Camp Anxiety

One word: YAY. Okay, so I wasn't exactly EXCITED to go initially, but I'll be going with my brother and my mom so it should be bearable if and when I end up a social clam, unwilling to talk or interact with anyone. I'll be coming back on Saturday only to have a one day break before, you guessed it, ANOTHER church related activity! At least this one I am sure it it will be at least somewhat fun if I can base my first year in Girls' Camp off of it.

Yeah, I'm going two two church "camp" things. First Youth Conference tomorrow for a few days, where I'll go to all these stupid religious workshops and dances and help out organizing canned foods at the Food Drive. Well, I wouldn't have to organize cans, but I refused (as in, nearly had a mental breakdown during practice) to do a two person dance with somebody. It's simply humiliating. So I'm stuck with the cans.

But there's going to be a pool and I'll be sleeping in a hotel... with one bed in the room. With four people. Thanks a lot, church. Maybe if you asked to pay money for our own rooms, I could have an excuse not to go.

Then I'm going to Girls' Camp, which is this camp for the young women in the church. We go out in cabins and do rafting and eat smores and have a grand old time. I know it's going to be at least a little fun, considering my first year there was a blast. Let's ignore the fact me and two other girls snuck out and chugged three litres of root bear and destroyed a whole pack of cookies and laughed and went "star tipping."

For any of you who don't know what star tipping is, it's when one person spins around with their head looking up towards the stars, and they spin 'round and 'round and 'round until someone suddenly flashes the light of a flashlight in their eyes and they stumble and fall to the ground. Hilarity ensues.

But this is a different ward, so I don't know. I like them though.

I'm just really worried about the heat. Heat is awful.

I'm not kidding. It's reached 107 degrees here, and no rain. For anyone that doesn't know, heat + me = dead. I get extremely hot, extremely irritable, and extremely sick. It's like a bad case of PMS, but all because of the sun. I swear to god it's mocking me.

There's going to be AC in the cabins and one of the Young Women's leaders said it was totally fine if I went inside if I got sick because she was the same way, but it's not her that I'm worried about. It's about, hmm, let's call her Sister Dinosaur. My parents aren't exactly very fond of her, and very recently she's been assigned to teach the young women. She's a self proclaimed "camp nazi" and promises not to be like how she was when she was in camp because she understands "the purpose of girls' camp today is a little different than how it was when I was a young woman."

But I know her type. Some nasty, nasty little voice inside my head is telling me, that if I even take a few steps towards my cabin, or if she finds me in there attempting to cool down, she will surely disapprove.

If you couldn't read that, that was me sitting helplessly on a bed in the cabin while Sister Dinosaur barged in and yelled at me for not living the true camp experience. I wrote "way" but my hand hurt, so "experience" was just too much. Yeah.

They say we're going to go rafting. Not Extreme Sport rafting or anything, we're just going to get into our little canoes and float along the river. But I really don't know about that.

Like I said, there have been days where it has hit 107 degrees. And a significant lack of rain.

Only time will tell... only time will tell... /leery glance at lonesome puddle