Getting to know a whole bunch of year nines in a space of 4 days is great stuff…
There are a couple of things I’ll say about camp, it was an eye-opener about quite a few people who aren’t necessarily year nines, I felt so many different things and I have never eaten sausages for three meals in a row.
Most of the first point I found out at night when everyone was supposed to sleeping… I only slept an hour during the last night which meant I slept 14 hours the next night.
The thing about being a leader meant having to control a crowd of students who sometimes didn’t want to listen to you and telling them things that they didn’t want to hear. It also meant getting in more shit when you broke the rules. Thankfully the latter didn’t happen to me but I was really paranoid that it would.
We had sausages for three meals in a row, lunch, dinner and then breakfast. Gross.
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Rebecca, Ludwig, Kimone and I were with 9D3 for the bus trip and from the conversations they had some of them thought that they knew more than they actually did. Sometimes I think that I’m like that now.
So the first thing we did when we got there was be water bombed by Britten who were at the camp for the four days previously, but we were prepared and water bottled them back.
Then we had the TRAMP. I’m glad that I’d had weight training in the morning so it wasn’t my first lot of exercise of the day. Ludwig, Alex and I had 9D9 and the apparently “easier” track. The stink thing about this track was that there would be a giant hill followed by flat making you think that it’d be over soon but then you’d see the ground go veritcal in the distance… I got very sweaty. The kids we were walking with provided us with interesting conversation.
Nothing overly exciting happened on the first day. The night however was a completely different story. So the lead students and the teachers sat on the deck outside the lodge after lights out to make sure that they wouldn’t sneak out… this involved sitting in the dark while staring at year nines on the way to the loo. The stupid thing was thinking that they couldn’t see us… they totally could. After an hour or so we went to bed. It was clear that when we tried going to sleep that the kids didn’t have enough exercise. I remember getting a bit of sleep but then getting woken up by the girls next door who didn’t shut up. It didn’t help that the walls are paper thin. I couldn’t decide whether to tell them to shut up now or punish them tomorrow when they had to get up early for their run… Abbey, who also couldn’t get to sleep decided that the first idea was better, so I went with her as she threw a spaz at all of the cabins that were keeping us up. Another 15 mins after we told everyone to bed they got up and we had huge amounts of people congregating at the toilet block. This time we had to send the boys back to bed… well everyone apart from Dewald, who Abbey gave permission to spend the rest of the night on the deck, with her.
Because Ludwig and I didn’t have a group we took the team building activities. It was cool the first time we took it but by the end of the second one I was sick of it… probably because it was so hot. It was interesting to see who in the group took charge, normally the loud, slightly annoying kids… not that any of them aren’t awesome. Find photos on Ludwig’s flickr when he loads them up. http://flickr.com/photos/ludwigw/collections/72157600699497996/
There was times at camp when I was really freaked out that I was going to get in trouble (when a prank went horribly wrong {in my opinion}) and when I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe. One of these resulted in bruises from slaps to my hand. The game dubbed Ring-of-Fire was hilarious the first time we played it… and was interesting to watch when we did it for concert. I’ll show you how to play sometime.
The kids on camp were pretty cool, definite characters. The stink thing about not having a group was not being able to get to know a small group of students and not being able to do some of the cool activities. The good things were not having to do any duties (YUSS!) and being able to meet all of the students because all of them did team building. I was constantly paranoid that I was being too hard on them when I told them off. I didn’t want to be a bitch to them but some of them asked for it.
I’ll probably tell you the rest of it in drips and drabs over the next few days.