Live from camp: Being psychic at camp

On Thursday, we worked hard on our stories, our first drafts already in. Then we talked about the ethics of journalism, and we acted out some examples. I thought the story of the false mass grave said to be at someone’s house was kind of silly. It kind of reminds me of Neil Gaiman’s book, The Graveyard Book, because the main character, Bod, was bored and played with less than ten year old ghosts. It’s a shockingly good read. I recommend it! I am reading it for the book club in the library near me. Anyway…everyone eventually realized that the police and reporters got involved based on what a woman claiming to be psychic said. Sometimes psychics can be right, but they can mistake things too, so that was pretty silly. I learned to be careful with stuff like that.

After that, some of us went to lunch early. After lunch, we played a game called 20 questions. Some of the words we picked were sometimes related to journalism things, like a nut graph, but we could pick other things too. I guessed trike when one of the campers picked that as her word. I picked a bibliophile, and guess what? The same person that I guessed trike for, guessed mine! It’s a psychic day! Then we walked to Izzy’s ice-cream, Annie’s treat. I went there once on my walk home just to try some cream cheese flavored ice cream, and I had been meaning to go again. It was still a very hot day (not as hot as 90 degrees from the day before) even though we were inside with the A/C on. So it was perfect to get ice cream. Plus, I think we deserved it with the almost non-stop work (just kidding) we had been doing. I ate blueberry cheesecake ice cream and strawberry Izzy on top. So yeah, it was a fun day and psychic-like! :)

- Isaura Greene, Introduction to Journalism Camp ’11