Our usual school time was 8:30 in the morning, but that Monday, be had to arrive at the school by seven sharp. Some people were late, and we started to get moving around 7:45. I didn't know how long it took us to get to our destination, camp Stillwood in Chilliwack, but the ride seemed to take forever. Out of five buses, we were the third one to arrive.
When we got there, lots of grade eight students were already there. We walked in, and were divided into teams. Our team name was Love, and we had the worst banner there. That's a fact. Each team have at least two grade eleven or twelve students to lead the team. They were called "leaders". One of ours was horrible. In my opinion, we were the worst out of fourteen teams or so. At least there were some of my friends who suffered along with me. After that, we were sent to our cabins to dump our stuff and get used to our roommates. We had about half and hour to do whatever we wanted before lunch. Lunch was the best. The camp had all the food in the world. They had onion rings, fries, burgers, salad, you name it. I devoured my portion of food like a famished gorilla. I returned for second, and later, for third. My stomach was crammed with three plates of food. Lunch was undoubtedly fantastic!
When lunch was over, we started a scavenger hunt. It was 2% fun, 98% tiring. Basically, you wander around the camp, looking for teachers and staffs who will give you a clue of where to go next. They also give you a letter, where in the end, you put it together and form a word. The first team to finish win. For the first couple of clues, our team was hustling, running around the camp, actually trying to win. After that though, we were all strolling. By the time we finished (and of course we didn't win), everyone was exhausted. The hunt took us all the way from lunch to dinner, which was good because I was starving once again. We had spaghetti as the main course and some salad. But I'm pretty sure I only ate the spaghetti. In my opinion, I prefer the lunch just because we got a variety which we could pick from (plus I love onion rings).
We did got some free time. I think it was two hours or so. I enjoyed my time playing volleyball with my friends though I'm lousy and terrible. I don't think I'll make the team this year. The hours flew by real quick, and before I know it, we were in an area called the dome, doing our next activity. We had to make a cheer that links with our team name. Ours was Love. I'm not a pessimistic guy, but to be honest, our cheer was horrible, yet we made the top three. One team was beatboxing. That was really sick. They ended up winning the Cheer Off competition. We got sent to our cabin at eleven but my roommates kept my awake until twelve thirty. I was dead tired the next day, but it was well worth it.
The bathroom was congested the next morning since we had about fifty people sharing one. After taking turns like nice gentle human beings, us boys went to the dining hall to get the breakfast. We had scrambled egg and hash browns.The hash browns tasted like those that you could get at McDonald's. After breakfast, we were put in to groups made out of the teams. Each big group was made of three or four teams. There were four groups. Each group did a different activity and then rotates after and hour and a half.
Our first activity was pretty awesome. We didn't do anything and that's why it's awesome. We watched the first episode of Glee. I gotta say I was interested. It was about high school students so that was probably the teacher showed us the video. We then rotated, and we ended up at drama. It was fun. We played games after games for one and a half hours. I really enjoyed it!
It was twelve o'clock which means lunch. I couldn't remember what we had but I know for sure that it was really tasty. We had another activity after lunch, and it was art. We created and decorated our picture frame where we would put tomorrow's group photo in it. After that, we had a chance of either going on a hike or free time. Which one did you think I picked? Free time, duh. It was like three hour. I started with basketball, then moved to football then soccer and then back to football. Just let me tell you something: when you're having fun, three hours seem like three minutes. Before I know it, it was dinner. Dinner was mash potato and chicken and lots of other stuff, but I didn't notice anything else beside the potato and the chicken. That was my dinner right there.Two plates of those and I was basically set for the night.
After dinner, we had one more activity and then the main activity of the three days come. Charades!!!!!! The teachers claimed to be unbeaten for the last who-knows-how-many years. Each team was paired was paired up with another and after that round is complete, one team rotates while the other stays. Our team was the mobile one. For every answer that we got correct, we get a point. In the end, we total up the points and see who won the Annual Retreat Charades 2013. And of course the teacher won. The second was basically like the first one. My roommates were like gorillas on the loose. They were maniacs. I couldn't get a good night sleep at all.
The next day was also the last. After breakfast, we cleaned up which was a rough job for us boys. Then, it was basically free time up until we leave. On the bus, I was trying my hardest to fall asleep, but people around me were like blowing an air horn in one of my ear and play a tuba in the other. That's why I'm still making up for all the sleep I've lost, or at least trying to.
When lunch was over, we started a scavenger hunt. It was 2% fun, 98% tiring. Basically, you wander around the camp, looking for teachers and staffs who will give you a clue of where to go next. They also give you a letter, where in the end, you put it together and form a word. The first team to finish win. For the first couple of clues, our team was hustling, running around the camp, actually trying to win. After that though, we were all strolling. By the time we finished (and of course we didn't win), everyone was exhausted. The hunt took us all the way from lunch to dinner, which was good because I was starving once again. We had spaghetti as the main course and some salad. But I'm pretty sure I only ate the spaghetti. In my opinion, I prefer the lunch just because we got a variety which we could pick from (plus I love onion rings).
We did got some free time. I think it was two hours or so. I enjoyed my time playing volleyball with my friends though I'm lousy and terrible. I don't think I'll make the team this year. The hours flew by real quick, and before I know it, we were in an area called the dome, doing our next activity. We had to make a cheer that links with our team name. Ours was Love. I'm not a pessimistic guy, but to be honest, our cheer was horrible, yet we made the top three. One team was beatboxing. That was really sick. They ended up winning the Cheer Off competition. We got sent to our cabin at eleven but my roommates kept my awake until twelve thirty. I was dead tired the next day, but it was well worth it.
The bathroom was congested the next morning since we had about fifty people sharing one. After taking turns like nice gentle human beings, us boys went to the dining hall to get the breakfast. We had scrambled egg and hash browns.The hash browns tasted like those that you could get at McDonald's. After breakfast, we were put in to groups made out of the teams. Each big group was made of three or four teams. There were four groups. Each group did a different activity and then rotates after and hour and a half.
Our first activity was pretty awesome. We didn't do anything and that's why it's awesome. We watched the first episode of Glee. I gotta say I was interested. It was about high school students so that was probably the teacher showed us the video. We then rotated, and we ended up at drama. It was fun. We played games after games for one and a half hours. I really enjoyed it!
It was twelve o'clock which means lunch. I couldn't remember what we had but I know for sure that it was really tasty. We had another activity after lunch, and it was art. We created and decorated our picture frame where we would put tomorrow's group photo in it. After that, we had a chance of either going on a hike or free time. Which one did you think I picked? Free time, duh. It was like three hour. I started with basketball, then moved to football then soccer and then back to football. Just let me tell you something: when you're having fun, three hours seem like three minutes. Before I know it, it was dinner. Dinner was mash potato and chicken and lots of other stuff, but I didn't notice anything else beside the potato and the chicken. That was my dinner right there.Two plates of those and I was basically set for the night.
After dinner, we had one more activity and then the main activity of the three days come. Charades!!!!!! The teachers claimed to be unbeaten for the last who-knows-how-many years. Each team was paired was paired up with another and after that round is complete, one team rotates while the other stays. Our team was the mobile one. For every answer that we got correct, we get a point. In the end, we total up the points and see who won the Annual Retreat Charades 2013. And of course the teacher won. The second was basically like the first one. My roommates were like gorillas on the loose. They were maniacs. I couldn't get a good night sleep at all.
The next day was also the last. After breakfast, we cleaned up which was a rough job for us boys. Then, it was basically free time up until we leave. On the bus, I was trying my hardest to fall asleep, but people around me were like blowing an air horn in one of my ear and play a tuba in the other. That's why I'm still making up for all the sleep I've lost, or at least trying to.
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