Week 4? Impossible! Seems like only yesterday we were building that cabin, waiting for the bus from NYC to rumble up the road. We’ve got a lot to ground to cover in the next week, as we barrel toward Friday night’s premiere party for A Trip to The Sun.
Emily introducing this week’s domain options
The final Domains of Beam 2010 are:
Sports Invention
Mosaic
Complaint Chorus
Magic Card Set
Operation Starlight 2
Finding Your Spirit Animal
Looming & Weaving
Song Parody
De Stijl Box
Petit Morceau
& the Art of Folding
Which could mean anything!!! You’ve got a week to mull those titles over. To give you some idea of the scope, here is an original ritual that arose from last week’s Rites of Passage domain.
The Food Appreciation Ritual
By Lucas, Angelo, and Eli
Prepare the ‘good food’ – reheated mini-sliders and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the vegetarians. Place the good food on paper trays set inside a triangle inscribed in the ground near the ritual fire.
All address the good food simultaneously for about a minute, after which the good food should be consciously appreciated as it is consumed.
The ritual’s authors present the supervising counselors with paper flowers.
All go to the fire, where the waste bucket of uneaten food from the most recently served meal symbolizes “bad food”. The bad food is addressed for a minute, after which the ritual’s authors each select a representative item from the waste bucket to put in the fire.
All silently watch the fire consume the “bad” food.
The ashes of the bad food are spread within the triangle, after which the triangle is rubbed out.
Dude Zoo, Heliocentrics, Big Willey Yacht Club, and the participants of Operation Starlight all camped out this week. Open Moebius and Banshee Avalanche are hoping the weather will allow them to do the same. How does a camp out differ from camp? For one thing you get s’mores. You can be really loud. You cook your own foodover an open fire. You sleep in a tent. You may come back in the morning to find your shoes tied together, or your bunk sign replaced.
Here’s what some Heliocentrics had to say about the experience…with the understanding that some of what happens at back camp stays at back camp:
Eloise: It was great.
Olive: Awesome.
Phoebe R: Amazing.
Fiona: It was so fun.
Eloise: It was very starry and not buggy.
(Top secret revelation of enviably wholesome fun)
Sophie: You guys! We’re not supposed to talk about that!
All: Yeah, we made a pact.
Interviewer: Did all of you guys have prior camp-out experience?
Annie: Not really. It was interesting. Not the most comfortable. I shared a tent with India, Claire and Bess, and they were really great.
Interviewer: Did you hear any interesting noises? A chipmunk that sounds like a bear, that kind of thing?
Phoebe R: We were SO LOUD!!!
Eloise: We stayed up ‘til about 12:30.
Sophie: And candy….
Interviewer: The candy we confiscated from Fiona’s package?
Fiona: Yes. And more.
Sophie: I had a sugar crash!
Eloise: I think all of us at one point in the night woke up at the bottom of the tent.
Olive: We slid down and it was so funny.
Sophie: We did Chubby Bunny*…well, I did.
(* Cram more marshmallows than can possibly fit in your mouth then say “Chubby Bunny” Just one example of the many nutritious, intellectual pursuits endorsed by Beam Camp.)
Olive: Me and Bess tied.
Phoebe R: I failed.
Sophie: We should’ve just eaten ‘em.
Phoebe R: I would’ve been sick.
Sophie: It was pretty humid and hot.
Fiona: Everyone got hyper.
Eloise: I got totally hyper.
Sophie: … Eloise?
Eloise: At one point, I was eating Milk Duds and I was like, “Myah, myah, myah, Heather, yook a’ me!”
Sophie: And then I told a joke that made everyone laugh.
Phoebe R: That’s a dumb joke.
Sophie: Yeah, but it’s funny, though.
Fiona: And you love telling it.
Sophie: I do.
IN OUR DOWN TIME
We play tetherball…
& Capture the Flag (Team Garbage in blue vs. Team Dander in red – this photo was taken moments before a daring Dander rescue mission freed a jail’s worth of prisoners from the shadow of the Flappet Tree)…
& construct homemade Slip N’ Slides…don’t worry, the staff tries em out first
OH NO!!! SUN CREATURES! RUN!!!!!
