VICTORY AT LAST

Sing it!

         Camp songs are an integral part of the experience. At any moment, you could hear your favorites being belted out and be tempted to join in. Today at recess('tis true,I am but a wee one!), i taught some friends of mine one of my favorites and we snag it and did the hand motions all day. I also heard some of my other friend's camp cheers and songs. and at that moment, with the wind on my face and me laughing my butt off, I missed camp more then ever.

Pranks

        Unfortunately, pranks are not a tradition that is smiled upon at my camp. So, I have to get them secondhand. i.e., from you guys. I need your stories to live!

the first day...

                 The first day of camp. MMMM. Breath it in, girlie. That scent of pine needles and rain-battered wood will be what you wake up to every morning. The last thing you remember at night. Your memory trigger in the next year and the years to come. You might be tempted to wrap your arms around a tree and smell it and say "Hello, tree,we're going to be great friends." Go ahead. We know how you feel.
               Your cabin assignment. The epic one word fate confirming rule. You might run inside, and find your bed next to the door. Maybe you wanted a top bunk, but on the plus side, you get a whole window all to yourself. You set up your bed, admonishing yourself for not packing more decorations, until your cabin mates say it "looks really really comfy, homey, you know."
               This all happened to me last year, my first year at camp. Yes, it's true, I've only been to camp for one year. But from day one, nay, a year before! I had been addicted. I hoarded books about camp,  looked online for people's experiences (being unable to find comprehensive ones, i created my own. Ta-Da!) and drew picture after picture after picture.
             The first day, I was so excited I could barely talk. After signing up but declining the free cookies (i was too squeamish), i started walking towards my cabin, Hernandos. Halfway there I passed 2 girls talking. They stopped when they saw me.
 "Hey, are you Jojo?"
"Yep"
she smiled. "You're in the bunk under me! I'm Julia, but you can call me Boo, this is Alison."
"Hi!"she smiled(always so nice, both of them"
          At that moment, my entire heart lit up. I was home.

Dinosaur Girl

                   During summer 2010, i asked to be sent costumes from home. several days later, the package came. Inside my sleeping bag was a wig and IT. IT refers to the mask. It was a scary, yet cheesy dinosaur mask. I wore it to the basketball day that evening. That was when people began to call me "dinosaur girl."
                The mask became revolutionary. It became my team's mascot, scroogey, because our team was called Dickens. in retrospect, it doesn't make much sense. And when we had a "character from toy story" costume contest, it was destiny that my cabin got Rex.
                Jaden, the camp drama instructor, was fascinated by it. On the last day of camp, I planned to give it to him. But he left too early. I still plan to. but maybe a different one.

      On an unrelated topic, POST YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES OF FUN TIMES OR PRANKS AS COMMENTS.

I live it every day,
I love camp.