OBS Withdrawal Symptoms.

OBS Withdrawal Symptoms

1. I find myself waking up at random hours in the night, feeling paranoid about whether there are ants in my underwear.
2. I feel unbelievably happy whenever I see signs of civilization.
3. I prefer cold-water showers to hot-water showers.
4. My tote bag feels lighter than it ought to.
5. I reapply anti-itching cream every hour plus.

I cried a little during the closing thingy at Camp 1, where the guy read the story. Stories seem to be a big thing with OBS instructors. Stories and journals and name-writing. They write their name on every single thing that belongs to them. With glittery gel stuff, in my instructor’s case.

OBS wasn’t as bad as some seniors made it out to be. True, the insects were a pain, but me and Geri managed to get rid of most of them the morning after they got into our tent in the night. Because we are geniuses, seriously. Bow to us. And as I predicted, I didn’t get tanner at all. Some people did, some burnt, but noooo I stay the same colour, ASDFJKLGH.

I think I shrunk from carrying the stupid hiking bag with my wet clothes, helmet, harness, canned food, bread, rations, water bottles, shoes, the entire weight of the world, whatever. But the hiking was okay ’cause we took shorter than we expected to.

I want to kayak some more though, it’s really fun and it would give my arms some muscle. I only kayaked for like 2 plus hours please. See at first we took half an hour to get basically nowhere and then after we ate lunch in our kayaks there was this huge thunderstorm and everybody got beached. Then the moment we got out of our kayaks it stopped raining, bloody weather. You could tell that at first the instructors of my watch and my buddy watch were really like ‘omg they bloody slow it’s going to take us ages to get to our next camp’ but after that we sped up and they were really proud or surprised, or whatever.

Not showering for two days was not nearly as gross as I expected it to be. We were surrounded by grosser things so I guess it faded to unimportance.

Oh yes, my buddy watch’s instructor is seriously cute. He’s got a gay haircut and at first me and keshia thought he was really gay but his face grew on us. AND HE TOTALLY LIKES OUR INSTRUCTOR PLS. When they were teaching us how to kayak they were splashing each other and stuff. And they play weird games like, hug, high five, bump hips, say good morning. But she’s older than him and not as cute, but she looks better with her hair down AND THEY ARE JUST SO CUTE.

Why are there so many cute couples around! Kester still has to tell me something, I’m completely dying from suspense.

~ by sydney on January 20, 2007.