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The cooler was filled with color – green, yellow, and orange covered the bottom. There was green zucchini, and green broccoli. Yellow squash and orange carrots. There was garlic and there was a thing of Soy Sauce.

“So that’s what the rice was for!”

I fought the urge to take a big bite out of the broccoli as I handed it to Bobby. He was about to stick it in a random food sack when Rebecca stopped him.

“I’ll take that, thank you very much.” She took the vegetables and put them in her own food sack.

We finished distributing the rest of the food from the cooler, and made sure every sack had an apple. We gave everyone a solo kit, which consisted of an apple, a bagel, and a chunk of cheese. We looked around, saw that there was no more food, and split up to help the others.

When everyone was done with the jobs Christopher had assigned us, we were told to pack up our individual belongings again. Then we gathered all the group gear, splitting it up the way we had in the beginning. I grabbed a trekking pole – I hated to be selfish and always have one of them, but it was the only reason I was able to keep going sometimes.

When everything was back in our packs, Christopher came out with a clear, plastic garbage bag.

Someone squealed as we all saw what it was – it was our bag of clothes! Christopher dropped the bags as we all rushed at him, everyone wanting to get into some clean clothes.

It didn’t take me long to locate my clothes – when I put them in the bag, I wrapped everything up in my shirt. So all I had to do was grab the bright blue shirt that was rolled up and waiting for me, and I was good. It looked liked everyone else had just tossed their clothes in though – it took them at least ten minutes to sort it all out.

I wasn’t going to change my shirt, but I was going to change everything else. The only problem was, there was no good place to do it! I saw a couple of the girls disappear into a think stand of trees nearby and decided to go somewhere by them. I crawled through a little tunnel I found and changed inside this massive bush -it was a small place, but it gave me some privacy.

When everyone was done changing, we went over to a little table sitting in the grass and sat near it. Jen came over with something in her hands.

“Here you go – split it up equally.”

When the boys saw what was in her hands, they cheered. I stood up to see it, because I couldn’t see it from where I was sitting. She put it down on the table and I grinned. On the table was something I hadn’t seen in a while.

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