i can tell you from attending the hyde summer challenge that I was sent to seguin, an island thats right near maine, where you sleep in tents, do not take showers at all (and you can be there for weeks) and wake at 5:00 to run up hills with buckets of sand with someone timing you, workouts, pushups, the ones where you count down from 25 which equals a total of 800 pushups a day or more. There was an sex orgy that took place on that island, some people were involved and some werent. The people who were involved confessed, and the people who werent regretfully had to confess after being on shadow and under suspicion for something they did not do. I was one of the persons who was not involved, and confessed anyways. How? I made it all up. But Ill tell you that I didnt just have to say "I was involved in the sex orgy". I had to sit in the dean's office and WORD BY WORD, tell the whole sory out. It was disgusting and embarrasin even for something that I had no part in. I believe that if I was a girl that was actually involved, how humiliating and hurtful it would be to tell something like that to a dean who is a man! Completely unprofessional and disturbing. I can agree with what one person said about the inadequate medical staff, I was then to be tested for HIV within the next week (the school will not give anyone a morning after pill or HIV cocktail) Just think about is this situation were to happen: a girl being raped at Hyde with no protection from HIV, STD's, and no Plan B pill! For my own curiousity, I asked why noone had taken me to be tested for HIV or STD's, and the nurse said that she had FORGOTTEN to call the doctor or something like that. I was appalled at how unqualified the nurses and medical staff was there! I could have been infected with HIV right then and there if in fact I had been involved with the sex orgy. I did not drink milk when I was little and up until I was 15 had not taken any calcium supplements, and as a result developed osteopenia (the beginning of osteoporosis). I was a couch potato all of my life also, which didnt help. I went to the hyde summer challenge having not excercised in a decade, yet was still accepted for the summer challenge after my medical records were sent over. I dint know the strenuous excercise I was going to be faced with when I enetered the summer challenge, but the school did and they still did not warn me or my parents. Don't get me wrong, excercise is good for osteoporosis, but in moderation with a slow start. I was up at 4:30's running around the football field 5x's, sprints, lunges, and of course, seguin island. I went to the nurse about everyday for as much painkillers I could get my hands on, and requested to see a medical doctor because the pain was unbearable. The nurse refused to let me see a doctor! After the 5 weeks were over and I saw a doctor, you would not believe the damage that were done to my knees and one of my hips over those 5 weeks. The doctor was surprised that I could go through with all the excercise that they expected of me. My knees are slowly getting better, but I cannot run without pain and I cannot walk for long periods of time. It would kill me to think what Hyde would do in a real medical emergency.
