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Tuning in to: Dogs Unleashed - Tokio Hotel

My mum's friend's kids -- Grace [10], Daniel [14], and James [16] (add 1 for their ages by the end of this year) -- came at about 8 PM for a sleepover! :D We went out for dinner yesterday, and not counting that, I'd only seen them once or twice before, and that was 2 years ago.

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We went swimming at night. I don't like swimming that much but it was SO much fun. We have this thing in the pool that used to be like an inflatable boat, but then the bottom came off thanks to the crazy savages I call my brothers, so now it's just like a floating ring. We were just playing with it when it suddenly turned into a game in which everyone (that's 6 people -- me, Grace, Daniel, Jia He, Jia Wei, and Jia Qing) had to try to get James out of the ring. Because he stole it or something.

MARCO POLO! In the baby pool. I got a charley horse (it's a cramp; Google it) while I was in the big pool right before Marco Polo. It hurt a lot. Now I'm scared that I'll get a cramp while I'm in the ocean someday and drown.






Anyway, after swimming, we watched The Simpsons Movie. It was funny. Then we slept in the AV room. Some of us slept on the mattresses we dragged in, and some on the couches.



We went to Times Square's indoor theme park in the afternoon. While my mum and Aunty Grace (Grace, James, and Daniel's aunt) were getting the tickets, everyone decided to gang up on me because they all didn't like Tokio Hotel. They squished me in a corner to try to get me to say I hate Tokio Hotel. When I didn't, they pushed back even more and I was like OMG! But I couldn't push them off because James is almost 17, for goodness' sake.

Also, Grace, Daniel, and James found it hard to remember our names, so they called me Yahoo. YAHOO. Omg! So retarded! Jia He was Hongy.

Anyway, we went on all the rides! Pretty fun. There was this new thing there -- a haunted house. I didn't want to go in, but everyone else did and Grace kept asking me to go, so I did because I didn't want to be left out. At first, I was holding hands with Grace, who screamed a LOT and kept pulling me back, but halfway through I found myself holding hands with Jia He, who was screaming as well.



To be honest, I think the haunted house wouldn't be scary to other people, but I'm just a wuss when it comes to this kind of stuff. The scariest thing was waiting for the ghosts to pop out at you. James said I nearly broke his arm off.

The last two rides we went on were the DNA Mixer and roller coaster. I don't know why, but this time, the DNA Mixer went on for twice or three times as long as usual. It was so painful! You're upside down a lot and when the blood rushes to your head, it really hurts. Pretty inconsiderate of the guy.

We ate dinner at the Overseas Restaurant. James was feeling too unwell from the DNA Mixer to eat much. The boys had been talking about being real men -- "Real men are not hygienic!" etc. -- that day, and they knew that Jia He didn't like sharing drinks with other people because of the saliva, so...


And Daniel actually spat into a spoon and mixed it with a little bit of the soupy dessert. Ew. Jia He spilled it on the table on purpose and was like, "Oh, I can't eat it anymore because I spilled it."

We also came up with this weird concoction with dirty water, bits of tissue, marmite, parsley, some of the dessert, and some other stuff at the restaurant. Daniel and Grace actually took a sip of it. Absolutely disgusting.

Serving One Another Readily

My luggage was pretty big. But that's because I brought my own pillow, blanket, towel, etc. The ride to OUTBAC (the camp) was 1.5 hours long. Sarah, Rachel, Emily, Mary, Michelle, and I were in one tiny dorm -- yes! Sarah and I had “booked” the top bunks in school, but Emily and Rachel were being right idiots and took two of them, and Michelle took the last one. But now I’m kinda glad I had the bottom bunk. The room had air conditioning and lovely, uneven, bumpy flooring.

There were six girls’ rooms, and we all had to share two bathrooms, each with three showers and two toilets. The bathrooms were so gross. No one dared to put anything on the basin because it was so dirty, and we had to shower with our slippers on because the floor was so eww. Oh well.

After we put all our stuff in the dorms, we went to the hall, where there was a briefing. We were separated into six teams – Hardcore, Galore, Eeyore, Explore, Restore, and Roar. Sarah, Rachel, and I were in Hardcore, Emily was in Galore, and Mary was in Restore (Michelle was part of the committee). We made our team banners and cheers. Hardcore's was...

Jaedon: We don't do the clichéd because we're...

Then we had dinner, which was okay except for the fact that the pork had way too much fat.

We had so much fun in the dorm. We were talking and telling secrets and stuff. Everyone else besides me wanted to share ghost stories, but I was really scared, so in the end they didn’t. Michelle slept earlier, so she missed out on a lot. Then Rachel slept.

So Mary, Sarah, Emily, and I started camwhoring. Then Mary went back to bed. We shone the flashlight on the wall, and Sarah and I made hand puppets (dogs) and made the dogs fight and bark and everything. It was so funny! We woke Michelle and Rachel up because we were so noisy, and then there was a knock on the door. It was someone who worked at OUTBAC, and he said, “I'm sorry, but can you guys quiet down a bit? We’re trying to sleep.” Sarah was SO embarrassed lol! Then Sarah and I talked about something that is not suitable enough to post up here. ;D We ended up sleeping at 3 AM.

Woke up at 6:40 AM. Emily had to help me hold my contact lenses and stuff. What a dear. We didn't bother with cleanser or anything. I asked Kayra and Sydney if they could hear animal noises in the night, and they said yes. OMG. Hahaha!

The Milo we had for breakfast was really diluted, so we were all complaining, when we remembered that we could get points off for complaining, so we all started sprouting nonsense like "This is the best Milo ever!", "Best Milo I ever had!", and "I love it so much it's so hard to drink it!"

Before the activities, three men working at OUTBAC led us to do warm-ups to Wondergirls' "Nobody" ("I want nobody, nobody but you"). So funny! It was half-dancing half-warming-up.

The first "challenge" or whatever you call it was the Leap of Faith. It was like this little platform up in a tree. You had to climb up to it, with the harness and all, stand on it, and jump off to try to catch a bar that was in front of you. I expected it to be TERRIFYING, but it wasn't as bad as I expected, but it was still scary haha. But omg, it felt so good to feel my hands close around the bar. Rachel caught it too! :D



After that, we did the Rope Course which was pretty easy. Then it was the 12-foot wall. Sarah, Rachel, Bee Bee, and Jason were at the top to pull people up, and Shaun was at the bottom so people could step on him to climb up. We did so well, in like 5 minutes. Phwoarr! Kayra went up like a fairy, she's so light!


Then we went for the Obstacle Course. At the part where you had to walk on this pretty narrow plank, Jaedon fell off and twisted his arm. Ouch. So scary. It was even scarier walking up there. I was so extremely terrified even though it wasn't that high. Even though most people would say the Leap of Faith was the scariest, that plank one was way scarier, in my opinion.

Then there was a Spider Web. We took really long for that one. Then we went on the Flying Fox, which was pretty fun but too short. Sarah said the guy there said, when I went down, that he'd never seen anyone go so fast. Lol. But you can't control how fast you're going. We also went for the Whale Watch, where we had to try to stand on both sides of a wide plank to get it to balance (fun!); Crocodile Pit, which had no crocs in it; and Giant Finger, where we had to get a car tire down this high pole, and back up again. We had to stand on each other. So sad for the people I (and some others) had to stand on because our feet were so muddy and wet from the Crocodile Pit.


Shaun: So am I supposed to carry Jiayu?

Sarah and Rachel made such a big deal out of it. We rested for a short while, and then went for the Amazing Race. We didn't get to finish it because the supervisors said it was too hot and people were getting dehydrated. Then we went for Raft Building, which was not really fun because my group's raft wasn't successful and just broke.

Right after that, I rushed for the bathrooms so I got to shower, YESSS! It was lucky, because Rachel went after me and she said the water went off like 10 seconds after she turned it on.

We had worship and a sermon from Pastor Gurmit, then a barbeque dinner. Then we sang "Happy Birthday" to Mr. Kevin, who was sick, so we had to stand outside his room. The cake was so delicious omg. Then we had a big campfire ("C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G SONG!")! It was so beautiful, but very, very hot.


We then had a game where they paired us up and they (the people working there) said we were going to do a Latin dance. My partner was actually Joshua and Mary's was Philip, so we switched, and I was with Mary and Joshua was with Philip. Gay couple. :) But the dance turned out to be NOT a Latin dance, and it was really lame.

Emily and Sarah slept talk that night.
Emily: ... Oh. *goes back to sleep*

HAHA. Rachel bores her!

Isaak said his mum was German-American, so I got pretty excited because Tokio Hotel is German. I told my friends I, for some odd reason, kept thinking he was part-Hebrew, and everyone was like, "What?" Mary was so weird.

Sarah: Lots of people have curly hair.
Me: ... You say the weirdest things.

I slept while Uncle Phillip shared. Omg! I felt pretty bad but I was so super sleepy. I tried to keep myself awake, but then I saw Tetsuo sleeping with his head toward the ceiling and his mouth open, so I thought, Okay, I guess I can sleep too.

Prize-giving time! Our dorm won for Neatest Girls' Dorm, and Hardcore won for Best Cheer! And guess who won 1st place for the overall one?
HARDCORE! OMG. We were so shocked because honestly, I expected to be in like 5th place (out of 6). Yay! We were supposed to watch a movie but there was no time and we had to leave.

Anyway, the camp was pretty fun!

OMG it was so funny! And Pinky asked me to put some songs into his pendrive because he only had *drumroll* 13 songs! How lame is that? So I sent him 300+ songs, and he thanked me by deleting all the Tokio Hotel ones. Oh wait, he just told me he didn't delete them yet. He wants to listen to them first. Oh well. 

CAMP is tomorrow, so I'll only be back on Sunday! I'm kinda anxious because there's no hot water and there are cockroaches and leeches and stuff. But oh well.

This video is so funny! It's a Swine Flu Song (Wondergirls Parody).

 

It was only on Monday evening when I actually started crying because I missed them! Before that I was just so happy about everything. And you know that empty feeling that you get sometimes after a really happy time? That lasted a few days. It was horrible. But now it's gone, thank God.

Anyway, I'm just going to share some random pictures that I like.