i am a nerd
hey everybody-
i write from camp, which is in the lovely coastal town of el-jadida. in a refreshing change of pace, our staff is neither incompetant nor evil, and although many of the campers are spoiled rich kids who complain about the lack of scrumptious foods, camp is going phenomenally well.
my contribution to the camp experience is the running of a science club with my friend sokmala (the k is a typo on her birth certificate. true story) which has so far been fun for the whole family.
yesterday we went to the beach and made baking soda and vinegar volcanos, which is apparentely the coolest thing anyone here has ever seen. we drew a crowd of approximately 1 million onlookers, and the kids had to make up stories about their towns and volcanos (which included vengeful gods, irritable genies, and some sort of joe-versus-the-volcano-esque story of human sacrifice). the actual science portion of the class is minimal, but, hey, this is camp. today we are building bridges out of dry spaghetti and straws, and tomorrow we are building small racecars and having a soapbox derby. i hope nobody dies.there is a rumor going around that the us will no longer send mail to arab countries. does anyone know what grain of truth spawned this (i am assuming false) rumor? it’s kind of absurd.
high fives-
jocelyn.