Last weekend I went to Winnipeg with my school to play Ultimate Frisbee. The tournament was called “Hold Back The Snow”. This was my first time ever playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee. It was a completely new experience and I had no idea what to expect. We got an early start to trip, getting to the airport at 6 a.m on a Friday morning.  We got on the plane together and the journey begun. We got off the plane, got onto our bus and immediately started our team song. We made it to the song Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. The song went like this.

Hopped off the plane in Winnipeg with Frisbees in our hands

Welcome to the land of ulti pros, are we gonna fit in?

Hopped on the field and pulled for the first time

Looked to the right, see our fans on the side line

This is all so crazy, (team were playing) is the greatest

So we put our hand up to stop the huck but we let it get away

Setting the cup the yeah

Scoring some points like yeah

So we put our hand up to stop the huck but we let it get away

yeeeaaahhhh there’s a tournie in the Winnipeg

We then arrived at our practice field and practice for around 2 hours. We then drove to SJR school to meet the billets we would be staying with. Again, this was also a new experience for me. We met the boy we were staying with and then we were told we would be taking the school bus home. This was very frightening because we had never been on a school bus before. We then got on the crammed, stuffy bus and sat for 30 minutes until we arrived at the house. The house was nice but not too big. We then went to the basement and unpacked. When we came upstairs we got to know the family better and we learned that they were very nice and that we were going to have a good time. The next morning we got to Assiniboine park for the tournament. We played all of out games and we won 2 out of 4 games. I quickly learned that it was a sport that required a lot of energy and effort. That night we went bowling as a team. We had a competition where we were divided by our Frisbee lines. We got home and went straight to bed. The next day we only had 3 games to play. We lost 2 and won 1. We finished in 13th place out of 24. This was the second best our school had ever done! I would now consider myself a true Ultimate Frisbee player.

Camp Manitou

For the past 9 years sleep over camp has been a major part of my life. I started going after grade 1, which would have been when I was around 6 or 7. From the second I stepped of the bus, smelled the fresh camp air, saw the beautiful lake and all of the spirited councilors, I fell in love. I started at Camp Tamakwa for 5 years and then on my 5th year there, I decided that i would also try going to camp Manitou. I decided on Manitou because my family friend owned it. The second i went to Manitou I fell in love all over again. I have been going there, 2 month in the summer ever since. Every year, as the buses roll away I wipe away my tears surrounded by my best friends, still huming world games cheers. World games is one of the best parts of camp for me. It is a competition between the entire camp. It happens in the last three days of camp and we are divided into two countries. You are put with your cabin, so at night, we always stay up late making cheers. I have been there for many years and have experienced many world games teams. Some of my memorable teams were Tanzania, Ukraine, Tonga, France, India and so many more. Last year was my last year of being a camper. At my camp, affter you finish as a camper, you have to apply to be a c.i.t.  A councellor in training is someone who helps out at different activities and in a certain cabin. For my age group there are 56 girls and only 24 spots. This makes it very competetive between all of us. We have to write an application letter that is supposed to be about a page long. Most people have already finished theirs already and I havent. I am going to write that now instead of writing this blog.