I spent a week at Pendarren...
which is in Abergavenny in Wales. It's an outdoor persuits place where you get to do a whole host of miserably wet activities such as caving, mountaineering and canoeing. The activity in question was orienteering. The site was located on a steep incline and it being Wales, was wet and muddy. Orienteering ensued and on the way back I was struck by absolute terror in descending the slippery slope. I kept falling parts of the way down the hill and was covered in mud as a result. Eventually I simply refused to move. This was about a metre above the fucking road. I could have jumped it... but no. I wasn't moving for anyone! My friends fetched the teacher and after almost an hour of him attempting to coax me down, I finally made it to the safety of the tarmac.
Naturally my entire team were livid with me and refused to talk to me. Funnily enough we still won.. by a margin of 5 points. I'd managed to lose the team over 100 points but the others were so badass that my complete ineptness was of no consequence. They still hated me though.
Sorry for length but I'm a shit girl!
(jeaneye, Fri 8 Dec 2006, 0:55, Reply)