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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!