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By Peggy horjus
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It is 1967, Friday night, the last night of the annual, weeklong, school trip.
We enjoyed a great time filled with games, competitions, trips, evenings at the campfire.
Pranks, between the boys and girls’ quarters, some funny, some not. A sleeping bag full of spiders wasn't so funny.
Friday was always the highlight, snacks, songs, stories around the campfire, medals,
reflections of a week gone to quick.
This Friday wasn't any different or was it...?
We are all sitting at our tables after campfire, enjoying some lemonade, chips and ice cream,
getting ready for our last night at the youth hostel we stayed at.
As we are reminiscing about the evening our principal comes running in, a little panicky.
He is all red in the face from running, he is excitingly, yet nervously, yelling,
" my watch, my wallet and several other things are stolen from our room, you need all to come and help catch this thief, Mr. Brook, is running after the thief already, I know which way they went, come, follow me."
Mr. Brook is our math teacher.
We jump from our seats, scared, nervous, following the principle, the atmosphere amongst us changes quick.
Soon we all are red, sweating from the running and excitement beyond words.
A thief, is he dangerous? Are we going to be able to overpower him? Will we catch up with him at all? We are all wishing Mr. Hornet, our gym teacher, was with us he would get him in no time. Mr. Hornet had to leave earlier, his wife is expecting and started labor.
What are we going to do when we catch up? So many things run through all our minds, frankly, we are not so brave.
We are 10 and 11 years old, we are more afraid of the thief than he is of us.
Our principle says; " do not be afraid, there is 30 of us, we can jump him and overpower him, we need to keep running and focus."
Sure enough, we keep at it, we encourage one another, after all we are with many, we can do this, we must help. Together we are strong.
We see a shadow running across the top of the hill in front of us, the thief isn't far ahead but is above us.
We are told to split up in 3 groups, some of us go up diagonally so we end up in front of him, the rest goes straight up in case he turns around, some of us and a few teachers stayed below. It is getting more and more scary, we are gaining in on him.
Our principle, being the closest at this moment yells: " it is indeed the thief, he is wearing my watch" than a loud thud, pow, bam, "ouch" we hear.
Mr. Porter, our principle jumped on top of the thief, who was wearing a mask, which most of us didn't mind at all.
In seconds we all had caught up and jumped on the thief as well.
As we calmed down a little, some of us quite out of breath, the running, the excitement,
mixed with fear…
Our principle pulled of the mask!
Surprise... what the heck, it is... it is... none other than Mr. Hornet, which explains why it took so long to catch up with the thief.
Our principle bursts out in laughter as does Mr. Hornet, they tricked us, entertained us,
and sure, caused for us to have an evening we would never forget.
Better than any campfire story. Now more than 50 years later, it still makes me smile.
There were a lot of wrongs in my childhood but this exciting, happy memory, brings healing every time I think of it.
Scripture tells us: “A cheerful heart is good medicine”
Proverbs 17:22a
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Some red ink: keep your verbs consistent. You started off in present tense and then switched to past tense. It would also have been good to reference your ages earlier.
I enjoyed this entry very much.
Good job,
Blessings~