Author: Eric Ephraim
Date: 06-27-03 07:47
Week 1, Day 7
Time flies when you're having fun. We are already through week one. The week started last saturday with the first day of camp. The anticipation is never greater than riding on the chartered bus (last air conditioning for 8 weeks) and pulling into camp. There is no feeling like it when you rock and sway over the tree roots and sand hills of the counselors parking lot and tree branches screech as they scrape the side of the bus. Of course minutes earlier someone gave the first "hey look, Birch Trails taking a soap drill" of the season. Your stomach is settled with a picnic lunch of hotdogs and potato salad (in ten years, I never ate the baked beans, creature of habit). Then its off to the new cabin to build espri de corps and obtain all the Horseshoe wonderhooks you can find. That night is the once a year umbriago game on the A-Field and a restless night of sleep to get over lingering homesickness.
By Tuesday, all are settled into the routine. The lid is off, new campers learn to work the "juice for your cracker" trade, and some cabins are even on their second jar of peanut butter (the plastic lids have ruined creativity). Its at this time that an invasion worse than gnats on the tennis court arrive: C.C. Burns. Frankie never showed greater restraint then when C.C. came to town. I always thought Frankie fantasized about pushing C.C. off the top of the bus during the all camp picture (front row 1978-1982). Tennis racket, rifle or water ski?
Wednesday was the first cookout as a whole new generation of campers were introduced to the wonders of number ten tins and individual steaks sealed in plastic wrap. Also, its the first Council Horseshoe of the year. I would pay good money now to sit out at Council; gaze at the lake, the fire and the sunset, and be so thoroughly un-entertained.
Anyway, go to go. We are in the middle of the first super inspection of the summer. Amazingly, I have sand in my shoe bag and I haven't put anything in there except for the contraban canteen I have been hording (grape tootsie rolls). I don't want to loose a point. This is also one of my favorite lunches, tuna fish with either grilled cheese sandwiches or mac and cheese.
See you all soon. P.S., this will serve as my letter to get into dinner tonight. Now I can read that new Archie Digest during rest period. This is the one where Reggie is trying to trick Archie and....
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