When Wednesday morning came, I woke up made my bed,got dressed and went to wait at the Sala de Mese. The Sala de Mese is where we have Church,skits,and meals. We had the Morning Lesson in the Gym. The Gym is where we have Morning Lesson, devotions,Carpetball,Sacks,Ping Pong,and is the funnest place to go during free time. Afterward was free time. For lunch we had Cus Cus. That would be pronnounce Coosh Coosh. Don't ask me what it was. Whatever it was it was good. Then we had rice and meat. After rest time, we made crafts. Then were the Wednesday team games! We had a water game where your team gets in a line. Boys first tallest to shortest. Then girls tallest to shortest. The boy at the front of the line Filled up his blue bucket. The bucket had little holes under. Then he passed it over his head. All the way to the shortest girl. She would take it and dump it in a gigantic bucket. I enjoyed that game. At the end of the game I had no idea who won. I just had enyoyed the entire thing. We played another game that wasn't as exiting as this one.At the end of the games I was a wet rat. My shirt stuck to me. Afterward we got a bread with vanila in the middle. At the end of the team games we always get bread with something in it. Afterwards was an hour of free time. To get ready for Church and all. I got changed, then played in the Gym. After Church,was supper. After supper was soccer. We played the game I described yesterday. If we lost, we'd not make it to the championship. At the end of the 1st half we were down 1-0. They scored easily again. With 5 minutes left our star player Ciprian Mircov scored with his head. 2-1. Then with 3 minutes Gabi scored 2-2. I don't know what would happen if we tied, but by the looks of things we could win or be out. With seconds left in the match Denis (a kid on the other team) slapped Mircov. We were in the Goal box shooting a free kick. They had a wall. That would mean 2 of their players stood in our way. Everyone though he would attempt a goal. I stood 1 foot a away from the goal. But I'm the stinkiest player. They thought he would try to score. Their goalie stood 3 feet out of his goal. Then our star player did the most surprising thing on the planet earth. He passed me the ball. Being a foot from the goal with every player of the team standing yards away from me I did what any smart guy would do. Kick it gently into the goal,scream like Tarzan,and run around the field. After the skits which us kids did, we went to bed. More flashlights. Then Thursday woke up. They day of the soccer final. Which wasn't until 8:30. We had a little free time then the Morning Lessons,and devotions. At free time their was a little problem about a boy in the girl's cabin. Then we went on the hike. We went all the way to the side of a mountain. There was a big rock there. What's so interesting about a rock you might say. But this rock was kind of like the one Moses hit with his staff. Water came out of it! I ran to it, but much bigger bodies pushed my little body out of the way. I didn't get to drink. Well unil a camper gave me a bottle to drink from. Then then we split in 4 groups. Each group took turns climbing some more, into a cave. Everyone came out nice and clean. Except me. You see, my body had this thing about falling on dirty grounds,when their are any around. By the way only 1 kid had a flashlight. It was itch dark in there. Andrei the director of camp brought his though. So did Alin, a Romani counselor. There were bats in the cave. After a delicious lunch something that looke like oatmeal and you put chocolate syrup all over it,rice,and chicken leg, it was time for more Daci vs. Romani games.Oh wait,first was rest time,free time and then the team games. We played another ball game. This time you had to throw a basketball at the other team's balls. Their balls would be on the ground, in front of a rope. You had to throw the basketball at their balls. If their ball crossed the rope it would be out. After everyone's had a turn, they count to see how many are left. Then we played a game part rugby,part soccer,part horseshoe, with new rules added. With a plastic hoop, you could only walk 3 paces. Then you could either pass, or score. The goal was a stick in the ground. You had to throw the hoop on it. The other team can't grab it from your hand. Unless it's in the air,or on the ground, the defensive team can't steal it. I scored the first goal ever. But we lost anyway 3-1. I was always on the other end, waiting to catch the hoop and score. But no-one wanted to pass it to the guy standing directly in front of the goal. They wanted to shoot from 30 feet out.
After a dlicious supper,the 3rd and 4th place began. The team I wanted to win (the one we barely beat) lost.Then the soccer championship was in play. We were playing against the best team. The only team that beat us. At the end of the first half it was 1-0. They had the lead. We started the ball. We got close to scoring... but we missed they got the ball but we double-teamed their player and he kicked it out of bounds. We got the ball. The ball came my way. I passed to Gabi, but Marku intercepted the pass and kicked hard... we stared up at the ball. We ran after it. It bounced once, and headed directly tword our goal our goalie jumped, missed it, and the ball sailed into the goal. 2-0. With about 10 minutes left they scored again. With 5 minuted left we thought all was lost. But remembering the game we came back from a 2-0 loss, we kept trying. 3 minutes. Finally, the ref. looled at his watch and announce the game was over. We had lost.
Then came the skits. They had 2 or 3 skits then played the final game of Tornada. We were winning something to something. I answered another question. I hoped my luck would hold. It didn't. I got a storm. But it didn't matter. Out of all three games, the Daci won. Afterwards we had bedtime. 'More flashlights I presume'. But everyone got a little bette at sleeping. Only about 12 kids shined their flashlights and whispered. The last day at camp dawned. After a dlicious breakfast, Andrei announced the boy/girl clean-up winner. 3-3, it was a tie! At least we didn't lose to girls. Then we had the Morning Lessons and then devotions.Then after devotions were the championships. The Daci champion would play the Romani championship. First we played Carpetball. Marku and the Daci girl champion played the 2 Romani. They both won. Then came the Sack game. Bogdan and Bogdan for the Daci, and Sam, and another kid. The Daci won again. Then the Daci girls won too. Things were looling good. Then we went outside to play Box Hockey and the other ball game. The Romani boys won both. The Daci girls won both. So we pretty much won the championships 6-2. After the championships we had lunch. For lunch we had soup, can't remember what kind, rice,and meat. Then was rest time. Rest time is the only part of camp I don't like.
The games on Friday were a blast! My favorite game of the whole week was a game were there was a water slide (a long peice of plastic laying on the floor), a kiddie pool 5 feet away from the edge of the slide (the place was dirty so after thousands of wet kids running on the dirt it turned to wet mud), and you get a balloon. You run to the slide and slide on it with watever body part you want, run to the pool (and try not to slip in the mud), jump in a pop your balloon.

That night at the skits, they announced the champions of Carpetball,Box Hockey gave them diplomas, and stuff like that. Then it was time for the announcing of the winner! Just in case you don't know, I've been at camp 5 teams and never won. 4 at this camp,1 at the Wilds. They won the team games for Friday. But we won Tornada was the Daci, so all the territories were owned. And the Daci won! My team won for the first time ever! Everyone got a diploma,badge,and magnifying glass. The other team got a little something. Friday night we had a camp fire. It was pretty cool. We stayed up until 1 Saturday morning singing camp songs, and getting all warmed up.

This is some of us sitting in front of the fire. You can see me, with the red shirt on staring in awe at the camp fire. As usual Ciprian yelled out, "Denisa! Zach loves you!" Which was a lie.
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