September 4th, 2011

So I just got back from Rookie Camp which was amazing!!!! For any of you who are prospective students to the U of L, apply for Rookie Camp, you will not be disappointed. Anyways, we met at Tim Hortons early in the morning and drove the 2 hours to camp Impeesa. The Rockies down there are absolutely gorgeous! We had beautiful weather.
We split into groups and did different activities throughout the day. In our groups we also had to pick group names and thing up cheers. Since our group leader's name was Charlie and he was leading all girls we were "Charlie's Angels". It was pretty funny, when we were trying to decide we were coming up with names like "Dragonflies" of "Flower Power", then he said "Whatever you do, don't be Charlie's Angels" well, of course since he said it that's what we had to be.
Anyways, we did zip-linning across the lake then an obstacle course, archery (which I can now check off by bucket list plus I hit a bulls eye!) and canoeing. During our free time, the 25 of us campers went to the volley-ball court and had a mass game of volley ball. It was so much fun, especially since the international students, Lindsey and Daniella, had never played volley ball before. After was supper which was a wonderful lasagna. Then it was campfire!!!!!!
Before the fun began though, we had a talk from Tracker, the camp man from Impeesa, come and talk to us about the bears, Yogi (a Spirit Bear) and Boo Boo(a particularly michievious young black bear), and what to do if we come across bears while we're here. It was kind of scary but at the same time reassuring to know the difference between what we should and shouldn't do for each particular species of bear. Then is was all fun stuff, we played games and talked.
The stars are beautiful out away from civilization. It was well after midnight and close to freezing when we all went to bed. It was like sleeping on a plywood board! It was so bad, my arms are so sore. But overall it was one of the best camping trips of my life!