8.06.2009
YELLOW JACKETS DEVOUR TOAD, CHILDREN CHANT
The other day at about 7:30 p.m., an unusual scene at Camp Tawonga---
marching across the Girl's Side Field were seen 12 campers
from G-Dalet, a bunk of 10-11 year-old girls, holding pitch
forks and wheeling wheel-barrows, chanting "There's no
such thing as garbage" so loud the metal dumpsters trembled
in fright. These girls, whose bunk theme was coincidentally
"Go Green," successfully marched toward the waste area
behind the Camp Tawonga kitchen and ransacked said area,
taking all the discarded cardboard they could carry on the
wheelbarrows they wheeled. Campers wondered what the
pitch forks were for---obviously for social impact.
After successfully loading up their wheelbarrows, they
proudly marched back to the garden (now chanting "Waste
is a resource") and placed the cardboard flat in their final resting place, as
bottom liners for future raised garden beds. The gardener,
the silent instigator of said "Garbogenous
Revolt" explained to the campers that this cardboard
would stop weeds from growing and would eventually
turn into soil and vegetables by next summer.
These radical actions were inspired by---this is where
the headline title finally makes sense---the unsightly
sight of a toad previously run over by a vehicle, now
being devoured by yellow jackets, these aerial aces
entering the toad both through its mouth and lower
orifice to access juicy carnal fluids and tissues. The
campers were led here to prove that humans have
invented garbage, as garbage does not exist in nature
and everything is turned into something else. If a toad
can essentially turn into hundreds of yellow-jackets,
only minutes after its fatal failure to fully cross the road,
why do humans invent things that take 500 years to turn
into something else?
After their delivery of the cardboard to the garden, the
campers took some time to think about and commit to
one way they will reduce the waste they produce, at
camp, and at home. Tomorrow, the girls will write letters
home on the inside of the skittles wrappers they get
at canteen.
marching across the Girl's Side Field were seen 12 campers
from G-Dalet, a bunk of 10-11 year-old girls, holding pitch
forks and wheeling wheel-barrows, chanting "There's no
such thing as garbage" so loud the metal dumpsters trembled
in fright. These girls, whose bunk theme was coincidentally
"Go Green," successfully marched toward the waste area
behind the Camp Tawonga kitchen and ransacked said area,
taking all the discarded cardboard they could carry on the
wheelbarrows they wheeled. Campers wondered what the
pitch forks were for---obviously for social impact.
After successfully loading up their wheelbarrows, they
proudly marched back to the garden (now chanting "Waste
is a resource") and placed the cardboard flat in their final resting place, as
bottom liners for future raised garden beds. The gardener,
the silent instigator of said "Garbogenous
Revolt" explained to the campers that this cardboard
would stop weeds from growing and would eventually
turn into soil and vegetables by next summer.
These radical actions were inspired by---this is where
the headline title finally makes sense---the unsightly
sight of a toad previously run over by a vehicle, now
being devoured by yellow jackets, these aerial aces
entering the toad both through its mouth and lower
orifice to access juicy carnal fluids and tissues. The
campers were led here to prove that humans have
invented garbage, as garbage does not exist in nature
and everything is turned into something else. If a toad
can essentially turn into hundreds of yellow-jackets,
only minutes after its fatal failure to fully cross the road,
why do humans invent things that take 500 years to turn
into something else?
After their delivery of the cardboard to the garden, the
campers took some time to think about and commit to
one way they will reduce the waste they produce, at
camp, and at home. Tomorrow, the girls will write letters
home on the inside of the skittles wrappers they get
at canteen.
