Summer Activies...

...Suck.

One of the reasons I'm so happy to be 18 is that nobody can schedule me to do ANYTHING in the summer anymore. When I was little, I remember people being able to set me up in summer programs. When I was about 10 or 11, my aunt sent me and my step-sister to Art Camp. They actually have a camp to teach you how to draw. Because it's so difficult to pick up a pencil and doodle Snoopy onto a peice of paper, right? I went to hundreds of camps throughout my life as a kid, and they were all terrible, the worst had to be sports camp.

Sports camp was a camp designed to make children feel inaddequate, embarassed, and akward. It also succeeded in the art of making children's self esteem and confidence shatter, which it did most thoroughly. Being not the most athletic child in the world, this camp was torture for me. I remember one thing though that never made sense to me. At Sports Camp, they made us play board games. Because apparently, Connect 4 is a f*cking sport, right?

I think the camp was run by Hitler.

But being 18, now I can do whatever I want, except I'm CHOOSING to go to summer school and a summer video production program. But nobody can make me take swimming lessons or anything anmore. And it's a wonderful feeling. And, the best thing is that with the economy in such a slump as it is, nobody can make me get a job because NOBODY can get a job, and even the people who HAVE jobs are having a hard time keeping the ones they've got.

So, that all being said, summer activities suck, and the only thing I'm looking forward to is my birthday. Not so I can become a year older, 'cause all I did was not die for another year. I'm looking forward to my birthday because I get presents and will actually feel loved for once in a blue moon. Except even my birthday, being in July, seems like somethingt that somebody rigorously planned out for me to enjoy as an activity.

Sh*t.

M@RK

Comments

[cateliz]

You're totally right. Summer activities DO suck. Which is why I'm spending the last summer before college doing absolutely nothing, unless you count spending the day in my pajamas watching TV and talking on the phone as something. I'm impressed that you're actually doing something constructive voluntarily. The most I can do is force myself to take every babysitting job I'm offered.

[vandelayinc]

Well, first off, thanks for the comment, I really do appreciate feedback, and secondly, I really have to take the classes, it IS voluntary, but I feel like I should. I'm a senior, but I'm not graduating, I got screwed out of credits at my last school.

I actually envy you, taking the entire summer off, ha. I wish I could do that, but I don't plan on attending college anyway, so, whatever I guess, I'll have plenty of time.

Once again, thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

M@rk