One SuperCamper

Today, or two days ago, rather, I got back from SuperCamp at Brown University in Rhode Island. I attended the Senior Forum. I had never been to any of the camps before, and it was definately an interesting experience. Okay, so here it goes:

• Throughout the fourteen-hour day, you are either in a large room sitting on the floor (doubed the "Main room"), outside where there are "boundaries", or walking to go to the cafeteria (where you go three times a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner).

• Walking into the main room is like "a punch in the face". There is loud music constantly playing and the only ones dancing half the time are the TLs. ("Team Leaders", and for 8 days I didn't know what TL stood for because no one directly tells you anything) There is forced clapping way too early in the morning and dammit you let *her* sit down why can't I sit back here with the nice cripple? She gets a nice chair and she's my new friend. Isn't one of the points of this to make new friends?

• They don't let you go inside to talk on your cellphone. You only get your cell for 30 minutes each day, and you have to stay outside with it. 5:00pm-5:30pm. Sometimes the TLs are late and you don't get your cellphone until 5:10pm, and they tell you to give them back at 5:25pm.

• So on day five of ten we get "Outdoor Adventure Day". I had to ask some lady working at the forest place (I don't even know) where the hell we were right now. She said Sea Conch, Massachusetts. As you can tell, they don't give out much information. I just new we were in Rhode Island when we started, then got on a bus and went to Massachusetts somewhere not traceable (no cellphones) in the woods. I was mad because that means i was closer to home and since it was day five of ten, I really wanted to go home). I tried to climb a tree. Fail. i couldn't, of course. (wearing jeans on a hot day, and not being tree-savy) and i cried coming down on the belay thing.
• We were in our groups doing team activities (go team N!) and what i heard from my roommate later on was that one guy who got told not to touch something in his team (part of some rope activity think-outside-the-box thing) got mad and ran away into the woods, and sat on a rock. When they found him they had to tackle him down and he said he wanted to kill everyone and his team. They said he was a "danger to the environment". He was actually one of the first people i talked to after lunch on the first day, and he seemed normal. Minus the bug eyes and that scar on his face. 0_o I think he is going into 9th grade. He was such a stalker the first three days before I found actual people to talk to.

• One girl left the second day who was on my team, she seemed very spoiled and her parents had some insurance so they got their money back. Another was put on bedrest because of pms and a sprained ankle (that cripple I was talking about earlier). The team leaders actually made fun of her when telling everyone to wear close-toed shoes in the main room. No seriously, about six other girls I knew (even my roommate and i got them on the same day) there all got their periods that week. The cripple and her roommate both too, eventually. Mine was actually a week late. It was like my body was saying "Hey, F you, I know you didn't wanna have this during camp and how unlikely it would happen so, ha ha here it is." That camp is like, girl-cursed, I swear.

• There were ants coming from my roommate's side of the dorm, so she got to go to a single room while I was stuck in the ant-infested one. She left the next day anyway. I was there for 3 more-ish days, with the ants. Because she is a quitter.

You get all emotional with your team, we are like family. I'm pretty sure everyone was crying at one point. They called me the innocent middle child. Hahaha. The team-building activities were great for the most part. They made you think outside the box. I needed that.

I met great people.

I broke a board in half with my hand.

People actually wrote "Rehab Center" on the white space on the SuperCamp T-shirts we got. Therapy/Kindergarten/Rehab/School/Jail Camp.

Unfortunately, I may go back next year.
Man, ill be in the leadership team (go team L!). They r boss. Plus you make lots of friends and the only way to see them again is to go back. It's not like I'll be visiting Saudi Arabia anytime soon.

Overall, thank you.
MLIA.