My brother went to an overnight camp, and it was just shy of $200 per day. No financial aid for that camp, but damn if my sports-loving parents didn't cough up the money for it.
That was a football camp, and Jerry Rice and a few other major names at the time were present for it. My brother was a wide receiver. In baseball, he did pitching and first base, and his prospective career ended when he took a line drive to the elbow.
Another girl named Samantha who's in a different cabin is also a shortstop and apparently if Kristy is better than her she can be first string.
Shortstop is a fairly useless position. All it really does is enable the other in-fielders to cover less space each. It's legal in baseball to send just eight onto the field. Of course, no sports team does this unless necessary, but if a team wanted to, whether a small league or the majors, they can.
I feel like at the camp I went to we would never be able to get away with this stuff. It was really rigid and people got in trouble easily.
Yup. That kind of shit would get you kicked out. I don't remember the details, but Steve Young kicked someone out of my brother's camp the first day. I think it was something like hanging someone else's boxers outside the window as a prank. They were serious about making sure that the environment was supportive, and rivalries and ANYTHING that could be construed as bullying got you kicked out and tossed on the next plane home.
Kristy has trouble falling asleep because she's never slept in a top bunk (wonder if she'll pull a Claudia and step on the hand of the person on the bottom) and she's homesick.
When I went to outdoor ed when I was 11, I'd never been away from my family unless it was sleeping as a friend's house. I admit I sat under a table at dinner one night and cried. Thank goodness the kids at my private school were awesome and made me feel better instead of laughing.
The robins laugh at a girl on the blue jays who falls flat on her face. Also, she fell because they tied her shoes together.
How did that girl not notice?
Kristy's cabin gets revenge by putting buttered noodles in their beds and tricking them into thinking it's worms.
How did they get cooked noodles?
The counselors tell them to cool it but laugh it off at the same time.
Having to remake beds at night because another cabin was unsupervised long enough to break into another cabin is a HUGE issue.
Next, the robins hid the bluejays' bathing suits when they're going to go swimming. That prank is pretty harmless, at least.
Not at all harmless. This meant they Robins went through the private possessions of another cabin. Most of us would feel violated if that happened to us.
My brother went to an overnight camp, and it was just shy of $200 per day. No financial aid for that camp, but damn if my sports-loving parents didn't cough up the money for it.
That was a football camp, and Jerry Rice and a few other major names at the time were present for it. My brother was a wide receiver. In baseball, he did pitching and first base, and his prospective career ended when he took a line drive to the elbow.
Another girl named Samantha who's in a different cabin is also a shortstop and apparently if Kristy is better than her she can be first string.
Shortstop is a fairly useless position. All it really does is enable the other in-fielders to cover less space each. It's legal in baseball to send just eight onto the field. Of course, no sports team does this unless necessary, but if a team wanted to, whether a small league or the majors, they can.
I feel like at the camp I went to we would never be able to get away with this stuff. It was really rigid and people got in trouble easily.
Yup. That kind of shit would get you kicked out. I don't remember the details, but Steve Young kicked someone out of my brother's camp the first day. I think it was something like hanging someone else's boxers outside the window as a prank. They were serious about making sure that the environment was supportive, and rivalries and ANYTHING that could be construed as bullying got you kicked out and tossed on the next plane home.
Kristy has trouble falling asleep because she's never slept in a top bunk (wonder if she'll pull a Claudia and step on the hand of the person on the bottom) and she's homesick.
When I went to outdoor ed when I was 11, I'd never been away from my family unless it was sleeping as a friend's house. I admit I sat under a table at dinner one night and cried. Thank goodness the kids at my private school were awesome and made me feel better instead of laughing.
The robins laugh at a girl on the blue jays who falls flat on her face. Also, she fell because they tied her shoes together.
How did that girl not notice?
Kristy's cabin gets revenge by putting buttered noodles in their beds and tricking them into thinking it's worms.
How did they get cooked noodles?
The counselors tell them to cool it but laugh it off at the same time.
Having to remake beds at night because another cabin was unsupervised long enough to break into another cabin is a HUGE issue.
Next, the robins hid the bluejays' bathing suits when they're going to go swimming. That prank is pretty harmless, at least.
Not at all harmless. This meant they Robins went through the private possessions of another cabin. Most of us would feel violated if that happened to us.
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