you're just a kid
so. i just had one of the best weekends i've had in a long time. i went on the forum retreat at killam's point and it was awesome
okay...here we go...
so, first day:
it took laura and i forever to get our act together and get our asses up to killam's point, but it was all good, we were there by eight. the beginning part of the night was spent hanging out in our room, or on the rocks outside of the house with sasha, laura, gonzalo, shinno and alvaro. my earring was used to fix alvaro's joint, gonzalo almost fell in the ocean, laura contemplated pot, and i felt happy because i finally have really good friends at cross. later we had a pumpkin carving contest and my groups totally should have won, because we did the cat in the hat...but it didn't. OH WELL. that night gonzalo and i tried to get everyone to sleep outside with us, but they wouldn't, so we slept outside on the rocks under the cross and talked until five thirty. it was so fun. especially when gonzalo thought he saw someone running across the water (it was a bird) and yelled and i screamed and we ran. so funny.
second day:
tons of stuff happened the second day. one of my favorite moments on the trip was when laura, hannah, gonzalo, alvaro, (gonzalo and alvaro are twins by the way) shinno and i all went to the cliffs and cuddled and talked in our sleeping bags. then gonzalo made a paper airplane and threw it off the cliffs and when it landed in the water hannah went, 'GONZALO!! a whale might choke on that!!' silly hannah. saturday afternoon everyone got on lots of shitty clothes and tons of socks and went outside (in the fourty degree weather) to play winkums. such a fun game. basically wrestling (rasslin' as hannah says) with one person to try and get to another person. it get's quite violent, and i'm very bruised and battered, but it's all good. we had a beautiful sunset that night while we were playing and that was really nice.
saturday night we just hung out. up in the rooms all of us piled into beds with eachother and gonzalo fell off the top bunk onto sasha who was on alvaro and hannah, laura, shinno and i laughed. then we all headed off to the cliffs and hung out there until we were supposed to go back at four to play some game. except we all passed out, but laura got cold and told me she was going back but i wasn't fully awake and didn't process it until i saw her walking off into the woods. now i had been very warm all snuggled between laura and gonzalo, but then laura left and i was cold and started shivering and i couldn't stop. so i tried to tell gonzalo that i was going to walk back (in hopes that he would offer to come with me so i didn't go alone) but i couldn't get him up. so i went to alvaro and i couldn't wake him. i shook and shook and neither budged. finally i hopped over gonzalo to shinno and woke him up and told him. he didn't offer to come. oh well. it wasn't bad. it was actually kind of nice walking through the woods.
third and final day:
i woke up first in the room and it was so gorgeous out (the sun was almost over the trees, it was about eight) and so i hopped out of bed and went outside and took some lovely pictures until my camera died. then i just sat and contemplated the weekend and it was lovely. it was so windy and sunny and gorgeous being by the ocean. then my laura came out. and sat with me. and it was very nice. because she brought a muffin. today was basically just a really nice relaxing day. the sun and the wind and the ocean was so gorgeous. and when laura and i went over to the cliffs it was so warm because it was blocked from the wind, and then gonzalo came over and we decided to go swimming. so gonzalo and i jumped in the icy water in our underwear and laura sat and looked warm. it was actually really nice because it was so warm (the weather, not the water). but as we were walking up the rocks, gonzalo in his boxers and t-shirt and me in my underwear and t-shirt, both dripping, these three older women walked by with their dogs and they stopped and stupid gonzalo and laura had to pet the dogs and i'm standing there, clearly in my underwear and it was bad. funny. but bad.
so that was basically my trip. for those of you that stuck it out and read this whole thing, i commend you. i imagine it's quite boring. but that's okay. i really just do this so i can remember things that happend. heehee. now i'm off to do a shit load of homework. woohoo? i don't really feel like being back here. i could have stayed there for a very, very long time. it was so relaxing not to be hassled by parents and teachers and stupid people. to just...be there. no expectations of one another, simply being. it's a wonderful thing to find friends where you can simply lie down together on a rock on a shore, and not say anything, just lie there.
okay...here we go...
so, first day:
it took laura and i forever to get our act together and get our asses up to killam's point, but it was all good, we were there by eight. the beginning part of the night was spent hanging out in our room, or on the rocks outside of the house with sasha, laura, gonzalo, shinno and alvaro. my earring was used to fix alvaro's joint, gonzalo almost fell in the ocean, laura contemplated pot, and i felt happy because i finally have really good friends at cross. later we had a pumpkin carving contest and my groups totally should have won, because we did the cat in the hat...but it didn't. OH WELL. that night gonzalo and i tried to get everyone to sleep outside with us, but they wouldn't, so we slept outside on the rocks under the cross and talked until five thirty. it was so fun. especially when gonzalo thought he saw someone running across the water (it was a bird) and yelled and i screamed and we ran. so funny.
second day:
tons of stuff happened the second day. one of my favorite moments on the trip was when laura, hannah, gonzalo, alvaro, (gonzalo and alvaro are twins by the way) shinno and i all went to the cliffs and cuddled and talked in our sleeping bags. then gonzalo made a paper airplane and threw it off the cliffs and when it landed in the water hannah went, 'GONZALO!! a whale might choke on that!!' silly hannah. saturday afternoon everyone got on lots of shitty clothes and tons of socks and went outside (in the fourty degree weather) to play winkums. such a fun game. basically wrestling (rasslin' as hannah says) with one person to try and get to another person. it get's quite violent, and i'm very bruised and battered, but it's all good. we had a beautiful sunset that night while we were playing and that was really nice.
saturday night we just hung out. up in the rooms all of us piled into beds with eachother and gonzalo fell off the top bunk onto sasha who was on alvaro and hannah, laura, shinno and i laughed. then we all headed off to the cliffs and hung out there until we were supposed to go back at four to play some game. except we all passed out, but laura got cold and told me she was going back but i wasn't fully awake and didn't process it until i saw her walking off into the woods. now i had been very warm all snuggled between laura and gonzalo, but then laura left and i was cold and started shivering and i couldn't stop. so i tried to tell gonzalo that i was going to walk back (in hopes that he would offer to come with me so i didn't go alone) but i couldn't get him up. so i went to alvaro and i couldn't wake him. i shook and shook and neither budged. finally i hopped over gonzalo to shinno and woke him up and told him. he didn't offer to come. oh well. it wasn't bad. it was actually kind of nice walking through the woods.
third and final day:
i woke up first in the room and it was so gorgeous out (the sun was almost over the trees, it was about eight) and so i hopped out of bed and went outside and took some lovely pictures until my camera died. then i just sat and contemplated the weekend and it was lovely. it was so windy and sunny and gorgeous being by the ocean. then my laura came out. and sat with me. and it was very nice. because she brought a muffin. today was basically just a really nice relaxing day. the sun and the wind and the ocean was so gorgeous. and when laura and i went over to the cliffs it was so warm because it was blocked from the wind, and then gonzalo came over and we decided to go swimming. so gonzalo and i jumped in the icy water in our underwear and laura sat and looked warm. it was actually really nice because it was so warm (the weather, not the water). but as we were walking up the rocks, gonzalo in his boxers and t-shirt and me in my underwear and t-shirt, both dripping, these three older women walked by with their dogs and they stopped and stupid gonzalo and laura had to pet the dogs and i'm standing there, clearly in my underwear and it was bad. funny. but bad.
so that was basically my trip. for those of you that stuck it out and read this whole thing, i commend you. i imagine it's quite boring. but that's okay. i really just do this so i can remember things that happend. heehee. now i'm off to do a shit load of homework. woohoo? i don't really feel like being back here. i could have stayed there for a very, very long time. it was so relaxing not to be hassled by parents and teachers and stupid people. to just...be there. no expectations of one another, simply being. it's a wonderful thing to find friends where you can simply lie down together on a rock on a shore, and not say anything, just lie there.