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Hey all.
Long post comin your way...
So, for the past week, I was in Camp Michigania. I'm kinda in a time crunch right now, so I'll try to whiz through this as fast as possible.
Saturday- Got in the truck, left. Arrived, unpacked, ate dinner, when to the evening teens program, introduced myself under the alias of "Poptarts" (few learned my actual name) and went to bed to get ready for the first real day of Camp.
Sunday- Ate bacon. Lots of bacon. Proceeded down to boating (which is where I spent the majority of my time) and stayed there all day to get my sailing ratings (Butterfly, Skipper, Admiral, Hobie) as well as kayak a little bit (couldn't bring my canoes up, my aunt who was going to had to stay and look after my grandma who was hospitalized).
Monday- Boating. All day. My cousin finally came up, and suprised me by riding a Whaler out in the lake to me, where I was sailing a Hobie Cat. Winds were super high, I had already capsized once, and we flipped in again right before we were to go in. It took the staffers forever to get it back in (it turtled). The wind blew it a good mile across the lake while we tried to get it upright. I was kinda ashamed of my supposed incompetencey at sailing, and once I saw that they got the boat upright, wished that they would capsize trying to get it back to shore. They did, so I fealt bad, but satisfied. By this time, I was flying the Dai Gurren Brigade flag, and let me tell you, that thing was the worst luck in the world. If I didn't capsize (only 3 times) the wind would be moody or just sucky. It would look like I would win a regatta, then the wind would shift and I'd come in third. The. Worst. Luck. Ever. But it was worth it, all the way. Only one person came up to me, asking if I was the one with the Gurren Lagann flag. Nobody else got it, so I just introduced it as a pirate flag.
Tuesday- More boating again. I went to Ceramaics and started making my vase, which turned out really pretty. Amy, one of the staffers, helped me a lot with it, and was really excited for it. One of the days I walked into Ceramics I was wearing my "Licensed Chocobo Inbreeder" shirt, and she recognized the Final Fantasy reference, although not the VGcats. Apparently, she loves Final Fantasy, so I showed her my bracelet, which had a Cloudy Wolf on it, and she went fangirl all over it. I told her that since I usually get a rope bracelet from Boating on Friday, she can have it. She was elated.
I also went to Rock Polishing, which may sound lame, but is actually kinda cool if you get good at it. I polished some good rocks in previous years, but this one sucked. So I left.
Wednesday- Teen Regatta at boating. The staff were very ambigous with the course, and three of the boats, myself included, were all calling to each other on the water, trying to figure out where to go. I would have won if it wasn't for the unclear course, as well as a very unfortunate and sudden wind shift. Some of the other boats agreed that I should have won, because I had a better line set up before the wind shift. To prove it, we had an unsanctioned do-over, and I won. Still got third in the actual regatta, but whatever.
Played Karaoke Dodgeball at Teens. Ended up singing "Not that Innocent" By Britney Spears, as well as a little bit of Dancing Queen and Summer Lovin'.
Thursday- Classic Regatta. This is the race with the most boat turnup, and had two heat, so that people can do different boats. First heat, two cousins and I sailed a Hobie Cat, third boat in, eigth overall due to handicap. 2nd heat, one cousin and I, in a dinghy, came in eight overall again due to handicap (don't remember the actual place. It wasn't good.) Still fun.
Took beautiful vase out of the kiln. Amy was extremely excited to show it to me after it was ready, and even had it on a seperate table where she was looking at it while helping other campers.
At Teens, we executed my canoe race idea. Most of the teens did it, and they all did three to a canoe. I decided to choose some tiny 11 year old boy as my only partner, and we won. :D The course was rather interesting: we were to do a three legged race from the long barn to the Boating area (I just picked up the kid and ran) get in the canoes, paddle down to north beach (about a fifth of a mile) get out, do the Macarena, get back in, paddle back to Boating, get out, run up a hill and touch a flagpole and then pencilroll back down said hill (some idiot left his sail out to dry, so I steamrolled it) get back in the boat, paddle over to the swimming area (another fifth of a mile) sing three nursery songs, paddle back, and finish. Little dude in front didn't really paddle or anything, he was just weight in front, while I paddled like a madman in back. So it's all good.
Friday- Last day. I went to riflery range and shot two rounds, getting First Class (score 66 or better) on both. Pretty good, since I haven't shot a gun in two years. Ate lunch, went to boating, did Fun Regatta (kinda like the canoe race, whoever thought it up was on weed.) We start at boating, run to the Dining Hall in a zigzag line while wearing our lifejackets as diapers, get a glass of water, run down to boating, splash water into a staffers face, get in boat, and do the course. Everynow and then, they'll yell 360! to make it interesting. Also, just about everybody but me had fruit and water balloons to throw at people, so that was...exciting. Came in third again, no real excuse, just had a slightly worse line than other boats.
Kinda bided my time going to different areas of the camp, lolligagging around, more or less just waiting for the day to end. I went to both Last Chance Teen Dance (totallly not my thing) for teens, as well as the Keg n' Coke, which is where the adults get drunk and do skits. A few were funny, not many though. Remember, they're overeducated pansies drinking alcohol. It's not gonna be that great.
Saturday- Went home, bought registration for Youmacon, bought Unreal Tournament 3, and suffered a severe headache.
Sunday- Went to a new race early in the morning. 10 miles, came in first, went home. Made crappy movie, and adjusted myself to normality.
Today- (Monday got SKIP'D!) Packed a bunch of clothes again. I'm going to Arkansas today, for about six days. The venture scout race on the White River is this week, so I'm off to win a 120 mile relay race. It won't be an easy victory, but we have, like, a 5 win streak or something. And last year we set a new record. So there's no way we'd allow ourselves to lose.
Started experimenting with various programs to make AMVs. Could be fun.
This is my inspiration to start making AMVs.
Really want to watch Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but want to finish D. Gray Man first.
Be back in a few days,
-Ryu
