D of E

ARGH I AM SO ANNOYED MY POST HAS DELETED ITSELF TWICE NOW!!!

Anyway, rant over. Just finished D of E practice and am feeling quite pleased with myself as I am not too tired. Our group walked about 15km at the least less than the other groups, which shows as comparatively we are not too tired. However, I am now really, really dreading the Peak District which will be a lot harder as we have to walk 48km uphill compared to the 34km we walked flat this time, and I have also developed a severe phobia of campground toilets; so much so it makes me feel teary and nauseous every time I think of them. So I'll stop thinking about them for now. I have big, black bruises on my collarbones which is annoying and painful, especially since the prom is in a week exactly and my dress is halter necked, and I have invisible bruises on my hips. The Good News: I exercised a hell of a lot, and I didn't get eaten alive by mosquitoes. Yep, not one bite! So that makes me feel a little happier. Also, I am going flying with my boyfriend tomorrow, which I am really excited about. But that's off topic. Anyway, in conclusion:

-First day was pretty good, we set a good pace and I walked the entire way with the Dans which I am quite proud of, especially since I am smaller, thinner and am a girl. Unfortunately me doing this annoyed Brier and Kasia, which I understand and feel quite bad about now, but at the time I was too tired to care and was feeling rather cool for being able to walk at the same pace as two well seasoned campers for an ENTIRE DAY! Yeah, baby! Got into the campsite quite early and tried to set up the tent, which failed the first time as it was inside out which was rather annoying. Then I made dinner, which was really, REALLY annoying because I used about a billion tablets and the water didn't STILL didn't boil for about an hour. However, in the end it was quite tasty. After dinner my boyfriend called me, which was really quite sweet and made me feel quite cheerful for the rest of the evening. Then I went off into the Dans's tent and we played Black Jack until about ten at night, which was fun and for some reason I got really, really addicted to Black Jack and have cravings to play it which I will in two weeks at the Peak District. After that I left their tent and went to say hi to Andy's group, and I helped them make their curry by stirring the pot. I really love stirring things, which is really odd of me I know. Come to think of it, that may be why I like baking things so much- I don't really enjoy eating the cake, but I do really enjoy stirring everything together and eating the cake mix. Yum. Well, anyway, after that I went to sleep which was horrible because I was cold and sad.

-Second day was alright until the end. I kept up the same pace with the Dans, but by the end I was quite tired. I was really angry with Kaisa and Brier at the beginning when we got to the campstite because they refused to set up the tent and kept on changing their mind about where they wanted to pitch, so in the end I had to set it up myself which was surprisingly fun. After that I started texting Bigs, but then one of the teacher's caught me and yelled at me and said I was a 'Mommy's girl' and I stupidly retorted, 'I'm not texting my mom!' before I realized how dumb I looked. I hate Rita. Everyone else thinks she's really nice, but she's not. She's evil and ingratiating and sickly sweet. Grrr. Anyway, I texted him later anyway, except it was really difficult to because the connection was crap so I got frustated. He texted me a really sweet message though, which made me happy and encouraged me when I felt tired for the rest of the trip. Then I ate my dinner, which was tasty again except it took really, really long to boil and I used up 18 out of 24 tablets and it still took about an hour. Then it went really, really bad as suddenly I became really, really ill which was not only an awful experience but was also inconvenient. Blergh. After that me and Brier sat outside and rated all the boys' backs in the campground, which I think freaked the Dans out a little. Dan C had the best back in the campsite, but we didn't tell him that. So I holed up in my tent with Brier, which was quite fun as we chatted and chatted for absolutely ages except I didn't get to play Black Jack which made me a little sad. Kasia came in a little later, but then- which was really annoying- said she had to go to the bathroom, took her sleeping bag and left. Brier had also needed to go to the bathroom, so she went soon afterward, but for some reason Kasia wasn't there. So Brier came back to the tent, and we waited for about 30m minutes- and it was about 12 by then- before we got out of our tent even though we were tired, cold, damp and it was extremely inconvenient to search for Kasia. Brier at the time was quite hysterical, and she was doing this combo of laughing and crying at the same time, and she refused to go near the toilets to look because she was frightened. So, we went to Jasmine's tent and quietly asked, even though we knew they would be annoyed as it was MIDNIGHT if she wasn't there, if Kasia was there and lo and behold she was! So we were really, really, really, really angry at her afterward. About an hour and a half later, I woke up after being dead asleep and was ill again, which completely sucked and made me feel really, really crap. So then I went to asleep and was all blargh until the next morning.

-Third day was a lot better, except Dan1 really annoyed me because he was worried I wasn't going to be able to do the real D of E because it would be too hard. I was really, REALLY annoyed about that even though I knew I was being irrational and irritable, because really I had been really good for the entire trip and had walked with the Dans for the last TWO DAYS waaay ahead of Brier and Kasia, even though they walked really fast. So yeah, I had been quite proud of myself for keeping up with the Dans even though I'm the smallest person in the group and they had walked at a really fast pace! But anyway, apart from that the third day was pretty good; I walked with Brier for most of it and we didn't have very many breaks so we were early going home! As soon as I got home I had a shower and then a bath, so now I'm uber clean, and then I ate a huge plate of lo mai fan which was yummy good! Now I'm tired and am going to go play videogames. Yay!