So I'm finally back (again) and I am posting. However, there is going to be a luau for the high schoolers tonight so I will probably add on to this post tomorrow. So...what has happened since my last post...oh yes! Camp! Last Saturday I went to church camp! It was SO fun! I had the best time I've ever had at a camp.
Since I am now considered a freshman (yes! I'm finally in high school!)I got to go on the "float trip" at camp. Monday all the freshman went down to a river and we got rafts (big enough for 6 people) and we "floated" down the river for about an hour. It was fun except it was really short and some crazy boys kept trying to flip our raft and they made me really mad.
At the camp there was a ropes course and each day we did an "element" every day (an element is one part of the course). I think our small group got the hardest elements. We had to climb the "Jacobs Ladder" and it was really hard. If you were standing on a wrung, the next one was at eye level and the ladder was only attached at the top so it was swinging the whole time. Not a good combination for me. To say it nicely, I am not very athletic and I only made it up to the second wrung.
Our other high ropes element (there was also a little ropes course that was much easier) was the rock climbing. It wasn't real rocks, just a really tall wooden platform (just a little shorter then a two story house) attached to a really tall tree with blocks of wood and plastic handhold thingys. Well, since I didn't compleat the Jacobs Ladder I was determined to climb all the way up the "rocks". So the first time I tried I made it halfway up. I couldn't get a hand hold though so I came down. Then, after everyone else had gone I went again and got about 2/3 of the way up and again, I couldn't get a handhold. I was stuck for probably 5 or 6 min. trying to get up. I kept slipping and falling off (I was attached to a rope, don't worry) and finally I just had to come down.
Unfortunately While trying to climb up I pulled the skin off my left hand and boy it hurt! It still hasn't healed. I also got really soar because the camp had so many huge steep hills that I had to climb up and down all day long. Well, I need to get off so I'll end this post.
-ellentia
2 comments:
Camp! Yeah, well I've been doing that for the past week too, only mine was Boy Scout Summer Camp near Bastrop. Really hot and humid.
Anyway, yes I've seen the Jacob's Ladder before. And yes, it may be hard, but isn't that what the second person is for? Oh well. I guess I can't say I had the same experience. Sorry :(
Well hope you get enough rest. I surely must after every "vacation" I go to.
Yes, the second person is supposed to help but, like me, my first and second parters (my first partner decided to come down so I got a different one) had no idea how to get up :|
Hope you had fun at camp!
And to reply to your last statement, it's church camp! No one could possibly get enough sleep when they don't let you go to your cabins till 10:45! Especially when you also have to be at breakfast by 7:45!
-ellentia
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