this one time, my friends and i...

this one time, my friends and i...

Names and Places have been changed to ward off parents that may find some of these stories disgraceful. Also, future potential employers.

pocahontas & b go to the beach

Day 1

We arrived at the campsite at about 1am.  By the light of headlights that routinely (and always inconveniently) shut off, we established our home for the next three days: an olive green, six-person tent that would be stuffed with blankets, clothing, sandy flip-flops, liquor that wouldn’t be drank, and two uncomfortably sweaty bodies.  The ground had some give to it, but it mostly felt like a cemented mixture of sand and clay. Just out of reach of the headlights’ glow, there was a tree line with a reassuring sign posted in front of it: Please do not feed the alligators.  

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eggy & b skip class for a day

My first semester at Fritztown was a bit of a culture shock.  I had transferred there after my first year at Mulligan, a private Christian school smaller than my high school.  I thought that Mulligan was where a person deeply involved with her church and Young Life needed to go. I was wrong. If you want to experience life and actually make some not-too-big mistakes, do not go to a school that requires your signature on a literal contract banning you from an actual college experience of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll.  

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