Camping forms a part of every family’s memories, what’s better than spending a night under canvas in a field? One of my most memorable camping trips was one with Rachael and her family. A weekend away together, always meant more time for mayhem to be caused!
The weekend we went away was a gloriously sunny one. We spent most of our time around the camp and by the pool, relaxing before school started again. This relaxing did also mean that we had to entertain ourselves… and what better way to do it than to speak a made up language and gobbledygoop for the whole weekend?! We went around camp for the whole weekend refusing to speak English, and finding it more fun to speak out new found language. We had a few favorite words which were used more frequently such as “sexy bubblegum” and ‘”voiture” which was used when a car attempted to run us over.
One side effect of the made up language was stares. I remember when I was younger, and I stared, perplexed at couple of women speaking a foreign language, amazed that they were able to communicate to one another. When they realised that I was staring they turned and looked at me and said “hello!”. To say this scared me would be an understatement. Any way, back to the story, one little boy who was with his mother turned and stared at us, his mother pulled his arm and told him “don’t stare they’re foreign!”. That single statement, pinned the weekend into my memory.
We also learnt how to scare our parents that weekend. We (Rach, our sisters and myself) were left as our parents went on a walk. We hatched a plan. We found some ingredients (something like oats, milk, ketchup and pieces of bread) mixed them up for them to become our concoction of fake sick. As our parents walked back towards us, Rach lent over near a bush, and spat out the fake sick as we screamed “Rachael is being sick!”. Our parents ran the final leg of the distance, to make sure she was alright. We had to tell our parents it was all fake before they tried doing CPR or something.
The fake sick recipe has come in handy for me, I managed to use it to get a sick day off of school before! I must also say, this recipe is pretty disgusting and will actually make you gag!
Sorry for such a long winded story, but that is the tory of only one of our eventful camping trips that we have had!!
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