Sadie’s Journal （Day 3）
Well: here I am out in the woods, and I have successfully made it through *two* entire nights without a) a pillow-top mattress, and b) air conditioning. And we only had *one* tent disaster, so I guess overall, that’s a win.
Thorn thinks it would be helpful for me to write out my thoughts & fears & feelings so I can look back on them after all of this is over to see how much I’ve grown…
and I guess there isn’t a lot I love more than making lists, and I’ve always been an overachiever when it comes to assignments, so here goes:
Hard Things
Heavy backpack
SO MUCH WALKING
Whyyyy did I bring these shoes
Slick rocks
Mosquitos suck (literally)
Sweat everywhere
Feels like I’m slowing the group down sometimes
Uncomfortable sleeping conditions*
Scary Things
BEARS
Tent catastrophe nearly gave me a heart attack
What if I have an emotional breakdown and can’t call Abby?
What if I get really bad blisters and can’t walk?
What if I get really bad blisters and lose my bet with Thorn (and lose my coffee due to said bet)?
Drowning/falling off a cliff/twisting my ankle/pain & anguish of other types that I haven’t yet considered
BEARS (oh wait, just realized I already wrote that)
Good Things
Nice people
Zero regrets about bringing my own coffee
Caden isn’t here to see me struggling
Thorn—he’s kind of hard to read sometimes, but has been patient with me (mostly)
*It smelled surprisingly good in Thorn’s tent—my guess is laundry detergent & lingering smell of soap on his clothes (pine?)(I will never mock that cliché again)(at least it’s not sandalwood)