If you've read my previous post, then you'll know I spent the last day on a school trip to some log cabins in some God-forsaken woods. To sun up the entire trip in one word; exhausting. It was one long road-race to the finoish line of total mental destruction.
The trip started fairly promisingly. We all loaded into our buses and travelled to the camp. My group was put into a little cabin with a couple bunkbeds. Asides from smears of blood on the wall, it was quite nice. Unfortunately, my group and I were stuck with a pack of 8 grade 8s in our room. That wasn't plesent, especially considering that two of them I strongly dislike.
As soon as we were settled in, we were sent off to do some activities. Archery. Snowshoeing. Horseback riding. All of which were fun, of course. The trip was still looking up at this point,
And then it was time for lunch, which I suppose I could call a success. My group grilled us up some grilled cheese sandwiches- but we had some difficulties. Why? A demon cat, my friends.
As soon as we dug out the food, the cat appeared. Fat and jet black, Sam (that's my name for him. His real name was Hudson or something along those lines) snuck around the fireplace- and attacked.
Seriously, you turned yor back for one second, and there was the cat eating your food. Honest to God, Sam jumped on top of our bread, of all things, bit through the plastic, and tried to eat it. Since when do cats eat bread? He terrorized our camp for the entire trip.
Once we'd managed to avoid the cat, however, it was back to activities. This was great and all, but soon the light began to grow dimmer, and still we were being forced to run around and do stuff. And I began to wonder... When do we get a break?
Supper came and went, with the cat still hovering around our table. And then, guess what? We're forced to do more activities! Sleigh rides, random walks through the dark. These might have been fun, but not only was I now practically dragging my feet from exhaustion, one of my friends decided that he wanted to basically wrestle the entire night walk that we did.
After the walk, it was about 8 PM. I thought for sure that we'd be sent back to our cabins now to wind down for the night, but no. Instead, it was more games and activities. It was still fun, but seriously, all I wanted was a break!
They sent us back to our cabins at about 10:30, where we were given about thirty minutes to get ready for bed before they made us turn out the lights. I was happy we were getting to bed, but I also had sort of wanted some down time.
Of course, the grade 8's talk for a few hours, but finally I can get to sleep. The next moning rolls around, and everyone is super sore. Of course, we don't get anytime to rest in the morning- we don't even have time to shower. We're kicked out into the cold to make some eggs, but of course the eggs cook terribly. To top it all off, everything we cook becomes ice cold the second we take it off the fire.
After breakfast, do you think we get anytime to rest? Nope! We're forced to rn around and play tag. And I mean, I like tag. I really do. But I don't want to be forced to play it. I just want half an hour to read, or something like thaty. Is that to much to ask?
When the buses finally came, it was a releif. When I finally did get back home earlier to day, I was a bit out of it. I was, and still am, exhausted beyond beleif. Still, I couldn't rest- I had to practice voice, and memorize and rehearse a monologue to audition for the school play, and do homework. The latter two I'd meant to do on the trip, but of course I didn't have time.
Finally, I was done all those things, but I still had one final thing to do. And that is why I'm writing this now.
But honestly, guys, you have no idea how tired I am right now. I've got to audition tomorrow, and go to voice practice on top of that. Plus, my voice is shot from shouting at the ranch...
And so, I'm cutting you off now. I'm not even going to read this over tonight. Instead, I'm going to finally, FINALLY rest.
Goodnight,
-Mark
Um...
ReplyDeleteWhere were you?
Why didn't I know about this?
And smears of BLOOD on the walls?!!