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A little wet, maybe, but happy: Grade 6 students from Braemar at the North
Vancouver Outdoor School.

The chores and pigs
jutdoor School

Ryan Kerluk

Contributing Writer
STUDENTS who
haven’t been to
Outdoor School may
think they let you relax

a lot.

Wrong!

“Cabin #6 — you are doing
weather. Cabin #3 — you're
serving. Cabin #8 — you have
free time.”

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“Most Boring Chore” is ,
Roust-About. Ecan’t believe a
counsellor assigned such a lame
task. Does she realize that we
don’t really sweep? We pushed
the dirt underneath the hang-
ing jackets and pants so it
looked like we did a good job.

The next group was proba-
bly a bir surprised when they
lifted the long pants away from
the floor, At feast we weren't
graded on how much dirt went
out the door.

In Farm Roust-About we
really liked rhe cute baby pigs.
However, | did feel like puk-
ing! It was very smelly! We had
to feed the pigs our leftovers (a
few burnt pancakes and some
chewy pasta.)

Capitol, the fattest pig, let
out some hot air. It stunk up
the whole building.

Now to describe the messy
job of serving.” During
lunchtime everybody was
spilling soup and juice. It was
tame to play basketball, games,
or relaxing in your cabin if you
weren't the unlucky “serving”
cabin.

Servers wiped, scrubbed,
washed and picked up dirty
napkins. However, servers did-
n’t have to wait outside in the

uring rain. They got to go
into the heated food building
first. .

Carrying those dirty knives,
forks, spoons and bowls was
my worst nightmare. It would
be nice to play European hand-
ball after “fetch and carry”
because no one would be able
to knock the ball out of your
hands because they would be
so sticky.

To students who haven’t
been to Outdoor School — I
was just kidding. I had a great
time.