Day One
Inu-Yasha's Day
The next morning, I was awakened by the sound of a bellowing creature. I tried to ignore it but it continued its insipid song. Suddenly, Mr. Shawn walks in and tells me to get up because we have to go and 'meet the children'. I wanted to ignore him too but I can't remember what compelled me to get up after he came in.
So I found myself up and about a whole lot earlier that I wanted to be. I made my way across a lot further than I wanted to walk first thing in the morning to a building where I met up with Kagome, Miroku and Sango.
"Good morning Inu-Yasha!!" Kagome greeted me all too happily as usual. She clearly had been standing there waiting for me to arrive for reasons still unknown to even myself.
"What's going on now?" I asked. "Are we leaving yet?"
"It hasn't even been a week yet!" Kagome argued. I noticed at that moment that Miroku just turned his head away from me, that arrogant little bastard. He's always thinking he's better than I am. But he is so obviously not.
Then Mr. Shawn got up and just kind of talked for I don't know…hours probably. And then a hoard of hideous children swarmed into the once nearly empty building that was now filled with the disgusting stench of youth. We were made to stand under the sign with our names on them and one by one, little girl after little girl approached me and asked me if I was Mr. Inu-Yasha, pronouncing my name wrong every single time. By the time the last girl said my name, I wanted to smite them all. But I didn't. I don't know why.
Mr. Shawn told us that for the first day that we wouldn't be getting breakfast and that just kind of pissed me off horribly. I took it out on one of the girls and I made her start crying. Oh well. I wasn't that harsh on her.
Mr. Shawn gave us a bunch of schedules. Actually, he really only gave us one for the day but well…you know. Whatever.
First on my list was something fun. Candle making!! Why am I not on my way home right now?!
It just so happens that the lovely candle making building was practically on the other side of the entire campgrounds. We finally made it over to the candle making place. These girls were so slow. They were just walking along as if we didn't have anyplace to go and they had to pick every single flower and they kept saying they were tired and that they wanted to have piggy backs. And the worst part was, there were ten of them.
"Hi, I'm Ms Keri!" a woman greeted us at the door. "I'm the candle making counselor." Then she sat us down and explained about ten thousand different rules as if candle making is hard at all. All of the girls lined up with pieces of string in their hands and started just dipping in the wax and then in the water and then in the wax again. It was excruciating. I wondered how Ms. Keri possibly did it the entire day.
"You're Mr. I right?" Ms. Keri said to me suddenly.
"No." I answered.
"I was told to call you Mr. I." Ms. Keri explained.
"And who exactly told you something like that?" I demanded.
"Mr. Shawn." Ms. Keri answered. "He says that he saw the kids having trouble pronouncing your name and that they should get used to just calling you Mr. I."
"And when did anyone ask ME about this?" I said.
"Didn't you hear him announce it?" Ms. Keri asked. I shook my head. That was probably the time when Mr. Shawn was just talking and I ignored him. Oh well. If any of the girls call me Mr. I, I'll just smite them.
"Mr. I, is it okay if I get a leaf and dip it in the wax to make a leaf candle?!" asked some random little girl, acting as though I WANTED to talk to her.
"Do I look like I care?" I asked, reading her nametag. "Julie?"
"YAY!!" cheered the little Julie girl as she skipped outside.
"I usually don't let them do that." Said Ms. Keri. All of a sudden, the Julie kid came back and just wandered right over to me and sat down next to me.
"What are you doing?" I said.
"I don't feel like making a candle!" Julie said.
"I thought you just said that you were going to make a leaf candle!" I said, trying to make her go away.
"No." said Julie.
"Yes you did, I watched you go outside." Then, upon looking outside, I saw Julie out there looking around for the perfect leaf to use. "Oh. Are you guys twins or something?"
"I'm a triplet." Said the Julie twin girl. "I'm Julia, outside is my sister Julie and the one over there is Juliana."
"So I have three kids in my group that all look exactly the same with names that are almost exactly the same?! Whose idea was THAT?!" Yeah, whose idea WAS that?
"Tough break." Said Ms. Keri. I wanted her to shut up.
"Juliana has the longest hair." Julia explained. "You can remember it because she also has the longest name. Julie has a dot on her face right here," And then Julia pointed to her cheek. "And I'm the cute one!"
"You all look exactly the same." I said.
Just then, a woman with a kid who definitely didn't belong here walked in. The kid was a boy about my age, probably a little younger and I couldn't figure out why the woman had just walked in and dropped him in there. I might have known if I had listened to what she had said but I didn't feel like it.
I figured that since he was about my age then I could get into an intelligent conversation. So I ditched Julia or Julie or Juliana or whatever and Ms. Keri and went over to the kid who had a nametag that said 'Andrew' on it.
"Andrew?" I said. He immediately spun his head to look at me and then dove into a one sided conversation about these mouse creatures named Mickey and Minnie and how they kissed and went to this mysterious place Never Never Land. I quickly realized that Andrew was not the sharpest tool in the shed and I did not want to be caught hanging around with him so I went back over to Julie and Ms. Keri.
"Welcome back!!" said Julie. I didn't yell at her because…I can't remember.
"So…Julie, do you know any of the other camper's names?" I asked.
"I'm JULIA!!" she said.
"Whatever." I said. We continued a conversation and surprisingly enough, she was mildly interesting and slightly cute and she was helpful in telling me about some of the campers. Just as we were starting to really get into it, I heard a bell ringing and Ms. Keri explained to me that that meant that we had to go to the next station as if I didn't know.
I looked at the activity to see that we had woodshop and I thought that that would be mildly fun. Julia wanted to hold my hand but I told her to go away but she really just continued walking next to me.
"Mr. I, I'm hungry!" complained the fat, ugly girl that I remembered from Julia as Rachel. She wasn't too hard to remember because she was by far the most hideous of the lot of them and she was twice as big as the rest of them.
"How do you think I feel?!" I yelled. "I didn't have breakfast!!"
Then Rachel started crying and I threatened to smite her if she didn't stop. And then she did.
And we got to woodshop and nothing really important happened. In fact, the woodshop guy told me that he was unprepared and needed help unpacking since he was in a wheelchair and couldn't reach the heavy boxes on the high shelves. After retrieving one with great ease, he soon realized my super human strength and quickly put me to work doing other things that he could have easily done even in his wheelchair. I don't care enough to remember his name.
Julia offered to help so I used her services though at times she was practically counterproductive. Everyone else, however, played outside with the tetherball. After a while, I realized that they were having way too much fun so I popped the tetherball. They deserved it! They should have been helping me and Julia.
Woodshop was horribly uneventful. I was glad when the bell finally rung that signaled us to go to the next activity. The wheelchair man didn't even bother to thank me because he was far too busy scolding me for popping the tetherball. I could have easily disposed of him but I don't challenge the weak.
Next we had swimming and we made our way down to the lake. There I met up with Miroku, Sango and Kagome. I laughed at Miroku because he was stuck with six little kids that were probably five or something but then I realized that he only had six and half of them were boys so I became insanely jealous. But I didn't tell him that or else he would think he won. I just told him how helpful Julia was and I could tell he was jealous.
Swimming actually consisted of no swimming at all. Kagome told me that the first day is always just rules so we just listened to a lady talk about the rules for hours and hours and hours. Just before I thought I would have to run away screaming, the bell FINALLY rang and it was time for lunch.
By that time, it was around noon time, as Kagome tells me. And then she insisted that I was over exaggerating about my horrendous day so far but what would she know? She wasn't even THERE.
We sat down at a table that was marked 'The Dogs'. It was at that moment that some random girl that I'm not sure if she's even in my group or not pointed out the fact that I had dog-ears. I'm surprised that it took them that long to notice but they are just inferior human children. But after they noticed, they ALL had to touch them, feel them and make sure they were real as if I would be lying to them.
So we all sat down for lunch and many counselors came around feeding us this nauseating plate that consisted of a mass of cheese with what was called 'macaroni'. I could hardly stomach it but I was forced to due to the fact that I hadn't gotten breakfast earlier or dinner the previous day for that matter.
Surprisingly enough, by this time, none of the campers hated me yet.
After an excruciating lunch period that must have been at least two hours long, Mr. Shawn declared that it was now group time so I sat all the girls down in a circle and told them to be creative. Rachel wanted to sit in my lap and I told her that I wanted to leave and that we can't always get what we want. I really dislike Rachel.
One particularly disgusting child with buckteeth suggested playing the name game. She called herself Abigail.
One girl, Sarah, decided that she had to show everyone just what a good dancer she was. At that point, one girl shrieked that they should share something that they're really good at to the group.
I felt like I was going to die.
One girl very quietly uttered her name, Jesse. She wouldn't show off her talents or anything because she just looked down at her feet so I automatically knew that I would like this girl. Well, I obviously wouldn't LIKE her, I would just PREFER her over…let's say Rachel…or Abigail because she's not annoying. Well, she IS annoying since she is a human female child but she's not AS annoying.
There was Katie and Leah who were inseparable best friends. They sang some kind of stupid little song that never seemed to end. It doesn't matter which one is which because they're always walking next to each other so I could just look in that general direction and call a name and that particular one would report.
Or at least, that's how I had planned it.
Next was a little girl that I had previously seen crying in the corner a lot. She was Emily, one name that I find unusually annoying for reasons I cannot explain so that won't be too hard to forget.
Then Julia and her two sisters introduced themselves too and everyone thought it was SO cool how they were triplets. There's nothing cool about that because then I just have to tell them apart and they look the same except one of them have longer hair and one has a dot on her face and the other is Julia.
I allowed them to play tetherball for the rest of the period. They asked me to play and I said no and popped the tetherball right then and there. This time I think a few of them thought it was funny but the rest started crying again and once again, they deserved it. They should know that I do not engage myself in such inferior stupidity with a clan of human girls.
Next up on the list was ceramics and that was a joke. Not only was it RIGHT next to candle making (in the same building in fact) but we spent the entire time just slamming a mass of clay against the table.
I saw Ms. Keri and the ceramics lady talking over in the corner as if neither of them had to be watching any children. Abruptly, the ceramics lady came over to me.
"Ms. Keri and I were wondering where you got that little headset there." Said the ceramics lady, pointing to my ears.
"Headset?" I said, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, Ms. Keri said that she didn't want to say anything to you earlier but now it was bothering her." The ceramics lady answered.
"You know what bothers me?" I said. "Your mustache. Where did you get it? Your father?"
I could tell that that got to her because she put her hand over her mouth and walked around the corner to look in the mirror. She didn't really have a mustache but human women are just so easy to upset.
The rest of ceramics was not fun. A few kids made what looked like a bowl and wanted to give them to me but what made them think that I wanted to carry them around and what would I do with their stupid little bowls?! Luckily, the ceramics lady said that she had to fire them first so they wouldn't melt or things to that extent.
On the way to our next activity, we passed by Sango and a hoard of kids with facial blemishes. I quickly realized that it was supposed to be me with that group so I tried not to make eye contact with Sango but that wasn't too hard considering she was a bit preoccupied with watching out for her well being since these kids were obviously extremely aroused by her appearance.
The way to get to the dance building was up about ten thousand stairs which I quickly just leapt in one bound but then had to wait for all the kids to scale them. So I went back down and picked up the Julia triplets since I couldn't remember which one was Julia and she HAD helped me earlier and leapt up with them.
All of the kids started calling who would get a ride next time. I ignored them since there was no next time.
The dance teacher introduced herself as Ms. Lauren. I'd probably forget that later. She told everyone that there were no rules except to have fun. That was really corny. She put on some music or something and started reading a magazine while all the kids jumped around and called that dancing. I sat and watched them. I couldn't believe that Ms. Lauren was getting paid for this. And the thing was, she was probably getting paid more than I was when my job is clearly the harder one.
Suddenly, either Katie or Leah approached me.
"Can you swing me around Mr. I?!" she asked.
"Only if you call me by my real name." I replied.
"Okay Mr. Inu-Yasha!" said Katie or Leah. I'm surprised that she remembered it even though she had pronounced it wrong in about three different places. Now, I have to be honest that if she had not remembered my name then I would have not swung her around but since she had, I really didn't have any choice.
"Fine." I said, grabbing onto her wrists and then commenced in swinging her around in circles until she finally screamed for me to stop. I thought for sure that she would start crying but she only started laughing and stumbled off as if that was any fun at ALL.
She immediately went over to her friend, Katie or Leah, and talked to her for a few seconds. Then they both ran over.
"Can you swing me around next Mr. I?!" said the Katie or Leah that I haven't swung around yet.
"Well I depends on what you're going to do for me." I answered. Just then, I noticed that Abigail had come over and wanted to be swung around. Now, this kid was probably one of my least favorite because out of all the kids, she was by far the slowest.
Then Ms. Lauren came over. I was going to definitely kill her if she asked me to swing her around but she only told me not to swing the kids around because she didn't want any accidents.
"It's not like I'm going to drop them." I said. I ALWAYS carried people around and now that she had told me not to swing them, I was going to just to prove a point.
"If they fall or get hurt while in this building then I'll get in trouble." Ms. Lauren said.
"No, I'll be the one who drops them which won't happen anyway." I said. It made sense. Why would SHE get in trouble if I dropped the kids?
"Listen Mr. I, I know you're new here but you can't just go around breaking all of my rules." Ms. Lauren said.
"But you said there were no rules except to have fun." I pointed out. Now that was clever. I patted myself on the back for that one later.
I could tell that she couldn't come up with an argument for that one. And I was about to throw another insult at her but the bell rang so I told her that she was lucky this time and if she tried to tell me what to do again then I'd swing her around and then let go, sending her hurtling off into oblivion. I told you that human women were easy to upset!
Katie and Leah wanted a ride on the way down. I decided to let them just because I'm nice, but I also grabbed Julia. At least, I think it was Julia but she didn't have a dot on her face and her hair was shorter than one of the other girls so I'm pretty sure it was her.
All we really had to do was go down the stairs and we were there at the soccer fields. When we made it over to the counselor guy, I noticed that there were a few other kids there that were definitely not in my group since they were about half their age and some of them were boys.
"Where's your counselor, kids?" asked the soccer guy.
"He's coming." Said some random little kid. Just then, I saw Miroku making his way across the soccer field in a hurry. It didn't occur to me at the time that for this soccer period, I would have to share my time with Miroku.
"Sorry I'm late." He said. As soon as he stopped in front of the soccer guy, the stupid little children started hugging his legs as if he was worth a hug or something like that.
"That's okay." Said the soccer guy. "I'm Mr. Carl. You're one of those new counselors, right? That's all right." I wondered when this Mr. Carl would take the time to complement us on the fact that we were on time, or at least introduce himself to me but he never did.
If he wasn't going to pay attention to me then I would have to force him. "I'm Mr. Inu-Yasha." I said. "And this is my group. This is the Julia triplets, Emily, Jesse, Rachel…"
"That's okay, I know most of the kids." Said Mr. Carl. Miroku looked at me funny so I shot him an evil glare. "Okay, so as you all probably already know, you're sharing the soccer period. Even though we usually just have the groups play against each other, this group is older and a whole lot bigger so we're just going to mix them up."
And then he counted off all the kids. All the kids who said 'One' came over to me and all the twos over to Miroku. It figured that I got all the kids that I hate from my group and all the kids that I knew I was going to hate from Miroku's group.
From my group was Rachel, either Julie or Juliana, either Katie or Leah, Abigail, Emily and Rachel and thee kids from Miroku's group. One of them was really creepy looking and kind of reminded me of Rachel and the other two were boys. I figured that it was a break for me that I was finally getting boys since I am so sick of girls that I'm just going to die right now but it turns out that the two I got were not going to give me a break. One kid was really shy and wouldn't even tell me his name and the other kid, Russell or something, was as dumb as a stump. He asked me why my hair was white and why his wasn't. I told him that it was because I was better than him. And he said 'Oh!'
Mr. Carl told us to put everyone into positions but considering that neither myself or Miroku have never even seen a soccer ball in our entire lives, we couldn't really put our kids into positions.
Somehow, though, Miroku seemed to put all of his kids into positions. I didn't want to look like a fool and ask him how he knew where to put them so I yelled at the kids and told them to copy what Miroku's team was doing. Around that time, Mr. Carl walked off to go and use the bathroom. I don't see why any of these counselors can't just do their jobs instead of just telling us to do all the work.
Suddenly, I noticed that the game had started. I really didn't feel like chasing a ball. Just then, I noticed that Miroku was beckoning me over to the shed that Mr. Carl had gotten the ball out of.
Since I had absolutely nothing better to do, I walked over to him. "What?" I asked.
"I just thought that maybe you'd like to sit in the shade." Miroku told me as he sat on the bench in the shade of the shed.
"Oh." I said, sitting down. "Miroku, your kids are so stupid."
"Well…" Miroku started. I could tell he was going to go and defend them all and I almost regretted bringing it up. "I have to agree with you at some kind of level. I really dislike Kelsey as well. She's just frightening to look at."
"Is that the only reason you don't like her?" I asked. (I assumed that this was the fat hideous girl that had reminded me of Rachel.)
"No, she's annoying too." Miroku answered. "But as for Cody and Russell, they're not stupid. Cody's just real shy. But…well…I guess Russell is pretty stupid but not in the context that you're referring to. He's just not very bright, that's all. But you can tell him anything and he'll believe you. But the thing is, he'll ask why to everything you say and no matter what you respond with, he'll say 'Oh'."
"Ah," I said, thinking back to when Russell had asked me about my hair.
"Did you know that one girl from my group and one girl from your group are sisters?" Miroku asked.
"No." I said. Was I supposed to?!
"Yeah, Katie and Laura." Miroku said as if I really cared at all. "Laura always tells me that her sister is in The Dogs and…you don't really care do you?"
"No." I said.
"Well I'm going to tell you anyway. I can really tell because they look very similar."
"Who?" I asked.
"Katie and Laura."
"There isn't a Laura in my group!" I could tell that he was trying to confuse me.
"No, Laura is in MY group." Miroku said.
"Well what does she have to do with Katie then?"
Miroku just sighed. I could tell he was frustrated. Serves him right for trying to start a conversation with me when I didn't want to talk to him. Suddenly, I heard the bell ring. I was relieved that I wouldn't have to spend any more time with Miroku or any of his stupid kids.
We had a period, another swimming period, another period and THEN dinner. I could hardly wait for dinner and only hoped that all those things in between would hurry up and go faster.
By the time we reached the building labeled 'Nature', there was a man standing at the doorway waiting for us. He said his name was Mr. Rick and told us all to put on some boots because he was taking us into the woods where we would tromp around in the mud. What fun.
I then quickly noticed that Andrew, the kid from candle making, was also there. But I chose to ignored him since he was a loser the last time I met him.
He walked through the woods for hours at least until we finally reached the mud which was actually really pathetic. It was only really ankle deep that it smelled so horrible that I felt as though I was going to pass out right then and there so I had to sit on the side for the whole period. It's not like it bothered me, though, because I could go and walk through mud that didn't smell whenever I felt like it and not have some guy telling me not to touch certain plants.
Julia and Sarah came over to me randomly and I could smell the disgusting stench of mud on their boots so not only did I have to smell THEM but I had to smell the mud too.
"Are you having fun?" Julia asked.
"Do I look like I'm having fun?!" I yelled. It was a stupid question.
"Oh." Said Julia. I think I hurt her feelings. I felt kind of bad since she was helpful but I forgot a second later and she seemed to as well.
"Do you dare me to go in the mud and pretend as though I fell down?!" said Sarah as she started jumping up and down.
"I don't care." I said.
"Yeah!!" yelled Julia. "Do it!!"
"I'm gonna do it!!" declared Sarah.
"Then you're going to have to walk around with muddy clothes all day." I warned her.
"I could go and change." Sarah said. "We have to change to go swimming anyway."
I couldn't argue with that logic so she ran over and dove into the mud. It didn't look like an accident and I could tell that Mr. Rick was pissed off so we had to go back early but I didn't care since I didn't want to. One girl, I can't remember whether it was Emily or either Katie or Leah lost one of their boots in the mud so I had to carry her back which made the rest of the kids insanely jealous so at one point I think I was carrying four girls but Mr. Rick told me to put them all down except for the one who lost her boots.
I started to wonder what she was doing taking off her boots in the first place.
Sarah seemed really satisfied with herself because the mud all over her was drying and she liked the cracking sound it made when she walked. She is such a bizarre child.
When we got back to the nature building, Mr. Rick pulled a hose out and told me to hose Sarah down. Wasn't this HIS job?! I decided that since he was making me do everything, I would accidentally spray him and that's what I did. I don't think he believed me when I said that it was by accident. So I hosed down Sarah and not surprisingly, all of the kids wanted to get wet too so I just sprayed them too. But then it turned out that Rachel didn't want to get wet so she started crying when she did. Because she was crying, I chased her around with the hose and acted as though I thought she was laughing and I continued to do that until Mr. Rick turned off the hose.
I don't really like Rachel…
Soon after that, the bell rang and I took the girls back to the cabin so they could change into their bathing suits. They were all just kind of standing in the middle of the cabin all just changing as if there weren't a bunch of other people there, not to mention myself. They would just strip down to nothing and then look through their bags to find their bathing suits. Now that bothered me.
I changed too, telling the kids to wait outside for me. It was some bathing suit that the camp had given me when no one was looking or something…
Then I took them to swimming. Upon arriving, they all ran off and soon the head swim instructor lady came over and presented me with a brand new group and told me to teach them how to swim. She told me that they were all afraid of the water. They were all five or something like that.
So I walked into the water about waist deep and it was about at that time that I started wondering again why I was still here. The water was murky and it had seaweed and I couldn't see the bottom from where I was standing. I could slightly understand why these kids were afraid of the water at that point but it annoyed me when none of them would even come past the shoreline as if they would fall over in ankle deep water and drown right then and there.
"Come into the water." I instructed. "It's not going to hurt you. But I am if you don't come in."
"I remember you!!" said one of the stupid little boys. "You have white hair!"
It was at that moment that I remembered the kid from Miroku's group. The really dumb one. I think it was Russell or something to that extent. Finally, when I realized that none of the kids were going to come into the water, I walked back to the shore.
"All right, whoever gets into the water first gets a prize." I said, having no intention of actually giving them a prize.
"What's the prize?!" asked the stupid Russell kid.
"It depends on what you want." I said.
"I kind of want a banana." Said Russell.
"Okay, if you get in the water I'll get you a banana." I lied.
"Okay." Russell said, not moving.
I waited for one of the four kids to do something. There was one girl and the three boys, one of them being Russell. I hoped that I wouldn't have to spend too much time with them.
"If you're all not going to get in, then I'm going to do it." I said as I grabbed one of the kids and then tossed him into the water. I was about to grab another one but they're all a lot smarter than they look and started running away. I turned around to look at the kid in the water who was crying because he had gotten his head wet.
"Why did you do that?!" he cried in quite an annoying voice.
I ignored him. "You can't learn how to swim if you're not in the water." I said, coming out to the water too. "And since everyone else ran away, it's just you and me so go under water and I'll time you on how long you can stay under."
"NO!!" cried the kid. The water was really only about knee deep and this kid was acting as though he couldn't touch the bottom.
Suddenly, the head swim instructor lady came over and she had Russell and the two other kids that had run away. "Mr. I, please." She said. "These kids are afraid of the water! It has to be a slow process. Why don't you try just sitting on the shore and learning each other's names and putting your feet or something like that?"
"But I already got this kid in the water!" I said, pointing to the kid in the water. I hoped she didn't notice that he was crying. "And that kid said that he would get in the water if I gave him a banana."
She only gave me some kind of look that she expected would have some sort of effect. So I got out of the water and the kid in the water followed after me and I sat down on the shore just as the lady walked off. "Okay fine." I said. "Tell me all your names and then we'll go in the water."
"I'm Russell." Said Russell.
"I know that." I said. "What about you guys?"
"I'm Luke." Said the kid who I had previously thrown into the water. He didn't seem to hate me for tossing him into the water.
The girl was next. "I'm Miriam."
"I'm Louis." Said the last kid.
"I'll probably forget your names so if I say 'Hey you' then answer to it." I warned them.
"Can I sit on your lap, Mr. I?" asked Miriam.
"No." I said. But she sat down anyway as if I said yes. So I pushed her off of me and she stood back up.
"Why did you do that Mr. I?" she asked.
"Because I told you not to." I said. "I'll let you sit at my lap later if you go into the water." I really had no intention of letting her sit in my lap later but I figured I might as well try to get them in the water.
"And you'll get me a banana?" Russell asked.
"Whatever." I said. "You, you're already wet so just go in."
"I don't want to!" whined Luke.
"I'll go into the water!" Miriam said. Obviously, she was obsessed with sitting on my lap. She walked into the water so it was about a foot deep and then turned back around and walked back out. "Can I sit on your lap now Mr. I?"
"No!" I said. "You have to go into the water more!"
The rest of the swim period was pretty much just like this. I didn't get Miriam much further and Russell quickly warmed up to the water and started splashing around when it was around waist deep for him. Luke and Louis, however, didn't even put their toes in the water. They didn't even want to make an exchange like Miriam and Russell had.
I was finally relieved when the bell rang and immediately left for the cabin called The Dogs where I met up with my girls. They couldn't wait to go to drama, our next activity. I couldn't wait for drama to be over so I could eat dinner.
Drama was so far away. It was up a huge hill and then down the road a little bit and if the kids didn't know exactly where it was then I would have never found it because it was all hidden behind a bunch of trees. I could smell the horrendous stench of disgusting animals across the way and hoped that I wouldn't have to go any close than I am to that place.
Drama was not drama. It was mainly just playing hand slapping games and other group activities. There was one game we just played for such a long time that I was ready to kill the drama teacher where she passed a pencil around in a circle and we all were supposed to forget that it was a pencil or something dumb like that. I didn't really catch on until the end. Then the teacher decided that we were going to play this stupid game were we all get in a big mob, grab random hands and then try to untie ourselves. That took us a long time and it was not one of the more fun things I've done in my life. In fact, it was one of the less fun things I've done in my life.
I was thankful when the bell finally rang and we could all just let go of each other's hands and give up. We all went over to the building where we had lunch, only this time we would be having dinner which meant that the day was practically over.
Dinner consisted mainly of an assortment of cold fried bread with cheese in the middle of it. I couldn't decide whether I hated lunch or dinner more so I just passed on the sandwiches. I'm pretty sure that dinner was dragged out even longer than lunch was which is a ridiculously large amount of time to just eat one sandwich that could probably be swallowed and digested in about ten minutes.
Towards the end of dinner, Mr. Shawn walked out and made some kind of announcement about the fact that it was now eight o'clock and that meant that it was time for campfire time.
We were taken into a secluded area of the woods were there seemed to be about ten thousand more mosquitoes than there should have been. It looked as though the entire camp was there. Mr. Shawn got in the front and did his little hands up thing and everyone was completely silent.
"It's campfire time!" Mr. Shawn declared. "Everyone group must choose a counselor and a camper to come down in front to do a fun activity!"
Considering the fact that I was the only counselor in my group, I knew that I would be forced to engage myself in the 'fun activity'. I didn't say anything and just waited for someone to tell me to go down and I told myself that I would take any camper who asked me first but that was Rachel so I grabbed Julia and went down.
Upon reaching in front of the campfire, I was immediately greeted by Kagome who seemed way too cheery.
"Did you have a fun day so far?!" she asked.
"So far?" I asked. There was more?
"Yeah!!" Kagome said. She had a ten-year-old girl standing next to her with a hideous dress on that she obviously thought was cool. Kagome gasped when she had seen Julia. "She's so CUTE!! I'm surprised that you got put with a bunch of girls!"
"I'm not!!" said Sango as she stomped over followed by that mysterious Andrew kid that had been in my group for nature and candle making but never really did anything besides walk around like a pigeon. "That's supposed to be MY group!"
"You're just jealous!" laughed Kagome. And before anyone could continue arguing, Mr. Shawn did his hands up thing and everyone was silent.
Except for Miroku, though. "Sorry it took so long!" he said as he walked over to the group of counselors and campers who had been chosen. "I couldn't decide who to pick."
Mr. Shawn said something to Miroku and I wasn't really listening. And then he told the whole camp that it was a marshmallow eating contest and the kids had to feed the marshmallows to the counselors and whichever counselor could stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth was the winner but there wasn't really any prize. Isn't that just the stupidest thing? I think it is.
"Ready…set…GO!!!" yelled Mr. Shawn.
Julia had a bag of marshmallows in her hand. I hoped she would take a hint by my raised eyebrow that I wouldn't be doing the marshmallow eating contest.
"Mr. I, if we win this then we get ice cream!" she said.
"Ice cream?" I repeated, trying to remember what that was.
"I know we can win this!!" Julia said, looking hyped up. "Mr. I, you have fangs so it won't be a problem!"
"What do my fangs have to do with eating marshmallows?" I asked.
"I don't know. They're just cool."
I couldn't argue with her there. They ARE cool.
"Here, I'll stuff the marshmallows in YOUR mouth." I suggested. But before I could start, I heard Mr. Shawn declaring a winner. I looked over to see that Kagome, of all people, had stuffed the most marshmallows in her mouth. "But we haven't even started!" I yelled.
"There was a time limit." Said Mr. Shawn. This guy was WAY out of line but before I could smite him, the bell rang. I figured that Mr. Shawn could be spared for now because it was now time for flashlight tag.
Yes, by this time, it was pretty dark outside. So, on my way to the field with the bag of flashlights that Mr. Shawn had given me for the group, I passed Miroku who appeared to be ranting and raving about something of little importance but he decided to explain it to me anyway. I don't really remember considering I wasn't listening at all, but I think it had something to do with the fact that he didn't get to play flashlight tag and he had to go off and do something stupid.
Flashlight tag…now that was fun. We all had flashlights in our hands and we'd go around shining flashlights on people. If you got a flashlight shined on you, you'd kind of just scream and run off so I changed the rules a little bit that if you shined a flashlight on a kid then you'd have to tackle that kid to the ground.
Then we switched it to team flashlight tag so you would have to be linked arms or holding hands with your partner and if you shined on someone then you'd have to tackle the whole team.
Then we played blob flashlight tag so that when you tackled someone to the ground then they would have to join your group, making it easier to tackle other people.
I must admit that I did have fun playing flashlight tag. I guess Miroku had reason to rant. Just as we were about to change the rules again, Mr. Shawn came stomping over to us looking pretty angry. I thought he was mad because I got to play flashlight tag and he didn't but I was wrong.
"It's nearly 10:45!!" he yelled at me as if that meant anything to me.
"So?" I said.
"There was a bell forty-five minutes ago!!" he yelled. "These kids were supposed to be in bed by ten o'clock! Now get them back to the cabin and put them to bed!"
"Oh…so that was the bell that we just kind of disregarded…" I said.
"Just get them to bed!" Mr. Shawn said as he stomped off.
So I brought them back to The Dogs cabin and they all got changed into their pajamas. They all got into bed and then every single one of them wanted to be tucked in and then they wanted a bedtime story and I told them if they asked me that again then I would kill them all in their sleep. Then I lied down in my bed, two seconds later determined that it wasn't very comfortable so I moved myself to the floor next to the bed and leaned up against the wall.