Today I am skipping a whole day of summer school for this which is pretty bad. Oh well. I had a lotta fun today. Well it started with a wake up at 7:00AM to carpool one of our teammates to our pick-up area. We waited for an hour at the bus stop for that dude and he didn't show up. We tried calling his cellphone, homephone and our counsellor to see if he phoned him and told him not to pick us up. So as we arrive at our pick-up area, there he is, on that comfy lazy chair sitting there as if nothing happened. Oh well, I didn't let my anger take the best of me and I stayed calm and relaxed. Apparently, in the end, his parents were willing to take him to the pick up area and did not need our carpool. But he didn't tell us about it. We get up on the school bus and bus for like 2 and a half hours before we read our starting point. I heard that last year's golds had to stay huddled in their spot for like an hour because of a thunderstorm. I was quite worried because it was cloudy and it seemed like it was going to rain for this weekend as well. When we get there, everyone puts on bug spray because there are so many mosquitoes there. Within 10 minutes of having the professionals/guides arriving, we are wet because we need to cross a mini river to an island. We had to walk to a chest high water to reach our campsite. When we reach the campsite, we needed to find a shelter. This was like the worst day of my life because this campsite was so forested and had many many mosquitoes. I just got like 20 mosquito bites within 30 minutes and I had put on bug spray. No matter what, they just camp and kept biting me. It was terrible and it started to itch. GOOD thing there was after-bite. OH well we went into the water again learning how to rescue people when they are stuck in the water. For me, it felt so easy, because all you do is throw a rope behind the person in the water so the rope lands right next to the person and he can reach and grab on to it. As he grabs on, you just pull him towards you and I was named Chuck-It #2 because of my throwing skills. Today we didn't do much because apparently we will be getting our canoes tomorrow (Saturday) because we had a minor issue. Here's the issue, our counsellor had booked the canoes for all three days but the rejected our request because he had said they do not want to wreck their canoes. It was $2000 for a canoe and our program had wrecked a few already and so they declined us. So, our guides had to book it today and had to say it was for a family reunion. A BIG family reunion with like 20 something people. And so our canoes came tomorrow. We slept at 9:30PM for the day tomorrow. Pretty good sleep except the mosquito bites itched and there were some mosquitoes' inside the tent that bit me while I was asleep.
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