Hello America, we are the Bashful group and we will be
writing the blog for the next 3 days. In the group we have: Hayden M, Karina B,
Emily M, Ashlyn M, Alyssa B, Harrison P, Gracie R, Katie W, Anya Y, Carson B,
Morgan K, Meredith W, and Zy’Lice L.
At the beginning of the day, we departed from Mallard Creek
Presbyterian Church and said goodbye to our phones and families. We started our
time on the bus/van with a little awkwardness, but quickly began to bond and
get to know each other. The staff members gave the participants the rundown on
all the important details about the trip (and a few jokes too). We all got to enjoy our first traveling meal
together as a family. We enjoyed some
lovely gourmet ham and cheese sandwiches with chips, cookies, and water. For some strange reason, the cheese in the
sandwiches were still wrapped. (That trick got a few victims!)
Following the orientation, the vans played card games while
the bus did a speed-dating activity to help break the ice. After about an hour
of travel, the crew stopped at the South Carolina rest stop. The guys got in
and out of the bathroom quickly, while the girls had to stand in an enormous
line (there are barely any guys on the trip… send help). After the rest stop, everyone was loaded back
onto the buses and vans, and headed down to Georgia. (No fiddle playing Devil’s
were found.) While watching Atlanta fly
by through the windows, participants eagerly waited to arrive at LaGrange
college.
After a few more
hours driving, some of the crew continued playing games, others talked, and a
few fell asleep. Shortly after
conversations and naps were taken, our first stop at Wally-World was a go. The Happy group got some food for later that
night, while other participants went to get watches and snacks!
Back on the road, it was only a short way to go until we would
finally arrive at LaGrange College. Once
we arrived, everyone loaded off of the bus and sat in front of a pavilion to
listen to Grant tell more cheesy jokes.
After Grant, thankfully finished telling more of his “jokes”, we
listened to some great presentations from Morgan and Connor about the state of
Georgia and the lovely LaGrange College.
After they finished up with some awesome presentations, the Vice President
of Admissions at LaGrange College spoke to everyone. He told us all about LaGrange’s campus and
their academic opportunities for students all around the world.
For dinner tonight, the cooks (aka the Happy Group) made
Cheeseburgers, and had chips, watermelon, cookies and lemonade to drink. After
dinner we had relay races; teams were divided by our dwarf groups. We also
picked a representative from each group to practice setting tents incase it
ever rains on TWB.
Right after our delicious dinner, some campers spread out
and chatted before we had some friendly competitions. Each group got together and competed with one
another in some intense relay races. The
Happy Group won (but they won’t be winning for long!) Right after, we had a speed race to see who was
the fastest girl and the fastest boy on Trip 2. Emma White won for the girls
and the birthday boy, Jackson Lamb, won for the boys. We ended off our wonderful first day with a
group sing-a-long! The sky was almost as
beautiful as Vickie!!! Tomorrow we travel to New Orleans, and we are so
excited!!
