Girl Scout Camp

My mom and I decided it would be easier to do this all in one post, instead of one for each day. Even though she tried to make me remember every single thing I did in the order that they happened, I think that is too hard. After mom dropped me off on Sunday I went to my tabin and unpacked and then I got changed into my swim suit put my clothes on over them and went to the shower house. Then we took off our clothes, took a quick shower to make sure all the dirt and things were off of us and headed back outside to the pool. We then learned the rules of pool and started our swim tests. I jumped into five feet deep water and then one of my counselors, Birdie, had to swim over to help me. That was the end of my test and I had to become a white cap. The differences between the four cap colors is how deep the water is you can swim in and how good you are at swimming. White cap is the lowest, next is the red cap which can go in five feet deep, next is the green cap and the blue cap which can both go in the deep end which is ten feet of water. Then I went out and showered again to get the chlorine off. After that we went back to our site and sat under the shelter which is where I made my name tag earlier. Then they told all of the water snooper to go to the fire circle so that we could talk about what we wanted to do during the week. We decided to go night swimming and creek walking and lots of other fun things. That night for dinner we had macaroni and cheese. It was shells and I loved it. One of the great things about meals at Camp Pokanoka is that for breakfast if you don't want the real meal you can have cereal which is cheerios or rice krispies and at lunch and dinner if you don't want the real meal you can have PB&J. So I didn't starve. After every meal we went out on the hill by the swimming pool and sang lots of songs. I learned a lot of new songs and I haven't stopped singing them since I came home. After singing at dinner we always went to flag lowering and sang taps. To get to flags you had to walk through the silent tunnel, I even got to help make the silent tunnel once. After flags on Sunday we went back to our campsite and made s'mores. That night our tabin was really loud and I didn't sleep at all. Also our neighboring tabin, eagle, was really loud that night too. The next morning we went to flags and did the pledge of allegiance. Then we went to breakfast. Our morning activity was going to the Adventure Course. We only got through three activities before it was time for lunch. The first activity there that we did was that we had to pretend that the Illinois River had flooded and there was no other way to cross the river so we had to all get on to this little bench and stay there for ten seconds and we couldn't step off onto the wood chips. The second activity was where there were a bunch of tires hanging from strings and we had to get across them like we were in the forest hanging from vines. I was really scared so my first turn I didn't make and my second turn I didn't make so I was allowed to skip the activity. The third activity, everybody had to hold hands with the person in front of them and the person behind them and we had to walk all the way around on a wooden horseshoe, if somebody fell off and let go we had to wait for that person to go to the end and then that group had to catch up. If you didn't step off the end straight you had to go all the way to the end and start over again. That afternoon we had capers, the time when we clean up our campsite, my caper was litter. Then we had tabin time which is basically like shoes off after lunch and capers. Before tabin time our counselors would pass out the mail if you got any. After tabin time we always went swimming. That night after flags we had our night swim, it was only the water snoopers and we were allowed to swim however we wanted. After our night swim we went to fairy village. We took the wild turkey trail to a big sign that was fancy that had two big fairy statues next to it and said Fairy Village. We saw the Queen Fairy and lots of other fairies. On tuesday morning we made water snoopers with old cans of mandarin oranges and a rubber band and a plastic bag. Then we went creek walking. Creek walking is when you actually walk in a creek. We walked a long way and saw water striders and millipedes and lots of tree roots. We also walked down some small waterfalls and we saw a dead fox that was being eaten by maggots. Then it was time to turn around and go back for lunch. Then after lunch we went to our campsite and talked about the rules that we would need to follow for our hike to the Illinois River the next day. That night we had a cookout for dinner and we had whacko tacos. Whacko tacos are tacos without taco shells. Our dessert for dinner was puppy chow. Puppy chow is chex cereal, melted chocolate chips, peanut butter and powdered sugar. It was really yummy. The next morning we had breakfast at our site so that we could sleep in to get ready for our hike. Then we left for the Illinois River. It was a long hike. Then we played in the river and made moats. It was cool when the speeds boats came by because right after they passed there were big waves that filled up our moats. We also saw a gigantic ship on the Illinois River that passed so Mouse made us all get out of the water as the ship passed by because right after the ship passed she knew there would be humongous waves because after we saw this big spped boat pass the waves were pretty big but since that ship was even bigger the waves would be even bigger. Then it was time to go back for lunch. That night after flags we had camp wide activities. My first activity was going to the Woodland Theater and using objects to make a play with them. My next activity was going right over by the swimming pool and we all had to sit facing away from the counselors and the counselors put pieces of duck tape that said words on our back and we had to find our pair. I was parmesan cheese and partner was chedder cheese. My next activity was going to near the flag pole where one person covered their eyes with a bandana from each group of three and another person out of the group pushed the person around listening to the third person in the group telling them what direction to move. I was the person with the bandana over my eyes. My next activity was sitting at tables on Hickory House deck and drawing pictures of what we thought we should do to help our Earth. My last activity was going behind Hickory House and having a dance party. Then it was time to go back to our site for bed. On Thursday morning the Water Snoopers made yarn dolls while Artrageous, the other group living in Whippoorwill made origami hats. Then both groups made lanyards, mine got lost. The lanyard that I made was my first lanyard ever. That night after flags we had a dance party and then we walked to meadowlark for a campfire with the whole camp. All the counselors sangs lots of songs and did skits. One of my favorite skits was when Pineapple made a candy shop and she had another counselor go to "Counselors R Us" and get a counselor that fit Pineapple's description. Friday morning we ate breakfast in our campsite again. Before we could eat breakfast we had to pack up all of our stuff. For lunch we had a cookout and we cooked pizza over the fire. After lunch we cleaned our tabins. The first thing we did was we swept the tabin floor. The second thing we did was we made sure there was nothing in our tabin that was really big like clothes or stuff that no one claimed. The third thing we did was we were supposed to bleach our mattresses. Purple Martin started bleaching their mattresses but we ended up having finish bleaching after swimming. That night after dinner we practised for the closing ceremony, whippoorwill sang a song about the Chicago Fire. Then it was time for the closing ceremony and flags. We all walked out through the silent tunnel and our parents were in the audience watching. We were only allowed to wave at our parents not to scream and yell at them since we had just walked through the silent tunnel. After the flag each campsite sang their song, Whippoorwill went last. Then it was time for our parents to line up and pick us up. I was really excited to see mommy. Then I ran to my grandma. After that we headed to the closest McDonalds for a little snack and so that I could start to tell my mom every single thing I did. We continued my story in the car even though I wanted to fall asleep and it was really late. Thats how I had lots of fun during a week at Camp Pokanoka.