Summer Time Adventure

Three days to summer, two days to summer, one day to summer… and its summer!!! I’ve been waiting for this moment so long. Now I can sit back relax and watch TV. And in the evening, go play with my friends. But my mom had a different idea for summer. It was… summer camp. Summer camps aren’t my idea for summer. But you can’t defeat “the mom”. The next day I found myself sitting in a bus going in the middle of nowhere. Mum waved me goodbye and I was off to camp.

We reached after 2 hours, (which seemed as an eternity). You can identify cool kids in a glimpse, as they sit in big groups. After everyone got off the bus, the head counselor sang a song. After the song he named us as privates. (Was this a boot camp??)

The camp was nothing but a forest with a few dorms on one side, a lake in the middle, and a few dorms on the other side for girls. The boy’s side had 4 dorms named sly foxes, golden eagles, howling wolves and grey raccoons. We were sorted out, and I was in grey raccoons.

Our dorm counselor Carl took me to our dorm. There were already 6 people inside. Carl called out a boy name Norman who looked like a big brain with his massive glasses on. Norman took me inside and introduced me to the guys. They were bombardier, tuna, legend,dweebs,smurf and minion.

After some time we went to the cafeteria to eat. We took the raccoon table, took our dinner, which was grey slop and started eating. The golden eagles came yelling what’s for dinner, roast raccoons, what’s for dinner roast raccoons. I yelled cut it out. But Norman said we can do nothing about it, because they’re the best in everything.

After finishing our dinner we went to our dorm. After reaching, we saw a big sign out – Welcome to LoserVille. I was furious. I went to the head counselor and complained. But all he said that this is life and you brace for its impact. I returned to the dorm and all seven of us started cleaning. After everything was set, I said - we need revenge. We need to do something. I know we are not heroes, but everyone knows revenge is sweet. Everyone stared at me as I just blew up. But legend put his hand forward and said “one for all and all for nothing”. Everyone laughed, as got ready for extra sweet revenge.

The plan was simple, after lights out and good night announcement we would get our flashlights and secretly go to the Golden Eagles’ nest. We carried out the plan but after reaching, we realized that the eagles were too smart for us. They were taking turns to guard their dorm and that was the end of it. We had to return to our dorm and get the maximum amount of sleep possible.

The next day after wake up announcement at 5 am we went to the cafeteria like sleepy zombies. Then we had to go to our dorm and get ready for the hike. And the Golden Eagle strike again. This time our hiking gear went missing and took 30 minutes finding it. The head counselor was very specific about time. As we were late by 30 minutes, we had to do 30 laps. This made my blood boil with anger.

After the laps and the hike, we went swimming. We secretly skipped swimming and went to our dorm. This was our best chance against the Eagles. So we took peanut butter, coke, poison ivy and mud. We had only 15 minutes to perform our revenge task. We reached Golden Eagles’ nest and started the mission. The put peanut butter on their towels and curtains. Poison ivy in their shampoo and soap, mud on their beds. We had four minutes to spare. We put some insect infested grass on their floor and threw raw eggs on their windows. We ran at our fastest speed and reached our dorms with eight seconds to spare.

Norman showed us book which looked like a diary. It belonged to the Golden Eagle leader George, It had all its secrets. Bombardier took his camera and ran towards the Nest to take pictures of their expressions. We had a good time looking at their faces filled rage. At dinner, Bombardier ate quickly and went to guard our dorm. And then the Golden Eagles appear – screaming ‘What for Dinner? – Roast Raccoons’ But we had their secrets. So we also yelled – ‘Golden Eagles – Big Pampers’. The look on their faces was priceless. After these the Golden Eagles would never tease the Raccoons. Turns out the summer wasn’t bad after all.