Hi!
Oh gosh, I feel bad that I haven't posted lately, but I have been so unsure about everything, that I didn't want to post something and have it all change. So I'll make this one a long one.
Well I just got back from the 2nd AFS camp, so I'll write it all down before I forget!
October 11th:
We were scheduled to leave Lanusei (the town next to mine) at 2:30, so technically I could have gone to school, but I figured that I would need the extra sleep I would get if I didn't. So, we drove to the Liceo Artistico (Arts High School), and we met up with the other students in my local chapter, and awaited the bus. Which happened to be almost an hour late. The Ogliastra local chapter was the last to be picked up because the camp was IN my chapter, in a town outside of a different town called Tertenia, but getting onto the bus and seeing everyone was so much fun!
Once at the hotel, we ate lunch, than started with the afternoon activities, the only one I remember in detail from that day was the "kissing" game that we played. There was a post-it note, and we had to suck it to our mouths, and pass it to our neighbors without using our hands! For the first night it was pretty awkward, I think they should have waited until the last night when we were at the point where we just didn't care. Than we had dinner, and didn't go to bed until 3ish, and I ended up crashing on the end of a friend's bed, because I accidentally misplaced my roomkey.
October 12th:
We woke up early (7:30), and met everyone for breakfast, than did activities that I don't fully remember, but we talked a lot about problems, and then we did little skits that we were assigned about problems with teachers ect.
At some point during that day we went swimming and it was way fun, but we were too excited about the plan to go to the beach the next day, to fully appreciate the pool.
At night, we all sat in a circle, and there were 6 candles in the center. One at a time we would go to the front, and either say a good experience or a bad experience, if it were a positive one, than you lit one of the candles, if it were negative, you blew one out. I think it would be more useful if most of us hadn't only gotten a couple hours of sleep the night before, and it weren't 12 in the morning. Yes, I almost fell asleep. A couple people actually did.
October 13th:
We woke up early yet again, but this time we were all willing because 1. we figured out that we could just go ask for coffee, and 2. we were going to the beach at 9am. When we got to the beach me and a few other students went swimming and it was tons of fun.
The volunteers also had an activity planned, where we sat on the ground, really really close to eachother, and starting at the back of the line we had to lift a person over our heads (kind of like crowdsurfing) to the front, where they would sit. We had to do this until we crossed a line. Oh, and it was against the other team. My team won.
Then there were lots of pictures and more swimming. I don't really remember much about this day. We did a lot more activities that were more to talk about our problems.
*edit* we also had a talent show, where we had 4 hours to prepare a talent. Some of the kids were amazing, with playing instruments, and singing, and some were really interesting and showed more information about he or she's culture. My group's however, was just to be funny. We dressed up in the boy's clothes, and I painted a mustache on my face with eyeliner, and we danced to N'SYNC's "Bye Bye Bye". It's what happens when you can't figure anything else out. I'll try to get the video of it and post it on here with my next post.
That night, the volunteers held an "open-disco", which was pretty much a giant dance party with music from all around the world. Me and my friends were the last ones standing and gave up dancing at 2am. Than we all went back to a friend's room, and we got a bunch of the hotel's comforters and layed them on the ground and watched the stars and counted how many we saw. The highest someone got to was 25 I think. We didn't get to sleep until after 4.
October 14th:
We had to be out of our rooms by 8:30, so we all got up early once again, and went down for breakfast. We played a bunch of running type games, that just weren't fun when we were all so exhausted, but at least we spent time together. Than we took more pictures and got ready to leave the hotel for home.
We got on the bus at 1, and it departed. I only had a 20 minute drive, but others had more like a nine hour one, because it was circling around the island.
After that weekend we were so close, and it was hard to say goodbye. I don't know what it is, but AFSers just click with eachother. I can't believe how close we all are after just 4 days.
Now for the bad news:
I forgot my camera, and only got a couple pictures with my Iphone before it went dead, so it might be a few days before I get pictures (I'll have to wait a couple days for all the Sardinian AFSers to post all of the pictures.), so I will post them as soon as I can.
Be expecting another blog post soon.
But I've done enough rambling in this one for the night, I will write another one soon about school. I know I have talked about school before, but I'll be more specific.
Love you all
Arrivederci,
Rachael
PS. Sorry for the rambling in this one. My English is deteriorating, and along with it my organised writing. So I really do apologize for all you grammar-Nazis!
