1 December 2012
Chapter 5
"Everyone get on the bus." Mr. Coal called his advisory to the bus. I was about to get on the bus then remembered I left jacket in the teachers break room. I raced back into the school and grabbed my white jacket. Normally jackets are against my schools dress code, but today my advory is going on a retreat, so no dress code today for my advisory. I raced to the bus and sat behind Pikachu. Since the bus is so big everyone got to have a row to them self. We all started to talk about instruments. Mandy a blond siting behind me kept asking everyone if and want instrument they played. "Hey Jake, what instrument do you play?" Mandy asked me. "I play the guitar and piano." I turned around and awsnered. "Oh. Hey Pikachu do you play an instrument?" Mandy asked. Pikachu turned around. "I use to play the piano, I don't play it very well now." Pikachu answered and turned back to the window she was staring out.
The bus stopped at a big church, I don't know what kind. We all stood up and waited for the Mr. Coal to get out. "Hi." Allyson said to Pikachu. "Hi." She replied back. "Hi!" I said from behind them. "Hi." Pikachu turned and laughed. "Everyone grab something from these seats." Mr. Coal told us. Pikachu grabbed a box bigger than her, I was a bit surprised. I grabbed a huge box that I could barely lift. I walked as quick as I could into the building. I set down the heavy box in a carpeted gym with a box of balls over by a stage. "Everyone blow up these balloons." The girls discplship leader said. I picked up and blow it up, tied it and started to play with it. "I hate the sound of balloons." Allyson cringed at the sound of balloons rubbing together around her. "You mean like this?" I asked and started to rub to balloons together. "Yes!" Allyson covered her ears. "Oh! Sorry." I quickly stopped.
After the balloons were filled up, me and the other guys started to play basket ball. Every time I got the ball some one stole it from me and if I had the ball long enough and tried to shot, I'd miss by a mile. "Ok everyone gather in a circle." Mr. Coal called us. I don't remember who I sat by. Mr. Coal numbered us all either 1, 2, or 3. I was a 1, Pikachu was a 2. Fiona, Danny, and Delia were also 1s. We were still in a circle now in groups, in the middle of the circle was a bunch of trash bags on the ground. "The first game you will try to find an egg that is boiled." Mr. Coal said and put three eggs on the trash bags. "Each team send one member to come up and grab an egg." Delia ran up from my group, Allen from group 2, and Florence from group 3. They each grabbed an egg. "Now break it and see if you have the boiled egg." Danny carefully cracked his open, that one wasn't boiled. Allen and Florence both cracked their eggs like Danny, both weren't boiled either. "Oopps, I didn't put a boiled one up their. Ok let's try this again." Mr. Coal put three different eggs up their. "Send a different member up." I went for my group, Pikachu went for 2, and Allyson for 3. We each grabbed an egg, I couldn't tell if I had the boiled egg or not. "Now break them." Allyson carefully cracked hers open, it want boiled. Then Pikachu tried to crush it in her hand, failed and slammed it down on the trash bags. I jumped back as raw egg flew my way, it was definitely not boiled. I broke open my egg, not as carefully as Allyson did, but not as wild as Pikachu did. Mine was the boiled egg. "Ten points to your group." Mr. Coal told me.
Jacob Hulten • Opuss № I