No alarm to wake me up meant that I woke up by a quarter to seven. There was plenty of activity in the camp as people were packing up to go home.
Some of the youth had left the previous night, and the rest were leaving today. I’m very glad our team was done, and didn’t have anything to do with that process. International Service Team members were also getting loaded onto buses to go to airports.
Because I didn’t know how early we were going to be done when planning for the Jamboree, and was expecting a seven hour drive home (plus pit stops), I had put my departure time for Saturday. That meant I had absolutely nothing to do today. I took my time getting up and dressed, and then met my friend for breakfast. We then moved over to the Chat-and-Chew to hang out. We read, colored, journaled, and otherwise passed time.
The Food Team was packing things up, so they closed up shop. Then they started taking the fans away, and even turned off the vending machines. It was hot, and the tent was getting stuffy. I understand the team needs to pack up, but I don’t see what harm would have been in leaving at least the vending machines on, and the fans as the last things to be put away.
We decided to head to our respective tents to pack up and take a shower. My tentmate and has been placed into one of the two-person tents, and we were being required to pack those up before leaving. We figured the tent would be wet in the morning, so we decided to move all our things into one of the now empty four-person tents for the night, and take the tent down this afternoon.
My tentmate decided to go up to the welcome center to see if she could drive her car down into camp. I packed up my bag, took a shower, and laid down on my cot. I dozed off for a bit, and when my tentmate got back I was sweating again. Since she was able to get her car down without any difficulties, I decided to get mine, too.
After we moved our things and took down the tent, I let my friend know of my plans. We met at the shuttle, and headed out. Since we had the car at our disposal, we decided to drive into Beckley for dinner. We looked up what was near by, and decided on Cheddar’s. We had a delicious dinner, then went next door to stroll through the aisles of Joann Fabric & Crafts.
We headed back to camp, and I was able to drive my car down to the base camp, and park right next to where our tent had been. We made our way to the dining hall, as that’s where some of our other teammates had congregated, since they still had fans up. We chatted for a while longer, before calling it a night.
We bid farewell to our new friends, as we would all be heading out of camp early in the morning on our respective journeys home. I met some really awesome people over the past two weeks, and I will Mia not being able to hang out with them every day. Thankfully travel is relatively easy in today’s world, so I am sure we’ll meet up again.
Xennial Wanderer 