Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Scout camp

After school last Friday, my dad dropped me off at scout camp. The location was Birch Bay, past the Esso oil refinery. When I got there we had a little game of ball tag. After that we had hot dogs for dinner. After darkness fell we gathered around the campfire. Then we had a game of capture the flag in darkness. I didn't use my lantern because I said to myself "light is my enemy" because it would just give away my position. I came close to the flag, and managed to slip past two guards but someone caught me before I could locate the flag and as a result I was in jail for half an hour before I got out. The second attempt was worse than the first because when I was sneaking in the field someone ambushed me from the trees, and I was in jail until the end of the game.
Later that night one of the the leaders was lighting a fire with a candle but it went out, everybody was shouting and clapping but it was ineffective. Then I start rubbing by hands and guess what. I made the fire start with my hands!!!!
After that we sung campfire songs and did skits. Mine (with Brad and Tyler) was about a guy who was bankrupt and a doctor being sued jump off a bridge! We didn't go to sleep until midnight! The morning was rotten, when I woke up I was freezing!!! Brad, Nicky, Tyler, Tried to wake me up. But I wouldn't budge. They got me out of bed by threatening to throw me in a nearby lake. I would die of Hypothermia!
When I got out, breakfast was waiting. After that we went to the activity area. The first one I did was archery. The arrows were blunt but at the right speed the could puncture the human body. Another one of them is the mini zip-line, Only a few feet in length. However it was still fun. The most frightening part was the tower zip-line! There was an other one but the one I went one had a 10 FT FREE FALL!!!!!! Before that you had to climb a ladder.Once you done that you had to cross a wooden bridge, and the wood was 2 feet apart!! When I was on the bridge and ladder my mind was swarming with VERTIGO!!!!!!!! When I went down the zip-line, I was saying "I'm too young to die"!!! After it, I was saying stuff like "I feel sick and disoriented, "CAN WE DO THAT AGAIN!?!?!?" or "THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!!"or "that was scary, BUT TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! It was the most EXTREMIST thing I've ever done in my entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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