ICS Camp 2010!!

So. Camp was amazing.
First Day
We first got to Cispus (in Randle, Washington a.k.a. the middle of nowhere) and settled down and went to lunch. I was in the gray team with Sai and Kenny (:
After lunch we all went in the big room or main hall or whatever and we had introductions (counselors and teachers) and stuff.
Then classes started.
First was Ignite, which is about mentoring and stuff. We first had a little 2 person thing where we tell each other (I was with Joel) "our life story". Then we had 2 chairs back to back (I was with Tiago) and we had paper which we folded and tore into snowflakes. Tiago had to yell instructions to me and I couldn't say anything or look at his snowflake. That being said, mine turned out looking like a monkey. Heh. After that we all danced across the room (I just went with the crowd)...
Second class was Dating and Relationships. Not much to say. We talked about first date ideas, how to break up with someone, how to start a relationship with someone, etc. We also had to make 2 skits (I was with Mia) and each skit had a bad way and a good way. I hate skits...
After that class we went to our cabins and planned our skits... after lunch I think. Navy Blue won for our cabin (Girls vs. Wild).
Ours was about a director (me) who needed "freaks" for her new movie and this person (Mia) brings in Cinderella (Ashley (in 9th grade)), Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus (Sharon), Barbie (Danuta), and Lindsey Lohan (Clare). Then I reject all of them and then Christina runs in and yells Expelliarmus! and I supposedly scream OH MY GOD IT'S HARRY POTTER!!! and run after her.
Pretty dramatic, eh?
Campfire was so much fun. People played Chubby Bunny (you stuff as many jumbo marshmallows as you can in your mouth and say chubby bunny after each one. Mr. Mcfaul won with 10 marshmallows!) on stage and there were tons of funny skits (red girls was one of my favorites!) and we had goldfish, candy, m&ms, popcorn, and skittles.
Second Day
Classes were Psychology and Healthy Eating/Lifestyles. Both were actually kind of boring.
Then was the challenge course which was THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD. I met 2 sevvies there. Selena is really nice (: Mitchell is really nice, cute, funny, and he has very good leadership skills. (Haha. Didn't expect the last one, did you? ;)
So first we jumped rope with a ginormous rope at least 20 feet long. We all ran/ran and jumped through it. Fun fun, especially since I haven't touched a jump rope in at least 3 years.
Then came saving George the radioactive monkey. We used a rubber band like thing with cords attached to stretch out and hold on to the can holding George. We couldn't touch the can.
I ended up getting rope burn because I, along with someone else, had to stretch out my rope while moving while other people relaxed their ropes so we could get George over without dropping his can.
Then there were 3 blocks (small, medium and large) and we had to pile on each one in different combinations (small+large, small+medium, medium+large). I ended up hugging Mitchell (okay, and a million other people) a lot, along with holding arms and hands and smushing my face on several shoulders.
After the blocks was the huge ring of rope. We each held a part of it (with me next to Mitchell the whole time, haha!) and stretched it in different shapes (circle, triangle and diamond) with our eyes closed. On the triangle and diamond ones, I would shuffle sideways and bump into Mitchell, who would then take my hand and squeeze it tight (I have no idea why, really...). He sorta did this randomly throughout the activity.
Not that I'm complaining.
Then came the woods. First we lined up randomly on a log and we had to organize ourselves by birthday without touching the ground while transitioning.
Having said that, a lot of people stepped over me and I stepped over a few people.
Then there was a gigantic net over a tiny stream like thing that we had to climb on. We all went in groups of 3 or 4 I think. I reached the end in the 2nd group (Mitchell was in the 1st group) and while I was holding down the net so other people could get off safely, I slipped 3 times, falling on my butt twice and falling on my back once. Of course, I was laughed at, but then while I was joking about it with Mitchell, he told me that he'd probably laugh and then run down to help me if I ever slipped and fell all the way down to hill into the stream. Ha. How nice... (smiling so big right now I'm soo happy :)
That was it for challenge course. Best, funnest thing in the world.
Right after my group came back from the challenge course, Water Olympics started. In the sponge dodging game thing, I was hit squarely in the neck and shoulder with a sponge. Then I ran through the hose water (courtesy of Mr. McFaul).
Then we had the water cup relays where we carry 2 cups of water in whatever way your counselor says to (on your head, in your mouth, etc.) and bring them to a bucket, dump out the water, and run back. We only got 2 people to go, so I never got a chance at it.
After that was tanks. We linked arms facing out and 2 people in the middle (one blindfolded and throwing the sponges, one not blindfolded passing sponges and telling the blindfolded one where to throw the sponges) threw sponges at the other tanks and the people in them. First time around, I got hit in the FINGER and was the first one out. Second time around my team actually won because 1. we weren't in the middle that time and 2. Spencer is a really good thrower.
Then a water balloon/sponge/Mr. McFaul's hose/buckets of water fight ensued. :)
After Water Olympics was Drug and Alcohol night. Long story short, I cried a little during the stories and stayed for the whole thing, from presentations to last story.
And then we went in the cabins and talked a lot til 11 (lights out).
Third Day
Last day of camp :( First thing after breakfast was cleaning up the cabins and packing. I swept the floor and cleaned a sink and stuffed everything in my duffel bag which in turn made it a million tons heavier.
After cleaning was Survivor where the teams did stuff like "pass the ball down and the last person has to get up and run to the beginning and continue passing the ball until everyone has passed the ball" and "pass the banana with our feet and the person at the end has to eat it as fast as they can and show the announcer (Jake Bernstein or Ian I think) the banana peel" and chainlink tag and stuff. :) Gray got 3rd place!
After Survivor we got tshirts. I got mine signed by Hali, Marika, Frannie, Spencer, Olivia, Sai, and Selena.
Then sometime while I was looking for a sharpie or pen to borrow, a girl named Kelsie who was in my challenge course group came up to me and told me thaht she had overheard me tell my friends that I thought Mitchell was cute (am I really that loud? Damn...). She then proceeded to tell me that she had asked Mitchell if he liked me and he said YES!!
I also signed Mitchell's tshirt and wrote: MITCHELL. Camp was amazing! Challenge course was so much fun :) I ♥ U and I'll see you @ school! ♥, Sydney Lu.
Yeah... he didn't sign mine. Yet. Haha. I'm going to bring a sharpie to school on Tuesday.
Anyway, after that we pretty much boarded the buses and left.
Except the bus I was on was held back FOR AN HOUR because 1. another bus broke down and we had to go back and load some more people and luggage on our bus 2. we stopped by a rest station thing because our bathroom was malfunctioning or something and 3. there was a pileup on the freeway and we were stuck in traffic forever.
I played tennis with Josef and burned my hand while slapping and got my wrist burned because he was slapping me.
He slaps really hard. But apparently, I slap harder than he does, according to him. Heh. He almost yelled fuck when I slapped him first and he ended up giving up before me.
I also played Concentration and Quackdillyoso and told Sharon who told Danuta who told Casey who Fayrouz sorta overheard about the Mitchell thing... They are so LOUD. People 2 rows in front could hear every word and now a million people probably know about the thing.
I also made friends with Karthik, another sevvie. He is an awesome kid with gigantic eyes. Except that he thinks Leo is awesome whereas most of the school hates Leo... Sorry, that was mean. But seriously.
We finally got the ICS at 5. End of camp. It was so much better than last year, but it went by way faster. Sad.
Anyways, that's my recap of camp! :)