Hello lovelies, I'm back with more! Thanks so much for the comments and I hope you enjoy!
By the way-- shout-out to two snarkers for a minute-- bleeding_thorn2 and road_baby... I wanted to let you guys know that I read all your snarks and I adore them, but my phone wacks out and never lets me comment. Sometimes I will actually write the comment and then my phone freezes for ten minutes and doesn't post it. So...yeah, I wanted to let you know I read your snarks and they're awesome and I mean to comment on them but it just doesn't work. Yeah. Anyway...
Chapter 8- Mal
Which means getting to read about abuse. Yay.
Okay, so Mal and Jessi are super loud when they wake up even though it isn’t time to get up yet. I can see why their cabin mates get annoyed by this.
Anyway, the abuse continues after wake-up call. For some reason, Mal and Jessi have greatly offended the assholes by getting up right at wake-up call and getting dressed. Then Asshole #3 calls them “Oreos.” I initially thought this was a racist remark saying that Jessi is the black part of the Oreo and Mal the white, but Jessi it’s a remark indicating a black person who acts like a white person. Either way, it’s nasty as hell. Mal stands up for herself; however, and does a pretty good job of it.
Anyway, the rest of the chapter is pretty boring. Jessi and Mal coach the eight-year-olds for their Parents Day dance and they suck at it, and it seems like Jessi/Mal are significantly older than them, instead of just three years.
Chapter 9- K-Ron
K-Ron’s co-CITs are all sooo cool, because they wear nail polish and makeup and have boyfriends. She feels like a little kid compared to them, even though it is totally normal for a thirteen-year-old not to have a boyfriend or wear makeup. One of her co-CITS, Tansy, talks about how cool her name is because it means “tenacious” and then K-Ron said she couldn’t even find her own name in a baby name book. That makes no sense. She has a perfectly common name. Why wouldn’t it be in a baby name book?
Anyway, the girls are acting like dramatic idiots about missing their boyfriends, K-Ron mentions Bart but says he’s not her boyfriend, and they all act like she just told them she never washes her clothes (which she doesn’t, but she does not mention that). They then start talking about how K-Ron’s looks would improve with makeup. Why is everyone at Camp Mohawk so horrible?
Anyway, poor Charlotte is having a horrible time at camp. During dinner, a biscuit is thrown and lands on her head, and what kind of staff does this camp have that this even happens? She’s then allowed to call her parents TWICE, which never happened at the camp I went to. She tells Kristy and her mother she “wahhhhhh gome” and they struggle to understand. Guys, she’s saying she wants to go home. It doesn’t take a rocket science to figure that out. Anyway, because the other staff members suck, they make Kristy do all the handling of Charlotte. They can’t just split it up. Although this camp seems a lot more disorganized than most camps. At every camp I’ve heard of, the group gets an activity schedule. It kind of sounds like everyone can just do whatever at this camp. Like everyone goes swimming and Kristy has to miss it because Charlotte doesn’t want to. Generally, Charlotte would have to at least go and sit on the edge of the pool. It’s ridiculous that Kristy has to miss out on fun.
Anyway, they play archery instead. Without an instructor there. Such an organized camp. Charlotte doesn’t like that either, so Kristy reads to her. I actually like K-Ron in this book. I would have loved my camp counselor to read with me when I was homesick, instead of mocking me when I wasn’t walking fast enough, practically forcing food down my throat, and really not giving two shits when I was homesick.
Sorry off topic…
Chapter 11- Claudia
Haley is teaching her cabin mates sign language, which is pretty awesome.
Anyway, Claudia is spending all her money on junk food, and okay, I can’t blame her, because camp food is disgusting. For example, they have “black things that might have been English muffins, but it was hard to tell.” Ew. I can one up it though. My camp had purple roast beef. I really wish I was kidding. So, because this camp has no structure and they don’t have specific activities they have to be at, Claudia, Sally, Vanessa, and Haley go straight to the canteen. And of course, of course, OF COURSE, the staff working the canteen comment on Claudia’s figure and complexion and how it stays perfect despite what she eats. Because they can’t not mention that for one second. Like someone even notices that, anyway. When I see someone eating chocolate, my first thought is definitely not “oh, what great skin you have.”
Anyway, they go horseback riding, but they have to groom the horses and do all this work when they are paying to go there and have fun. They get all disgusting from it and are in various stages of dressed when some guys come to the cabin. Claudia takes one look at one of the guys and is barely short of planning their wedding. As she describes him, the writing randomly changes to present tense because Ann is such a wonderful writer. The guy is Japanese like her, which is pretty cool.
Anyway, Claudia wasn’t paying attention to anything the dudes said because of her orgasm, but Sally informs her that they were inviting them to CIT Movie Night. Claudia’s campers start teasing her about the guy. One girl asks if Claudia really likes him, and Claudia says yes, but I’m sorry, how do you know this? You looked at the guy for half a second, you don’t really like him. But either way, the girls decide to investigate to find out more information about the dude.
The kids play a prank by hiding Claudia’s large stash of junk food that she got at the canteen, but she kind of deserved it because she put an inchworm on Sally’s pillow, and stepped on her hand, which she had done before in the previous chapter. Bunk beds are not that complicated, Claudia.
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Sorry, this is so short. I'm feeling really tired. My dog also indicated it was time to stop by moving the book to the complete other side of the bed with her paw when I put it down for a second. So that's all for now.