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GRADE 10 CAMP What a miserable bunch we all were before we went on camp:
“I
don’t want to go, “ That is how we felt before the
Grade Ten camp, but I think not one person could say that they didn’t have a laugh
and have some fun somewhere along the line. We were the guinea pigs. The first batch to try out the “Youth with a Vision” programme. Sex, drugs, but no rock and roll - these were the topics - along with Aids, STD’s, pregnancy, relationships and ambitions. I don’t think we could have crammed any more into three days. Talk after talk. By the end we had buns of steel and feet of ice after sitting on hard chairs for two days straight. I think I’ve never appreciated cushioned bus seats so much. And from all the information our brains absorbed, we now have two hundred experts on Aids, STD’s and drugs.
Nestled in a valley, just
beyond Stellenbosch, between two picturesque mountains, was our campsite. There was only the trusty old cell phone to keep
us in touch with “civilisation”. (Needless to say, these cell phone times were
strictly rationed. Shower time was a laugh. With
our efforts not to drop bras and broeks in the sheet of water that consistently seemed to
cover the bathroom floor, and our precarious balancing on tip-toes we were party and
witness to a number of extraordinary antics. That
was of course if you were even brave enough to get down to the bare essentials. We had never been so cold in our lives. We had to force ourselves to stand under a cold
shower, waiting for it to warm up. We then
covered ourselves in numerous layers of clothing, preparing for the great sprints across
the campsite, from dorm to dorm, dodging teachers at midnight. Particularly at night it seemed, the Grade Tens
developed a peculiar penchant for scurrying around like headless chickens as if a bomb had
just been dropped... Then there was the food. Cooking for two hundred people is never easy, and
it was at this time that many of the Grade Tens developed the insight that camping was
great for dieting....
Generally it was felt that the lectures were worthwhile and informative. The leaders were great fun and the topics were appropriate for our age group. But one of the greatest benefits was socialising with people we see everyday, but didn’t really know. We have all made a whole bunch of new friends.
Grateful thanks is extended to Ms Sieberhagen and Ms Jordan who spent a great deal of time and energy organising, planning and preparing it for us. Alex Butterfield
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