The Hokey-Cokey

We woke up at 7:00 to prepare to leave for Camp in Camp. Everyone at the WSJ will camp at a local Swedish camp with their patrol and four other patrols from different countries. We were given hackey sacks as we waited in line for the bus to take us to our camp site so we started to play with them. Josh and the Nelsonic Boom are by far the best at it so far. Then we met the patrols we would be staying with for the next two days. We stayed with one patrol from England, Ireland, Japan, and Germany. After an hour and a half bus ride (during which Josh terrorized the Irish kids) we arrived at our camp. We were brought to our site and ate lunch with the Swedish equivalent of Cub Scouts. We played more frisbee and hackey sack before we had to meet to learn about Midsummer's day. We made circles of leaves and put them on a cross of fertility (use your imagination). Then we danced around that for a while and played more hackey sack and frisbee. Then we met Ruby, Jenny, and James from England. We went on a two hour hike with the young Swedish kids and did some fun activities along the way. After that we played more frisbee and Josh took a ton of action shots of us. We went to the lake and Jenny, James, and Ruby went into the freezing water. Craig and Matt took out a canoe and me and Josh did the same. Craig jumped into the water in his shorts, leaving Matt to paddle back alone. When we got out of the water we hurried back to the site to shove down a quick dinner before the group meeting. All of the patrols performed a skit as we sat around the Midsummer's day pole. Ruby volunteered to be in ours. Then we played more frisbee and hackey sack before going on a little teen outing. Me and Conor took pictures of the sunset (pictured above) before going. We walked to a fire ring five minutes away and played games and sang songs. I liked the poison mushroom game. My patrol taught everyone how to play duck, duck, gooses. It was great reliving childhood. I left the game after a while and sat by the fire and talked with Jenny for a long time about scouts and other things. Now (12:45) we're back at camp and I should have been in bed forty-five minutes ago. Goodnight!

Word of the Day: Melismatic: Characterized by the singing of several notes to one syllable of text, for emotional impact, as in blues and other musical styles