After Camp

Once again, it’s been awhile since my last post because life actually has been insanely busy, yet amazing. I’ll start at the very beginning:

Camp. “I say AC you say Camp” “AC!!” “CAMP” “AC!” CAMP!!”. It’s going to be hard to describe how amazing it actually was. They stick 3 out of the seven houses (Powys, Sunley, Morgannwg) on a bus because there were two different camps and not everyone could be at the same camp. Anywho, we are on this bus for about 3 hours until we arrive at this rural little farm in Wales on the coast. We are greeted by some of our second year camp leaders who wow us with their spirit. Instead typing out everything, I am going to make a list of things about camp

-“From east to west, AC first years are the best. From city to city.. AC girls are really pretty. From spick to spot.. AC guys are really hot”
-On my first day we just got to play games like Fuzzy Duck, Splat, Hwa which are shockingly fun.
-One of the most memorable things about camp was that they blasted the same ten songs the entire time we were at camp including Dancing in the Moonlight, ABC 123, Spice Girls, all sorts of classics. Oh yeah, the entire camp dances to these songs on the tables. Fun stuff
-The weather was sunny in Wales, which is a real shocker. And we went on this beautiful hike along the coast for about 6 hours and bonded with the people in our groups. I met this great girl named Hannah who is on the same wavelength as me, and its so nice when you find somebody like that. The only downside of this beautiful hike, I got horrible blisters.
-The camp has this tradition where a group of people would yell “Hey [insert name here], shake your booty!” And the person would respond “NO WAY” and then people would yell “ Hey [insert name here] shake your booty!” After which the person would say “okay..”. At this point the entire camp would break out with “Jump shake your booty, jump jump shake your booty, jump shake your booty, jump jump shake your booty” while the person jumps around. Hilarious
-We got to go surfing on the welsh coast, which wasn’t as cold as I thought and actually loads of fun. I must say, I never thought I would be surfing in Wales.
-We also got to do this thing called coasteering, which is everything your parents never let you do. We put on these huge wetsuits, and climbed all over the cliffs, jumped into the tide, swam out too far, explored caves and last but not least we got to jump off these 20 foot cliffs ( i screamed like a little girl) but it was completely worth it.
-Two downsides to camp.. no showers. So on the last day we didn’t look so great. And our second years made our meals, so I can’t say that food was incredibly tasty.
-Did I mention that it was absolutely beautiful?
-We also had bonfires where people had to sing their national anthem, and any other song or talent that wanted to share. Who doesn’t love hearing your peers sit down and sing and play guitar at the camp fire?
-Camp also involved lots of shouting “ We’ve got spirit, yes we do, we’ve got spirit how bout you?!” at the top of our lungs until everyone got incredibly horse and lost their voices. Not that that stopped us from shouting

So that my friends, was camp. I honestly had the time of my life, and I hope to be a camp leader again next year so I can go back. This weekend has also been a whirlwind of things...

We found out which service we will be in for the next years.. and I got into my favorite service-MEMS (Marine Environemental Monitoring Service)and we get to start scuba diving on wednesday. I am so thrilled to be in this service, I promise to keep you all about updated about what we are doing.

On Friday it was first Sosh (Sosh is where every Friday and Saturday people can go and dance and play music). It was neat to see everybody looking nice after being with them at camp, and since I have a blast dancing, it was really fun. Then after Sosh I came back to my house and a group of us sat outside with a little fire and told stories and fairytales until about 2am. Some of the stories that people came up with were just hilarious, and it was really fun.

Saturday I got to sleep in for the first time since I’ve been at AC! It was amazing, and I walked into Llantwit Major (the nearest town, about a half hour walk) to get some groceries. Once again, the weather was nice, and we made this amazing stir fry for dinner. Yesterday (Sunday) I escaped to go see the movie the Time Travellers’ Wife in Bridgend (Fun Fact: Bridgend has the highest amount of teen pregnancy and suicide in all of Europe. Depressing, eh?). Then back at the house we had a house debate about the death penalty and whether it was right or wrong. Not only do I love debates, but people on both sides of the debate had such good points and it was really interesting. It also affirmed the fact that I really do not believe in the death penalty. Next weekend we are debating about suicide, and that should be interesting.

Today is Monday, and my first day of codes (codes are classes). So far I have had math and English. I can already tell that I am going to really love my English class, the teacher is new, the students are interesting, and the books we are going to read seem super interesting. I’m on a free code at the moment, and after this I will head to lunch and then to Spanish. Oh, I decided to do something suicidal.. I am doing the IB Spanish in one year instead of two years. So I am going to be the only first year in my class, we will see how this goes. Then this evening I have design technology, and I have no idea what that is going to be like.
Also, this week is sports week. That means that each night of the week all of the houses compete in different sporting events and my house (Powys) has won for the last two years.. pressure is on.

We got to choose some activities, and it looks like I will be participating in operation smile, yoga, MUN, African dance, Italian cooking, amnesty international and the list goes on and on!

Basically.. I am loving my time here. This place is so full of things to do and interesting people to meet. I miss everybody at home, but not to fear, I am making some really great friends from all over the world. I will try to post again sometime this week, but I just get so busy. This is very long.. sorry about that. I love you all!