Karen's Campout (14-20)
Even though it's Hannie, Nancy, Linny, and David Michael's campout as well. Karen gets owned BIG TIME in these chapters.
Chapter 14
They're at the fair and I DEARLY hope they do not have to wear uniforms there too. That's just..ugh (can you see how very very anti-uniform I am?). I always make a note to wear my most Claudia-esque outfits to fairs, especially when I'll be working as a vendor there. Anyway, Karen is apparently done with the "I'm bored" shit and is actually trying to have fun now. I don't really like how they make the kids look at the exhibits and animals BEFORE playing games. IT'S A FAIR. Games and prizes should be the VERY FIRST priority and this is not fucking school. If this is what sleepaway camp is like, I'm kinda glad I never got a chance to go (not to mention, no surfing the Interwebz! Nooooo!). Hannie looks at some funny vegetables (best part of the fair besides games in my opinion. I LOVE looking at awesome plants) and then gets lost. Uh-ohhhh spaghetti-os.
Chapter 15
Nancy agrees with me that Hannie's been being a jerk lately. They go to the craft booth and I feel a little surge of warmth in my heart because selling crafts at festivals/fairs is what I do to make money. They look at pigs, Nancy is told that Hannie's lost and begins to feel sorry for being mad at her even though it was totally justified and getting lost doesn't mean she has to forgive her right then and there. But they're 7, so she does anyway. They find her, everyone's happy, blah blah.
Chapter 16
Linny says the campout they're going on isn't a real campout. Uh, then what is it? A banana? You're sleeping out in a tent in the woods like you want to do so badly! He keeps complaining about "Aww it's not a real campout." Linny, what is a "real campout" to you? But the counselor pleases him by saying they're going to be cooking food on a campfire, etc. Awesomesauce, says Linny, but he's still upset that they're not diving in the lake and catching fish in their teeth to cook. Linny was awesome in the beginning of this book, now he's just being a big fat killjoy complainer. Let's all hope he doesn't grow up to be Christopher McCandless. They get to hunt for berries though and that's pretty cool. I feel as if I'd be too nervous to do so without a trained botanist with me because I'd be so worried about "IS THIS THIS AND THAT POISONOUS?" You may not think so, but MANY poisonous berries come close to looking like edible ones. I've got some nightshade berries in an area near the woods behind my house, and they look almost exactly like blueberries. I had to pull my friend away from a bush really quick because she thought they were blueberries. Linny is finally satisfied with the campout and looks up at the stars. To be honest, I've always wanted to sleep outside under the stars but am too worried about bugs crawling into my ears.
Chapter 17 (Karen gets owned)
Nora's let Karen pick the camping location and Karen gets all superior about it all "Staying too close to the camp would have been boring and babyish!" Whatever, brat. She refuses to participate in the marching song because it's boring, and yawns obnoxiously instead. Then she COMPLAINS ABOUT THE DISTANCE TO THE SITE *SHE* PICKED, and that is the last straw for Nancy, so she and Hannie and their other friends decide to come up with a prank to pull on Karen. It turns out Hannie has preemptively packed a rubber snake just in case this occassion should arise. They plant the rubber snake on Karen's bag, and she COMPLETELY overreacts, bursting into tears. Karen, IT IS JUST A STUPID RUBBER SNAKE. She is so scared by this hunk of snake-shaped rubber that she can't even eat, and then cries about WHAT IF IT HAD BEEN A REAL SNAKE??? Well it wasn't, get over it.
Chapter 18
Packed lunches are too ~BORING~ for Karen so they're cooking on a campfire like Linny's group. Karen suddenly decides she doesn't want to play her own game anymore (an awesome sounding game she made up called Murder In The Dark) and they should just tell ghost stories instead, because Karen now runs the camp. And now she's making everything boring when she complained about everything being boring all week long. You know, I read these books a lot and there are times when I'll just never, ever understand Karen's logic.
Chapter 19 (Karen gets owned again)
Karen gets bitchy that she decided to have them camp out so far because now she's getting scared. BUT ARE YOU STILL BORED, KAREN? She recounts about how she cried over the rubber snake 'cause it liek mighta been a REAL one okay??? and she can't eat and oh god there are bats and why why why can't we just camp at the campsite? Becaue YOU said you didn't want to and you are now Lord Of The Camp, Karen. Now reap what you sow for once in your life. Now Karen starts screaming bloody murder over Hannie's ghost story and the kids are getting annoyed with her constant overreactions. At bedtime, Karen finally gets scared by the WIND and some CRICKETS, and she runs to Nora's tent screaming bloody murder and wakes her up. Nora is probably laughing evilly in her head right now. Karen admits that she's been acting like a bratty killjoy all this time because she was afraid to be there without Kristy. It's an understandable feeling, but did she REALLY have to take it out on everyone else and ruin her WHOLE camp experience with it? Karen ends up sleeping through the last day of camp.
Chapter 20 is just the characters writing back and forth to their camp friends. It's nothing snarkworthy, so this is the end. Thank you and goodnight.
Chapter 14
They're at the fair and I DEARLY hope they do not have to wear uniforms there too. That's just..ugh (can you see how very very anti-uniform I am?). I always make a note to wear my most Claudia-esque outfits to fairs, especially when I'll be working as a vendor there. Anyway, Karen is apparently done with the "I'm bored" shit and is actually trying to have fun now. I don't really like how they make the kids look at the exhibits and animals BEFORE playing games. IT'S A FAIR. Games and prizes should be the VERY FIRST priority and this is not fucking school. If this is what sleepaway camp is like, I'm kinda glad I never got a chance to go (not to mention, no surfing the Interwebz! Nooooo!). Hannie looks at some funny vegetables (best part of the fair besides games in my opinion. I LOVE looking at awesome plants) and then gets lost. Uh-ohhhh spaghetti-os.
Chapter 15
Nancy agrees with me that Hannie's been being a jerk lately. They go to the craft booth and I feel a little surge of warmth in my heart because selling crafts at festivals/fairs is what I do to make money. They look at pigs, Nancy is told that Hannie's lost and begins to feel sorry for being mad at her even though it was totally justified and getting lost doesn't mean she has to forgive her right then and there. But they're 7, so she does anyway. They find her, everyone's happy, blah blah.
Chapter 16
Linny says the campout they're going on isn't a real campout. Uh, then what is it? A banana? You're sleeping out in a tent in the woods like you want to do so badly! He keeps complaining about "Aww it's not a real campout." Linny, what is a "real campout" to you? But the counselor pleases him by saying they're going to be cooking food on a campfire, etc. Awesomesauce, says Linny, but he's still upset that they're not diving in the lake and catching fish in their teeth to cook. Linny was awesome in the beginning of this book, now he's just being a big fat killjoy complainer. Let's all hope he doesn't grow up to be Christopher McCandless. They get to hunt for berries though and that's pretty cool. I feel as if I'd be too nervous to do so without a trained botanist with me because I'd be so worried about "IS THIS THIS AND THAT POISONOUS?" You may not think so, but MANY poisonous berries come close to looking like edible ones. I've got some nightshade berries in an area near the woods behind my house, and they look almost exactly like blueberries. I had to pull my friend away from a bush really quick because she thought they were blueberries. Linny is finally satisfied with the campout and looks up at the stars. To be honest, I've always wanted to sleep outside under the stars but am too worried about bugs crawling into my ears.
Chapter 17 (Karen gets owned)
Nora's let Karen pick the camping location and Karen gets all superior about it all "Staying too close to the camp would have been boring and babyish!" Whatever, brat. She refuses to participate in the marching song because it's boring, and yawns obnoxiously instead. Then she COMPLAINS ABOUT THE DISTANCE TO THE SITE *SHE* PICKED, and that is the last straw for Nancy, so she and Hannie and their other friends decide to come up with a prank to pull on Karen. It turns out Hannie has preemptively packed a rubber snake just in case this occassion should arise. They plant the rubber snake on Karen's bag, and she COMPLETELY overreacts, bursting into tears. Karen, IT IS JUST A STUPID RUBBER SNAKE. She is so scared by this hunk of snake-shaped rubber that she can't even eat, and then cries about WHAT IF IT HAD BEEN A REAL SNAKE??? Well it wasn't, get over it.
Chapter 18
Packed lunches are too ~BORING~ for Karen so they're cooking on a campfire like Linny's group. Karen suddenly decides she doesn't want to play her own game anymore (an awesome sounding game she made up called Murder In The Dark) and they should just tell ghost stories instead, because Karen now runs the camp. And now she's making everything boring when she complained about everything being boring all week long. You know, I read these books a lot and there are times when I'll just never, ever understand Karen's logic.
Chapter 19 (Karen gets owned again)
Karen gets bitchy that she decided to have them camp out so far because now she's getting scared. BUT ARE YOU STILL BORED, KAREN? She recounts about how she cried over the rubber snake 'cause it liek mighta been a REAL one okay??? and she can't eat and oh god there are bats and why why why can't we just camp at the campsite? Becaue YOU said you didn't want to and you are now Lord Of The Camp, Karen. Now reap what you sow for once in your life. Now Karen starts screaming bloody murder over Hannie's ghost story and the kids are getting annoyed with her constant overreactions. At bedtime, Karen finally gets scared by the WIND and some CRICKETS, and she runs to Nora's tent screaming bloody murder and wakes her up. Nora is probably laughing evilly in her head right now. Karen admits that she's been acting like a bratty killjoy all this time because she was afraid to be there without Kristy. It's an understandable feeling, but did she REALLY have to take it out on everyone else and ruin her WHOLE camp experience with it? Karen ends up sleeping through the last day of camp.
Chapter 20 is just the characters writing back and forth to their camp friends. It's nothing snarkworthy, so this is the end. Thank you and goodnight.