#338; fighting for nothing, crying for nothing
Monday, May 3, 2010
I swear no other CCA will give you the opportunity to do such diverse things from dancing and hopping gayly around a fire to working your butt off trying to lug crazy heavy tent bags around to being all demure and girly and braiding hair to smelling like some smoker after firelighting and looking weird collecting leaves at the side of the road.
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And I think I should get down to properly posting about April Camp.
I really love April Camp in general and how it feels so we-are-guides and like we're revisiting our roots and really getting down to what makes us, well us. And without forgetting all the little things that makes camp, and guides amazingly home-y like meal rings and fall in and colours and insect-tolerating and minute leg-get-the-hell-off-me-you-stupid-fly-shaking and song singing and campfires and getting high and food finishing and toilet cleaning and well, getting scolded, and station games and running around and helping others and singing grace and loving sleep and morning exercise and lovely showers and holding doors and talking across stalls and guides own and blowing fires feeling like dragons and feeding the cookers and eating up all the stray bits of food and camwhoring and milo in the morning and general enthu-ness.
Yet it had all that bits more like real, good outdoor cooking and the pretty tent house (one day if I become old and broke and poor I will buy gadget poles and twine and ditch Ikea) and Wide Game and tent pitching with crazy heavy tents and very fun cart pushing and a proper campfire pit (even though there wasn't a fire!) and insects and bathing with the bees (this sounds like dancing with the stars) and sleeping in cockroach tents and picnic breakfasts and all that (L).
But, everyone's saying stuff about how this is a training camp and how we're supposed to learn stuff from it and how they DID learn stuff from it and I'm still trapped in my little blur bubble and thinking.. what did we learn? If it's about sense of urgency and all that, haven't we already learnt all that from the standard guides sessions? Taking initiative to help others, well that's.. I guess that's a lesson I never got to experience because well they helped us, and maybe I'm taking things too literally and not seeing what things mean but I really can't figure out what I really learnt from this camp ): what NEW thing I really learnt. Or maybe usual sessions are already so effective HAHA (:
Well. I think April Camp was, a really.. interesting experience. Patrol mates I don't talk
that much to, and the allocations really did provide more opportunity for all that, and the opportunities given to us during this camp was amazing, it's stuff we'd never get to do in school, which the YAs have noted and realised and wrapped it up into this perfect bundle called April Camp ♥
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