Strange Mondayitis Epidemic has Been

Discovered @ CRCAP!
By Mikki Janower

Volume 42, Issue 14B

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Superhero (or villain) Day
By Katelyn Strauss

Superhero day was today and more than half of the
people here at CRCAP forgot to dress up!!!!! Even most
counselors and CITs forgot to wear a superhero or villain
outfit. Though I guess they could have given us longer, but
thats OK. Anyways, I dressed up as the mysterious force. I
had blue socks with yellow stars and polka dots. I also had
shiny purple-ish/ blue-ish shorts, a yellow and a blue sugar
lip and an awesome splatter painted cape. It was so fun
dressing up for it, I love the cape!
MIGHT be getting ANOTHER dog!!!!
By Eleanor Dunne
Yes, alas, another great article by Eleanor Dunne
Shall we read on?
O.K. do you really want to read this article??!! It must be
very boring because it is non-fiction and blah blah blah .
. . well, just read on. I was looking at cats at Pet-Smart.
My mom said I couldnt have one because she was allergic
to cats. In the car when we were going back to our house
that it would be fine to have another dog. See, we already
have a dog that is 77 years old in dog years. I said I want
a PUPPY. Or a dog that would stay small forever. She said
all I have to do is have my dad say yes and we can have
another one.
Was that worth your time?
NO????
GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its a gross, rainy, gray Monday in the VERY

LAST week of camp ALL YEAR and the day
just got worse. Many campers and counselors
caught Mondayitis, which has been
described as a common disease involving
victims feeling depressed, tired, or lazy on
any given Monday, esp. rather unattractive
ones. Today, I believe, is a prime day to catch
Mondayitis. If youre a good citizen who
enjoys ridding people of disease, smile at
everyone you walk past. It is known to help
diminish the effects of Mondayitis! Hope you,
too, havent fallen victim to the bleary-eyed
irritation of Mondayitis.
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A Preview of Things to Come
By Walker Anderson

Festival Day is almost upon us! For
those who are new to CRCAP, Festival Day
is a chance to show friends and family all
the incredible art campers have been putting together this session. If youre one of
those people who anxiously awaits the Daily
Double every day and eagerly mobs me when
I start handing them out, you will likely be
interested in The Best of the Daily Double,
a collection we give away on Festival Day
comprised of favorite pieces written this session, including work by new classes such as
Daily Double Journalism Workshop.

If youre a voracious bookworm who
appreciates a good read, youll want to check
out the creative writing magazine, featuring
work from Poetry Plus, Poetry in Motion,
One-a-Day Write-amin, and Short Stories. It
may be your only chance to see what amazing, touching, funny, or flat-out strange
pieces the talented campers in the writing
department have been working on all session.

Both will be available for free at the
information booth on Saturday. Grab one
early before we run out!

WHATS
UP
WITH
WALL BALL?
By Ahzeem Santos

When Aaron Dana, the CRCAP wall ball
champion, played his first game of wall ball, he
lost. The next year, when he was 12, he won the
tournament. Now, he is still the best wall ball
player in camp.

Its terrifying, because if I lose a game
then I will feel like Im starting to become not the
best wall ball player at camp, Aaron said. Id feel
like my identity is completely stripped from me.

I also interviewed two other people who
play wall ball - one of their names is J.P. These are
some things that he said. J.P. said that he would
never play Aaron D. because he would probably
smash him. I think that if I had the chance to play
Aaron Dana I would play just to get smashed
WHY? I dont know.

Aaron Dana also said I didnt actually
start till I was . . . well I came here when I was 8,
but I didnt actually start playing until I was 11. I
lost my first gamethe first game I ever played
was the first tournament game that I ever entered.
I dont remember who it was he was much bigger
and older than I was, I didnt know what I was
doing. But the next year, I won the tournament, so
that felt good.

Aaron Dana was not always the best wall
ball player at camp. In fact, I also asked if he had
any idols in wall ball and he said, Yes definitely
he said his name was Selvin Hershcowitz. Nobody will remember himthere might be a handful of people,
Bob Johnson will remember him. Aaron Gelb will remember him. Aleta might remember him. But he was
very good. He was a few years older than me and he was the best wall ball player there was. In one of my first
tournaments, I was supposed to play him in the semi finals, but he broke him arm and then I got to go to the
finals, and there I beat the second best kid. I wonder if Aaron Dana would have won the game against Selvin
Hershcowitz. Also, I wonder if they played now who would win.

Aaron said that his biggest challenge at camp these days is Cooper, because he is in the prime of his
career hes young, hes athletic, hes flexible, hes fast. He wears short shorts so hes very quick and speedy
he doesnt have extra fabric weighing him down. But Im in his head, so that helps. I wonder if Cooper and
Selvin are similar. Maybe in the future, Cooper will take Aaron Danas reputation!

Cooper wasnt always his biggest competitor. I think the toughest competitor I ever had was Henry
Rechard said Aaron Dana, He was very good at wall ball

Another thing Aaron Dana said is that if he had the chance to put any two people in the wall ball
hall of fame it would be Mirinda and Cooper because theyre both very good and they both have very good
sportsmanship. I was definitely put Mirinda in the wall ball hall of fame. Shes already a two time champion,
and I think our first female champion ever. And shes going for number three so thats pretty serious.

Laughing Shadows
By Raven N. and Kevin Hong

My New E-mail
By Eleanor Dunne

The man opened his eyes and realized he was in a street

So well-lit that it seemed a tunnel of light.
The man closed his eyes once more, and they opened
To his commons, flattened and gray with snow in spring.
Again: his seventeen-year-old self, smile dewy,
With a worn basketball, slightly deflated, palmed.

O.K.
I got an e-mail. Happy?
Okay, I got it on Friday. So? STOP
READING THIS ARTICLE!!! If you
dont Im just gonna end it right now.
(O.k. this is embarrassing. My e-mail
is a Zoobuh e-mail, so my mom gets
everything I write.)

His eyes opened. Sunlight billowed among the trees

On dandelion seeds, and he saw the trucks on the road
Rumbling by like boulders. He heard the slap
Of waves on worn stone below, thinking about
His familys beach house on Lake George, a pail and shovels
Kraft colors, a sail welding sky and sea. At night,
Soda cans scattered like tufts of grass on the hill
They let fireworks loose from Light dragons, his sister said
And they danced, their shadows falling over, laughing.

My weekend
Sophie Biro
This weekend my family went to Cape Cod to visit my
grandparents. They live right on a pond. My grandpa got me
and my sister a little row boat that you could fill with air and it
would be able to float. He said that we could paint a name on the
back of the boat. I asked if we could fish off the boat and he said
yes. I started to get really excited. When we went to the pond to
try it out, it was so was so much fun!

Life Skills; Evil Cackling

By Mikki Janower
You may have gone to some festival
offerings called Life Skills; Fry an
Egg or Life Skills; Change a Tire,
etc. Well, heres another important
life skill. Perfecting your personal
evil cackle will certainly change
your life for the better. You can use
an evil cackle to frighten people,
make yourself look powerfully
intimidating, and cover up the fact
that youre not actually evil. Even if
you can change a tire like nobodys
business, youll never get anywhere
in life without an adequate evil cackle.
Good ways to perfect your cackle are
practicing with mirrors and siblings
and plotting elaborate revenge tactics
for something that didnt actually
happen in order to cackle about it.
Soon, your chilling laugh will send
shivers through the spines of your
enemies! Good inspiration for your
evil cackling can be found in Dr.
Heinz Doofenshmirtz, (from the
show Phineas and Ferb) Maleficent,
(from the movie Sleeping Beauty)
and my dad when he eats the last
two-bite brownie before I can get my
hands on it.
Now run off and cackle away!

What kind of friend are you?

By Lauren Malster

Which flower are you?

Lily Biro

Take the quiz below to find out what role that you
play in your friendship.

1. What is your favorite day of the week?

A. Friday
B. Saturday
C. Monday

Question 1: When you were younger and you

played family, (parent, cousin, sibling etc.) which
role would you chose?
A: The parent
B: The cousin
C: The sibling
Question 2: When you think of your best friend,
which describing word would you most likely
use to describe them?
A: encouraging
B: bubbly
C: fun to be with
Question 3: When you must clean the house with
your family, which chore would you most likely
choose? (Of course you wouldnt want to do
chores!)
A: assigning everyone an equal amount of work
B: doing the vacuuming well belting out a tune
C: whatever your mom tells you to do, a chore is
a chore
Question 4: When you decide to buy a gift for
yourself with your allowance money, which item
would you be really excited about buying?
A: a inspiring quote to put on your wall
B: a new CD buy your favorite singer
C: CANDY!
If you answered mostly As you play the role of
the mom. Your friends always can count on to be
organized and prepared for every situation. But
remember not to be too bossy!
If you answered mostly Bs you play the role of
the cool cousin. You bring liveliness your group
and arent afraid to be unique! Keep up the
giggles!
If you answered mostly Cs than you play the
role of the sibling. Youre bubbly and fun to be
around. You can be funny, but always know when
to be more down to earth. Your friends enjoy your
company!

2. Do you like school?

A. No
B. Sort of
C. Yes
3. What is your favorite color?
A. Brown
B. Red
C. Any color
4. If you could have one super power, what would it be?
A. Extreme power
B. Ability to fly
C. Ability to stop someone from getting run over by a
car
Mostly As: You are a rose.
Mostly Bs: You are a tulip.
Mostly Cs: You are a daisy.
The Coopah Cape
By Katelyn Strauss

Yesterday, me and one of my friends sewed a cape
for Cooper for superhero day. It is shiny pink material
with white ribbon at the bottom and black ribbon at the
top. It has a C thats red with a white flower, then there
is 2 Os that are purple with a blue and white flower in
the middle. Then there is a P with a blue rose. Its very
special.