It was Wednesday, everyone was ready to ride through Hurricane Idalia and everyone was getting ready to get on the buses. You could hear bags getting thrown on the sidewalk, kids screaming, and teachers trying to calm us down. Eventually we loaded all the bags and hopped on the buses. On the bus I sat next to Ella and we played Hangman and watched a movie. After a two hour bus ride we finally arrived at Camp Kirkwood. When we got there it was pouring rain. We all did our best to get all of the bags under a covered space. Finally, it was time to go to the cabins we all unpacked and then went to lunch. We had ham and cheese sandwiches. They were not my favorite but the salad was good. After that we went out for a fun day of activities. My group did pool and forest ecology. Forest ecology was where you learned about how trees go and different types of trees. Forest Psychology was not my favorite but after I had an awesome time in the pool. I played with all my friends and had a lot of fun. Then we went back to the cabins we showered and changed into our clothes. It was raining so we were all in our rain jackets running to the mess hall. After the activities we settled down for dinner. Our first night we had spaghetti. Then we watched The Lorax and had some snow cones. All the girls were braiding each other’s hair. It was a fun movie night. We then went back to the cabins and got ready for bed. We talked and played games until it was 10:00. Finally, the teachers told us to go to bed.

The next day my teacher’s phone was not working so she was using a watch.One girl in my cabin gave her her watch to use for time. Somehow the time got an hour ahead so at 6:15 (7:15) so we woke up an hour too early. Then one girl in my cabin said my watch says it’s 6:15 another girl said that too. Then we realized that it was actually  6:15 so we went back to sleep untill 7:15 for real this time. Everyone got dressed and put on our raincoats before we left for breakfast. We played down by the river until it was time to go. Then me and all of the girls and me in my cabin ran down to the mess hall. Then we sat down to a warm breakfast of sausage cereal and eggs. During breakfast I got my hair braided for the day of activities. Then they told us some announcements and then we played games, did team building and forest ecology. We got to go indoors for these activities to escape the rain. We did these activities until it was time for lunch. For lunch we had hot dogs. I’m not a picky eater but I don’t like hot dogs. Instead I had a chili dog that’s basically a hot dog except the meat is chili. We ate and then heard some announcements about the afternoon group 1,2, and 3 were going to be in the pool and group 4, 5,6 started at V swing, Kanga jump and team building. My favorite activity was V-swing. We got to swim and do all of the activities before dinner.  The second night we had barbecue chicken and birthday cake because four people had their birthdays at Camp Kirkwood. After we went on a short night hike to a campfire. We sang songs and had s’mores. By the time we got back to the cabins it was almost pitch black outside. Then we all settled in our cabins then we had an hour to get ready for bed. My cabin played games and talked. We played this fun game called crocodile dentist. Until it was time for bed.

Today we woke up and had breakfast and did activities. The three activities were boating, zipline, and Bubbles. For boating we got to canoe across the lake. For the zipline well it was like a zipline over the lake but you did not get wet. Bubbles was a little pig who we got to play with and that was definitely one of the highlights. After all of that we ate lunch then did a final clean up of the cabin. We all boarded the buses and then we were home at DA. Overall, a really fun trip. I bet the 5th graders will have fun next year.