Last week, the whole 6th-grade went on a trip to Camp Kirkwood. As we rode the buses, rain was pounding on the windows, while a hurricane was raging not so far away. But in the bus, we were watching a movie. After we reached camp, we quickly rushed to the pavilion to shelter from the still pouring rain. Then, the chaperones sent us to our cabins to rest a bit. We played card games for a while until they said it was okay to go out and that it was still raining a bit. My group(group 2) went orienteering and went to the pool to swim. After taking a break to change in the cabins, we headed for dinner. I can’t really remember what happened after that other than sleeping in my sleeping bag.
The next day, it was still pouring water as we had breakfast and started a whole new day full of exciting activities. We did some group teamwork activities which were not that fun because when we were playing human knot, I always got stretched out and my arms hurt a lot after that. We also did a activity where everyone put a finger on a hoop and had to slowly descend the hoop to the ground without making it fall off. Everyone thought it would be easy at first but then realized it was hard when the hoop randomly lifted a direction and dropped a direction. We were all confused at this because everybody just wanted to get out of the rain and back in the cabins. In the afternoon after we had lunch, we went to the pool again, but this time it was bright and sunny instead of yesterday, which was dreary and raining. We then went on the Kanga-Jump. The Kanga-Jump is a gigantic air bag that is shaped like a half oval. It was very bouncy and when Mr. Robbins jumped on, everyone just bounced suddenly simultaneously. For dinner, we each had two slices of pizza and pink lemonade. We then went to a campfire to eat s’mores.
The next and last day, we had pancakes for breakfast and did some activities that some groups didn’t get to do. We first went to the V-Swing, where someone would be chained to a line and the rest would pull a line that raised the hanging person, and when we reached a certain point depending on the person, we would stop pulling and hold on while the person had to unlock a rope. Once the person does it, a click would happen and the person would fall and start swinging until it stopped. Next, we went to a zipline that crossed a river around 20 ft in the air. After the zipline, we went canoeing in teams of three. I was steering but it was very tiring. Finally, we ate lunch and prepared to leave the camp.
I was sad we had to leave so quickly because I really enjoyed all the activities there. I hope next year we go to a nice place to have fun!