Continued from the previous post...
The third day was only half day and we had to go home. Nobody wanted to go home. Everyone wanted to stay longer. I felt the same. Why couldn't we have just stayed until the weekend at least?
I didn't know
when I woke up, but I knew
what woke me up. My aching shoulders. On the previous day, I didn't feel any pain except for my hands so I couldn't imagine hurting anywhere else. I realized that my upper arms and shoulders hurt. When I tried moving my legs, I realized I had two bruises on my left leg (I don't know how it got there). I slept all night curled up in a fetus position so I tried to stretch a bit. It hurt to stretch. I laid in bed, listening to the noisy birds chirp. Boy, were they loud! I was wondering if anyone else in the cabin was awake, but it seemed to be only me. I rushed to the bathroom to pee and jumped back in bed. I wondered what time it was. Out of all the students, only two very smart people thought to bring watches: Hoang and Michelle. I didn't know there wouldn't be a clock. The batteries in my watch were used up anyway. I lay in bed for a while and closed my eyes, trying to get a little bit more sleep. Eventually, I heard the noisy kids from an elementary school walk by our cabin. I should have known that it was time to get up at this time. If they were up, we should be up too. I had no logic and no common sense. I continued to lie in bed.
Everyone ended up oversleeping. We were late for breakfast. It was my fault for no waking everyone up. Some didn't even get the opportunity to brush their teeth! Breakfast was the classic scrambled eggs, sausages, and rice combo. After breakfast, we were given time to go back to our cabins and pack our things. After packing, we had some more "quiet time."
After the writing, we met at Crosson Hall and sat in a circle. We took out a piece of paper and wrote our name in big letters at the top. The paper got passed around the circle and each person wrote a nice comment about that person. We did some more picture taking before we left. It was a really quick leave. Everyone was really sad.
My overall camp experience was amazing. The actual experience somehow felt different from what is being written here. Undergoing all those challenges made everyone bond at camp. I like how everyone at camp are such fun people...!
In my opinion, camp itself wasn't so great. I did not expect the camp staff members to be the way they were. To put it in a nice way, I guess I can say they were very "laid-back." They did their job, but they didn't seem too...enthusiastic. I don't know - that's just my impression. I can understand if they aren't because they probably have to do the same things over and over when some silly school kids come to visit. They are used to the stuff we did and they are probably bored with it, but they should at least try harder to be more into it because it was a new experience for us. I learned to trust Luli, but I found some of the other staff members to be quite unfriendly.
I guess the challenges we had at camp made it interesting but I think it was more the people that made being here at camp awesome. During the discussions, everyone opened up and said how they felt. We were becoming more familiar with each other. We created many memories and if we joked around, nobody would understand unless they were one of us. I can't put this feeling in words. But it's easy and simple enough to say that I had a blast at camp.
