Or Worse, Going To Thriftway Covered In Filth With People From Camp

When you let the kids use your fidget toys and what not:

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Thank you thank you thank you for this post! I have always been “half Latina half white” because my dad is Latino and my mom is not. I took an ethnic makeup test:

53% European (45% West & Centeal Europe)

24% New World (23% North & Central America)

16% Middle Eastern (16% Asia Minor)

I am less than 1/4 Latina! People were going around saying half simply because I’m tan like my father and unlike my mother. But then as soon as I announced these results someone said “the European is from your mother,”. Um… yes that would accurate if I only received 40% of my DNA from my dad and if Spain was no longer part of Europe. I think what they meant was “most of the European is probably from your mother,”

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they aren’t exactly 50/50

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they are part of a race/ethnicity that you don’t like

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they are multiracial but not multiethnic

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they grew up with one side of their family

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they only know the culture of one side of their family

Don’t earse a mixed persons identity because they don’t ‘look’ mixed

Don’t earse a mixed persons identity because they ‘look’ more like one side

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they don’t speak in a certain dialect or slang

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they don’t speak their native language(s)

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because they don’t fit a stereotype

Don’t erase a mixed persons identity because you disagree with them

Just don’t do it at all.

Transition from Camp to… the Real World?

I am honestly having a rough time transitioning from camp life to daily life. I lived and worked at camp from June through October and I find myself comparing life to camp. I went to wash the dishes: no Hobart, no closed toed shoes, no apron, and no shenanigans to the sound of Green Day or P!ATD. The TV in Shutanka usually had some sort of weird movie, a nature something, or a cartoon of some sort: the news is seriously depressing. Being myself with my coworkers and friends versus being "myself" with my family is strange. I miss campfires, late DnD sessions, and walking down the trail of happy feet just to get to my bed. I miss the crunch of gravel under my feet, the sound of the waves crashing on the bulkhead, and the still, cold mornings followed by breezey afternoons. But, here I am. I stayed with my sister about 30 minutes from camp for a few days, then I flew to California to stay with my Abuela, and in a little over a week I will fly back to Texas for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Don't get me wrong, I love being with my extended family in Cali and I am definitely excited to be seeing my mom and brothers in the near future and I am stoked to hold my dog again. But I also cannot wait to go back to my island home at camp. I am having camp withdrawals and it's pretty rough.

When my parents blame me for not writing them because I've "lost touch with reality" at camp

on our way to camp out

Camper: Will there be sinks at campout night?

Me: Nope, remember earlier when we hiked up to the campsite? Just a fire pit, no sinks.

Camper: Okay, are we bringing water?

Me: *carrying a jug of water, a jug of juice, s'mores supplies, kindling, water bottle ...* Don't worry, I've got water for you guys.

Camper: Is that the water? *points at purple juice?*

Me: ... is water usually purple?

Camper: Ohhhh is that juice?!

(Camp: teaching critical thinking skills to 6th graders when the school system has failed them)

Sneezing

My brother has one of those really loud, dramatic sneezes. He just sneezed three times in a row and scared the whole bus. I’m pretty proud of my response.

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Brother: *loud obnoxious sneezes* “whew” *sees everyone staring* “I’m sorry…”

Me: “Sorry? God bless you! How’s your nose?”

Thats right! The rest of you look away! We all get allergies in south Texas!

"Don't take this the wrong way, but you're quite large for an elf"

(There is an extra 🔞 page to this on my Patreon!)

Bruh… I need it 😂

Keep calm be weird embrace the smooshy Gale faces.

This stupid fucking shirt.