"stay on the sunny side of life"

"all my thoughts take me back to my home, Camp Tohikanee."

What to do When You Start Missing Camp
(from Jinxie)

1. On Sundays and Fridays, wear a grey t-shirt, denim shorts and a multicolored tie; put lots of pins all over the tie.
2. Tell your friends to get in a buddy line and yell at the top of their lungs.
3. Tell the people around you to stop asking so many questions.
4. Before dinner, tell everyone to go outside and sing.
5. Drink some sugar water of various colors and refer to it as bug juice.
6. Shower outside.
7. Salute a flag before breakfast and before dinner. Who cares if it is not your country’s?
8. Don't talk about anything except how much you miss civilisation.
9. Give gifts to friends. Keep it a secret and sign cards "your S.B."
10. Eat breakfast at 8, lunch at 12.30 and dinner at 6.
11. After breakfast get up and jump around singing about some guy named Bob.
12. Eat a lot of sugar and processed foods.
13. Refer to your apartment/house or dorm as a unit. Give it a silly sounding Indian name.
14. Get 24 girls to follow you round for a week and entertain them every minute.
15. Find a buddy and argue a lot.
16. Us the sick horse excuse to skip town and sleep in a field for three weeks.
17. Eat tacos on Wednesday nights cook them over a fire (sorry Taco).
18. Make name tags for the kids in your class.
19. On Thursday nights gather up the gang and have a campfire be sure to sing about cool cats.
20. Travel in a big white van to Wallmart.
21. Use a latrine.
22. Have a backwards day - eat lunch at breakfast and breakfast at dinner.
23. Teach your friends Bob Nianga and have your friends constantly bug you to sing it.
24. Repeat camp camp tohi over and over and over.
25. Plan every minute of the upcoming week and make three copies of it.
26. To get someone’s attention hold up an arm and stand and wait.
27. Flip through a badge book for fun.
28. Have two cigarettes at one time on your twos.
29. Crash a van or two.
30. Or three.
31. Jump down the stairs head first just for fun.
32. Invent your own club with your favourite color e.g. the pink club.
33. Prank your friends and put their bedroom outside exactly the way they had it inside.
34. Jump in a freezing pool at 6 in the morning and name it after some bear e.g. polar bear.
35. Fill in your application form for camp 2003.
36. Laugh.
37. Laugh again.
38. Collapse laughing.


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