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My computer needs to die! Yesterday, I wrote the longest entry in the history of longest entries and it didn't save. Ahh fucker. I haven't updated in like a week because obviously I was gone. So I'll start from the beginning! Monday So I got up extremly early for the summer, and got ready and went to the Y. I got there and was really surprised at how many black people there were. It freaked me out! Anyway, Amber came like 2 seconds after me and we started being retarded right off the bat. And I talked to my best friend Phil! He hadn't changed at all. Like...maybe he grew a little..but that was it. He is such a boring kid. Anyway, these are all the kids who went on the trip, not that you know them, but I'll prolly talk about them cuz I'm cool like that. So shut up and read: Ms. Elizabeth Mr. Ed Me Amber Kelli (Ms. Elizabeth's daughter) Abby (Going into 8th @ Drew...I have never seen her before and I felt bad cuz she said she knew me) Garrett (Goes to Drew, acts kinda gay...) Phil (Tri-angle Face) Lukas (Amber's ex from a few weeks ago, acts like a preschooler) C.R. (From last year, HOT!) Alex (Abby's older bro) Isaac (Weird kid, talks in monotone) Kk, there's some nice little descriptions for you. =) So we didn't leave for a while. And I saw Kevin! I gave him a big hug and we talked for a while...I'm going to miss him. The counsulars finally got the van and we started to load our stuff. We got on the road at like..11:30 or something like that. And it took 5 1/2 hours to get there. Bah! And we were cramed in too. But we got to watch movies...Not good ones, but it was something to do. We finally got to the place, which is called Passages to Adventure, and they had our tents set up and everything cuz they are nice people! Hehe, so we looked around the big lodge and looked around. Then we drove to the visitor's center and Amber and I had a dance party every two minutes! The view was so gorgeous. I could sit there all day, it's so peaceful. Then we ate! Of course, at some pizza place in their "downtown" And Lukas harassed me as I tried to go to the bathroom. Okay..Him and Amber went out during the 1st session but they broke up and he still really likes her. But she leads him on horribly cuz she likes Alex Sherman. And he gets annoying cuz he is so immature and very wigger-ish, but I felt bad. And he was pretty cute. LoL. So they flirted like the world was about to end and it got annoying after a while. So we went back and hung out on the basketball court and I got to know everyone. C.R. and Alex are really nice. So it started to get dark and Amber and I explored and found the bathrooms! They were underneath the deck..strange place if you ask me. And the stupid showers were ghetto and you had to hold the handle the whole time. So I was in a extremly uncomfortable position. Plus, random guys were making noises because it's one big room spilt into sections with cement walls. Not the best experience of my life. We all hung around the fire until we got too tired. Amber was laying on Lukas and stuff and I got a weird feeling...partily because I kinda liked him and partily because I felt bad for what she was doing. Anyway, can't remember anymore: I got like no sleep, maybe 4 hours. Partily cuz me and Amber were sleeping with our feet uphill instead of our heads..but that's why you love me. And it was storming. And I hate thunderstorms with a passion. Anyway...I'm done rambling about monday! Tuesday We woke up and I made a mad dash to the bathroom cuz I had to brush my teeth. And stuff...camping makes me feel grimy...We ate breakfast around 8:30. Then we all had to pack two day's worth of clothes and our essentials into a dry bag. That was the stuff we took down the river with us. And Amber lost her bikini bottoms...Haha, we were looking for them frantically. So we took all our stuff up to the lodge and we met our guides. The one that was in the raft with us was named Elmo How cool is that? Lol, he was so funny. And the other one who was taking our stuff down in another raft was named Nate. He had really long hair. Dunno why that is important but I'm putting it in anyway. We got all our equitment ((lifejackets, paddles, and helmets)) My helmet was pink. I'm such a cool cat. Then Amber tells me that Phil likes me. I was like..wtf? After all that happened last year, he expects me to go with him? And I thought he was going out with Brooke Jenkins. Then Garrett tells me that Phil called her from the payphone and broke up with her. That is just low. So I changed the subject and then we piled on to this crappy bus and left for the river. So when we get there it takes another like 29347 hours to load everything up in the rafts. We finally got out on the river at like noon. There is a big raft with 9 people ((2 counsulars, Elmo, and 6 kiddies..including myself and Amber)) and then 4 duckies...which were a cross between canoes and kayaks and held 1 person. I didn't wanna try those because I needed to know I could rely on other people to help me if I messed up. That happens alot when I try new things. Elmo was so funny...I never knew when to believe him or not. He joked around so much. He told us Nate was an ex-convict. Yeah, stuff like that. So we learned all the basic strokes and headed down the river. ((The New River)) We didn't hit big rapids..but it was nerve-racking everytime you started to get knocked around by the waves. We stopped for lunch and us girls had our first experience with peeing in the woods. We set off and had this big stretch of calm water. So we all start to get out and swim and play around...Elmo has this game for us to play. It went: We all stood up on the side of the raft and held hands while he pushed us in! Haha, original eh? Then it started to rain. Lovely. I was freezing. And of course I didn't have anything in the boat that could keep me warm, so I had mad goosebumps for 2 hours. We finally got to the beach, and it was so trashed. Amber and I picked up so many beer-bottles. Something about a being on a river obviously makes people want to get good and drunk? Yeah, it was still raining so we pitched our tent so fast. I don't even remember doing it. I got in long comfy pants and my Duke shirt. I was WARM! Then of course I had to go find a peeing place! And Amber and I explored the woods and fought with the guys. It was so fun just hanging out. I loved it. Oh yeah, it had stopped raining by this time. LoL. But I feel bad because Ambs and I were talking in the tent about how she lied to Phil and told him she liked Lukas 40% out of 100 and Alex was the 60%. Yeah right. And the guys heard. But we didn't care because after that, because all the girls went out to go pee before bed, and the guys snuck up on us. I was hyper because I took too much Advil, my bad!, and so Amber was laughing at my stupidness. So that ticked us off alot. And then we went to bed. It's so peaceful listening to the river. I loved it. It would be so awesome to have a house by the water. But it's freakin' expensive and it was West Virginia. LoL Wednesday Got up and did the whole dry bag thing again. Gosh that was annoying. All the girls had way too much stuff so we ended up having a shoe bag. We are cool =) And again, we got on the river pretty late cuz we are all slow mofo's! Me and Amber still didn't want to be in a duckie and we still thought Nate had been in jail so we didn't sit in the back this time, because Elmo was with the stuff. The rapids were getting bigger and we didn't talk to much cuz we were focusing on being together. It started to rain around lunch time, but it's all gravy because it stopped soon after. We went to this place called "Jump Rock" and guess what we did?! JUMPED OFF OF IT! Wow...lol. It was amusing, partily cuz Garrett would try and do whatever me and Amber did and he couldn't. And Lukas wasn't swimming hard enough so the current was taking him downstream so we laughed but eventually someone got him! We had another calm pool and it started to get nice and sunny so we played another game. Someone stood on the front of the boat and everyone else turned in circles. Then we got out and harassed each other! Yay...always fun. Elmo and Nate told Amber and I that if we stayed in the water too long we would get a bad case of heat-seeking anal worms. We, again, didn't know whether or not to believe him but we took over Alex's duckie anyway. Lukas and Phil, being the big wiggers they are, tried to flip us but they weren't slick enough. Then I went on a rescue mission to get Abby from floating to far downstream. The last rapid of the day was called Surprise. And Elmo was back in the raft because he said he wanted to flip. That freaked us out a bit. But it didn't matter cuz we didn't go in the right spot, so we all just got soaked in the boat instead of out of it! We camped a little upstream from Surprise so Amber ended up getting a great picture of it. We pitched our tent and unloaded the stuff. And of course went pee! Amber and I had a good talk about her sweetie ((Alex)) on a big rock. And ended up getting out of alot of work. We are sly lil' girls like that. Then we were hopping around on rocks with the guys ((all of 'em except C.R. and Alex, aka the annoying ones!)) and this happened. Amber: "Marianne, do you think I can get to that bigger rock?" Me: Well if you can't, I'll know not to try!" ::We laugh and she starts walking on a rock that's partly underwater:: SHE FALLS IN! Me: "AMBER LYNN, you weren't supposed to take that seriously!" She was wearing my pj bottoms and Lukas' shirt. So then she had to change and I ended up dropping half of her stuff in the dirt so it all evened out. We weren't allowed to go on the rocks anymore cuz C.R. had fallen in while cleaning his shoes. Anyway, Lukas and Amber fought and flirted some more, wahoo. I learned alot about Alex and C.R. cuz we were all drawing in the dirt together. C.R. and his girlfriend have been going out since February. I wish I had a guy like him. Whoever she is, she is damn lucky. And we ate dinner and sat around the campsite and stuff. Lukas wasn't listening, of course, so Elmo and Nate tied him to a tree. It was the greatest ever. I laughed so hard, espically since people were rafting down past us and saw him. Then it got dark so they had to untie him. I chatted with Elmo. I felt retarded because I kept asking him stuff like: "Do you wear slippers?" and "Do you watch movies?" I forgot that he actually had a house and stuff, and didn't sleep on the river all the time. But yeah, that's why you love me! We had s'mores and stuff. Amber and I had a raver dance party with our flashlights! Then I was tired as what and layed down with Amber, Ms. Elizabeth and Kelli. Ms. Elizabeth is so awesome. She told us alot about how hard it was when she was growing up. And she is the first person besides my family, and Jackie that I can talk about God to. I loved the feeling. She gives the greatest advice ever, I swear I'm going to have to call her everyday to spill my problems. And I dunno what brought this up, but she said to us: I swear, that most of the time, guys think with their..thingy. Amber and I about split our pants laughing. So of course the guys had to mock us, and that made us laugh harder cuz they were laughing at themselves. Great day! But I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't see anything and woke up everyone. Smooth I know! Thursday When we woke up we were all nervous as what! We knew this was a big day and we could seriously get hurt if something didn't go right. I ate alot anyway. Pancakes =) So we loaded our stuff and Amber decides she wants to try a duckie. We were only going thru 1 rapid and about half a mile before we were meeting up with people of camp. They were bringing another raft and taking our stuff. So, yeah, I told her she should! I didn't of course. I'm a pansy. So, the rapid is called Balona's Hole (spelling?!) and we were going good, it was only a class 2 or 3...so the waves weren't big or anything, and at the very end we hit a rock, and I was in the back and the back flew up. And I fall out!! I didn't go anywhere because the rock had turned the boat right in front of me. So I just held on. Everyone made this huge deal about it and Elmo got pissed cuz no one was listening to him. Amber and Garrett flipped out of the duckies. Because Garrett thinks he is all good, so he told Amber to follow him and he goes the exact wrong place! After that ordeal was overwith, we get to the place and meet up with Dave. God he was hot. 27 though! Ms. Elizabeth, Amber and I were like...WOW! And he was in our boat too!! He was evaluating Nate, so we came in Elmo's boat so he could see how he navigated and whatnot. It was CR, Lukas, and Me on the left. And Kelli, Ms. Elizabeth, and Amber on the right. And Elmo was our guide. And Dave sat there! It was so fun. We learned some more stuff and started down the river. The first rapid we got thru, but there were these two holes in the middle of it, called Detroit and Chicago. We go straight into Detriot. And Dave saw it and told us to hold on, and Elmo didn't and he wanted us to keep paddling. I held on. Good thing too, because Lukas and I flew foward and we were both holding on to people's legs! I didn't even see Elmo fall out. But before I knew it Dave and Kelli were taking charge, I was back in my seat, and Nate was helping Elmo into his boat downstream. Whew! Interesting start to the day. It was so friggin' awesome though. The waves were huge. We ended up going down one of the biggest rapids backwards. And there was a rapid called Swimmer's Rapid..and we all got out and experienced what it was like to be in one. That gave me the motavation to keep my sorry ass in the boat!!! And I did. No one fell out. We had some close calls, but all in all, I would do it again in a heartbeat. I love feeling the adrenaline pumping thru my body. We were all soaked and tired and wanted to take a shower. So we go back to the place we camped the first night and did just that. I took a long hot shower, and it felt to good. We had pizza! And just all hung out. Of course Lukas and Amber were flirting, and Phil was kinda avoiding me because yeah, he thinks I hate him. Which isn't true, but I would never date him again. Ever. I learn from my mistakes. So then Amber and I talked with Ms. Elizabeth again. I love her! She is really an inspiration. And we met this girl who lived near the lodge. Lukas, since he wasn't getting any from Amber, was Mr. Horny, so I left. I came back up to the bathrooms later and she was still there with Phil, Lukas, Abby, and Isaac. Her name was Meredith and she was nice, but wasn't anything great. Lukas was about to go butt-fuck her. Amber caught an attitude with her, so she went back to the tent, and I stayed and talked a little, but I knew when to leave. The rest of the night Amber and I ran around being retards and stuff...just having a good time...I seriously could have stayed forever. I didn't like the whole tent situation. But I really got to know the kids who came with, and they were all great. It seemed like people who I had known for a week cared about me and liked me just as much as the people I had known for years. We went to bed pretty late, we had a good time around the campfire. Friday Ate breakfast, and said goodbye to Elmo. We left early, and watched movies the whole time home. We stopped at Burger King and I made Ms. Elizabeth and Mr. Ed ask Isaac questions cuz he talked so funny. And Lukas took a crown and I told him I was jealous that I couldn't be as cool as him. I ended up missing dance practice cuz we got back at 4:30 and my mom had left a note telling me that Holly was going to pick me up at 3:30. So I got in touch with my daddy and he took me home. I was so tired. And I messed up the journal and that got me in a bad mood. But also it seemed like everyone freakin' forgot I was away. They were all having dandy Friday nights. And Lizzy starts like yelling at me. She asked me why I wasn't at dance and I told her. She goes, but you were supposed to bring Carley home. It turns out she was at her house. I go: "Um, her mom is now." And she says: well, I hope her mom knows that. WTF?! Why is it her business? My mom and Mrs. Carol did figure it out thank you very much. Gosh, it annoys me that she always has to remind me that she and Carley and closer than me and Carley. I want to eat her when she does that. Corey made me feel better though. I love him. He is so nice to me. And I chilled with my mom and daddy cuz my bro is still in Lexington with my aunt. I went to bed early. Today! Got up early as what and went to the Indianette car-wash. It was torture. It was hot and sunny all day. And we washed cars pretty much non-stop from 9-3. I talked to Allie, Jennifer, and Madison the most. I think I can actually consider Jennifer a friend now. Before we mostly knew each other cuz we were Allie's two best friends. And Madison is awesome. We laughed so much. I knew her because she went to the YMCA with me in 6th grade. How pimp?! Hehe. Carley thinks I was being "distant" towards her. I really didn't mean to but I didn't feel to bad cuz she has Holly and Lizzy. Then I got to see Cami!!!! Me and Allie got to Spanky's at like 3:15 and only got to be with her for like 20 minutes cuz her dad is stupid. She was still the same ol' crazy Camsta! I miss her. She could always make me feel happy and loved. Jackie wanted me to come over and chill with her and Britt and Kara but my dad wouldn't let me. He said I needed sleep. I left at 5 and we took Allie home and my dad and I have been chillin' ever since. I'll go to either Britt's or Bridget's tomorrow. Smidge is home from New York! =) I missed her. I'm so glad we are such good friends now. She's gunna pimp the 8th grade. I wanna go out tonight, but it's cool. I'm actually in a pretty good mood...much better than yesterday. =) This is sooo long and I gotta catch up on some T.V. So that was my week. Anyone wanna update me on what happned between Pam and Mary-Beth? And! HAPPYlateBIRTHDAY STEVIE!! I know it was Thursday and I'm so sorry I missed it. I love you so much. BFF! |
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