Starting Friday at 7pm I was away, far far away with my youth group...well not quite my youth group, just like 9 other kids in it and some advisers. It was me, Ilia(I hope that's spelled correct), Arjun, Alex, Brandon, Erik, Andrew, Zoey, Molly, and Zac for kids; Sarah-Jane, Matt, Karin, and David for adults.
Now this was for a retreat in Pennsylvania, but I want to give some background as to why I was excited. In Sixth Grade there was a trip for my grade called the Tree Trip to the same camp. I was all happy and ready to go when...I ended up in the emergency room two days before because they thought I had appendicitis. Thankfully it wasn't that, it was just a stomach virus. I was still allowed on the trip, but my mom had to come and I had to sleep at home(like an hour's drive). Well that didn't go so well. I still had the virus and I slept through most of it in the cabin and made it through two events... So this was my makeup trip.
When we left I was in a car with Brandon, Zac, and David. It was mainly quiet. Then I got to go to the girls cabin, where each of us got a bunk(full thing) to ourselves. After five minutes of unpacking we went to the closed dinning hall. I'm not sure if we were allowed to be there or not, but we went and had a circle service from 9-11:30. Curfew was at eleven, so we kinda rushed to get ready. My cabin complained about one of our neighboring cabin's singing at one in the morning, involving alcohol(which isn't allowed, duh.)
The next morning was pretty fun, except for some of the boys who kept talking about O.W.L.(not Ordinary Wizarding Level stuff!) topics. I can't stand most of the girls in my group( most of them are lip gloss zombies, I once watched and all of them acted exactly the same *shudders*), anyway that meant I tried hanging with Alex and Arjun. Alex kinda moved around in the group, so mainly I talked with Arjun.(We have another friend in our group, but he didn't go on the retreat) During the low roped course we talked about Yu-Gi-Oh. Apparently during Pegasus's and Yugi's video duel, Pegasus promised Yugi I2(Industrial Illusions) if he won, which he does eventually, so if you know if this is true or not please tell me cause that would be very interesting. Anyway on the high roped course Arjun was amazing and fearless at it, but me and Alex chickened out. Boo mental blocks! After dinner I played Yu-Gi-Oh with Arjun. I got to use his deck and he used some extra cards he brought. His deck rocks! I beat him three times with it, truly that deck is amazing. Then we(me, Arjun, Ilia, and Alex) made a fire that everyone kinda took credit for, but was AMAZING! It had little flecks of blue. Alex and Ilia made a rock sofa, which was pretty good!
The next morning our fire had gone down a lot, but wasn't dead yet, so we worked it up some more. After breakfast we went for archery and riflery, but everyone else decided we should make candles instead. Candles will not protect us against the zombie ants! After that we went back to the fire, which again was dying, but we were determined to save. Did you know axe(the spray stuff) is flammable? I didn't, but we put a little on the fire to help it before Matt stopped Zoey. Then we packed up and left. On the way home I was with Brandon(again*rolls eyes* he was one that was bothering me with how he talked), Sarah-Jane, and Arjun. Arjun let me try his dueling game for the DS, I have decided they're addicting. And now I'm home again, YAY!