we met on friday 12th march on 6h00pm with several other canoing club members. (‚we‘ is heiko & me) due to the fact the we don’t own a car, we signed up for the booze bus that was supposed to carry us to the camping site at fulljames. we actually knew that ‚booze‘ is another word for ‚alcohol‘ and that we’d therefore drink some booze on our trip to fulljames – but we didn’t know how long this trip would take. as some guy of the canoing club told us, that it’ll take about 7 hours, we decided to buy some more booze at the next liquor store..
by the way, the motto of the university canoing club is ‚the drinking club with a paddling problem‘ (shouldn’t have been the other way round, eh?!) or even more explicit: ‚drink all night and swim all day‘.
the trip started.. we stopped at some motorway parking – either to get rid off our beer by going for a splash or to play some silly drinking games (remember the motto of the club?!) furthermore, on our trip to fulljames we had to collect several items: redbull for the driver, an empty rubbish bag(the idea was probably to empty someone’s rubbish bag..), a milk bottle filled with tapped water, a roadcone and several other stuff.. as there were many motorway construction sites on our way to fulljames, it was pretty easy to get a roadcone: for sure we got very hungry therefore a break at some fastfood restaurant was compulsory.
finally we arrived at the camping site at about 2am in the morning – and the party went on to 6am. after some hours of sleep we joined the first kajaking trip in the morning. after some short instructions (‚when you flip over and find yourself with head-under-water just clap with your hands on the upper side of the boat to get your buddy’s attention. if your buddy doesn’t come to rescue you, just get out of your kajak – or drown‘) we started paddling.. i can tell you: i flipped over a couple of times, i found myself head-under-water a couple of times.. and swallowed lots of water :-) but after all: kajaking is real fun! although it is really exhausting and i was totally done&tired afterwards – i really enjoyed it.
