Camp PAS 2011 - Day 1

Our journey to Camp PAS was through a bus, a train, then another bus. On the train, we were seperated by our team colors (mine was red). We met up with our tent members, and decided on a tent leader. Our ride there was pretty much normal. I spent the ride listening to music, exploring my new phone, and walking around and basically socializing with different people. I wore a jumper which had my name on the back, and that caught a lot of attention. Everyone thought it was pretty cool to have names on clothings. I had to explain a lot of times throughout camp that I got it from Belgium, when I was on the netball team. Everyone on the team got one, and we each had our full name and school name + sport on the front, and our nickname on the back. Anyway, towards the end of the journey, we had to make a tent flag. Ours had our initials sowed on, alongside some cut out chickens and ghosts. When we arrived, we set out to put up our tent. It went pretty well, actually. Afterwards, we split up into our teams and had a game in the pool. Unfortunately, I had an injury on my knee, so I couldn't join in. It was really boring and frustrating sitting on the side of the pool while everyone else had fun in the water. After, we went paddling in a lake. That was really fun. There were 5 people in our boat, but one of them didn't do anything (since there were actually one 4 places). We were winning, along with another boat (in our team). But one of the boats from Blue caught up. So in the end, we came somewhere like 3rd or 4th. At night, we had a barbecue, which was a disaster for our group for 3 main reasons: our group didn't have a light (we had to use a flashlight), the fire was really bad in the beginning, and we didn't have any teacher to help us. We tried to make-do and eat whatever we can. That night, I looked up into the sky, and saw the most beautiful night sky and stars I've ever seen. There were SO many stars, and it was really pretty. Our tent had a leak, so the four of us in the tent had to squish up next to eachother. So basically, it was a pretty horrible night. I ended up sleeping on my side, and since we didn't have pillows, I had to sleep on my blanket (later on I felt cold, so I had to sleep on my arm, and it was numb the next morning).