All or nothing

I will never forget my first camping holiday. I didn’t really want to go, because I hate the feeling of cautiousness you have to endure during your camping stay. Wondering if you will get sprinkled with water as you go to sleep, wondering if you will get some crazy animal in your bed, wondering if your food will be filled with some tasteless and odorless medicine, which will make you feel sick. But my mother had to depart to Italy, and unfortunately I couldn’t come along. She is too overprotective and just wouldn’t leave me at home alone. So I had no choice but to join a camp. But this camp was different…..And not in a better way either…

Normally I am fine with sports. I am not too overzealous about it, nor do I completely hate it. It just exists and I take that as a fact. Who would have thought that the bus, that I just had to board, because my mother lead me all the way to it, who would have thought the bus was heading towards a sports camp. And not just any sports camp, it was one of the most famous in my country; with a funny name “Ojibwa». The confused look on my face was priceless. As I cautiously made my first step into this unknown world, I immediately noticed the vast amount of equipment they had here. They had everything, from football balls, to canoes, to some items I had never imagined existed. It was lying on the floor, near trees, near houses, on the top of some roofs…..Everywhere…

So I looked around a bit and then headed to the nearest and biggest building to announce my stay. As I entered the building I saw a team of big, tall, bulky guys. Well I’m pretty tall myself, ranging somewhere between 6, 1 -6, 2 feet. But these guys seemed even taller, not to mention they looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger on steroids. And everyone was staring at me, as I think now, evaluating me…I tried to keep my cool as best as I could and slowly made my way around them. But they had no intention of letting me go. One of those mutants, put their big palm on my shoulder, looked straight into my face…..and smiled. I almost fainted…No his teeth were perfectly fine. But when a giant like that, smiles into your face, it’s nerve-wracking. I tried smiling back the best as I could. After 10 seconds of looking straight into my sweaty face, he asked a simple question, which almost made me faint:”What’s your name little boy?”I immediately remembered my friends name instead of mines and used that:”Bradley». He smiled again and said:”You will have to prove you’re worth staying here little boy». Worth it?! I just came here because my mother made me! I don’t want to do anything that your twisted mind may come up with. So I said:”Okay….” “Good”, he replied.