My...great....not really....it was a bit of a nightmare...camp :(

Bonjour! Je m'appelle Oscar! Je suis ici...HEY! You! Translator guy! GET OUT OF HERE! Ok. Now that that was handled, let's get started! I will be talking about my awesome camp! *adds comment like "Sarcasm or verbal irony has been applied to previous sentence"* So, to start off, I'll talk about this camp. 4 people in my scout group are going to a camp. There is more than 4 people in our group, by the way. So the camp is for APL and PL. Wondering what that is? Well I'm not surprised! It stands for assistant patrol leader and patrol leader. I know...it's very nice...we don't need to talk about it. Anyways, we got to the camp, and there were a bunch of other scout groups, too. So, we set up our tents and everything. We had 4 events in the afternoon that day. They were about leadership, doing the flag break ceremony, teamwork, and the other one, I couldn't remember. You can't blame me, it was a month ago. After, it was the part that made the camp miserable. It all started with 1 problem. 1 BIG problem, actually. We were missing something. Something important. WATER. Liquid to survive on. WE WERE DOOMED!!!! Well, there were other groups, so we asked for some water. We tried to boil it, but someone in our group failed at pumping gas into the stove. We got help with that and the stove started working. Eventually we cooked cup noodles. Then, there was a bathroom problem. There was no bathroom! Fun, right? We had to go outdoors. I ended up going once in the entire camp. One time. Oh look. The name of a song I don't like. At least there's a better reason for me to not like it. I'm getting off topic, so I'll continue. During the time the water was boiling, we tried to light the lamp. I wasn't doing that, so no one can blame me. Well, at first, the lamp was also failing, we couldn't light it up either. Eventually, we got it light up, and it scared the 2 people that were lighting it half to death. Why? It's because the whole lamp burst into flames. It fell to the floor. The grass caught on fire and the lamp started working normally. We picked up the lamp and the fire was stomped out. Around that time, we were told that our tent wasn't waterproof. We didn't have enough of those peg things. Fortunately, it didn't rain that night. Except we were still not done. Since we didn't have enough water, we didn't cook all the food. In fact, we didn't cook 3/4 of the food, and since we were outdoors, we had to watch out for racoons. OR BEARS. Also, the whole cooler of food weighed about 20 lbs, so finding a tree branch that would hold the whole thing was tough. Eventually, we found a tree branch. We weren't sure if the branch would hold the cooler. I suggested that we sleep in shifts, but everyone knew that wasn't happening. We were all tired from a miserable camp. We crawled into our tents and went to sleep. At that time, it was 11:00 p.m. Fortunately, the next morning, we saw that all our food was still on the branch. That morning, we started packing up most of our stuff, sleeping bags, flashlight, something like that. We still had breakfast, and 4 more events to go. Breakfast was way better than dinner. Another group offered to help us. We gave them some of our food, and they cooked it all. We had a normal breakfast. We had the 4 events, and I really had to go to the washroom again. I held it in all the way until we left and got to a Tim Hortons to get me something to drink. Over a period of 23 hours, I had less than 1 L of water to drink. At least it was over. I felt so tired, and I still had to finish up some homework. Eventually, I did and had a good night's sleep. The end. Well, it's not the end. It's just the end of my story of my miserable camp. So, now it's the end. I am done for November. See you in December! By the way, I don't like snow. It's too cold. I'm just telling you more about me. Bye!

Lest We Forget

HI!!! Since we are moving into the month November, I am making a post about remembrance day. It's also one of the requirements of this month. So, I will talk about the battle of Vimy Ridge. I saw the pictures in the link that Mr. Gould posted. They were of soldiers fighting. Some even died! It's amazing what people will go through to keep the peace in the world, and it's terrible that people decide to create a war. It's sad that people will try to kill others. The people in war were sleeping in these tiny wooden beds..it looked terrible. We remember why we are free. We remember how these people put themselves through a living nightmare so everyone else can be happy. They put their lives on the line, and I'll we can do is remember those who died for 2 minutes. If this is all we can do, then we should do it, because WWI lasted for years, and we think about them for 2 minutes. If you don't, then you don't care about your peace in this world. I guess that's all I have to say. Since today is already the 28th, I will probably make my other post tomorrow. Blogger out! Ugh...that sounded so cheesy. Bye!