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Katie pulled her hand out of her pocket. In her hand was a small cell phone.

Jen told us that they had found the cell phone in the car. She said that she and Katie were extremely sad to say that they had lost their trust in us. One of the rules of Outward Bound is no cell phones, IPods or anything like that. The one thing you could have was a camera. When one of my crewmates brought a cell phone on course, they had broken the rules.

Katie said that she and Jen would like the person who had brought the cell phone to come and talk to them sometime during the day. After that we were told to get our ducky suits on and get ready to go to the car. Jen and Katie would make us breakfast – they didn’t trust us and as a result we weren’t going to be allowed to do things like making breakfast.

It was the first time I had pulled on my ducky suit. It was also the beginning of a hate filled relationship. I didn’t do anything to my ducky suit to make it mad, I swear! But it seemed to have something against me. Every time I tried to walk it would try to trip me. Every time I tried to roll up the ankles, they would roll down so they were two inches beneath my heel. Every time. Let’s just say my ducky suit and I were not the best of friends. And my entire crew knew it. LOL

The ducky suit consisted of a very ugly, very stiff, very yellow jacket and matching overalls. The overalls were horrible! They were also too big – I had the XS, the smallest size they had. Well, I could only pull the overalls up so much because of the crotch, and even with it pulled up as far as it could go the legs were still two inches beneath my heels. It was wonderful. *insert sarcastic smile here*

We hiked around the building with our backpacks. I had to get help to get mine on – the ducky suit made it impossible to get it on without help. We got over to the car and dropped our packs by the trailer before getting in the car.

Four minutes. That was how long it took for people to get hot enough that they started taking the ducky suit off. I held out for another two minutes before I decided that I wasn’t going to try and stay in my suit. It was a pain to get off, and a pain to get them on, but we didn’t care. It was too hot in there to wear them.

All we could do was talk, so we talked. The crewmate who had brought the phone told us that they had invaded his/her privacy when they found the phone – it had been in his/her camera case, behind the camera.

I didn’t say anything, but I wondered why he/she had brought the phone. I was upset that my crewmate valued his/her phone so much that he/she would bring it, (which was against the rules) and make Jen and Katie so upset with us. It makes me happy when I know that I have the trust of the people around me, and the fact that Jen and Katie didn’t trust any of us at the moment was upsetting. Especially when I didn’t know anything about it and had no control over it.

The talking stopped when Katie opened the passenger seat door, sticking her head in to tell us something.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks to NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*