Glass Maze

By: Rian Salinas

During the summer, my parents had to go to work and I was too young to stay home alone, and my parents didn’t want me sitting in front of a TV for 3 months therefore they sent me to a summer camp for 5 days a week for the whole summer. On Mondays we would get snow cones and play games and do activities, on Tues — Thursday we swam at ad astra, and every friday we went on a field trip to random and boring places you never expected to go to when the idea of a field trips pops into your head.I made good and bad decisions at that camp, But I am being honest when i say i’m glad i stopped going there, the bathrooms were infested with spiders, and the camp counselors were bratty teenagers that did not know how to be respectful and could easily see that they were only there for money.

On one of those boring field trips, we visited the Nelson Atkins Museum which is probably one of the most boring yet popular museums out there. After walking around with the 70 plus kids in my camp, we stopped by one of the museum’s art pieces which was interactive for kids and families. It was a see through glass maze that made it very hard to see whether its an entrance you were walking through, or if you are about to walk straight into a glass wall. It was finally my turn to walk through and I was with one of my bestfriends Bryan in the moment, we thought it would be fun to dead sprint through and race to the end of the maze, I had almost ran into the different walls multiple times, but I finally ran full fledge at what i thought was the final exit… it was not. At the time I had glasses and when I smacked my face into the glass panel, the glass popped out of the frame and stabbed right below and above my eye. The funny part was the fact that the counselors had to figure out how to get in the maze to retrieve me, and we legit had to find our way out.

Later that day, I left early with 2 gash wounds and a black eye. I went to the Emergency Room, and got eight stitches on the bottom and 6 on the top. Recovery was hard because I was constantly sore and I couldn’t swim when it was the hottest time of the year. When I originally got my stitches, I was supposed to put a vitamin E oil over the top so it would help with scaring, when I came to remove my stitches, a new doctor told me that I was supposed to wait because the oil caused scabbing. So my stitches were literally scabbed to my face and it was beyond painful, But overall a great story to tell.