urban week 3

OH MY GOD.

camp was so. much. fun. SERIOUSLY! IT WAS EVEN WORTH MY 68 MOZZIE BITES :D

okay so we trained to benalla, bussed to yarrawonga and got into our groups. i was in the massive fob group + brooke and julia, and our leaders were neil and tracey :] aand our teacher was ms balston :D once we repacked our packs and all that, we hit the canoes and paddled 7 or 8kms to our first camping spot...took us around 2 and a half hours (we sucked that day haha) and i partnered with erika and irene (cause jae felt sick and swapped partners). we set up camp and had a pretty crap first night, cause we got there a bit late, i had a gigantuan blood nose and my arms were killing and all that. but it was good fun :D

day 2 was our tough day (blood nose again), we decided to paddle the hard yard on day 2 rather than day 4, so it was 25kms that day =___= i partnered with sam, attempted steering and nearly died, so we switched places :] we got to camp a bit earlier than the previous day (we werent cleaning til it was pitch black) and played a bit of footy in the water, and buried erika in the sand :P i was dead by night time, we played some uno and slept :]

DAY 3 WAS THE BEST!!! we decided to get up early and skip breakfast so we could beat the heat, but that plan backfired a bit. we got on the water half an hour later than we wanted (canoed with julia this time), but either way it worked out well. the flies were insane, but we got to camp at lunch time and chilled out for the rest of the day. sam and i had woman issues :P but we uhm, found our way around that (ROFL) and WENT FOR A SWIM :D :D :D we went blobbing in the water (RIML RIML), played more footy and then we had to go onto land and do some group games. one game was to silently and blindly organise the whole group into height order (we did pretty good, except jae was in the short end for some reason), one game called knights, princes and cavaliers (viv and sam won) and the last game where we had to have a skipping rope moving constantly and a person in the rope all the time :] hard to explain, but we had erika/viv (and a bit of leah and me) skipping in the rope all the time, while people ran through. we got there in about 40 minutes HAHA. and we played bang :D finally. haha, and erika won that most of the time :P then at night we did a tribal gathering and got told the story of redbeard and his eyepatch. you're meant to cover your left eye through the story, then at the end, turn into the darkness and switch eye, the switch back...but it didnt work, everything just went blurry for me :P we had 5 minutes silent time staring at the stars (there are so many satellites moving around all the time) and then we decided that it was the perfect night for sleeping out. sam, brooke, leah, erika, juls, amanda and i decided to get out our mats and the tarp and camp out, but sam and brooke moved back into the tent cause of the bugs :P aside from the bugs i slept the best that night, except i woke up in the morning with 40+ mozzie bites, mostly on my ankle =_____= it was actually worth it though :]

day 4 was pretty easy too, i paddled with viv (i thought we teamed pretty good :]) and she makes the boat rock every time she paddles cause shes short. LOL. we got to camp at a decent time AND THIS CAMPSITE HAD A DROP TOILET. so i got to do a shit :] and it was the best drop toilet ever, bugless and smelt like nothing. we played a singing game where we got into 2 teams and got given a word and had to take it in turns to sing a part of a song with that word in it. our team (SKIN PROBLEMS!) lost 5 to 4 (to TEAM SEXY TEAM lmfao) but it was heaps fun anyway :D we played a canoe game...kinda. all we had to do was cram everyone onto 1 canoe (some people didnt join in, so we got like 11 people on) then we flipped it over and tried to jump on top. juls and i (and i think brooke) went under it too, where the air bubble is on top of the water :D that was weird, ahhaa. then sam, erika, juls, brooke and i went blobbing for the final time :[ we seriously could blob to cobram, haha. then at night, we had 30 minute reflection time, where i gathered my mozzie bite count to 68 :] dropped off to sleep for the final time at camp :[

next day we had to clean EVERYTHING and hopefully beat the other groups!!!! (we were in the lead)...but as we were about to hit the water, they rafted by >=[ it was only 2 or 3 kms to go, and erika and lisa stole our canoe, so we took the one next to it, but got kicked out cause it was the teachers canoe =___= so we got kicked allllll the way to the end where all the spikey plants were. so we were pissed. but anyway, we got to cobram in like, less than half an hour, cleaned out the canoes (ROCL ROCL), unloaded the group gear and borrowed gear and ate our final lunch :[ had a group photo, goodbyed and thanked neil and tracey and boarded the 4hr bus trip back home :D which was really sad, but happy at the same time :]

as soon as we arrived, i made mum go to the pharmacy to get cream and dettol for my mozzie bites, which are currently really swollen. i think im allergic =/ my ankles feel bruised, i have like 20 on my left ankle and random rashes from sunscreen or something =___= thats the only thing i can really complain about, but like i said it was really worth it :D i personally feel sorry for min and vic who didnt come, but min obviously doenst give a shit that she missed out on so much (SUCKS TO BE HER...ROFL!!) next week is golf/lawn bowls, community service, LOTE day, arts centre and suburb day i believe :D

then

SYDNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xo