Erin went on his first Young Men's camp this week-end:
"We went to Midmar Dam in Howick. Me and my friend Samuel were the only ones there when I arrived. We pitched two tents. One was an eight man and the other a six man.We gathered wood for a fire and waited for the others to arrive. At half past six some more young men arrived. There was Jordan, Lindo and Neh. Brother Paul, Bishop De Wet and Ian Cobain were the adults that had arrived. Andries and Darrell were already there. At quarter to seven Barry arrived after he had taken care of his sick wife. At half past seven Sibelo, Lucas, Bob and Junior arrived with Brother Sia who had been at work. We then got the fire started and began to cook the mince for our Sloppy Joes which was our supper. Ian Cobain left to get the activity ready while the mince was cooking. We ate our Sloppy Joes and got ready for our night activity. Ian put us into two teams. I was with Jordan, Lucas, Neh and Lindo. We got given two torches per team and got given our team colours. Our colour was green. We then had to choose a number between one and four. We chose number two while the other team chose number four. We got our map and clue and then set off. We went up across the tar road, past the bathroom, up a hill and into a little forest. We saw our green ribbon in a tree and a clue attached to it. It said that we needed to gather any material around us that would help to make a fire. We then gathered wood. dry grass and little twigs. There was also newspaper lying around but we didn't take it. We went back down to camp and got our wood ready. We then got given two matches and those didn't work so we waited a five minute penalty. We then got given four matches and those also didn't work. We then got six matches and after wasting four we finally got our fire started. We then chose clue number one and were sent along the dam shore line and into long grass to find a dead tree with our next clue. We found three dead trees but none had our clue but the next dead tree did. It just told us to take our extra long green ribbon to help us in later tasks. We went back to camp and chose clue number three. It told us to make three mimes using pictionary cards. I went first and I chose firewood. Jordan went next and chose vision. Then Lucas went and chose water pistol. All our mimes were successful. We then went on our last clue which was number four. We went along the tar road, next to some fencing, by some power cables and around another smaller dam. We found two long wooden poles, a giant cask full of water and a car tyre. We then had to carry them back to start using our own route. We took our extra long ribbon and tied the water cask to the two poles. Jordan then went to the front and put the two poles on his shoulders and Lindo and Neh took the back of the poles. Lucas rolled the tyre while I tried to make the water cask lighter for them so we could go faster by carrying it a little. We went along the long grass and through the soccer field to get back to camp. We were ambushed by the other team and got such a fright that Lucas put the tyre on his head and ran to the nearest tree and climbed up it! We carried on to camp and being the first team to finish we got biscuits and a big slab of chocolate that we shared. We then braaied marshmallows and went to bed. In the morning we tested our billy cans and buddy burners to make hot chocolate. We then went to visit the fishermen who had camped right by us. They had caught a carp that weighed about one to one and a half kg. The boy was busy studying it for a school project while they fished. We then went and had a soccer match. I was with Junior,Lindo and Neh. We lost our first game and drew our next game. We then went and swam in the dam. Me and Samuel went and tried to catch small fish using cups as we didn't have proper fishing gear. We then ate Borewors rolls and packed ready to go home at lunch time."
It sounds like Erin had a great time but unfortunately he didn't only bring back good memories, but also the flu.
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