Pioneering Sucks, Right?

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Pioneering Sucks, Right?

Everybody hates pioneering. It’s a funny word for tying sticks together with bits of rope. The Scout Leaders seem to think it’s important, and they make us sit around for hours and hours and tell us to tie knots. It’s a bit boring. And at Patrol Leaders’ camp they made us build an Alarm Clock Tower.

It’s called that because it looks like one of those old glass alarm clocks with sand in that goes down from the top to the bottom. And then you turn it over. There’s one on my computer quite a lot because I have this virus that Kevin gave me on MSN. Anyway, we made this tower out of big tree trunks called spars. We had six “ten foot” spars and six “fourteen foot” spars. We made it on its side and Jonathan kept muffing up the lashings and they all fell apart on his but Cameron’s ones were quite good and so were Alistair’s. Cameron kept shouting a lot but he probably saved my life because I went under the pole thing and it started moving and he told me to get out of the way. It was really really heavy, and we had to pull it upright with ropes. There was me and Cameron pulling on a pulley and the others stopping it from going too far with other ropes, and Paul and Greg lifted it up. It wobbled a bit but Cameron and Paul pulled it straight. Greg stood underneath, but it didn’t fall down so that was alright. It was taller than my house. It was amazing and I wanted to climb it but Greg said no because we need to get better at tying knots before we could make a safe one, but we’re going to climb it next time. Greg put glow sticks on the top so planes wouldn’t hit it at night. Cameron tried to put a flag up on it but he did it wrong and pulled the rope off so his flag was rubbish. We had a brilliant time. (—by Harry the Heifer.)
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