOUT A HAT and MAGGIE HAVE YOU GOT A TOWEL and completely neglected to remind me of the one thing which I actually had forgotten about. I slept under a doona and used another one as a sheet.
My dad dropped me and Shelly off at Collaroy about an hour early because he misjudged travel time. Jenny Z arrived shortly afterwards. We dumped our bags with the few other people who were already there andwent off in search of a toilet. On the way Shelly decided the view was awesome and she had to take photos.
Hence my very first Accident of the day.
Shelly: Maggie, stand in front of that lamp thing it's ugly!
Me: *moves*
Lamp: *falls over*
Us: O.o *fix* THIS NEVER HAPPENED.
I then sat down to play some guitar until everyone else showed up. Said instrument was cleverly packaged in a blue tote bag which didn't zip up and thus had to be pegged. I immediately lost one of the pegs. I need to buy a guitar case.
Jenny sat down with me and asked me to play somethign she knew. I went through my ENTIRE guitar music folder without coming across ONE SINGLE THING she recognised. This includes Jack Johnson, Radiohead, Greenday, Counting Crows, Oasis... LAKE OF FIRE, PEOPLE. SHE HAD NO DIEA WHAT LAKE OF FIRE WAS. She asked me to play Mary had a little lamb.
We took our stuff to the cabins (it was dark, we were in some completely random cabin group that was off to the side away from absolutely everybody else except one other cabin). I gave all the lamp posts a wide berth. Also managed to forget both my HUUUUGE jacket and my music folder in the hall. Having not been there an hour and a half I managed to do both that AND the Lamp Incident That Did Not Happen. I swear I have some sort of Accident Field around me.
Jenny quotes: "The opposite of eating is exhaling...?" and "She's very homophobic so whenever I see her I rub up agaiost her".
Dinner was amusing in that it prompted the sort of conversation you get from connissuers of fine food, except in the opposite direction - we're connisuers of camp food. So they'd be all like "I think there's just a hint of parsley" and "the sauce is quite pique" and we were all like "I think this is cartilege" and "this so-called gravy is actually probably sweet and sour sauce".
After dinner we gathered in the hall for Games & Trivia Night, which was cohosted by Beth and Henrietta. We were sorted into groups by way of the teachers handing out coloured bits of fabric, but of course the numbers were wrong so there was confusion. I ended up in Team Blue (or "We'll Beat You Bleu" as we so-originally called it [I was holding out for "Insert Name Here"]) with no Team Chant to speak of and a fairly awful ranking in points. I did have a stroke of genius during the game where we pick a random object and "merket" it as something which it is not. Our object was a loop thing that you stick in your ponytail and then weave your hair through, and the idea was for it to be a new diet tool which you can use to eat without actually eating. When I stood up to introduce it I suddenly realised we'd forgotten to name it, so I went "you need the, uh... NOT-SPOON!" which went down very well.
Later on there was limbo. We were informed that the teachers were trying to arrange for us to watch the soccer, if possible.
Poppy: A girl brought antennae just in case this happened!
Me: What? Just in case Limbo happened?
We got back to our cabin and Nicky amused herself by throwing cards everywhere. Our room looked like a bomb hit it with a late rabbit. This was, of course, after the obligatory "Miss we've been locked out of our room" incident.
Jenny: Hallmark is promoting obesity. And man-love.
I realise this is turning into a bit of "lets point and laugh at Jenny"fest but dammit, she's always got the best quotes. She didn't even know what a beaver was.
Breakfast yesterday was fairly sus - the egg yolks were all raw but didnt look it from the outside, so I sliced into the thing and it went gloop all over my plate. Woops. I had many cups of tea and was informed by Nicky that I was dressed like a FORB (Fresh Off the Russian Boat). Just because I was wearing a longish skirt with sneakers. Honestly.
The rest of the day was spent in Study Skills Seminars OF DETH (to the ass). They were actually quite useful in places, but oowww toooooo looooong.
Poppy and Zerlin came by our cabin afterwards to borrow my guitar. Later that evening we had a MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA which was actually just The Notebook. It was quite sad but I'm glad I ended up seeing it because now I can participate in discussion of romance in which it invariably comes up.
The best part of camp was later that night (well, this morning) when our cabin stayed up playing the Truth game and bonding. At one point (well into the conversation) Ms Davis came by to tell us to be quieter, at which point we went O.o what did she heeear?
The final thing this morning was the self defence talk from the guy who came to lecture us about date rape last year. He was cool. He has this funny snigger and he does good impressions. Also he taught us the eyes-nose-throat-groin-foot thing and stances.
Dude: *pretends to be Aggressive Male Specimen A* O RLY?
Us: *clawing motions* YA RLY!
Argh I'm so tired. This entry has been getting progressively less coherent as I go on. I'm at school, waiting for my dad to pick me up. Waah. Oh, hey, here he is!
YA RLY.
And that was the end of camp. Pretty much forever, I think. It was the last school camp, and you don't go on camps as Adults. You go on road trips, which are fun and awesome, but it's like there's a little door of childhood that's just closed forever. No more making fun of the terrible food, no more giggling in cabins in the wee hours of the morning trying not to wake the teachers in the next cabin, no more whining about vertical hikes and gluing paddle-pop sticks to things, no more hot chocolate (well tea, in my case) in sleeping bags...
Actually I forgot my sleeping bag. Yeah, my mum spent all of Saturday and Sunday morning going MAGGIE DID YOU TAKE A WARM JUMPER and MAGGIE WHAT ABOUT A HAT and MAGGIE HAVE YOU GOT A TOWEL and completely neglected to remind me of the one thing which I actually had forgotten about. I slept under a doona and used another one as a sheet.
My dad dropped me and Shelly off at Collaroy about an hour early because he misjudged travel time. Jenny Z arrived shortly afterwards. We dumped our bags with the few other people who were already there andwent off in search of a toilet. On the way Shelly decided the view was awesome and she had to take photos.
Hence my very first Accident of the day.
Shelly: Maggie, stand in front of that lamp thing it's ugly!
Me: *moves*
Lamp: *falls over*
Us: O.o *fix* THIS NEVER HAPPENED.
I then sat down to play some guitar until everyone else showed up. Said instrument was cleverly packaged in a blue tote bag which didn't zip up and thus had to be pegged. I immediately lost one of the pegs. I need to buy a guitar case.
Jenny sat down with me and asked me to play somethign she knew. I went through my ENTIRE guitar music folder without coming across ONE SINGLE THING she recognised. This includes Jack Johnson, Radiohead, Greenday, Counting Crows, Oasis... LAKE OF FIRE, PEOPLE. SHE HAD NO DIEA WHAT LAKE OF FIRE WAS. She asked me to play Mary had a little lamb.
We took our stuff to the cabins (it was dark, we were in some completely random cabin group that was off to the side away from absolutely everybody else except one other cabin). I gave all the lamp posts a wide berth. Also managed to forget both my HUUUUGE jacket and my music folder in the hall. Having not been there an hour and a half I managed to do both that AND the Lamp Incident That Did Not Happen. I swear I have some sort of Accident Field around me.
Jenny quotes: "The opposite of eating is exhaling...?" and "She's very homophobic so whenever I see her I rub up agaiost her".
Dinner was amusing in that it prompted the sort of conversation you get from connissuers of fine food, except in the opposite direction - we're connisuers of camp food. So they'd be all like "I think there's just a hint of parsley" and "the sauce is quite pique" and we were all like "I think this is cartilege" and "this so-called gravy is actually probably sweet and sour sauce".
After dinner we gathered in the hall for Games & Trivia Night, which was cohosted by Beth and Henrietta. We were sorted into groups by way of the teachers handing out coloured bits of fabric, but of course the numbers were wrong so there was confusion. I ended up in Team Blue (or "We'll Beat You Bleu" as we so-originally called it [I was holding out for "Insert Name Here"]) with no Team Chant to speak of and a fairly awful ranking in points. I did have a stroke of genius during the game where we pick a random object and "merket" it as something which it is not. Our object was a loop thing that you stick in your ponytail and then weave your hair through, and the idea was for it to be a new diet tool which you can use to eat without actually eating. When I stood up to introduce it I suddenly realised we'd forgotten to name it, so I went "you need the, uh... NOT-SPOON!" which went down very well.
Later on there was limbo. We were informed that the teachers were trying to arrange for us to watch the soccer, if possible.
Poppy: A girl brought antennae just in case this happened!
Me: What? Just in case Limbo happened?
We got back to our cabin and Nicky amused herself by throwing cards everywhere. Our room looked like a bomb hit it with a late rabbit. This was, of course, after the obligatory "Miss we've been locked out of our room" incident.
Jenny: Hallmark is promoting obesity. And man-love.
I realise this is turning into a bit of "lets point and laugh at Jenny"fest but dammit, she's always got the best quotes. She didn't even know what a beaver was.
Breakfast yesterday was fairly sus - the egg yolks were all raw but didnt look it from the outside, so I sliced into the thing and it went gloop all over my plate. Woops. I had many cups of tea and was informed by Nicky that I was dressed like a FORB (Fresh Off the Russian Boat). Just because I was wearing a longish skirt with sneakers. Honestly.
The rest of the day was spent in Study Skills Seminars OF DETH (to the ass). They were actually quite useful in places, but oowww toooooo looooong.
Poppy and Zerlin came by our cabin afterwards to borrow my guitar. Later that evening we had a MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA which was actually just The Notebook. It was quite sad but I'm glad I ended up seeing it because now I can participate in discussion of romance in which it invariably comes up.
The best part of camp was later that night (well, this morning) when our cabin stayed up playing the Truth game and bonding. At one point (well into the conversation) Ms Davis came by to tell us to be quieter, at which point we went O.o what did she heeear?
The final thing this morning was the self defence talk from the guy who came to lecture us about date rape last year. He was cool. He has this funny snigger and he does good impressions. Also he taught us the eyes-nose-throat-groin-foot thing and stances.
Dude: *pretends to be Aggressive Male Specimen A* O RLY?
Us: *clawing motions* YA RLY!
Argh I'm so tired. This entry has been getting progressively less coherent as I go on. I'm at school, waiting for my dad to pick me up. Waah. Oh, hey, here he is!
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