I know, I've been away much longer than I had anticipated. I left last Sunday to go to the beach, returned on Wednesday, then I went to a volleyball camp on Friday, and finished it up yesterday.
The beach was really fun. :3 I went to Virginia Beach, which is a place I hadn't been since I was a wee tot. XD Me and my dad literally spent an entire day in the ocean, and when the both of us got out we were sunburned from head to toe. >.> I put on sunscreen, but I guess it didn't help anything. I got to play beach volleyball with some pretty foreign boys. XD One was Canadian and one was Russian. I played with a ton of strangers, but our team won. ;3 Boo-yah! The sunburn I got was HORRIBLE. I got burned on my face, my chest, my shoulders, my back, my hips, my tummy, and the tops of my legs. The ones on my shoulders, chest, and stomach ended up being the most severe. I got it all on Tuesday, they blistered up by Saturday, and they're just now peeling. The worst part was that I had to start v-ball camp with the sunburns. >.< It all stopped hurting by Saturday evening, but all the pain was probably negated by all the other weird stuff that happened to me. I don't know how, but on Friday I got these two hideous cold sores on my top and bottom lip. I STILL have them, and I've been putting medicine on like, three times a day. Where I've had to talk so much this weekend (teaching the new girls how to play, shouting out positions and such), my braces have rubbed three blisters on the inside of my mouth. And, at the time, my sunburns were blistering. I've got broken blisters all over my feet from all the running I've been doing, and to top it all off, I'm so sore I can hardly walk. BLISTERS BLISTERS BLISTERS. Also, we all stayed in dorms with one roomate. My roomate's name was Shaylia, and when we got our two room keys, we just decided to use hers so we'd have less risk of losing one. Therefore, I left mine in its little yellow packet, and set it down on one of the desks. When we got back that night, my key was gone. We tore the room apart, looking in every single nook and cranny in hopes of finding it somewhere. All the other girls checked their rooms and things, but it never turned up. So I had to pay a $50 fine for a key that disappeared. Also, on Saturday night, my neighbor Bo sent me a picture text message of the front of my house. It was flooded AGAIN. Except this time me and both my parents were all out of town, so nothing could be done to prepare. We got about a foot and a half of water in the house and my mom's car was ruined. Hopefully it gets totaled, because if it does, then she can get a new car. But if the water damage isn't enough then we'll just be stuck with a terrible car. x_x The leather furniture downstairs also got damaged, but I think it will be okay. My paranoid habits ever since the first flood saved the life of my Wii, which was up on the foot stool just in case something like this happened. XD So I have the Wii still.
All in all, as hectic as this weekend has been, I've had a lot of fun. I'm crazy tired, but happy. Our little team came to the camp with 7 players, 3 of which had never touched a volleyball in their entire lives. So it really felt like I had to be two people, since the newer girls were a little skittish of the ball and everything. I can't blame them though, I was like that when I started, and the first time I played was also in the same camp a couple years ago. It's basically like shoving a brand new player into a Varsity game, so I was proud of how far they came in just this weekend. I played the role of team captain, which was really invigorating, I must say. XD I had the EXTREMELY important job of playing rock-paper-sicssors at the net to see which team got the first serve (lawl). I also had to keep my team pumped up throughout the game, and not let them lose any enthusiasm or spirit when things got rough (Which can be hard when you're down yourself. My aching legs!). We were in the last division, and out of 6 teams we tied for 5th. XD It was okay though, cause every game we played was almost like 4 on 6, and by the end of it we'd all be out of steam. Camp still hasn't ended for me, however. My mom lives in the same town of the college campus, and apparently she's like, super good friends with the v-ball coach there. So at 1:00 today I get to go back to the campus and get some one-on-one time with some of the college players! They're going to teach me how to serve and hit better, and I'm supposed to take notes in my head and return home with all of the forbidden knowledge. XD I'm just a little peeved that I get to play with college girls when I'm aching sore. But oh well, it will be fun. :3

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