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I woke up on the sixth morning a couple of minutes before Bruce’s watch alarm would beep. Bruce and I had an arrangement – he would wake me up if I overslept, and I would wake him up if he overslept.

There was only one morning he had to wake me up, and I never had to wake him up. Most mornings I would wake up five minutes before his watch would beep, and as soon as I heard it I would sit up and peek out from underneath my tarp at the boys tarp.

Bruce would sit up and wave or give me the thumbs up sign. I’d wave back and we would both do our thing. I usually waited a couple of minutes before waking up the girls – I needed some peace and quiet each morning.

When I’m at home, I wake up an hour before every one else. I sit on the couch with my computer, and that is when I work on stuff like my email, doing some schoolwork, stuff like that. That hour gives me a good, quiet, peaceful start to my day.

On Outward Bound, I didn’t have an hour. I couldn’t wait an hour before waking up everyone else, because they needed to get started on their wake up routine. They took a while to wake up. 🙂

So I would only wait five minutes before waking up the girls. Once the five minutes were up I’d pat/rub the girl next to me on the shoulder, and once she was awake she’d wake up the next girl. Sometimes shouting at them worked, but I didn’t do it too much, because it didn’t always work and it usually made them mad. LOL

We weren’t going to have time to eat that morning – we were going to have to eat in the car. I packed up all of my gear as quickly as I could, and then a bunch of the guys and I took down the tarp. Some of the girls were still doing whatever they did in the mornings, and the guys and I didn’t want to be late.

The guys and I headed for the car. We put our backpacks down by the trailer and grabbed our bowls, running to claim the spots we wanted in the car.

It took a while, and we were late, (we were supposed to be out of there at a certain time) but sooner or later everyone got to the car. Because I was one of the first in the car, I had gotten the spot I wanted. I grabbed my bowl from underneath my seat and held it in my lap. I was hoping for a good breakfast!

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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 too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*