Trying to recall some of the embarrassing moments Iv had being a fat child, fat teen and now a fat adult....I suddenly stumbelled across a memory Iv not thought about in years!
It was 2005 and myself and my sister went to a Christian summer camp called IYF (International youth festival) in America. There were approx 70 kids from the UK which joined others from across the world; everyone was there Australians, Hawiians, Jamaicans, the French etc.....
As I looked around the rooms filled with young people my age it didnt take me long to realise I was probabley alot larger than most of them but I was still determined to have an amazing time. I did ALL the activities that the thinner kids did, even if I didnt like the activity itself I did it anyways just to prove a point that fat kids could do just the same as the others.
So, on one of our last days we all visited a waterpark and enjoyed a day of swimming, splashing, sunbathing and laughter. The biggest source of laughter however was without a doubt due to me and my embarrassing weight related dilemma. Standing at teh top of a really tall log flume I took the lead from the other kids by grabbing a rubber ring, never having been to a waterpark before I did what I thought was normal....I put the ring over my head, wedged it around my gutt and assumed they were to keep people afloat and never considered that they were JUST to sit in!
Bugger! people immediatley begun laughing and in order to reduce my own embarrassment I laughed along with them (making it even harder to remove the ring). In the end it took one male attended, a few friends and two youth workers to get me out of that bloody ring! Iv not been in one since. One of my many good qualities is that i have the ability to laugh at myself, on the other hand this has no doubt been my downfall as Iv never taken my weight seriously.
Note to self! Fat people cannot always fit in small places.
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