I have to be honest. I wasn't expecting this year's band camp to be as good as last year, simply because of the lack of my friends going. Tamara, Cailey, Leslie, Jocelyne .. almost everyone but Mikki from our cabin last year dropped out of band. Mikki and I were going to room with Natalie, Amanda, Bronwyn, and Sheila, which was going to be great, but we also had to room with Haley, Chelsea, and Rebecca, who I am not quite as fond of. There were way too many grade tens going, too.
Band camp was so awesome, though. I'm really glad that my last year of it was this good. The bus ride to the camp was the beginning of our ridiculous antics, when we were on the dirt road and all of the dust came into the bus and into our faces. From there, we found out that our cabin was divided, so us six didn't have to really be in the same room as the other girls. The scenery at the camp was absolutely breathtaking. You could see the mountains and acres of fields and trees. They had a wooden playground that Amanda wouldn't call a playground, with the sketchiest tunnel that nobody could go through comfortably and creaky planks that seriously sounded like they were going to crack. We played a game with the majority of the grade twelves and a couple a grade elevens that required everyone to do some ridiculous dance moves, and it was a pretty bonding experience. After dinner there was a dance party. The gym was way too hot, but it was pretty fun to dance around with everyone. Especially when you don't really know how to dance. The sky out there was so clean of pollution that when you looked up, you could just see layers and layers of stars going on forever.
Our cabin after lights were out was ridiculous. It's been a while since I laughed that hard. We talked about people and about random things, until Natalie got too tired and couldn't put words together anymore. We laughed so hard, and there were so many injuries from the beds, and a lot of moth and spider killing. Someone was always threatening to kill someone else.
In the morning, the showers were pretty brutal, and then we had to endure a rehearsal that felt like forever because I barely got to play. We had a pretty awesome clinic though, I really liked our clinician because he was helpful and funny all the time. At lunch there was the most disgusting apple juice that was super watered down and terrible to drink. After another rehearsal, we played volleyball, and people kept joining in and it was really fun playing with everyone and cheering everybody else on. After we got tired of playing volleyball, Bronwyn, Natalie, Ramon and I went down the hill to just chill out and talk, and there was a "couple" at the bottom of it cuddling. Except we think that they were two girls, and we have no idea who they were. We headed back up the hill, and I hung out with Andrea while we watched everyone continue to play volleyball.
After dinner we had the scavenger hunt, and so Ramon and I got to experience all of the groups try to do one-liner improv acting. Some groups were so brutal. One girl was so awkward that the entire time I just wanted to kick them out. Mikki's group won, which I was glad for and they got the most points at our station. When we got back, we found out that Nick, Keith, and four other girls got sent home for smoking and doing drugs during activity time, and got suspended at school. Which really sucks, because it means that they're probably not going to be able to go on the band trip. They're pretty stupid for doing that though, so I guess they deserve it, but I really wish they hadn't.
It turned out that a guy smashed the light bulb in our cabin while at Natalie and Amanda's station, because Amanda told them that if they killed the moth they would get bonus points. The chaperones had to sweep up our cabin and go through our stuff, so for a little while our cabin didn't smell like stinky feet. During the night, Amanda and Bronwyn kept threatening each other and it actually hurt to breathe, that's how much I was laughing. In the morning, we had one more rehearsal, and then we took a whole bunch of awesome jumping pictures that turned out really well. We played on the playground one last time, and then it rained really hard. Since all of Sam's friends got sent home, he hung out with us. At lunch we had tacos and he just shoveled it all into his mouth with his hands. It was pretty disgusting. Especially when the food fell out of his mouth whenever he talked, and he'd just eat it again. The bus ride home felt shorter than the ride going to the camp, and then we were at school.
It was a really memorable camp, and it felt so amazing to bond with my friends like that. Especially looking back from grade ten, when I didn't really hang out with them at all. I can't wait for our band trip, when we get to spend like two weeks together. It's going to be SO AWESOME!
listening to: ultimatum - final fantasy
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