Got back from Outdoor School Counselor training. It was fun. Both Kimiko and I went to the same camp so shyeah.

Well, let's see. On the way there, our bus got lost for 2 hours so it was night time and we're all like shyeah... The bus was pretty loud and shiz.

When we got there, we ate dinner and listened to shiznit. Then we got into groups and talked about being-a-counselor stuff. I met Neo, a counselor dude. I asked if he could dodge bullets, but he couldn't. Too bad. So yeah, we were talking in our groups about what to do if a kid blah blah blah, or blah blah blah. What a good counselor should have, etc.

There I met Joe. Kimiko and I asked him if he likes PS2 or Gamecube better. His answer kinda confused us. He said PS2, but then started rambling about how much Gamecube kicked ass. But he liked old-school consoles like the SNES. Later he said X-box. Then the next day PS2. Meh meh.

Then we went to our cabins. I wasn't with Kimiko, but I knew a Junior who was there. Anyways, the bathrooms we had sucked cuz there was only a wall between the two stalls and the toilet didn't flush all the way. It was kinda amusing. I slept quite well that night though. The air's so fresh. My nose started twitching when I went back home.

Then we woke up, ate breakfast. Listened to more shiznit. I got put in Botany with Kimiko. Whoo~! In Botany we got put into groups. We had to learn about different things and later re-teach it. I learned about Lichen. It's the stuff that grows on trees...but it's not moss. It's a mix between moss and algae. There's a cute little story about it....

Once there lived a guy named Francis Fungus and he was a kick ass cook. He could cook anything. Anyways, there was a chick named Alex (Alexandra) Algae who had a big house. Francis Fungus and Alex Algae got married and had a child named Lichen...cuz they had a Lichen to eachother!. Hahahaha~!

....yeah. Anyways, so I had to teach a small group about different types of Lichen and shiznit. They're not plants cuz they can stop they're fotosynthesis. So you can stick some in a shoebox and put it under your bed for a few years, then take it out and dump some water on it and it'll live. (Me and the counselor are kinda shakey on that...but do try and tell me if it works!) Anyways, it can stop and start it's fotosynthesis and intake of chlorifil (the stuff that makes plants green). When it gets watered, it soaks it up like a sponge. They grow on trees. When I was teaching, I kept on forgetting to ask open-ended questions -_-;; But I was quite satisfied cuz I kept people's attention. Yay for me!

Then we ate lunch. And got back into our field study groups- botany for me. We got seperated into different groups again and had bonding-games...which kinda sucked cuz after we were done we left. Anyways, I met a bunch of peeps. My friends Maggie and Sara were there. Whoo~!

The first thing we did was kinda cool. We went to Pontoof. We were on a path and we put different sticks and leaves down to make obstacles. Then one of us had to close our eyes and go through the obstacles while our teammates told us what to do. It was pretty cool, I was the first one to go and first one to get over. Then a few more people (Omar, Maggie, Sara, Ronald, and Scott) made it over. Omar watches Anime- but he wasn't hardcore. Then we had to be in groups and have only 11 limbs (our legs) touch the ground. There were 12 peeps in our group. We stepped on eachother's feet to hold ourselves up and carried Omar and Tasha up with our arms and hands. Omar and I were discussing Thundercats and he said he liked it. I later gave my site to him.

Then we rotated to Casper and played "Hot Seat." It's when each person sits on a bench (the white bench) for 1 min and 32 seconds and the group gets to throw questions at them. I asked a few people the PS2 vs. Gamecube question and all of them answered PS2. -_-;; bleh. That was really fun. The first question I recieved was "what's you're favorite Anime?" from Omar. Hehe, I said Himiko-den. Then I got favorite video game and I just spit out Soul Calibur II. Hehe, and other shiz. That was spiff

Last of all, we met up with Neo and played Uber-bopper. It's wear you bop people's knees with those floating tubers. Yeah...It was interesting. Then we played graveyard. I was actually doing pretty good. Sara was all talking about someone and how they didn't play video games anymore and trying to make it sound all malicious and stuff. It was funny, so I laughed. Then the second round Omar made me laugh by saying "Thundercats rule! Vampire Hunter D sux...they shouldn't show it anymore. Blah blah blah..." then I grabbed his ankles and he fell and I held onto his legs that were on me and wouldn't let go. He tried to stand up but couldn't. Maggie was all like "don't underestimate her." It was funny. But I got him back by later saying he was wearing a girl's belt...cuz it looked like he was. We were also trying to get Neo to get up cuz he was the last one. I was like "who know's the Mario song?!" and Wicket (another counselor) was like "I do!" and the group started doo-doo-dooing and bouncing up and down. It was spiff! When Neo got up, he said the only reason was we were getting barkdust in his eyes. Tee hee

Then we met up again and shiz. Then we got our stuff and waited for the buses. When we got on, I sat with Sara, and Maggie and Kimiko sat behind us. I met a guy named Kelly, and he was really sweet. Anyways, Kimiko was drawing a rough "sketch" of a DDR machine to show to Maggie. I took her notepad and drew stick figures of me and her playing. My screen said "Perfect!" and Kimiko's said "Boo!" and I made arrows labeling us. I showed it to Kimiko and she's like "Oh my god..." and started laughing/silently laughing. I showed it to Kelly cuz he looked interested. He said it was very good and he liked it ^^ Then he drew a house with a dog. I'll scan the pics if I can get them from Kimiko. I gave my site to Kelly.

It was fun, then the buses dropped us off at the meeting place where all the other camp-peeps would meet. Kimiko and I went off to Baskin Robbins to get some ice cream and met 2 other DDR freaks. One of them liked Anime a lot. I gave him my website and he actually signed my guestbook. Whoo~!

Anyways, that was my camp-training thing. Wasn't that just spiff?

Posted by Hisui @ 12:12 AM PST

Friday, September 27, 2002