Ok, so i just got home from a two day overnight leadership camp that our school made us go on. I have the meanest headache and I think its partly because I didnt go 2 bed till around 3 and had to get up at 5.30am. It was fun and they made us do really gross stuff. So I won't say anything about yesterday at camp because that was kinda boring the really interesting stuff happened this morning. We all got woken up at 5.30 am by the camp leaders kicking our doors in and blowing whistles, telling us to go and line up outside, remember we are all 17 year olds so mornings are not really our thing. So we're all standing shivering outside in our pajamas (only a couple of people were smart enough to grab a sweatshirt as you the hole still asleep thing) and we were made to line up in order of our birthdays and then put into 3 groups. From thoses 3 groups two people (a girl and a guy) from each group were asked to volunteer and stand up the front of there group. So 2 people did, the girls that volunteered got blindfolded (googles that were blacked out as well as a cloth) and the guys that volunteered got earplugs given to them and earmuffs. We were all still standing outside in the cold in our pjs and to make things worse it started to rain lighly but that didn't last very long. So after several minutes of us standing shivering in hardly any clothes, each group was given a set of instructions and informed that we had 2 and a half hours to complete the challenges. So immediatly everyone in our group ran inside and got changed (except for Gemma who was blindfolded and couldnt get changed). When we were all back we read out the instructions. Here was the situation, the two blindfolded and earmuffed people were infected with bird flu and we had to complete a series of challenges and work as a team to get to the end and find the antidote, in 2 and a half hours they would die. Now this seems pretty basic but we werent so lucky. The rules were that the two 'patients' were not alowed to touch the ground at any time and at least two people must be touching them at all times, we also had to carry 4 cups of water which were on a tray and 2 people must be touching that at all times (and that was also not alowed to touch the ground). The first challenge we had to do was build a raft to float our 'patients' acorss the lake and onto the jetty, the 'patients' were not alowed to touch the ground or jetty and the raft was not alowed to touch the bank, the 'patients were also not alowed to get wet. We were given some fake money and had to use our maths and bargaining skills to buy our materials to make the raft. So yea my team worked real good together and made a really kool raft. It was the best raft and the only one that stayed together, so we got ahead and the other teams stole our raft and used it to transport there 'patients'. So after doing some other stuff that involved other team members at the lake we had to follow the orange flags around a course. The camps quite big so we couldn't see the course ahead of us and we were coming first so yea but anyway we had to go over fences and stuff, all without our 'patients' touching the ground and believe you me Jesse is not light. SO after going over the fences and through a bit of slippery mud we had to walk through a small stream that was pretty much all cow shit that came t about waist height and the 'patients' were not alowed to touch the mud and we were still holding the water. It was sooooo disgusting and took us about 15 minutes to get through just imagine it wading through waist high stream of sticky thick cow shit carrying 2 people above shit and trying not to get bogged down and stuck and we were not alowed to touch the bank. Im sure all of you can imagine the smell. So yea once we got to the end of the shit stream we had to climg up this really tall bank. It had a rope to pull ouselves up but still the 'patients' were not alowed to touch the ground or the rope. So Brad chucked Jesse on his back and piggy bakced him up! Itb was legendary cos Jesse is heavy, and then he came back down and took Gemma up. But still that was not the end of it by now it was about may 6.30 am and we got to a big tarporlin that was pegged down on the ground. There was a sheet of it on the ground with some netting over the top of it and another sheet of tarp over that. In between that was the mushed up watered down leftovers from last night dinner ewwwww. SO after walking through cowshit we then had to army crawl through this foul smelling stuff that looked like vomit. It smelled so rancid and it was all slimy and stuff. So then we did a couple more not so hard challenges and finished. And yaaaay my team won and we won by like mayb 20 minutes it was awesome. Hehe and the final thing we had to do was go and jump in the lake and try to wash as much of the shit and food off us as possible b4 we had a shower. Luckliy the lake was warm. So yea camp was fun but as a by product of having like 3 hours sleep and then doing lots of physical activities I now hav a blinding headache and can hardly keep my eyes open although its only like 4.20 pm. But camp was awesome and us senior students really got closer as a group and learnt some stuff so yea yay! &nb sp;
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someone had been nice enuf to pick her up off the road and out her on the side of the footpath so I picked her up and took her back inside. It wasnt until my mum called (i txted her and told her) that i started crying, ive had that cat for 14 years so yea. Then my dad got up (he was sleeping cos he had a night shift last night) and hugged me and went and dug a hole for her so yea im sad.