In school,we have camps every year and the difficulty,staying for more time and longer drive begins as we go into bigger grades.Last time,in Grade 3,we went to a camp called Damdama which was only 1 or 2 hours away from the city.This time,we ant to a place called Junga near Shimla.We had already made our camp groups and decided about them.In my camp group,there were 9 kids,and a teacher which were ten so we called us the terrific 10.We has such a mind-numbing journey from Gurgaon to Shimla.Our camp is in Shimla.I woke up at 4'o clock in the morning and reached the place where the buses were at 5:15.First was a one-hour drive in the bus.Then we reached the Delhi railway station and got in a train called the Shatabdi.It took around 5 or 6 hours to reach there.The food which ate was like eating snails.But,I had to eat it.Then we reached Shimla.Then we took a Tempo Traveller to travel to Junga,which is in the mountains.I didn't have any motion sickness though travelling round and round.We stopped at a hotel and ate some cake,french fries and drank juice,because we were more than starving.We also ate a packet of chips when we were going after we had eaten in the hotel.We reached the campsite at 5:30,which was probably the longest journey in my life.There's no denying that this was the most boring,tiring and long travel of my life.When we reached there,we had some food which was yummy.It seemed cold and and I thought we had to wear warm clothes.I had brought a warm and normal jacket.I used the cold one for the morning and evening,and light for afternoon and night.I had to carry a rucksack for the first time,and we had to pack as light as possible.Then I was so lucky.We found out that only 6 people could sleep in 1 tent,not 10.So I got with 3 friends,which cut a huge chunk of my awesome camp.Then we were divided into 4 groups and we named our group the Everlasting 18.We had 4 instructors.I had many friends in that,too.We played a game in which we had to give us an adjective in which it starts with the letter our name starts with.Then we had a discussion about the camp,and had soup.Then finally it was time for dinner,and it turned out delicious.The only part I didn't like was about there was non-veg and I don't like killing animals,and I'm a pure veg.Then we slept in our tents a 9:30 though we kept on talking.We woke up at 6:30.We could have biscuits,the or milk.We were the first ones to reach there.Then we did some exercises,which were called elastic limbs.Then we had breakfast at 8,which wasn't bad at all.Then we did some activities related to ropes,like the french-ship ladder,tarzan jump,commando net etc.I liked the french-ship ladder the most.We had to find a partner which had probably the same weight and we had to climb on bamboo poles attached with ropes,and it wasn't easy.We were the fastest ones to do it.After doing all of them,we had lunch.We changed into clothes after wiping ourselves with wet wipes.We had free time for an hour.Then we were in the everlasting eighteen,and then we started to practice for some games in the INME olympics,which was a competition for everlasting eighteen and 3 other groups.INME is the name of the camp.After practicing,we had snacks.Then we again practiced.We then had soup,and finally dinner.Then we had a bonfire too.We went trekking the next day.In that sir told us about different trees and we went to a village and asked them about their life.We saw a village daycare and a very old house built out of mud.We had an amazing time there too.Then we had the olympics.The first position would get 80 points,second 60,third 40,last 20.We selected which people would participate in the games.We also had a joker card ins which it would double our points.The first game was standing broad jump,in which you had to stand and jump as long as you could.Then we had a game called sling tring.In that you had to hold a rope around your belly,and pull.Whoever would move would be out.I participated in the next game called Gandhi Ji's 3 monkeys.In that one would be blindfolded and had to go around obstacles,one would see the obstacles and tell the third person by not speaking,and the third person would say it to the blindfolded one,though he can't see.We came 1st in that.Then we had bum wrestling,in which you had to knock the person out of the circle with using your bum,and putting your hands on your knees.Then we had longest line,in which you select 15 people from your team.You have to stretch and be connected to the next person.Whoever has the longest one wins.I was in that.Then was 2 minute maggi,in which you have to eat a bowl of maggi with our hands tied behind.Whoever eats it fastest wins.Then was eat biscuit,in which there was biscuit on our forehead,and we had to make it slide down into our mouth.And we were the winners!!!!We had 620 points.I was full of joy.We ate dinner and had a DJ night,which was great.We slept at 10.We had breakfast,tea,milk and biscuits.We filled a feedback form and left at 10 in the morning.It was the tiring journey again.We reached at 12 am.But it didn't seem that we had been there for 4 days and 3 nights.It seemed like 20 minutes.We were so engaged.Including the boring journey,I still had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time.
You are right the food did taste like snails!
ReplyDeleteno it did not... the food was great... the aloo paranthas were yummy.....and truely i wish the camp went on for a week....
ReplyDeleteMa'am but the food in the train....
ReplyDeleteOh how lovely!! Wish we had such camp outs when were in school!
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