Orienteering

  We are still doing orienteering in P.E. We have to do 8 courses of orienteering. I think we are on our 6th one now. Next week will finally be the last week of O.T!
  When we first started O.T, I really liked it. I like navigating and reading maps and all that. But later on it just became more and more of a bore. I mean, I can read maps, and I can read a compass. Everyone else in our class can read a map and a compass. Even though we start at different times, we end up together. So during the last few classes, it really wasn't about getting your way right, it was about getting there before the others did. When we did our first courses of O.T, Tina and me could rarely see any others. But now, we always do. Because we all want to get back first, we all run. We jog the whole thing, we read our directions while we run ahead. And sometimes, because these are others with us, there is mass confusion. When one person gets the why wrong, or misunderstands the questions, everyone else is affected. Even though we do not share answers, we still debate on what is right and what is wrong. So what happens in the end is everyone wastes their time, and gets confused.