About 2 weeks ago, all the 6th graders in our school went to Outdoor School. Our class went to the Sandy River site, Camp Angelos. We left Sunday, June 5th and came back Friday, June 10th.
We were there for about five days. It was okay, but the days were long and boring. We spent about 4 hours a day doing field study, where we learned about Water, Animals, Soil, or Plants (we switched every day). We also had time with our class and recreation time, where we did stuff like go on hikes, play field games, and do other stuff like that. We spent an hour and a half every day with our cabins, where we had a fort building contest and played field games.
We were up for 14-16 hours a day, depending on how long it took you to go to sleep. We got up at 7 o'clock every morning, unless you had to take a shower, and went to bed at 9 o'clock, although I stayed up to 11 every night because 9 is way too early to go to sleep. I was on the bottom bunk, and the person on the top snored and rolled around, shaking the bunk. Someone in our cabin described him as a young Tony Soprano, because he was kinda big and looked like an Italian.
Overall it was okay, and it was a lot better than going to school. And here are the names of some of the counselors...
Splinter-my cabin leader
Cambria
Banana Slug
Bullfrog-Water field instructor, worked at an after school program I went to
Kumo- Producer for the TV show, The Real World, my friend convinced him to consider a kids Real World
Kintla
Blaze- the best counselor there, everyone in his cabin was a "Blaze Boy", and got t-shirts with that on the front and a jersey number on the back
Vega-Soil field instructor
Grizzly-Plants field instructor, great Napolean Dynamite and Shrek impersonations
Stretch-Animals field instructor, tall
Snake-Camp Leader
Trapper John
Squeeker
Wild
Ladybug- Nurse, helped when I lost one of the lenses on my glasses
Eagle- our teacher
Sunshine- a teacher from another school, found my lense
WARNING! THIS POST CAN BE VERY OFFENSIVE, SO DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY RACIAL STEREOTYPES CREATED BY A BUNCH OF SIXTH-GRADERS. This is a post about the newly-created "Jew Crew"...and since I'm Jewish, it only makes sense that I'm the leader...
The Jew Crew is the group made by me and my 2 friends. It was originally an idea for a comic book, but we have started referring to each other by Jew Crew names. For example, I'm Shlomo and my friend is Yarmulkeman (yes, I know we jews can't spell) or Jew Crew #2. We have also expanded, with my friend who's catholic as "Captain Catholicism" with his sidekick "Christian the Kid". When we were going into details, we came up with rapidly growing sideburns and shirts that say "100% Kosher". I feature a menorah-shaped jetpack and the catch-phrase "Anybody wanna play dreidle?" as well as the motto "We invented the ghetto"(according to Captain Catholicisim's brother, the Jews were the creators of the ghetto, a fact still undergoing study). We were so deep into it we even had car names like "The Popemobile" and "The Turbo Torah Tobaggan".
I can tell you, we pulled out every stereotype in the book, and since we were the stereotyped, we didn't think about it too much.