Chronicle News: Camp Kirkwood Experience
THE BUS RIDE
On August 30th, 2023, The 6th grade of Durham Academy Middle School rode 3 buses to Camp Kirkwood to Watha, North Carolina. The 6th graders carried more than 3 pounds of supplies for the trip. Hurricane Idalia was chasing them, and rain started pouring down as they made the one hundred twenty six mile drive. To keep from dying of boredom, which, by the way, was more than an hour on the bus with no bathrooms, the 6th graders played Uno! Flip, read books, and stare out the windows.
DAY 1
When they got there, the groups were led to a pavilion. After that, one by one, the groups were split and led to their cabins. In the cabins, there were about 6 or 7 bunk beds, with a bathroom at the end. The groups set up their bunk beds. After some activities, they were led to a place to eat lunch. ( The food wasn’t exactly first class, but some of it was pretty good) After a full day of activities, fun, and exhaustion, the 6th graders either played dodge ball or watched a movie. After all of that, all of the 6th graders had Sno Cones. They went to their cabins after that and played games. At exactly 10:00 PM, they went onto their bunk beds to sleep.
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DAY 2
On the 2nd day, after a good nights’ sleep, they feasted on eggs and other foods for breakfast. Then they went swimming in the pool and jumped on the Kanga Jump. The pool was ten feet at the deepest, and an inch deep at the shallowest. The Kanga Jump, on the other hand, was a big blob of space where you jump like wild Kangaroos. We went into the woods, exploring trees, meeting a Pot Belly Pig named Bubbles, who was in a Gaga ball arena. After that, we ate dinner. Late at night, we had s’mores.
DAY 3
On the 3rd day, we did the fun stuff. We went on the V-swing, Which when a rope is connected to you and pulls you up to a height of, like, 30-40 feet, and then you disconnect it. Basically, you went flying around in a V. Then we played around in the pool a little more, did the zip line, When you zip line across a lake. We had a soccer game, ( That I really appreciated) and ate pizza for lunch (Choices were Pepperoni and Cheese. Pizza wasn’t very good, but it was passable.
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The Departure…
Finally, it was time to leave. Overall, it was a pretty good field trip, with a lot of fun activities. I rate it 8.5/10. ( The food really gave it a loss!) Hurricane Idalia had failed to capture us. We came back onto the buses without broken necks and stuff like that. And with that, we headed home.