Camp Stuff

The whole week has passed in a blur and yearning for America. The school tastes like a wood and I haven't been inspired to tell anyone about what had happened in America, it's just too much to tell and I haven't found words to describe it. Finally, I pulled myself together and I'll tell something about the last week...





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The evening in Spartanburg. The others returned from Wal-Mart and we gathered to play Uno. The game proved a bit tricky, because of INTERNATIONAL RULES :D Every country has their own rules, so we tried to follow the American rules. We played until 1, when Jim asked us to go to sleep, since we were so noisy. We continued the game in our bedroom few more hours, until we all were just too tired to play and be quiet.

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Early awakening, we drug ourselves to vans and took turn to Lake Joccassee. That was probably one of the coolest places so far. :) First pit stop was a water fall, where we took few (dozen) pictures. Then we hiked our way through the forest up to the hill. The road was extremelly rough, especially without shoes. In the halfway we took our clothes off (of course we had swim suits) and went to natural jaccussee, a cave to where water showered from small holes. The water wasn't very warm like in a real jaccussee since it came from the mountain, but very refressing. Never forget the climate in South Carolina: it is always HOT, HOT, HOT. At our end point there was a natural water slide, a cool thing where you get hurt easily, but if you aren't afraid of small bruises, it's a lot of fun. I mean, it was kind of a strongly streeming river, or a race, that we slided down using nothing else but a small plastic mattress. It looked quite scary, even dangerous, but it was mostly just fun. Some got hurt, but it was worth it!

The natural water slide

The next thing to do was lunch. We parked our boat to a small beach with a group of Americans. They showed us a place where we can do some cliff diving, it was more than 5 meters free fall to the lake. One of the scariest things I've done in my entire life!! But at the same time, full of adrenaline. First you have to climp a bit, which is dangerous, since it's hard to get a proper grip of the slipery, sandy and wet cliff, and if you fall, you're gone. I still feel it on my toes when I think the situation: jumping from the cliff and for few seconds you feel nothing under your feet. AWESOME!!

Me in the air

On our way back we ate some hamburgers in the boat. A quick shower at campus and we were on our way to Spartanburg to eat some pizza in a fancy restaurant. Yes, food again. Well, there are few hours between lunch and supper. The pizza was excellent, but a bit too small and I even shared it with Henriikka, because American pizzas are normally everything but small. Back to campus and we played Uno. Also Zolo tried to join us. What ever we asked from him, he answered: "who...? me?!?? you?!?! he?!?", which was kind of funny, but at the same time, very understandable: he is just 13 and has studied English for only 2 years, while we are at the age of 17-18. Zolo got new nicknames: ZI and SISU! :D (our international friends didn't enjoy Finnish candies.)