Camp Communication: Day 5- Good Night's Rest, Morning Ache.

7:38 am 8/5/10
Last night before lights out we went out to the point to look at the stars. There were a couple of people that stayed back and went to sleep, so it was dark in the cabin when we got back around midnight. I slept really well, but when I got up this morning I had a pain in my neck- literally- I think I just slept on it wrong but I'm really sore. I hope I don't need to use it much for the land Olympics today. I'm off to taize now with Angela again.
9:38 am
For breakfast we had Ham, egg and cheese Mc Muffin knock-off things, orange juice, and these super cute and REALLY good miniature grapes. It's cabin time right now and the counselors are having a meeting, so most kids aren't in their cabins. It's the last full day at camp and I'm feeling a little sad about leaving, but I'm excited to be going home. Back to technology... and reality. It's freezing this morning! I was only wearing a tank top at taize -along with yoga pants and flip flops- and I practically ran back to our cabins after breakfast to put on my purple t-shirt and hoodie. At 10:30 I've got morning programming, but I'm actually excited for vespers tonight. It's when all of the seniors say goodbye since we won't have vespers tomorrow. I just can't believe we're almost to the end of the week already- almost to the end of summer already. Where does the time go? Before I know it the school year will be over and I will graduate (Ain't that the truth, right now as I'm typing this I'm already done with all of my work for the first semester of senior year!) Eeek! Just thinking about it makes me miss my elementary school days hanging in SACC with BB and Ash. (It still makes my stomach turn thinking about it.) I really miss Ash sometimes. We were BFF's and when she moved to Byron she just lost touch with BB and I, it's not like we didn't try to call her, we just had a hard time getting a hold of her. We're all so busy nowadays. (She actually has a Facebook now, so we've been talking a little more recently but we're not nearly as close as we used to be) BB moved away the year after Ash, but she only moved to the other side of town and we're still close. She and i still talk about Ash sometimes, though. I've got to get going to morning programming soon, but I'm just waiting to get home more than anything. The girls next door in South Annex are talking about A Very Potter Musical and Harry Potter. They might be girly-girls, but I'm able to find some things in common with them I guess. Weird place to find it, though.
1:13 pm
Field Olympics are after cabin time. We just got another year's worth of cabin pictures finished. (At least we didn't break any tables standing on them like last year) The Olympics start at 2:30 so we've got like an hour and 15 minutes to sleep or write or whatever. Lunch was hamburgers, but I didn't eat one. Instead I had a salad as well as the snicker/apple stuff, tatter tots with ketchup, and an apple. For desert they had leftover punch cake from the other day. The morning activity movie was extremely terrible. Bad acting, bad filming, just a horrible movie, but I guess the questions it raised were pretty interesting. Our family group is great. I feel like we're just so close to each other now. My cabin had to set tables or I would have written during the 15 minutes before lunch and after talking with Pam's family group. We also played Frogger during our family group time and afterwards Eric had to leave for some cross country thing or whatever. Wade has gone, too, because he needed to go to a funeral in Missouri on Saturday. I take it he is driving there. I was assigned a table at lunch today and ended up sitting with a bunch of seniors who have graduated and this is their last year here. It's hard to think that I will be one of them next year. (Maybe, church is having issues right now so... I may not even be able to go this year...) Well, if camp is still running anyway. (Which it is, they're getting volunteer groups to clean it up because they got funding to keep it running) From what it sounds like they aren't really sure what is going to happen in the future for Pilgrim Point Camp, but I know I'm going to miss is all the same. Last year I didn't make a lot of close friends and sorta felt like an outcast, although weather-wise it was nicer. I just hung out with everyone rather than making good friendships. This year I made some really great friends and I know that going home is going to be harder than I ever thought possible going into camp this year. I can't start thinking like I'm going away forever, though. We've still got the rest of today and part of tomorrow ...and hopefully next year, too. Life has it's twists and turns, but I've just got to stay positive through it all. I may be a serious person sometimes, but that doesn't mean I have to be pessimistic. Now that all of that is said and done, I still can't wait to be back to typing on my laptop in my own bed rather than sitting here in this uncomfortable one at camp. (Right now I wish I was at summer camp... it's too cold here! It was negative 40 wind chill last night and this morning it was only negative 16 degrees out!) I miss my parents and my pets, even though this experience has been great for me and I will miss the good times.
3:57 pm
It's beach and recreation time now after the Olympics. Eric and Sam's 'wedding' is today after Abby is done planning senior stuff and Eric gets back from kayaking. The water from the beach is pretty cold where I'm sitting right now. The field Olympics were okay. I think our team was good about cheering each other on and other teams, too. I had fun at least. I assume that the winners will be announced at dinner at 6. Vespers tonight is going to be so sad since the graduated seniors will all be saying goodbye to everyone. I'll miss Abby, she and I were closer than Sam and I. In the end we all need to move on from our high school days, though. It's already 4pm. Tomorrow I'll already be leaving and heading home at this time. It went too fast.
7:00 pm
This is the only free time before evening programming, the talent/ no talent show, vespers, and the bonfire (which I might skip to go to sleep or look at the stars) Dinner was the usual spaghetti. (The annual goodbye dinner from the staff). I got sunburned a bit today so I know Mom is going to be disappointed that I didn't wear sunscreen at all this week when I see her tomorrow. (I almost made it the whole week without it, that's how strange the weather was.) Tomorrow for breakfast I'm sure we're having cinnamon rolls as another annual thing. I'm tired and I just love how beautifully peaceful it is here. I could fall asleep anywhere, I swear. Taize again tomorrow, I'm sure, in case I can't write until after then. Sam had her wedding earlier and it was amazing. I think North Shore cabin is having a stealing problem with Jessi again. I'm glad that I'm not in their cabin- I'm also glad that I don't need to resort to that. I'm going to make some more duct tape bracelets, so I'll write when I can.

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