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Post by macca on Oct 6, 2007 0:12:45 GMT -5
All in all though this is one of my least favourite Super Specials. maybe because we don't have summer camps here I can't relate. Every school camp I went on, sucked. i just hate being out of my comfort zone. Word I did like this book, though. Remember how they humored Jess and Mal by making them junior CITs? How ridiculous!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 6, 2007 8:01:25 GMT -5
^ Agree about Jessi and Mal. I can see how it probably could have created resentment with the other girls, too, though I'm not sure exactly what a junior CIT did (except organized the dance thing). As for being out of my comfort zone, I never went to camp and never even liked spending the night at other kids' houses, so I really felt for Charlotte. I never would have stayed. Actually, I never would have gone. I got out of going to 6th grade camp, even, because I knew I didn't want to do it. I just don't get into stuff like that but prefer my own home and my own bed. ;D
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Post by macca on Oct 6, 2007 19:09:16 GMT -5
^ Agree about Jessi and Mal. I can see how it probably could have created resentment with the other girls, too, though I'm not sure exactly what a junior CIT did (except organized the dance thing). Nothing, from what I can tell. But I guess Ann assumed the readers would find it weird that Jessi and Mal were nothing but campers, considering they're normally fully-fledged BSC members (who can't baby-sit at night unless it's for their own families, blah blah blah) I liked the idea of sleepovers at friends houses more than the reality! ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 6, 2007 19:21:10 GMT -5
^ Me too. ;D I actually only made it one full night. Felt so miserable the next day as I don't function on no sleep. Then I figured it it's just not for me. I'll read Dawn and the Big Sleepover instead. ;D
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 7, 2007 21:49:44 GMT -5
I liked the idea of sleepovers at friends houses more than the reality! ;D Me too, I only went to one sleepover. It was in fifth grade for my best friend at the time's birthday. I barely got any sleep because everyone was whispering to each other all night. Her mom was also a huge prick- we were watching Titanic as we were going to bed and she was like, "As soon as the movie's over, I'm going to turn the TV off because I don't want it playing all night," And I was like, WTF, because I couldn't fall asleep with the TV off (still can't). She got a protest about that from everyone there and she still wouldn't leave it on. And at breakfast the next morning, someone wanted to have a cup of pop and she was like, "No, pop is not for breakfast." I remember she served us white grapefruit juice or something, ugh. Anyway, I liked this book-Camp Mohawk reminds me of Camp Walden from the Lindsay Lohan version of The Parent Trap and I loved Claudia and Will . I felt bad for Stacey getting poison ivy and pink eye and for Mal and Jessi when the kids in their cabin call them oreos because Mal's white and Jessi's black and they're always together.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Oct 7, 2007 22:50:26 GMT -5
I would have found it so funny if Dawn was their CIT. That would have made my day! It's good actually, that they showed that eleven year olds do need supervison!!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 7, 2007 23:34:48 GMT -5
I liked the idea of sleepovers at friends houses more than the reality! ;D Me too, I only went to one sleepover. It was in fifth grade for my best friend at the time's birthday. I barely got any sleep because everyone was whispering to each other all night. Her mom was also a huge prick- we were watching Titanic as we were going to bed and she was like, "As soon as the movie's over, I'm going to turn the TV off because I don't want it playing all night," And I was like, WTF, because I couldn't fall asleep with the TV off (still can't). She got a protest about that from everyone there and she still wouldn't leave it on. And at breakfast the next morning, someone wanted to have a cup of pop and she was like, "No, pop is not for breakfast." I remember she served us white grapefruit juice or something, ugh. Anyway, I liked this book-Camp Mohawk reminds me of Camp Walden from the Lindsay Lohan version of The Parent Trap and I loved Claudia and Will . I felt bad for Stacey getting poison ivy and pink eye and for Mal and Jessi when the kids in their cabin call them oreos because Mal's white and Jessi's black and they're always together. I have a friend who can't fall asleep without the tv on still and I have to have a noisemaker at night to sleep, so can relate to that, sweetvalleygirl. And I totally agree about feeling bad for Mal and Jessi and Stacey too (though I think it did serve Stacey right a little after the way she carried on about poor Mal's bug gear at Shadow Lake. You think she would have been more compassionate about itching after this experience but coolness always wins out....) Not one of my favorite Super Specials but I liked it better this time than usual.
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Post by macca on Oct 8, 2007 2:15:33 GMT -5
I liked the idea of sleepovers at friends houses more than the reality! ;D Me too, I only went to one sleepover. It was in fifth grade for my best friend at the time's birthday. I barely got any sleep because everyone was whispering to each other all night. Her mom was also a huge prick- we were watching Titanic as we were going to bed and she was like, "As soon as the movie's over, I'm going to turn the TV off because I don't want it playing all night," And I was like, WTF, because I couldn't fall asleep with the TV off (still can't). She got a protest about that from everyone there and she still wouldn't leave it on. And at breakfast the next morning, someone wanted to have a cup of pop and she was like, "No, pop is not for breakfast." I remember she served us white grapefruit juice or something, ugh. Wow, weird that she had to enforce all the rules even on a special occasion. I've never had a TV in the bedroom, so definitely don't need it to fall asleep and my mum wouldn't have liked soft drinks for breakfast (however, serving grapefruit juice is a bit ridiculous!) ... although the rules would've been relaxed at a sleepover. I hated the way the BSC all used to sleep till 12 after a sleepover. Because I wasn't at home, I always found it difficult to sleep at friends houses and was usually awake at 6am.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 8, 2007 20:22:26 GMT -5
I couldn't understand how they could sleep that late after a sleepover either. Every time I'm out of my comfort zone (sleeping at a friend's house or going on vacation), I'm usually up early, because I have trouble sleeping anywhere but my bed and I get confused about where I am for a few seconds, waking me up. I also have trouble sleeping if I'm home alone. I usually just rest or doze for a minute or so until everyone's home and safe.
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Post by macca on Oct 8, 2007 22:06:43 GMT -5
Also, the BSC were presumably on sleeping bags on the floor. How comfortable is that going to be?
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 9, 2007 21:56:03 GMT -5
Also, the BSC were presumably on sleeping bags on the floor. How comfortable is that going to be? I agree, I mean how can sleeping bags be comfortable enough for someone to sleep as late as noon? At least at that one sleepover I went to, my friend's mom pulled out a bunch of old matresses and we used our sleeping bags as blankets. I can't imagine sleeping comfortably on the floor ever!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 9, 2007 23:37:38 GMT -5
^ Me neither. The one or two times I did have someone spend the night, she always got the floor (her choice ;D) and we made a "bed" with an old mattress and blankets piled up. I went camping in a tent once (I was 5 and thought it would be great fun despite the fact that I had a broken arm.... Needless to say, a long night and the last time we camped that way. ;D) and the air mattress went flat. That's what I always think about when I think about sleeping in sleeping bags and when I think about Dawn's chapter in this book.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 10, 2007 23:18:12 GMT -5
Did they really sleep til noon? I always thought it was like, til 10 or 11 at the latest. They tended to be early birds and it seemed like they were always up in time for breakfast. I remember Kristy's mom making them a "wake-up" punch and Jessi's parents making them pancakes/waffles...
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Post by liss31d on Oct 11, 2007 4:54:34 GMT -5
Likewise I hate the thought of going camping. My friends are all big time into it and tease me because I won't go on the school residential trips or international award (all camping related ), but I'd hate being out in the middle of nowhere, sleeping all cramped up in a tent with insectys all over the place... I like my home comforts Never that fussed on sleepovers either. I prefer seeing my friends for hours and then going home really late, usually because I feel I've seen enough of them by that point, I hate the whole waking up in the morning awkwardness and I love sleeping in my own bed and not on the floor!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 11, 2007 7:53:45 GMT -5
^ Agree about the home comforts and my own bed. Summer camp never appealed to me, which is probably why I didn't really get into this book. I just couldn't relate. As for camping, the only way I'll do it is from the comfort of a motor home. ;D
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