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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-
[Thor Winthup to Jean Winthup]
They don't have any real sports here. They have a volleyball court, but volleyball is only so much fun and practically no one here knows how to play it or why the heck the court's there in the first place. How am I suppose to kick everyone's butt at sports with my clear athletic superiority, if they don't have any playing fields. There's nothing. I can't challenge anyone to football, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, tennis, rugby, anything. Hell, I'd even figure out how to play cricket if they had a stupid field for that. They have horses, but don't know how to play polo. No one likes going into the water except for the Poseidon kids because of the nymphs. They have a track in the arena, but the Hermes kids practically live on that thing. If you ask the right people, you might find someone who knows where a discus is, but apparently they don't teach that properly so no one wants to compete against me in that either except for a few of my 1/2 siblings, but I hate watching the because they have the form all wrong. They have the shot-put and hammer throw form all wrong, too. There are a few good javelin throwers here, thankfully, and a few of my older siblings can compete against me in that, at least. But other than that, there's nothing. They mostly just sword fight and spear fight here, and ride chariots, but it's not like they had those things at school or else I'd have medals in them too.
I shouldn't have brought my medals to camp. I thought it'd be cool, but all anyone in my cabin has done is make fun of me for them. Every single year, I've been in and won the varsity championships at school and here they just laugh at me. Apparently sports that aren't from ancient Greece aren't cool here. The only thing they had any respect for was my wrestling medals, but apparently they don't actually teach that here either, which is stupid. I thought the ancient Greeks wrestled all the time! What's up with that? They thought my karate and jujitsu medals were really stupid and I really wanted to break one of their arms for saying that, but I didn't because sensei taught us better than that. I'll wait until one of them punches me first, and then I'll break their arm.
Just you wait, mom. You've raised me up right. I'm going to learn these games of theirs and I'm going to wreck all of them; Smash them all into the ground, just like you taught me, mom. They don't have medals here, but I'll bring something back to show you. I'll win someone's armor or whatever they do and I'll bring that back and we can put that up in my trophy shelf too.
Thor Winthrup
Ares Cabin – Cabin 5