Camper Creations: Aline

Aline

By: Crystal L.

Artwork by: Crystal L.

Two Years Ago - Prologue - Aline's Point of View

"I will defeat you!" I shouted through gritted teeth. 

My name is Aline. I am a bounty hunter who has to pay my parents' debts. If I successfully defeat Chargin, then that will be $10,000 more. However, that just proves how hard he is to beat.

"Oh?" He questioned mockingly. "You've got some guts to face the best villain in the world!"

Chargin then charges full speed at me while singing in his bad voice: "Oh ho ho - I am a Disney villain! Therefore, you cannot defeat me!"

He raised his battle axe as he dropped it down. I tried to block with my pistol...

...but no avail. 

He hit me and hard. I ended up hopelessly screaming in pain. Chargin seemed to be enjoying it. Considering was a jerk, idiot and sadist he is. I fainted due to blood loss. 

I barely heard Cgargin whisper, "I'll let you go this time, but don't expect me to let you go." 

With this he walked away. 

Present Day

I finally can get my revenge on Chargin, fo r I ran into him again. 

I shouted loud and clear, "I will defeat you this time!"

He replied haughtily, "Well, well, let's see if you honed your skills from the past two years." 

He brought out his battle ax. I didn't hesitate. I brought out my treasured pistol given to me and the holy ice bullet hit the tree directly behind him. Freezing part of the trunk. Before I knew it, he was in front of me.

He said seven words, "Have a great day in the water." 

After this, I was thrown in the river, and I lost consciousness. 

Denzin's Point of View

As I was hanging out in the water, I felt something hit my feet, and I yelped in surprise. I picked the thing up, Only to find a human. A soaking wet human. I put her on the ground and studied her. She had black hair, slicked from the water. A long jacket with pants and a belt. She had a pocket meant for placing guns in. I pressed on her stomach to get the water out. She opened her eye's slowly and she turned her head toward me. 

Her eyes then widened, and she sat up fast and brought out her pistol and inquired, "Who are you!?"

I was surprised by this. 

"Whoa, whoa, calm down will ya?" I asked. 

She slowly brought her pistol down to the point where she had it down by her waist. I noticed unlike most pistols, she had a blue and shiny looking thing.

"Wh-who are you?" She stammered, a rather frantic look on her face.

"Denzin," I replied firmly without hesitation and a smile rose on my face.

"Denzin..." she repeated curiously. 

"Yep. Denzin is my name," I said enthusiastically. 

Then a sudden idea popped into my head, "Do you know Poison Lotus?"

She tilted her head, "Poison Lotus?" she inquired. 

"She has a servant named Chargin."

She reacted a lot to the mention of Chargin. Then she slumped back down and said, "My name is Aline."

"Wanna come with me?"

She seemed puzzled, but to my joy she agreed. 

We both stood up at the same time and I decided to explain Poison Lotus to Aline. 

"Poison Lotus is a girl who used to be nice and caring. However, after wearing an amulet she got cursed and turned bad." I paused before continuing, "She killed my parents."

"Oh..." Aline said,

We continued walking until the sun set and I asked, "Wanna stay here for the night?"

She shrugged. I took that as a yes and went to grab sticks and bark for a fire. After I built the fire, 

Aline sat down and looked at it until she turned to me and asked, "Where is this Poison Lotus?"

"In a castle not far from here known as the Nightshade Palace."

"What do you mean by 'not far from here'?" she inquired. 

"Like, a mile or two. Look up," I added, 

And she did. She widened her eyes, "What is that?"

"Nightshade."

Morning - Aline's Point of View

I stretched my arms. I saw by the sun that it was late morning. Denzin was already awake. 

When he saw me, he said, "Do you want to head to the palace."

I nodded and grabbed my jacket and quickly put it on. We set off fifteen minutes later.

There were a bunch of thorns along the way that were sharp enough to draw blood at the slightest touch. After slight trudging, we made it to the front of Nightshade Palace. I realized I would have to face Chargin again. 

We went to the doors, and when we were close enough, the doors creaked open. The creaking sound sent uncomfortable shivers down my spine. We walked in cautiously. I have got to say, I never thought I'd live to see the day where Denzin would turn serious all of a sudden. But even so, Denzin would want revenge. 

We walked, our footsteps creaking in the dead and eerie silence. Suddenly, there was a pounding sound. I froze from fear and determination flowing inside my body. It was then I realized the pounding sound was an army of skeletons. 

I shot them off one by one, but before I knew it, an unlimited number of skeletons. After looking down on the ground in thought, an idea came into my head.

I whispered to Denzin, "Hold off the skeletons."

He simply nodded, and did hand-to-hand combat. I quickly loaded the bullet and since it took awhile for the bullet at full power, I can't really shoot. Just three more seconds should be enough.

BAM!

I shot at the ground and the whole ground froze in holy ice, causing the skeletons to fall to pieces. Denzin was panting slightly but quickly caught his breath.

I shouted, "Let's go, Denzin!"

"Okay," he replied.

This time, we ran.

We came to a set of doors containing spider webs at the corner, lots of grooves, skeleton heads acting as a torch attached to each side, and a black lotus carved into the center of the doors. We slowly opened it, flinching at the sound it made. 

As we were observing the dark, royal room, a feminine voice thundered, "What are you doing here?"

"Are you Poison Lotus?" I inquired. 

There were a couple moments of silence before the reply came, "Yes!"

The figure stood up and walked in an elegant way to us and studied us. We studied her back. She had deep purple eyes, and outfit a gypsy would wear, except the color was dark. She brought her dagger up without letting me finish and brought it down. Her hand movements we so fast that it went down my chest. I gagged, and it didn't feel good. Denzin tried to fight her hand-to-hand, but that didn't work either.

After I passed out, I felt my pistol fill me with power. At first it was just a little, and I craved for more. 

Its power overwhelmed me, but I stood up and said, "I'm not going to lose, especially not this time." 

I pointed my pistol with one hand, with my other hand gripping my chest. I shot at her chest, breaking the amulet. She screamed in agony before everything was yet. 

The boice was melodious too, "That you..." it said. 

Me and Dnein both smiled and said, "You're welcome."

Epilogue - Denzin's Point of View

I was reading at the library along with Aline in comfortable silence. After Aline opened the next book at her pile and scanned through the words. 

She whispered quickly, "Come here!"

I came over and saw a temple picture. I read the words: "This temple is located at the peak of the mountain. It is said a monk lives there who will answer any question and grant any wish."

We glanced at each other and smiled.

I said, "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go!" 

And with that, we set off on our next adventure. 

Camper Creations: Drawings

Just for Fun Drawings!

By: Celina M.

Camper Creations: The Magical Cupcake

The Magical Cupcake

By: Tessa S.

Artwork by: Tessa Stephenson

Once there were three girls. Their names were Jennifer, Caroline and Lily. They worked at a cupcake store. One day they made a strawberry cupcake with sprinkles. And they accidentally added blue glitter glue. Lily ate the cupcake. And she disappeared. And then when Caroline ate it, she disappeared. Then Jennifer disappeared into camp.

And when they got there, one person said, "Welcome to Camp Foley."

Caroline said, "Camp what?"

"Camp Foley."

"Oh," said Caroline.

"Here, let me show you around," said the girl.

"Okay," said Lily.

"This is your cabin," said the girl.

"Does this cabin have a name?" said Lily.

"Yes, it does," said the girl, "The name of the cabin is Pocahontas. Wanna roast marshmallows?"

"No," they said, "Can you help us go home?"

"Yes," said the girl, "Let's build a time machine."

"Okay," said Caroline, Jennifer and Lily.

"How do we do that?" said Jennifer.

"First let's gather some sticks," said the girl.

"Let's look all around camp for thick sticks," said Lily.

"Is this enough," said Caroline.

"Yes," said the girl.

"Now we need to find fog, and try to put it through the hole," said the girl.

"Is that impossible?" said Jennifer.

"No," said the girl. "We need to shape it like a tunnel."

"Oh," said Caroline.

"Now let's test it out. Let's put a pencil in the time machine," said the girl.

"It worked," said Lily.

"Thank you for helping us get home," said the three girls, "Bye!"

One, two, three jump.

"Hey it worked. That was awesome," said the Jennifer, "Well let's get back to making cupcakes. Remember, don't use the blue glitter glue again."

Everyone laughed. And they never added glitter glue again. And that's the end of the Magical Cupcake.

"Wait," said Caroline, "Is the story over?"

"Yes," said Lily.

"To be continued," said Caroline.

Camper Creations: Spy Camp & Stories

Spy Camp

By: Genevieve S.

Imagine if Camp Foley was a spy camp. Imagine the costumes and disguises. Instead of Crafts you had "Creative Escapes." Imagine that every time you get hit by paint in Paintball you lower your score, What if when shooting at Riflery hand guns were used. Imagine that you cooked your own meals with things from nature. Imagine that trips were survival lessons and you got dumped in the middle of nowhere and had to survive one, two or three days. Imagine Fencing had real swords. What if Archery was knife throwing and Journalism was writing reports and solving crimes. 

What if water sports were silent swimming and sneaking up on people. Imagine boating was water escape and Skiing was a backup plan. What if while skiing you had to lasso people dummies and wore a disguise. What if Diving was parachuting class. What if Shop was to make weapons and Tennis was deflecting class. If Snorkeling was scuba and sports were to make you a fighter. What if going home was a code name for who knows what?

Spy Camp Short Story

Someone hands me a schedule. Uh-oh. Paintball.

"So, what's your first activity?" Jeremy asks.

"Paintball!!" I say.

Woosh, a paiintball flies by my head. I want to scream but that would be dangerous. Too dangerous. 

"Hey, I found him!" 

I turn around quickly. Right in time to get hit in the face with a pink paintball. SPLAT!

... 

I wake up later in the infirmary. The pas flew back at me. I see a splot of pink and then black dots popping in. And now I'm waking up in the hospital. 

As I walk outside I hear, "Little, pinky piggy coming into the fire. A cute pinky piggy."

I turned pink, well more so then I was already.

Camper Creations

We love when our campers submit things for us to post on the blog. During a Journalism class First Session, one of our campers, Thomas R., created a sweet comic about the Dark Squad. Enjoy...

Camper Blogs! Part 3

We have our third, and final, camper blogs! We hope you enjoyed last week's blogs by Cecelia and Esperanza. This week Sam and Celina share with us about trying new things and Treehouses! Here's what they had to say... 

Treehouses at Camp Foley.

Having Fun at Treehouses by Celina M. 

At Treehouses, you always have fun because you cook your own food, and you bond with your cabin. You go with your cabin and counselors. It's not an actual house on a tree. When I first went there, I actually thought that it was a house on a tree, and I thought, "Where do we go to the bathroom?" and all those other questions. When I got there I realized I was wrong. You sleep at the Treehouses for one night, and if you need to go to the bathroom you use the wilderness latrine. It's really fun, so come to Camp Foley. When I went there, I had a lot of fun because I played games with my cabin, and you talk about camp at night. It's completely safe. I recommend you bring a flashlight, sleeping bag, bug spray and more.  

Will you ring the cowbell?

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone by Sam D. 

The reason why I think camp was created is because people wanted to have kids try new things and get out of their comfort zone. Not a lot of kids get to shoot a rifle at clay pigeons or have snakes slither around their arms.  Most kids never get to do this at their home. At least I don't. I love to go waterskiing and climb the climbing wall. I am usually afraid of heights, but I still tried anyway. Camp Foley does a very good job at making kids try new things, and nine times out of ten, the kids love the activity. Whether it's getting a bulls-eye in Archery or making as much noise as you can on a drum kit, the kids love the activities and come back next year. 

We hope you've enjoyed the camper blog posts! If you're a camper (or alumni) and would like to be a guest blogger just send an email to Fun@CampFoley.com! We'd love to share your stories with the Foley community! 

Camper Blogs! Part 2

We have part two of the awesome Journalism classes blog posts. In part one you heard about Mexican Lasagna, Trees and Nature and Friendship Campfire. Today two more campers have some things they'd like to share...

Arrival Day! Camp already feels like home!

Feeling at Home by Cecilia P.

When you are at Camp Foley, you may miss your home and may be homesick, but all the people at Camp Foley will try to make you happy! All the people will make you feel at home. Like in the case of food, when I think of a camp, I would think it would be not good. But at camp, the food is like a restaurant or better. With all the activities, you enjoy every part of camp. Also you feel the freedom in every activity you have.

Activities at Camp Foley by Esperanza G.

Fencing at Camp Foley.

 At Camp Foley, we have water and land activities. Water activities take place at the Swimdock or the Marina. Some activities you need to be a certain age to participate. Land activities need different things depending on what you are doing. An example is, if you are at Fencing, you need long pants because if someone hits you in the leg, you'll be safe. Sometimes activities are harder than you think. Some water activities are: Snorkeling, Sailing JYs, Sailing Bics, Waterskiing and Wakeboarding and other fun stuff. My favorite experience is when I stood up in Waterskiing for my first time. It was so much fun; it's so cool! Activities at Camp Foley are the best! You should come to camp to try your best in activities. I have another experience but this is a land activity. It was when I got my Novice Award in Tennis and in Fencing. 

Camper Blogs! Part 1

Journalism campers hard at work!

This summer, we had some ROCKING Journalism classes. For one the signups, some Foley campers had the opportunity to blog for and about camp! For the next few weeks we'll be sharing the camper-blogs with the Foley community a few at a time.

Camp Food by Alejandro R.

I love Mexican Lasagna because it is delicious. The cheese is mouthwatering. The meat build up muscle strength, and the pasta is amazing. If I could eat Mexican Lasagna everyday, I would eat it. 

One day I had Mexican Lasagna, and it was the best day of my life. It was so fun eating a few plates of the lasagna. I knew it was my favorite food and it changed my life. One day I was tired, and when I ate Camp Foley Mexican Lasagna I started to be awake. 

Trees and Nature by Vivan B. 

Camp Foley has a lot of nature that we need to take care of, for example, trees. They are so important in camp and we always try not to throw trash at them. They are like the herat of Camp Foley; they are so important to people and animals. We also need them to breathe. They are so important you don't even notice. Now every time you see a tree, or any other plant, remember that you need to take care of it. 

Crying of Happiness by Paloma C.

Girls Friendship Campfire 3rd Session 2013.
The legendary hug circle.

Here at Camp Foley, there is a lot of happiness. Friendship makes everyone so happy that everyone cries! One time, I was at a goodbye Friendship Campfire, and everyone got to thank their friends and counselors. It was a beautiful night with friendship and nature all around us. Campers sang songs, and everyone was really sad to leave Camp Foley. Everyone ate s'mores, and there were lots of hugs! I experienced what friendships was all about and what love is all about.