Thursday, March 18, 2010

McGill Camp-out

Before yesterday Australia told me that people at McGill were sleeping outside to raise money for a local homeless shelter. This meant training to me, if I wanna tramp around in the summer I need to know how to sleep outside.
We decided to dumpster quickly before heading there, and we scored a ton of stuff, more that I care to inventory but mostly snack of some sort or other. We got there said hey to everyone and dropped the food into a box. People were chillin' on their sleeping bags which were on cardboard which was on cement (me and Australia set up on the dirt later). It was a warm night for me but that means nothing since everyone was cold *shrug*, we dumpstered some cardboard for everyone on the bikes which impressed people just as much as the dumpstered food did. Everyone except this one girl who seemed pretty out of place, she looked like Avril Lavigne but a bit paler and probably shorter. She was grossed out by the dumpstered food and wearing something like seven layers of clothes inside her sleeping bag, she was only there that night (it was a five day thing that we were just crashing) because some guy called her out on not being able to sleep outside.
We all just kicked it in the street and asked for donations from people all night. As it got to around 2ish in the morning me and this girl went to the Second Cup close by to use their bathrooms and write that "Everywhere is a playground" on stall walls, (okay, well only I did that). While we were there there was a home-bum that had camped out with the McGill kids earlier in the day, it was really fun that he had a laptop and while I was in the bathroom he promoted us to the people in the cafe and even got some money from it, (which I think he kept lol). As we were rolling out he told us he'd stop in later and camp the night.
We headed home messing around with piggy back rides and just having fun, got there everyone hung and talked until about 4 or 5 in the morning before sleeping. Chocolate was for dinner and when the beeping of trucks backing up woke us it made a great breakfast.
The rest of the day was pretty cool too, it involved: cooking dumpstered stuffs, getting free food, sitting on the ground, getting a free portable DVD player that we got to work, riding bikes around and generally hanging out.

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