Personal Narrative: Predator Prey

When I arrived at Atwood there was a cemetery right as we entered which gave me a chill. I told Matt, my friend I was sitting next to, “that we might go in there.” The bus stopped, there were two dorms, one for boys and one for girls. All of the boys were fighting for bunks because they all wanted the top , but I let my partner, “that everyone had to have” pick and said,”you can have the top bunk.” After we all got settled, we had lunch and I sat with my friends Jack, Brett, and other people on the trip. Next we headed for our groups where we were dismissed to go. My group was the Eagles. I was lucky I had that group because we were going to play a fun game called Predator Prey. We were lucky enough to play predator prey on the first day.
It was a whole lot of fun, when there are herbivores,omnivores, prey and hunters, who have life tags except for the hunters if a higher animal or the hunter at the top of the food chain gets you give them a life tag. Sadly you can’t choose yours and trade. My friends Aaron and Declan traded even though they knew not to. I even told them “don’t trade you’re not allowed,” but they didn’t listen to me. I had a green color so I was a herbivore. I wasn’t too happy because I was at the bottom of the food chain. That meant I had to run from everyone. That very night we were told the facts about wolves and explained how this game alpha wolf worked. When it’s a night hike and using our skills of listening when we howled to find the alpha wolf. My group and I were looking everywhere for the sound, only we heard nothing. Finally we heard a sound and we all pointed in one direction and headed to that trail. When we arrived at this place that looked like there were houses , but were taken apart.
Another group howled and from their howl we found the alpha wolf and went on our backs and howled and we were accepted. I asked my leader, “was it really necessary to go on our backs?” He said, “yes it was.” When we finished it was pitch dark, so it was hard to see if it was a wolf. Sadly it wasn’t a wolf. It was a person. He was still cool because he was a talented human with a great howl. On day 2 we had our breakfast which was french toast sticks with cinnamon bun flavor inside it. Everyone at my table wanted to have three , but we were specifically told to have two. That day is when we were going to do a solo hike and have a campfire. First Brett, Declan, Jack and I and all of the other boys in the dorm room changed and went to our groups. We had a talk with our leader who said we were heading to the river. The river was very interesting since it eventually flows to the ocean. It was dangerous when we arrived because there was a big current so we didn’t go that far in the water. We checked the water to see how clear it was, its temperature and to make sure it was healthy. Our shoes were soaked. We also caught some fish. My friend Josh caught fish every three seconds. I told him “man you are so lucky.” After coming back from the river, we had lunch. After lunch we went into the field to play games. I was really happy because I led the Eagles to victory. The first game was kind of like red light green light. There was a puppet fox and we tried to grab him , but there were some rules. Everyone in the activity had to touch it and the puppet had to pass a line while the teacher that we was grabbing it from could guess. So I covered her line of sight and we all ran to the line and we succeeded. When it turned dark we were ready to do our solo hikes. I was scared out of my mind doing it. My leader for the Eagles took a long time to get to the solo hike. The area was almost pitch black and
I was ready to do my hike with my group too.
When we were about to start I heard a sound. I told the leader, “I heard some lightning. Does that mean we have to cancel the hike?” Then she looked up and saw lightning. The radio from her waist said, if you see any lightning, report it. She didn’t want to, but it was canceled and that meant we had our campfire inside. On the way back I heard a coyote sound which I thought was cool since they said,” it will be pretty rare to hear a coyote.” The next day we had breakfast and we visited the souvenir store. They had stuffed animals ,shirts ,bottles and pins. I bought an owl and three pins since they were cheap. I was so happy I went to Atwood. If I didn’t go, I wouldn’t have had the fun when doing Predator Prey, Alpha Wolf, the solo hike, teamwork activities and making the s'mores. Before we left, they gave us all a special dessert to say goodbye and then we packed our things and went on the bus. Most kids were all rushing to sit in the back of the bus. When we got back to school there were parents everywhere. My aunt picked me up, I hugged her and was happy to be back home from three days. I had to go inside school since my folder with my homework was in it. That’s when I told her It was the best because of the things that happened. There were some incidents , but for most of it I had fun at
Atwood.