INK Clan of Darkens Approach

Let me tell you why today was amazing:

1. Major stress release. Running around screaming with rubber tubing in a forest with my main goal being to give children nightmares.
2. Extravagant make-up. I love standing out. I love making an effort. I want all eyes on me.
3. Extravagant costumes. See above.
4. It had an extreme Lord of the Rings theme. I'm not all that interested in lord of the rings, but it brought out a fairly nerdy side to just about everyone. In a word? Hilarious.
5. INKs worked as a team with minimal bitching. This is rare. You try spending all your time with the same 16 people and not getting mad at them. You don't get to choose the people. None of them start out as your best friends.
6. We got to build stuff. Like a great little camp. It. Was. Awesome.
7. Day off school. That means one less day worth of homework to do now.
8. When there was no screaming and running, we had a chance to chill out and breathe. We have busy schedules, so that's pretty rare.
9. Terrify children. See below for reasons on why I love this.
10. Counts for CAS. Cas is the voluntary work INKs have to do to pass and it has caused me to:

• Make boxes for recycling paper
• Collecting paper from said boxes
• Bake more cakes than I care to remember
• Paint a kitchen
• Paint childrens faces (I hate children)
• Help in a class full of 11 year olds for a lesson a week (I hate children)
• Taking my neighbours kid to the bus every morning (I hate children)
• Promote something I hate to unsuspecting students who are now putting themselves through the same pain I am (I do enjoy passing on pain... and I do hate children)
• Make-up on a ridiculous amount of kids for a school play (I hate children)
• Sat through the dullest conference about the middle east I ever plan to
• Wave cars around a parking lot so people could go watch children (I hate children)
• Help students that struggle with their GCSEs (I hate children)

On the upside, I've also got to:

• Give blood
• Belly dance
• Political conference
• Terrify children
• Get free food (there were catches. But there was also food)
• Go to a political demonstration
• Organise people (and T-shirts)
• Create presentations
• Play in the snow

All in all, I wouldn't be anything other than an INK. There is nothing quite like it. I mean how many people can say that part of their intensive studying course involved running around in a forest dressed in black cloaks, screaming and running after children?