Personal Writing: Boot Camp Nobody on the bus expected it to be this bad. Everybody, including myself, thought of it as a two week vacation. When we signed our names on the boot camp registration we didn't know what we were in for. Everybody on the bus was jumping up and down, screaming and yelling through the whole trip like swarms of grasshoppers. The officers on the bus were trying to keep everybody quiet, but had no success because we all knew that they couldn't do anything to us while we were on the bus. Finally the officers gave up and started talking among themselves. “Everybody off the bus!” screamed one of the officers.