Hi I’m George. Welcome to my jungle. *Points to Collaroy Centre*

Hahhahaha I’m so lame.. “ I don’t laugh at lame jokes. They’re lame.” Sorry Jerry. xD

So today marks the official ending of year 8 camp at Collaroy, aimed to build self esteem, character and teamworking skills. Yeah yeah, it’s one of those camps where they try to get you to make more friends but you just turn out to hang with the same people again. You know, that’s what I used to think, until now..

Lemme tell you how three days went so quickly ..

DAY 1

OHH OHH WHAT TIME IS IT?!?! *glances at clock and relived that it’s still 7:30am* thankgod that I haven’t slept in and don’t have to run alongside the bus all the way to Collaroy.. Or else I will end up with massive guns that will rip my shirt at the slightest movement of my biceps, or triceps? Haha I dunno which is which .. kinda explains why I’m here and not on “ It’s Academic” like Jonorffen. xDD But MOVING ON ..

So then I sprinted frantically to school, half dragging my three huge bags and half trying to clip back my fringe. Then, GUESS WHO COMES TO MY RESCUE?! It’s Jerry with her HAT! =DDDDD Then the teachers gave us the whole “ muck around and we’ll phone your parents” lecture and then off we go, the wheels of a bus go round and round ..

We arrived at Collaroy and discovered that .. YES, we’re going to the beach, but NO, we’re not swimming.

EHHHH .. dot dot dot..

In the arvo we did abseiling and high ropes, which was pretty fun in my opinion =) What’s long and black and red? The ropes of a harness! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ? xDD

We then moved into our cabins.. they were pretty roomy, except REALLY STUFFY. I mean, the window is wide open yet still the air inside is all hot and humid. WDF where is the science in that? Look at it logically according to the law of heat transfer, warm air suppose to escape to the outside where the cool air is due to convection!

=____= I always knew Science Focus and Tracks were rigged.

So instead of sleeping on the bunk beds like normal people, Trang, Lucy, Florence and I decided to sleep on the ground and dragged four mattresses onto the ground. And our shower had a chair in it? oO”

After dinner was night activities, and thankgod it wasn’t another lame PG rated horse movie for 6 year olds like in year 7 camp. We just got in a circle and played couple of games, with Jason, Vinni, Vru and me onto the whole “ 32.5 degree gangster hats” xD Eh yes, I’m going through a “gangster phase” ..

But obviously as we came to find out, we weren’t the only one in toesocks *looks at Conneckshun with his lazer eyes*I mean, how would you like it if you were walking PEACEFULLY with your friend, then suddenly LAZER EYES come x-raying you from head to toe like some dude from Matrix =\

We returned to cabins after the games, and got stuffed on chocolates courtesy of Florence. And all the insects seems to be attracted to Anna ..

Fred: OMG THERE’S THAT BEETLE AGAIN EWWW ..
Everyone else: Eurghh

- Fred grabs her plastic bags and catches the beetle, and goes outside to throw it away, only to come face to face to Mr Nesbit –

Mr N: Anna what are you doing?
Fred: there’s a beetle ..
Mr N: Okay now go inside, I need my beauty sleep.
- Anna comes back in and announces –

Fred: Mr Nesbit says he needs his beauty sleeeep!!

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Fred: OHH THERES ANOTHER MOTH !!
Me and Jerry: WHERE WHERE WHERE? *shines our super-energy-saving torches in order to TRACK MOTHS*

- Silence .. –

Fred: EWWWW THIS BEETLE HAS WHITE STUFF POKING OUT OF ITS ANUS !!!!!

ARHAHAH ROFL xDDD

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Florence and I ended up staying until 1am. We normally talk a lot so we didn’t realise that WE WERE THE ONLY ONES AWAKE and the only reason other people weren’t saying anything is cos THEY ARE ASLEEP. = And it’s so weird that guys sleep so early .. who sleeps at 11pm at camp ? oO”

DAY 2

Surfing and body boarding in sub-zero temperature.. surfing just involved paddling out, or in Fred’s case, getting whammed FOUR TIMES IN A QUICK SUCCESSION by 70.5 cm waves, and then clinging onto your board for dear life while your instructor place you in just the right position. The waves come crashing along and OFF YOU GO, zooming towards land with this distant sound of your instructor shouting “ STAND UP, STAND UP!”

Slowly I placed my knees on my surfboard, and realised that WOW I’M ACTUALLY BALANCING! =D But then .. as I tried to stand up .. I plunged into the cool water and watch this cloud of sand forming a avalanche in front of my very own eyes while the salt water find it’s way through my nasal cavity. BEE TEE ALERT! Just like the Chinese meaning of my name eh?

The “hike” took place after dinner, which I THOUGHT consisted of climbing rocks and high mountains, crossing rapid-flowing rivers, going through thick bushlands with mosquitoes attacking you every two seconds. BUT it turned out to be a walk along the beach and then up the hill.. which is actually pretty okay since it was kinda cool and the scenery up the top of the headland is quite pretty and peaceful .. in my opinion anyway. the top and Vru took a picture of us all sitting on the rock while Eric shone the torch light from below his face telling AHEM horror stories LOL ..

Jerry and I brought along our multifunctional kinetic-energy-into-light/heat-energy torches! I walked with some of the guys while Jerry and Fred walked together.. AHEM FULLY MUSCULAR SHOULDER STRENGTH AY JERRY >__>
LOL xD It was kinda weird since people were saying “ omgsh everyone’s coupling up!” Even Ms M and Mr N .. >__>

So after around 2 hours, we arrived back at campsite with nothing to do. Me and Flo then walked around in order to find my torch which SOMEONE took and then found out there was a SUPERBAD MOVIE PREMIERE SCREENING in Jason’s cabin, thanks to Johnny’s laptop LOL .. so then me and Flo, along with 20 other people, crammed into that small cabin, munching on chips, attempting to watch that movie.. which was kinda sucky since chicks aren’t suppose to be in guys’ cabins, and whenever the door opened me and Flo would jump into one of the cupboards to hide .. AND THE CUPBOARD I SAT IN ALSO WAS WET! STUPID WET PATCH ON MY ARSE =(

We end up ditching the movie since someone came and told us that Mr N was ONLY FOUR DOORS AWAY FROM THAT CABIN. =SSS

DAY 3

Ecochallenge day! We had heaps of freetime in the morning so me and Jerry went and played soccer with Eric, Thomas, Yoosung, Vinni, William and Vru. We then walked back for the ecochallenge in that bright sunny day, a day where seemingly nothing could darken your spirits, when suddenly ..

FROM BEHIND THE BUSH, A LOOMING DARKENED FIGURE EMERGES, CLOTHED IN A BLACK JEDI/KKK-like HOOD WITH DARK BLACK HOLES- wait no, SLITS .. AS EYES (maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline..) WHICH ARE HALF HIDDEN BY FEW STRANDS OF HAIR ..

DUN DUN DUN OH THE HORRORRRR! SCARRED FOR LIFE.

Needless to say, Jerry and I were TRES disgusted, non?

Ecochallenge was just trying to do as many activities to gain points as possible .. we ended up coming third, which is pretty awesome for an all chick, non-tank group.

Bus trip home with Fred = not very appealing LOL. Kiddings ^^

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You know I think camp really brings people closer to others .. it’s made me realise how different people are to what I think they were like before .. I think we truly see another side, perhaps an inner side to many people, and that’s what makes camp so great.

xx.
George.