Wow. What fucking nonsense. So much has happened, some thrilling but mostly teeth grindingly annoying.
So we arrived, it's your typical camp place, we had a view of the rivers from our rooms, there mountains for abseiling. And a canteen where we would eat lunch and dinner. There was also a fire place. All the girls were sharing a room, and all the guys were also sharing a room. Just in keeping with the spirit of team building and Morale.
I was on the top bunk bed, underneath Amy's bed, I insisted that Amy take the bottom bunk just cause if the ghost came, it would start with Amy first and I would be alerted by her screams and have ample time to escape.
I hid all kinds of junk food on my bed ( I was so not willing to share). We met our instructors, two guys who I will call A and B because they put us through hell so they don't deserve to be named. First they made us walk a crazy dangerous trail on the mountains that had no way back to the campsite. The only way back on site was to Zip Line off a cliff and just fall in the river and swim to the shore and then you would be back to site.
I am dead serious.
Our teachers seemed to think there was NOTHING wrong with this. I was beside myself. And I knew that I was not okay, when even the sight of Scott James, shirtless walking in front of me and stopping every few minutes to help us ladies, did nothing for my soul. Let me just say, top 3 things I am scared of are:
1) Snakes
2)Heights
3) And getting hit by a taxi.
I don't like heights, even when I wear heels I feel light headed. I belong to the ground, that's why god made me short, so I am closer to the ground. Cassandra tried to cheer me up by trying to make me Gawk at Scott.
"Ooooh, look at those abs, Thandi, don't you just wanna go crazy? " She said, linking her arm through mine.
I shrugged, and I saw Scott lip's turn down at the corners like he was bummed that I wasn't frothing at the sight of him. Then Dean had to bring up the party at Charmaine's house where I got scared of the snake and wouldn't go inside the house.
"… And then we were like "Scott James is waiting for you", and she was like "fuck Scott James", dude, it was the funniest thing ever." Dean guffawed with the others. Cassandra went ahead to talk to the other girls and I trailed behind them trying not to fall to my death, then Scott fell in step with me.
He looked me up and down slowly, and I started shaking like a leaf in July.
"So fuck me, huh." He said in a low voice that only I could hear and I blushed crimson.
He left me shaking and went ahead to join his girlfriend. The asshole. Of course, Scott went first off the Zip line, and he did look fine hanging off that line like a proper white boy. Then His girlfriend followed next. Whoopee. And then they both swam to shore and sat making mud pies or whatever waiting for the rest of us. I was the first black girl to go. I was so close to tears, begging Mr Parker to not let them do this to me, and Dean who had come back for a second jump was inching close to me and I knew he was trying to push me.
"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!!" I screeched,
But in the end, since I willingly couldn't let go, I had to be pushed off the cliff.
Cheers Prefects of 2012.
We didn't even get time to rest, after lunch, A and B dragged us deep into another forest where we had to build a bridge using four pieces of logs to get EVERYONE to the other side. Or we fall to our deaths.
It was that simple.
They watched us struggle and didn't even bother to help. And I almost fell but I used Cameron's hair to keep balance. After that was done, we walked back to the camp site. Mr Parker laughed so hard when I tripped and fell seemingly out of nowhere. When he managed to stop laughing, he told me that he had tied a bunch of grass together so someone would trip, he told me all this while he was clutching sides from laughing. Everyone thought it was funny. I was not amused.
After dinner, I thought-ahhh rest. But no, we were dragged out again over to a place that had a very high gate with no fencing around it. It was like prison high and we had to build a bridge of some sort and get people over to the other side. I looked at A like "Is this Military camp? Are we training to be soldiers? Like we are just prefects for the love of all that's holy. We give out detention and make sure people are quiet in assembly. Like it's not that deep."
Then it started raining and A went back to camp, and I thought he was gonna cancel the whole thing, but no, he was fetching a raincoat for himself. At this point, people were crying, but A wouldn't budge. Some of us had to be carried over. I was so over Prefect Camp. Afterwards, we all had a shower, and I felt relatively human. Already, people were coupling up, even guys who had girlfriends back at home, but you know, what happens at Prefect Camp, stays in Prefect Camp. A-
Ohhh sorry about that, but the guys just snuck into our room, they were trying to scare us and the only person who got properly freaked out was Crystal. I just stared, numb. SO the guys are inviting us to smoke hubbly in their room. Ehh, what the hell.
Night Night.
Lotsa Love