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On our bus trip to camp Pali, we watched the game plan….
Wow, it (camp) was great! Lots and lots of snow though. It was freezing cold, but it still was great! woooh! Ok, so we had gourmet meals almost. It was great!So, first day (tuesday) we had burgers for lunch..I forget about dinner though. We did a ropes course, but I only got half-way up a tree and that’s about it. There was a lot though. The leap of faith was about 80 ft I guess…you pretty much climbed up a huge tree and jumped off a platform trying to attack a teatherball hanging a bit away from the platform. (In the groups that did this on Tuesday, one person hit it), the other one was the high wire. It was around 80ft too…you climbed up a tree, and walked on a chord, whle holding on to two other chords above you and walking across it. Then, you’d re-walk it and go to the middle, then you’d be lowered down. The first night sleeping wasn’t great. I just couldn’t fall asleep.
Wednsday for breakfast, we had…eggs, tatter tots and bacon(etc). I think we did archery ( I got the best out of my group I think..) and then we did…animal survivor(???). Animal survivor was kind of like those games you’d play in kindergarten with a little red or green hankercheif stuck through your belt loop (taggish sort of game..). Pretty much you were either a carnivore, omnivore or herbivore. You kind of cycled through the whole “balance” thing in the environment with animals and all. (I was an omnivore..) then, you had to see what it would be like with a HUGE bunch of carnivores, a small bunch of herbivores and the same amount of omnivores (4). I just let the carnivorees kill me pretty much =D it was waaay too cold and I was pooped from the previous game of “animal survivor”. Then, for lunch we had a Chinese type lunch, which included orange chicken, noodles (etc) It was pretty good I guess. I think we did an ecology hike on this day. I learned about the “ponderosa” pine cone, the “Jefferson” pine cone and the “Culture” pine (something like that..) it was super interesting!
Then, Thusday… breakfast was fresh pineapple..waffle sticks, eggs, etc. Ok, it was actually SNOWING!!! It was soo neat-o! You might have gathered I’ve never seen it snow..so yeah. It was freezing, but we continued our daily schedule. Mr.Edmunds (the principal of my school) came on Thursday and joined some other group I think. I really don’t remember what we did that day. All I remember is: we did orienteering, which has something to do with a compass and found our way through the woods. It was my favorite!!!!! Then, at night, we disected owl pellets. That was also really really fun!
Then, on Friday (today) we had pancakes, eggs and sausages oh, and potatoes. It was soo good! Then, we did our last activity which was CSI. We learned abvout aliels and DNA…dactyloscopy, and graphology. It was really interesting. Too bad we didn’t get to the actual activity ( CSI:pali) When we went back to the eating place, we played a game for about 10 min. It was where you had to write down the most songs with a certain word in the title or lyrics.Then, we went on the bus after a while. We watched Night at the Museum, then stopped after a bit to eat sandwhiches at a park someplace. Wehn we got back, we finished it and watched about 10 minutes of Hairspray. Then we arrived at school. And then home. Yupps!
