July 4, 2008 || Overview, Last Disco, Poxod, 4th of July Practice

Happy 4th of July everyone!
Okay, Olga told me I only have 5 minutes, so real quick:
We went camping from Saturday 'til Monday, and when we got back the Internet was broken. It just got fixed today.
Here's what happened camping: It rained. We went canoeing. We were cold. We went to the bathroom in an outhouse made of sackcloth. It rained some more. We played volleyball until someone dropped the ball in the mud. Tolya played on the guitar. We were cold. It rained. We taosted bread. We took a walk in the woods. We swatted mosquitoes. We slept in sleeping bags. We weren't cold. We woke up and went out for breakfast. We were cold.
That's the general idea, but I'd like to try camping, real camping, for real sometime--I would've given half a leg for my hoodie and the other half for a sweater.
There was the fencing tournament (Tolya was the winner of the oldest group, and Slava was the winner of the youngest group). It was pretty cool to watch everyone fight. Egor and Ilya fought for show--Egor's pretty good. They both left for a different camp (to be campers), this made us sad because they were patient and fun to talk to.
We tried shooting and archery. Archery was super fun--Misha doesn't know that many words of English, so his commands went along the lines of "Stand! Hands! Fingers! Fire at will!" He also has a pretty funny sense of humor and when he works with the kids he plays music from Fable on his phone and has them pretend they're shooting orcs and goblins and stuff.
PS Alyona is the 8th best women's karate fighter in the world. Cool stuff.
Shooting was also sweet. The kid next to me talked a mile a minute and I wasn't too bad. I "killed" 4 metal rats and got all of my bullets into our target. Sergei actually doffed his hat to me when we took my mark down, and I decided I like shooting.
The archery tournament was today. Lera won for the older kids; she's pretty much awesome. Her, Tolya, and I swung our hair, crazy-metal-type dance at the last disco. The last disco was fun. Little Misha (the 11-year-old)'s friends dragged him up to me during a slow song so we danced. It was total zombie dance and I don't think he looked me in the eyes once.
Halfway through the dance, last night, at about 10:30, we got pulled out and into a meeting. "So, tomorrow you have a holiday. What do you want to do?" We would've prepared more, but we only started at 10:30 last night! So we decided on just a mini-performance, and if Taras and Kostya can find them, fireworks tonight. I'm pretty excited, but I'm sick of "Old McDonald" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee" after singing it until 1:30 am last night so the music teacher could get the melody right on her piano.
Tonight is also the closing campefire, where everyone dresses up like Robin Hood again. Tomorrow we leave at 10 am, back to Olga's house; she said that perhaps we can use her parents' computers when we're there. But now she's back--gotta go! Sorry it's been so long!