Scones

Yesterday I had some spare time on my hands so I decided to try and make apple cinnamon scones. Kate tried to help, but it did not work out so well, so I told her to just put stuff away for me when I was finished using it. It took a long time but finally they were finished, but they looked like a huge mess. But then I put them in the oven and waited for them to bake. Guess what I did while I was waiting? I read my book! The book I am reading now is called Inkspell, the second book in the Inkheart book series. But enough about the book :P
When it had been 10 minuets I took them out of the oven to check if they were done, I thought so but my mom did not agree. So I put them in for another 10 minuets. During that time I read my book again, I was so caught up in it that I almost forgot about the time. But when I finally took them out they were not burned, so that was good. I gave them to my mom and dad and Kate, and they all said they were very good.

Picture

If I put the pictures from the camp onto blogger, then it will take up a lot of space. So instead, just go to:
https://picasaweb.google.com/claireandlightning/2011SouthKoreanPeaceCamp
When you go here then you can see all the pictures I took and some captions underneath.

Day 2 at Camp

Sorry to those who read my blog for not posting for a while, but now the VPN on my computer actually works, so now I will not post the second day of camp.
After going to bed late, we had to wake up early again. When the counselor in our room called me to wake up I found that only me and the other Chinese person, Kitty, was still sleeping in our cabin. I tried to get up, but my arms felt so weak I could barely life myself up. When I finally got up, I had to wait in line for the bathroom. Libby, one of the Chinese counselor's daughters, looked very grumpy this morning, which was weird cause Libby is usually very happy and active. After I finally got ready to start the day, I went out of our cabin to walk to the cafeteria. There was a lot of foods that I did not think of as breakfast foods. Like meat, pickled veggies, spicy stuff, so I just had rice, some meat, and sea weed, the sea weed and rice was really good.
After breakfast we gathered in the meeting/classroom again. Today's topic was Culture, but I kind of forget what we did in the Peace Education during that day. Mainly cause the event in the afternoon took up most of my memory.
All day I was fretting about this afternoon's activity, even before the camp actually started I was sort of worried. You see, I am not that good with heights, so the challenge course did not sound too promising. But when we finally got to the challenge course grounds, I got even more freaked out. The course were both made out of wooden logs, and were both very very high off the ground. One of them (the less scary one) was that you had to walk up a log with little step ladder things stuck into them. Then after you had walked up the very high log, you had to walk across another log that was placed horizontally from the log up climbed up and another log that was vertical too. So, you had to walk across the horizontal log, which was about 20-30cm wide while you were attached to a life line sort of thing with a guy on the ground holding it. Lots of people did it, but when people asked if I wanted to do it, I refused. But then my friend, Cherry, or 杨梨蕊 (Yang LiRui) said that she would climb up it if I went up after her. I agreed, so she stood in line the climb up. When it was her turn I watched her climb up. She looked so brave as she walked up the ladder, I knew I could never look like that.
When she finally came down, her legs were trembling, but she was very happy. So after, I had to live up to my promise, so I stood in line to wait my turn to climb up. When I finally got to the front of the line up, I looked up to the top. I was so scared! It was so high up! But I went up anyway. I walked up to the top of the ladder, but when I finally stood up, I was trembling, and I had to stand there for a long time before I could start moving again. While I was walking across, I was holding onto the ropes attaching me to the ground so hard that my hands started getting numb. When I finally got to the end, I closed my eyes and I just jumped off of the side. When I finally got to the bottom, I felt o happy that I had finally gotten over my fear of highs (well, at least sort of) that I started crying in relief. After that was done we all went to have supper.
That evenings activity was Orienteering, but in the dark, so it was a lot more scary. Especially since we were reminded that there were snakes around the camp ground, and the wind was really big so the trees were whipping back and forth.
After we ran around trying to find the clues, we all went to bed. It felt good to go to sleep, even though it was on a floor :P