... Hello! I just got back from a VERY fun time at Journalism Camp! And I'm sure you're thinking right now: 'How could anyone have fun at a Journalism Camp?' ... And if you were thinking that, then you owe me five dollars.
ANYWAY... Yeah, the classes were had to go to were not fun. Considering that they started at 9am. Then we got lunch and dinner breaks through them. But yeah, we would go to class for two hours, have a lunch break for two hours, go back to class for four or so hours, have a dinner break for two and a half hours, go back to class for an hour, then go to whatever they have planned for the night for us. Which I'll explain later what those things were. So we would get back to our rooms around... A bit before 11, I guess. Then were was the people who had homework, so they had to stay up even later to do it, and... Yeah.
Alright, so, first of all, I was in an InDeign class. InDesign is a program that we use to create our pages for the Newspaper. So, for the last couple days, I've pretty much been staring at a computer, sitting there because I finished my work in like, the first hour we were there. But the teacher didn't care if we listened to our ipods, so I just did that... And played 'Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?' on my phone.
... I'm not smarter than a fifth grader. *facedesk*
Anyway, I better just get on with the point.
Now, I shall name off the days and what we did on them.
Sunday:
Arrived at the Hotel. Well, actually, my mom and I got to the city a tad bit early... And when I say a tad, I mean a hour and a half early. So we went to the Mall and chilled. I was alright, but we couldn't find a video store like we were hoping to.
So after going to the Mall, we drove around a bit, looking for a book store. We didn't find one. But this time, we had half a hour till we had to be at the hotel. So we just went, and my Newspaper Teacher, Mrs. Plumley, was already there and had our rooms. Floor seven, room 722.
Anyway, so I went up to my room, and on the way saw Rachel, who is Plumley's daughter (yes, I left out the Mrs., but everyone just calls her Plumley. Or Plums. Or SuperModel... Or Stripper... Or Poledancer... ... Inside jokes.) She told me that everyone was to meet in room 749, which was the Yearbook editors room. So I chilled in there for a while while all the yearbook people chatted away.
Eventually, Rachel came back and we went to my room, where apparently the newspaper people were stationed. That's where I met the two newbie Freshmen that were going to be in Newspaper. Erin and Ashley. They're awesome, I have to say that now.
Alright, let's see... Ashley is really hyper, but very very funny. She, of course, is taller than me with dirty blonde hair that goes past her shoulders. She's not preppy -- thank gawd -- but she does dress somewhat like it. Just a bit.
Erin is always wearing a balck t-shirt, except for today. It was awesome, she was wearing a shirt that said 'Kill Hannah' on it. XD It's apparently a band... But anyway, her hair is somewhat short, like a boy's hair cut type thing. A bit of it is blue, a bit is a yellowish color I think, and the rest is black. And to go along with the blackness, think black eyeliner. She's cool though, she isn't hyper all the time like Ashley, she's just hyper when she wants to be. But she's far from quiet. They all even got me to talk! *le gaspe*
Anyway... The other person in our room was Lisa, who I know from last year's Newspaper. She's nice... And yesh, I'm getting tired of describing people.
So, yeah, continuing on... We dragged the Newspaper people to the editors room, had a talk with Plumley, before heading to our classes. It stunk that we had classes on the first day there...
But after class we went to this awesome resturaunt (Lisa, three yearbook kids, and I) called Magic Time Machine. It's so awesome that I can't even describe how awesome it was. Anyway, the waiters were dressed up as Disney Characters and a few other type characters, and we were seated by Jack Sparrow and waited by G.I. Joe. XD We all order cheese sticks. Though out of the eight that I recieved, I only ate... 2 1/2.... Everyone yelled at me. ^_^
Yeah, so we went back to the hotel, went to class for two hours, then went back to rooms and yeah.
Monday:
I was actually the first one to get up. So I read my Death Note book till the other three got up. So we got changed and went to classes.
For lunch, I had... Three pieces of Shrimp. Lisa, Reed (one of the only boys there, and the only boy from Newspaper) and I went to the cafe at the place, and man, does the food look fancy. XD Cost a lot, of course. But still. It was good. All they needed was some Soy Sauce and it would've been perfect.
So yeah, back to classes...
Then for Dinner I had Cheetos. ^_^
Then after class again, there was this Press Conference thing. I didn't have to go, because I'm in a Design class which would have nothing to do with it, but some of the others had to go because they either had to write a story over it or some other weird things. Anyway, so I went with them..
It was the most boring thing ever. Lisa, Reed, and I ended up leaving half way into it.
... So we went back to the room and chilled. XD
Oh! And I found an awesome show on TV... I'm sure ya'll have heard of it. It's called Will & Grace. It had a lot of gay guys in it... It was awesome. XD
Tuesday:
Woke up again. Ashley had set her cell phone as an alarm, and my gawd, was I annoyed of the ringtone after listening to it eight times. It was a lot harder to get up then than the first night.
So yeah, went to class... Then for Lunch, we went to On The Border. We also J-walked. I was freaked out.
Anyway, the stinkin' people wouldn't let me have a kid's menu... And I always eat off the kid's menu. I should've done what Erin did and bring a Lunchable... If I had one, that is.
So we ate there. I got the two taco combo, which was WAY to spicy. I ended up eating 1/3 of it.
So when we got back to the hotel, we waited around for Plumley. And while we were there, we talked to this one guy from Boyd -- Erin had a crush on him even though she apparently has a boyfriend, so we ended up bugging him. But before we talked to him, we were naming off nusury rhyemes and stuff like that. We tried to figure out the words to the 'He bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning' song. It took us like, forever, and we never figured it out. So we asked the dude from Boyd, Cale, but he didn't know... We were about to figure out that it had something to do with rain. So we thought it was 'rain, rain, go away', but that was obviously wrong...
So when I was waiting for the teacher guy to come and unlock the door for my class, I looked it up on my cell phone. It's 'It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning.' We totally forgot about the 'the old man is snoring part', though we got the rest. When we were trying to figure it out, Lisa was like: "No, there's another verse in between those. It's the introduction to the guy that bumped his head..."
... Yeah, we went to class...
For Dinner, we order room service. I got a Grilled Cheese on the Kid's Menu. It was good. ^_^ But Erin and I quickly walked over to Quiznoes (however the heck you spell it) and she got herself a sub. When we got back, the food still wasn't there. It took around ten minutes after we got back for us to get our food. I got yelled at again for not eating all my food, but I ended up eating it later when it was cold. It's all good though.
... Back to class, blah blah blah...
That night, after classes, we had an auction. See, throughout the couple days there, they would hand out these fake Dollar things in our classes. With these, we can get stuff at the auction. I had five at first, because my teacher didn't hand them out that much, but then I got 2nd place in a Design contest and won 22 more, so... Yeah.
They ended up getting tons of bags of random crap and Newspaper kids got a pool noodle. ^_^
I didn't go to the auction though, I stayed in the room and watched TV...
Anyway, after the auction, there was a Dance thing they set up for the Journalism kids. I ended up getting dragged there, but we only stayed for like... Ten or Fifteen minutes before we left. They played that one song 'I Kissed A Girl' there... Everyone was singing along. They also played Low, Soulja Boy, Cupid Shuffle, uh... That's all I remember... I didn't dance that much, but they were like overjoyed when I did...
Everyone ended up heading back to the Yearbook editor's room and passing out the stuff from the auction. Erin and Ashley stayed at the dance for a while longer before heading back up...
Here, quick quote things...
Erin: "The Dance is getting lamer... They just played YMCA."
Me: O_O "... Oh my gawd... I MISSED THE YMCA?!"
Yeah... I'm still sad about that. That's like, the only song I would actually dance to... That and Stayin' Alive and the Cha-Cha Slide.
Anyway, I ended up heading back to my room while everyone else when to the Dance again. I just took a shower and watched TV... Nothing much.
I think we also had a Newspaper meeting that night, deciding what we were going to do for our newspaper this year... I can't remember.
Wednesday:
... My fingers are hurting...
... So yeah, we woke up, which was even harder to get up that morning than the two before, went to class and the whole rountine...
Anyway, we got to get out of classes early and went to Six Flags. Though, I kinda... Dread rollar coaster. I absolutely hate them and I will never get on one in my life.
Alright then.
Our bus driver was horrible. On the way there, he ran into tons of curbs. It was... Bad. I suppose. We ended up getting another one later, which I'll explain how he screwed up in a second.
So at first I ended up hanging out with Rachel and Reed. We walked around a bit, talked, the works. We eventually ran into Erin, Zach (the only other boy there beside Reed) Lisa and Ashely. Lisa came with us and we took off walking again. That is, till we found the train thing, which we rode it about three or so times around the park. Well, we were chatting with the two teens that were working on the train, so... Yeah.
Anyway, after that we met up with Erin, Ashley and Zach again who had finished riding rides and we all bought SuperMan capes! And we wore them around the park. It was so awesome... But Reed and Erin didn't get one, so it kinda ruined the fun...
... Alright, maybe not, but oh well.
So, with our capes, we, of course, needed pictures of ourselves, right? Ashley ended up getting this random teenage guy to take a picture for us. Next thing we knew, they were hanging out with us. Though one was only hanging out with us to get to Erin, and the other to get to Reed...
Heh, probably not, but that's what it seemed like. XD
Anyway, we eventually lost them, and found an arcade! With DDR! But I had my sandals on, and we didn't want to spend money... Considering that Erin is also a DDR addict, and we both were SO close from playing...
After getting ice cream, Lisa, Reed, Zach and Ashley ended up seperating us and going on a raft ride. So, Rachel, Erin and I walked around, carrying their cell phones, money, and cameras because they were afraid that their stuff was going to get wet -- and they ended up soaked, so they had every right to be afraid.
So the three of us walked around when we had a realization: They said that they would call us afterward... We had their cell phones.
Yeah, connect the dots, people.
Anyway, we didn't care that much, and instead went into a store and bought Plums a Pimp Cape. It's like, awesome. It's black with the design of chains and big jewerly on it.
After that we played some carnival games. Erin tried the 'Guess Your Age & Weight' one so she could get a Tweety bird plushie. The lady guessed 16, and Erin's 14, so yeah.
After that, Erin did the bell thing where you hit the thing with a hammer and it goes up and hits the bell. It was a kids one, so she, of course, won and got a Tweety Bird Cape. XD At least she got a cape, right? Erin was so happy about the cape, that she went running around the pavement, and ended up dropping Zach's phone.
... It didn't break, though.
After a bit more walking, we ended up running to Plums. We gave her the cape and she LOVED it. XD
... Alright, so I'm getting tired of typing, so I'll try to make it quick.
We headed back to the buses, and found Reed, Ashley, Lisa, and Zach waiting for us there. We gave them back all their stuff and got on the bus once the yearbook people where there.
So, everyone that rode the bus was supposed to be back on it at 9:45. And we were. It was the other school and their advisor that was incharge of the bus didn't get there till 10:25. Which was annoying because it would take us an hour to get back to the hotel AND we had an 11pm curfew.
But that's not the bad part.
The bus driver we got ended up running into a gate. Y'know, the ones that they close off the parking lot with? It wasn't even in the road or anything. He went over the curb and it ended up catching onto the side of our bus. So half of the bus was sticking out in the middle of a four-way light, and the other half was caught in the gate.
It took us a little bit to get going because the people behind us didn't back up when we started to... Luckily, we didn't run into them...
After that, we ended up get lost twice, hit tons of curbs, and I was, quite frankly, pissed off. And I usually don't use that word.
Overall, it was a fun night, and I guess I'm glad I went...
Thursday (Today)
Woke up.
Went to class for thiry minutes...
Then we went to his Showtime thing. We had a photographer from the Dallas Morning News come and show us photos and whatnot. He also told us some funny stories, and if my fingers weren't aching, I would type them out here.
OH! And everyone from my school was wearing our awesome capes. XD
After the photo thing, we had an award assembly. Then we got our stuff and went home.
... That's about it, I guess.
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