Eighty Five excited kids packed all their stuff onto the trailer connected to the bus. It was hot on the small white bus. Everyone was shouting and talking about the day ahead of us. Everyone was signing along to the songs. We finally arrived at Dzintari Latvian Camp. We unpacked everything of the bus and put it in our dorms.

 The waves came crashing down in-front of me. The freezing water invited goosebumps onto my wet skin. Suddenly a huge wave was waiting for me to ride it. It formed just in time for me to jump up onto the raging wave.  I jumped up onto the long board like a frog. It swayed me to the edge of the grainy sand. I bounced off the foam board and sprinted back into the icy waves. This was so different to every other school camp.

I strapped on the steel black helmet. I hopped in the cockpit of the green cart named ‘The Hulk’. “Go” she yelled. The race started. I felt my teammate pushing the back of my cart around the donut shaped track. We span around the circle and I drifted around a bend. We paced to the pit stop and swapped positions with our other teammates.

Bang! The shot banked in off the backboard of the basketball ring. I got my friend out in a game called bump. “Dinner time” called Skye. We all rushed to the entrance of the dining room and grabbed our water bottles. We all speed walked to our table to try and get a good seat. Dinner was build your own burgers. We finally got called up. I got to the front of the line. I chose chicken burger and made it like a ‘Chicken Royale’ from Hungry Jacks.

We woke up on the final morning of this camp. We had to pack everything up but I had planned ahead and packed up the day before. I dashed to the basketball court and got a ball and was shooting around. The instructor made us put everything on the trailers we headed off to our final activities and went to the beach. We had the ‘Beach Games’ and our team didn’t do very well. We had wraps for lunch. We ate our lunch and headed back to school.

Jackson