Getting Lost at Camp Geronimo

If you haven't read Lord of the Flies, you'll probably have to do it in school one day. Let me give you an abbreviated version for when that time comes. Lord of the Flies is a book about a group of little British children who were stranded on a desert island and the book tells the story of what the children do to survive the elements, but also themselves, in about a week. On the island, children turn into complete savages, covering their faces with pain and killing a pig, I also said. a lot and when I read the book in high school I thought that making the kids go wild so quickly wasn't as accurate as a young ex.

I felt insulted that William Golding thought us little children were so heartless, but then I remembered everything. the things that happened at my Scout

camp

, Geronimo, and I realized that Lord of the Flies is still inaccurate, the kids would have gone wild a lot quicker, listen, I'm a cautious person around kids in P.E. , the other kids would do it. I would be playing this game called quarters where you would throw quarters at people's knuckles until they bled, but I wouldn't play that game because it's dangerous and I'm a loser or when I was at a party and someone wanted Play the knife game to show how good your hand-eye coordination was.

I wouldn't play that game either because I needed my hands to draw, but something about being with the boys in the middle of the forest. He would live on the edge every summer our troop stayed. This

camp

is called Camp Geronimo and is named after the Apache Indian who was the first person to yell Geronimo while he did a backflip in his pool one time, myself and a couple of other kids. I don't remember who started it, but we were playing with matches and it's okay. I know what you're thinking, but nothing bad happened, it's okay, we accidentally set fire to some dry bushes and it got a little out of control, but it's okay, it's okay, we told the Scoutmaster that there was a loose fire that was spreading further. faster than we could turn it off.

He put it out and got everyone in the troop to stomp on it and we never got in trouble. Well, what were we doing with the matches? Oh, we'd just turn them on and throw them at each other anyway. Another 30 Scout troops attended camp with Geronimo and us. You would spend an entire week sleeping in tents and earning merit badges. Honestly, most of the camp felt like a school, but outside, when you got to camp, they gave you a class schedule and for the next seven days you went to those classes and learned. and filling packets and sometimes even having homework, which probably helped us from turning into savages.

I mean, I'm sure the classes weren't as boring as English or geometry. Geronimo's classes were wilderness survival kayaking or bear self-defense. Earning a merit badge required two things. The first thing I had to write was to write the name and point out the main parts of a kayak. Explain to his counselor the dangers he is most likely to encounter when participating in kayaking activities. The bears and the second part of the merit badge had to go. go out and do things capsize the kayak swim and paddle to shore and if you don't make it the Bears will catch you I never got the kayak their badge you had to be at least twelve to go to Geronimo but you could go when you were eleven if a parent I was going to come with you and at the time my dad was a camp counselor, my birthday was May 14th and Geronimo was at the end of May, so I barely made it to the limit since the youngest person who was going to go was Geronimo.

It was a big step from spending three days at Cub Scout day camp to spending a week in the wilderness. What made it worse was that I was going to spend a whole week with all the older, meaner Scouts, and my dad had a Scout named Paul when I was 11, he was 15, so naturally he would pick on me and make fun of me. haha I get it, I'm small so I suck, but Silver Lining got fat and a couple years ago he approached me and I had been doing the whole YouTube thing for a while, he was starting his own business and wanted to have some business opportunity with me and I just said, hey, do you want to do my merch?

So now he works for me, so kids, if you ever have bullies. become successful on YouTube and then hire them to sell stuffed animals. It's actually a very good type of merchandising. He brings all my stuff to these retail stores, so if you see a floof plush at Hot Topic, you can say thank you. Paul Bully really makes a difference anyway. -promotion aside, my first year at Geronimo I was a little young compared to everyone else. I was taking a class called orienteering, the class taught us how to read maps and use a compass and one day it was time for our class to go on a scavenger hunt, they gave us a list of places we were supposed to go and we were supposed to that we were to use our compass and counter to get to each specific location and then when we got to our destination, there would be a marker somewhere and I would have to write down what that marker was.

There were ten different markers we had to find and the course was supposed to take us in a circle. The leader who was in charge of our group and the compass was an older Scout named Paul. Not the fusion guy, Paul, but I think it would be more fun if our group went to the first location with a compass and counting steps is the most accurate way of navigation, but we weren't allowed to use Google Maps, so when we got to the place we had to look around a bit to find the marker but we finally found it and then headed to the second location, this time the marker was harder to find, the place we landed on was quite far away of where the marker actually was in the third location, we couldn't find it, but we saw this reflective sign on a tree and thought that's what the marker was supposed to be, so we wrote it down at this point.

I decided to grab my own compass and try it. My compass was pointing in a direction that was a little off from Paul's direction, not by much but just enough, but remember I was a little kid, nothing I said mattered, Paul told me. things like oh, no I don't know how to use a compass. I bet yours is broken. I'm never going to work for you someday and you know what I believed him. This guy is 15 years old. Do you know how wise and experienced he is? So we kept going and fighting we used anything we found as a marker a piece of trash is a marker hey this tree has an A in an M carved into a heart kind of weird that it's at a camp just for kids do you think it's a marker eventually everyone I had to admit that we were completely

lost

, the other kids told Paul to hand over his compass and Paul reached into his pocket and pulled out his compass and the buzz magnets are magnets that are bullet shaped and you can throw them into the air. air and they make such a cool humming noise that they sold them in the camp store so Paul had them and everyone immediately figured out why we were

lost

for those of you who don't know how compasses and magnets work.

I do not know either. I think it has something to do with them coming from outer space. A compass is supposed to point to the magnetic north pole and a magnet will alter the direction. It's supposed to point a compass. Paul's compass was not pointed at his pants at all times. At one point we would have been suspicious if that had happened, but because his compass was right next to a magnet, it went out of calibration and then we all got lost and died and that's why I don't have an orienteering merit badge. I got upset because my compass probably wasn't broken, but I didn't fight back because I don't do that.

I have more stories from Camp Geronimo, like when my friend and I were tied through a Ziploc bag full of water in the older kids' shed and then I ran away so fast I threw up, but I already made a video about that and it's five years and it's really bad and you can't watch it, so the moral of this video is just because you're young. It doesn't mean you're stupid, but it does mean you make bad YouTube videos. Also check your pockets before you go to orientation. Orientation sounds like a tongue twister. I wonder if campgrounds are open right now, if people would have to be quarantined inside tents all the time.

I bet it would be pretty intense haha, as you've seen on the news, a lot of events are being canceled or postponed, including my events, so if you want to see updates on the events I'm attending and follow me on Twitter and Instagram because that's where I will post updates, many events have been postponed until further notice so you just have to wait and see. when everything calms down and we can go out again as usual, a big shout out to my amazing team for working on this video, especially considering how crazy the world has been recently, everyone has come together and worked on this video from home, which is quite normal.

Actually, for us on that note, we are all in this together, we will get through it and wash our hands of it.