GREGORY: Now see this, I haven’t a clue.
GREGORY: I’ve heard the occasional muttering of summer camp amongst my peers in school...
GREGORY: Aside from one friend, I hadn’t heard a peep from any of my other friends whether or not they were going to attend summer camp this year.
GREGORY: As it isn’t optional, I’m sure many a student opted out of this enrichment program in favour of summer break.
GREGORY: Unfortunately, as well, the orientations here are hourly, as students arrive on their own schedule.
GREGORY: And to add the fact that there just aren’t very many people in South Park compared to... any other larger town, it leaves very few people who would be willing to spend their summer weeks here all alone.
GREGORY: However... as I had mentioned, there is one friend of mine who would talk for hours on end about their attendance at Sun Valley this year.
GREGORY: That would be my lovely friend, Pip.
GREGORY: I spotted him during orientation, though I doubt he was aware of my presence.
GREGORY: His eyes were glued to that friend of his-- a lady he talked of rather often.
GREGORY: I believe her name is Estella, and she doesn’t attend South Park High School-- nor does she even live in the states at all.
GREGORY: All I’ve heard this last week from Pip was that he was so thrilled that he was able to arrange for her to visit and partake in this summer escapade with him.
GREGORY: Though I’m not quite sure what the limitations are for interaction during activities here in summer camp-- I’m to believe that those who identify as female are boarded in separate cabins from those who identify as male.
GREGORY: Ah, the simplicity of modern day education and their old fashioned gender normativities...
GREGORY: However, I’m sure I will be able to have fun with my fellow friend, as well as this Estella figure.
GREGORY: Oh!
GREGORY: There were a couple of other familiar faces I had witnessed during orientation, though I had no prior knowledge to their attendance.
GREGORY: I had the... fortunate... pleasure of standing right next to a fellow drama club colleague while I was in the main hall.
GREGORY: Petuski, as he prefers not to be called (but catch me deceased speaking so casually of his first name).
GREGORY: I certainly hadn’t expected his presence here.
GREGORY: Aside from his hygienic preferences, he’s always been quite the hoot to preform in plays with.
GREGORY: Often I find myself wishing I was a background character, so he would have the stage all to himself, and so that I would not have to occupy the space beside him.
GREGORY: It’s a rarity you would hear this from me, but I assure you...
GREGORY: He’s certainly got a way of being the perfect single man act.
GREGORY: ...Ehem...
GREGORY: The other acquaintance of mine that I had met up with was one of the make up artists for theatre class.
GREGORY: I almost missed her, I was just on my way out of the main hall when she had arrived, ready for the next round of orientation.
GREGORY: I would consider her and I decent friends, never any bad blood between us.
GREGORY: Pleasant to talk to, and absolutely terrific with her make up skills.
GREGORY: I’m always thrilled to have her do me up before a show-- she could make quite a lot of money doing what she does.
GREGORY: That’s a conversation for another, more Sophie-related log, though.
GREGORY: I’m glad to have seen her face here, and look forward to meeting up with her again throughout the coming weeks.
GREGORY: Oh, while few and far between, it’s nice to know that there are friends-- or in one case a friend of a friend-- to enjoy this experience with me.
GREGORY: I did not expect more than one or two friends of mine to attend summer camp alongside me, clearly shown by the fact that I had signed up on my lonesome to begin with.
GREGORY: But seeing their faces will brighten my day just that much more here, I am sure of it.
GREGORY: It is an exciting thought to imagine who else will be attending summer camp, as well.
GREGORY: There were many orientations before mine, and a few that have yet to proceed it.
GREGORY: Who knows who else will show themselves in these wonderful campgrounds?
GREGORY: It also leaves me wondering just who on earth my cabin mates will be...















