By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:29:37 +0000

I remember a lady that was a councler and she was more cool than the other counclers and while I was on my second solo in handcarts section I still couldnt get my own fire and she gave me one.She got me a fire after staying with out one for a day and night then she came visit me the next day and got one for me what a relief that was first good thing that happen to me I was able to cook up a storm all by myself on that second solo and I had my fire so big I was told to settle it down cause they were able to see the flames from quite a distance.I was feeling good because think about it I was at end of program on a solo with a fire that I would not let burn out completely by covering the coals with I think rocks so it wouldnt burn out.So I think I was on my 3rd day of the solo and one of the counclers came to drop off a letter from my dad and I said cool I have a fire given to me from councler I have all food I can eat and Im by my self and I dont have to hike every thing was going as good as it could have got being out there. So I open the letter from my father and it said Dear Rosemarie I will write one of the lines in his letter(yes I saved all my letters from mom dad and brother and I still have my spoon my wooden spoon that I ate from. This is what my father wrote The dishearting thing to me is that you dont know about your additional stay in Utah . Meaning he was writing in the letter to me trying to comfort me because there was nothing he could do My father and mother had a plane ticket already booked to pick me up on the date that challenger gave to them ya know 63 days and my father and mother had to cancel the flight and make a new one for almost 4 weeks later. I guess the only thing I can come up with (meaning the reason challenger decided to hold me back was I could not get a fire on my own during the whole program because I did not have the proper material and I only had 2 chances to pick out my spindle off the trees and none of them were a steady flow in order to glide it correctly in my fire board . So well ya they said you will not go home with out a fire I was scared but I still had hope to go home cause my dad already had ticket to come on certain date and my father had no say so in the matter. And well after that I found myself a spindle cause someone left theres out by accident which was God sent to me now that I think about it and I took it and the spindle I found and then kept was the greatest spindle of all cause it took me through over 3 weeks through and then they called me fire queen cause I went manic always gettin the fire when it was time to set camp up.

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By: Rose