counselors were melanie (you would) and shannon. sunday night, progressive games, ruby and i hid in the bathroom during the syrup game (by the way, ruby ROCKS). the jello dyed my foot blue. wtf. red. why did i just say blue? i meant red.
monday: low ropes. low ropes are always awful, but i think that i actually understand their purpose. no one in my cabin spoke AT ALL before low ropes, and afterwards we could at least interact enough to coexist. photo scavenger hunt i think was monday but may have been tuesday. it was lame. they put all of the lame cabin bonding activities at the beginning of the week. which is good, cause after tuesday lunch or so theyre over.
after that i dont know what days things happened on. they all run together. but ruby and i spent almost every moment together. and beaver was there a lot too. we did a lot of swimming and lazy rivering. we watched people play water polo. i got rrl sunburned and it hurt, but im better. we did crafts. danielle = craft lady = love. in advanced crafts i made a taco. i am amazing. and there was crazy time without truett which was an activity that was supposed to be karaoke with truett but neither of those things were there so ruby and i just sat on stacks of chairs and watched weird girl. shes SO weird.
also josh cookies brown led a creative writing activity which somehow managed to always be called writing fun because we love writers retreats. corn in beaver pajamas? we got crazy prompts from the writers block including writing a racist rant, which was insane. i also got through part of something about my pop cause camp started on fathers day, wrote a tidbit about the year 4000, and started something that rhymes, the prompt for which was a dylan thomas poem i think. (to clarify, the phrase "something that rhymes" in the previous sentence is a description, not a title, as ive already written something titled "something that rhymes")
i hear the dance was fun, but i hate the dance, so i watched charlie and the chocolate factory. woody came dressed as a girl, and he looked like kimmy gibler from full house, except on heroin. the talent show was about 10% talent and 10% funny and 80% ridiculous people trying to sing carrie underwood songs and failing. also, anne frank was rrl bad, and she thought she was rrl good. ew. there was no coffee, but i dont like coffee, so its okay.
there was a strange combo of worships. the one on tuesday (or was it monday?) at the boys side vesper ring was really great. it was mostly dark but near the end they turned on the light on the cross and it lit up the trees like crazy, but the lake was still totally black, and it was really pretty. that was the only time we sang grace like rain. we also had one at the waterfront which consisted largely of staff members heckling truett and troy being judas. weird. lakeshore was on crazypills this week. but in a good way.
friday morning we wrote letters to ourselves which theyre going to mail to us sometime in several months. i dont know why im even saying this, because its given, but at worship friday night everyone cried. it wasnt even a phenomenally moving worship. we prayed, we read scripture, we sang. but on friday night everyone just wants SO MUCH not to have to go home, and they know they have to. so naturally, i got danielles shirt real snotty, just like last year. i love her. and ruby.
today shannon, chelsey, christin, ruby and i got up at 430 to watch a sunrise that never came because of big dark clouds. at 615 we gave up and went back to the cabin. slept about another hour and got up for breakfast, of which i ate little cause i was mad tired. cleaned up the cabins, did evaluations, cookies left, and we went to the tabby for final worship which included rrlpretty and a zombie movie. there was also the fairly traditional open floor time, which was nice, and then we all went back up the hill for lots of hugging and goodbyes. my mom was rrl late but it was okay, i didnt want to leave. she drove me down to the "water rec center" (that is, the pool) and i planned to do a mad search of the area for danielle who was down there with k-2 day, but just when i was dashing in to find her she was by the gate and it was good, cause i was going to be rrl sad if i couldnt say gbye. so i said gbye and had a big hug and got all wet cause she was all wet, and i left. mom and i got milkshakes on the way home, and i slept in the car, which i usually cant do.
and now im home and its late and ive written all of this so i dont forget it because what? thats right. lakeshore is my favorite place in the world.
Hallelujah, grace like rain
Falls down on me.
Hallelujah, and all my stains
Are washed away,
They're washed away.
