This week was one of the best one's I've had here! Like I mentioned before I got River Riders. My girls were 11-14 yrs old and we went on 3 day canoeing trail. We were supposed to leave on Tuesday morning and come back on Thursday. Well because of my eye infection, I first of all had to clean up my whole cabin with cleenex etc, we couldn't leave until Wednesday morning. It was all good though cause that way we had actually time to pack our stuff.
Trail was epic! We had 10 girls though which is a lot for trail. And having that many campers we couldn't have the same schedule with the guys, even though it usually is. And two of my best friends were doing it!!!! Oh well. All of the girls were really great except for one, who was a total idiot to be honest. She would keep talking back and thinking she could do anything. Paddling was amazing! The weather was perfect, our schedule was quite chilled. The only thing is that we asked for three water containers, but only got two. And one of them leaked, so we had 2 gallons of water for 12 people for a whole day. So obviously we ran out of water. We had to cook all our meals to that river water. We also got freaked that we actually have to drink that the next day. Cause the map was outdated and there was no water at the camp site we're camping even though it said it had it, and the next one was in 9 miles. There was no way my girls could do that without water. Luckily in the morning we found people's cabins and got water from them.
We also made two one match fires and one NO MATCH FIRE!!! I'm so proud of that. The dinner fire had been gone for few hours, but we just kept blowing in it and got the fire going eventually! yay. All the people from my group received a poopbracelet from pooping in the nature (dig a hole and poop in it, cover up). So proud of them!
Only bad thing was the mosquitos!! I got eaten alive, even after Predator pray. Oh well I have no skin left that's not just full of red spots. But it was totally worth it! And even though I got an epic burn that blistered up and looks green now, I loved the trail! :D
Next week TB's, so over night trail and now sailing!!! woopwoop!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Who's it gonna be?
Finally time for this blog! Too much has happened in a week. For last week I got a dreamteam group. Me+ Pounce with 10 homsteader girls (they are 12-14yrs old) and we had Cuda's boys also! AMAZING!
One of the best weeks I've had. Just one girl was really homesick and cried the first 3 days straight, no kidding. But I convinced her to stay until our daytrail on Wednesday and after that she didn't even wanna go home anymore. I was so proud of myself :D And I won counselor of the week because of that! Yay.
I absolutely loved our group and we had an awesome time. Our daytrail to Willow River water falls was epic. It was really amazing until we almost killed one of the girls :S She got caught in the current when we were above the water fall. She was a foot away from falling down and maybe dying! Luckily Pounce got her. Scariest 5 minutes of my life!
The past week was the hottest in my life. The heat index was 115F every single day, cause the humidity was so bad. There's no A/C in any of the buildings. We got a fan to our cabin, but no one could still sleep. I swear that I didn't sleep at all that week! Luckily during the days we had springlers out and we had the most epic water wars! The whole camp ended up joining.
This week I got River Riders, which means that I'm going on 3 day canoeing trail! I'm super excited. Excpet that I have a pink eye right now and need to og to the doctors. So I'm not sure if they let me go...:(
These past few weeks we have had awful thunderstorms, one night the alarm went off. One night a ligtning srtoke thru the building, it was the scariest thing EVER!
Also bookclub both of these past weekends have been awesome! I'm enjoying my stay here so much!
Excpet for the fact that camp food makes me sick. It has no nutrions in it and it's all from box pretty much. So no fresh food, yack! But that's a minor thing. And this week I'll get trailfood, yummy!
Already two of the internationals have gonoe home. G got fired and K-pop just had to go for other reasons. So who's it gonna be this week, hopefully not me!?
One of the best weeks I've had. Just one girl was really homesick and cried the first 3 days straight, no kidding. But I convinced her to stay until our daytrail on Wednesday and after that she didn't even wanna go home anymore. I was so proud of myself :D And I won counselor of the week because of that! Yay.
I absolutely loved our group and we had an awesome time. Our daytrail to Willow River water falls was epic. It was really amazing until we almost killed one of the girls :S She got caught in the current when we were above the water fall. She was a foot away from falling down and maybe dying! Luckily Pounce got her. Scariest 5 minutes of my life!
The past week was the hottest in my life. The heat index was 115F every single day, cause the humidity was so bad. There's no A/C in any of the buildings. We got a fan to our cabin, but no one could still sleep. I swear that I didn't sleep at all that week! Luckily during the days we had springlers out and we had the most epic water wars! The whole camp ended up joining.
This week I got River Riders, which means that I'm going on 3 day canoeing trail! I'm super excited. Excpet that I have a pink eye right now and need to og to the doctors. So I'm not sure if they let me go...:(
These past few weeks we have had awful thunderstorms, one night the alarm went off. One night a ligtning srtoke thru the building, it was the scariest thing EVER!
Also bookclub both of these past weekends have been awesome! I'm enjoying my stay here so much!
Excpet for the fact that camp food makes me sick. It has no nutrions in it and it's all from box pretty much. So no fresh food, yack! But that's a minor thing. And this week I'll get trailfood, yummy!
Already two of the internationals have gonoe home. G got fired and K-pop just had to go for other reasons. So who's it gonna be this week, hopefully not me!?
Thursday, July 14, 2011
All is fine in CSC again! I had the past Sunday off because I didn't have overnight campers. So me and Cuda decided that it is a good idea to walk downtown Hudson in 95F+ humid weather! Well it wasn't the greatest after all...It took us 4 hours to get there and back and we were sprinting our way back to make it to dinner. Oh wow, never again.
On Monday I started at the Day Croix, which is on the same property but just like half a mile away. The kids come only for the day and spent the nights back at home. I got a pretty well behaved group, but it wasstill exhausting becuase I didn't know any of the daily routines. I figured them out though and don't have a co-counselor anymore. We do lot of the same activities as overnight but also lot is different. Day Croix is also way more relaxed, the couselors don't have to do as much since the kids have lot of freetime to just play aroud, becuase the kids are kind of in a daycare and not at camp. The counselors don't really know any skits or not that many songs, so I'm like a star there now! :D I also get to have a walkie-talkie, I feel so important!
I walk back to the res camp at dinner time and after that I've been covering for solo counselors, so that they get some breaks. It's nice, cause that way I get to know some of the campers that are around. I also had the best devos with one cabin group the other night. They were telling me how much the camp has changed their lives, made me so happy cause that is excatly why the camp is running! It was pretty tireing to not have any breaks for few days though. On Wednesday I finally got a night off, which was sweet!
I really liked Day Croix, but res camp is way better! I hope that next week I get an awesome group, maybe a trail. There are some amazing trails this week, a horse trail and climbing trail which are 5 days!! So jealous for those people!!!!
I feel like the most ridiculous car incidents keep happening to me here. Two weeks ago I went to a store with few of my frineds and when we got out the driver coudln't find her keys. SO we went back inside and traced our footsteps. We walk through the whole store and asked all the workers to if someone had found them. No. Well then we decided to see if they are inside the car. The car alarm went off when we opened the door. The keys were not inside there and now we looked like some criminals on top of that. We were almost freaking out cause we had like half an hour to make it back to the camp. At the end we found the keys from teh store and made it back to the camp safely.
Then this week we had our night off and we went to the town. We decided to take Mufasa's car which is the most amazing piece of s*it ever. It cost him 300$ and it sounds like it's breaking down. None of the windows roll up or down, some of thedoors are not working etc (I should take a picture of that, no one can understand unless tehy see it). So first one of the windows fell in all the way, then we were trying to fix it (while the car was still moving) and some other parts just fell off. At that point I was about to pee in my pants, it was hilarious. On our way back to the camp the battery died while we were driving, so me, Crisscross and Belly jumped out of the moving car and started pushing it. Epic. No one at the gas station where we pushed it had jump capels, so we just had to leave the car there and get a ride back to the camp to watch our kids! I hope the car is ok, cause it's my favorite car ever! Plus I wanna do something this weekend!
On Monday I started at the Day Croix, which is on the same property but just like half a mile away. The kids come only for the day and spent the nights back at home. I got a pretty well behaved group, but it wasstill exhausting becuase I didn't know any of the daily routines. I figured them out though and don't have a co-counselor anymore. We do lot of the same activities as overnight but also lot is different. Day Croix is also way more relaxed, the couselors don't have to do as much since the kids have lot of freetime to just play aroud, becuase the kids are kind of in a daycare and not at camp. The counselors don't really know any skits or not that many songs, so I'm like a star there now! :D I also get to have a walkie-talkie, I feel so important!
I walk back to the res camp at dinner time and after that I've been covering for solo counselors, so that they get some breaks. It's nice, cause that way I get to know some of the campers that are around. I also had the best devos with one cabin group the other night. They were telling me how much the camp has changed their lives, made me so happy cause that is excatly why the camp is running! It was pretty tireing to not have any breaks for few days though. On Wednesday I finally got a night off, which was sweet!
I really liked Day Croix, but res camp is way better! I hope that next week I get an awesome group, maybe a trail. There are some amazing trails this week, a horse trail and climbing trail which are 5 days!! So jealous for those people!!!!
I feel like the most ridiculous car incidents keep happening to me here. Two weeks ago I went to a store with few of my frineds and when we got out the driver coudln't find her keys. SO we went back inside and traced our footsteps. We walk through the whole store and asked all the workers to if someone had found them. No. Well then we decided to see if they are inside the car. The car alarm went off when we opened the door. The keys were not inside there and now we looked like some criminals on top of that. We were almost freaking out cause we had like half an hour to make it back to the camp. At the end we found the keys from teh store and made it back to the camp safely.
Then this week we had our night off and we went to the town. We decided to take Mufasa's car which is the most amazing piece of s*it ever. It cost him 300$ and it sounds like it's breaking down. None of the windows roll up or down, some of thedoors are not working etc (I should take a picture of that, no one can understand unless tehy see it). So first one of the windows fell in all the way, then we were trying to fix it (while the car was still moving) and some other parts just fell off. At that point I was about to pee in my pants, it was hilarious. On our way back to the camp the battery died while we were driving, so me, Crisscross and Belly jumped out of the moving car and started pushing it. Epic. No one at the gas station where we pushed it had jump capels, so we just had to leave the car there and get a ride back to the camp to watch our kids! I hope the car is ok, cause it's my favorite car ever! Plus I wanna do something this weekend!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Floor is lava!
Let me see how you paint the Savannah! Let me see how you spread some woodchips with retarded hand! Wait did I sign up for support staff or camp counselor? I'm honestly not even sure now. I got lifeguarding for next week, since I'm not supposed to do anything physical. Wait did I just do some manual labor/ slave work after having a diarrhea and not eating anything in like 3 days..
At this moment I hate being an international at this country, everything is so messed up! For instance we haven't got paid yet at all, and no one knows when that wonder happens. I have given myself two more hours two whine about everything and then I'm just gonna suck it up and be happy again :D
Now it's time to sneak into the kitchen and get some food and take a nap. Why do americans get up at 7am after a party??? And why do they also steal peoples shoes??
At this moment I hate being an international at this country, everything is so messed up! For instance we haven't got paid yet at all, and no one knows when that wonder happens. I have given myself two more hours two whine about everything and then I'm just gonna suck it up and be happy again :D
Now it's time to sneak into the kitchen and get some food and take a nap. Why do americans get up at 7am after a party??? And why do they also steal peoples shoes??
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Sick chic
How did this end up this way? I had the best two days ever following the worst couple of days ever!
Last week I was off the end of the week, it was super nice. I was just laying down at the beach and working on my cast tanline, because it's off now! I sunburned my back after falling asleep at the dock for an hour. The very next day I was lifeguarding, which I liked a lot! I didn't save anyones life though...
At the end of the week I got sore throat and started coughing and on Friday when it was ridiculously hot and humid I started sounding like an asthma attack victim. I almost fainted so I had to spend the afternoon at the nurse's office, I had a heat exhaustion, people drink water!!!! Little did I know how well I would get to know that office this week....
Weekend was just amazing. First we had our weekly staffparty in a house with a hottube etc. The next day we were wondering around Wisconsin with one of my friends and ended up sleeping in his comfortable aircondisioned house (well basically we told him that we were gonna stay there, so he didn't have a choice). Moving on to an epic Sunday. We overslept like an hour and got to the camp at 10. But me and Crisscross (an international from England) HAD to do laundry, so one girl dropped us at a place called Launromat, where we do our laundry. (Camp has one washing machine, but we are NOT allowed to use it...ridiculous) We ended up being stuck there and had to call a P-staff member to pick us up, they were not very happy with that. Ooops.
The camp for this week was for innercity kids who are potential high school dropouts and they would get their gym credit by coming to the camp. We knew we were gonna have a crazy exhausting week ahead of us, but I was really bumped, especially when I was supposed to be cos with one of my best friends here. There were supposed to be 300 kids. At 1pm on Sunday 107 of them showed up. I was told that I would have 15 kids with my co...well NONE of them came. I was so upset. I was looking forward to that experience and challenge and then they were telling me that I will not have any campers. We figured that the problem was 4th opf July, so we were calling all of the kids who didn't show up and offered the choice of coming on Tuesday. Until Tueasday the rest of the staff just had to hang in there, shadow some groups and do service projects. We were so pissed. We had to cut some trees and paint buildings etc. Just ridiculous.
We were expecting 60 more kids to come on Tuesday, but only 15 came. So that was 1 more girls cabin and 1 more boys cabin. I would have gotten a group, IF I wasn't so sick. I had a cough AND I also somehow got a diarrhea on top of that. Lovely. I have just spent the most miserable two days of my life at the nurse's office. The first day I was just complitely off, I don't remember ANYTHING, except for that the nurse had a red circle in her shirt that I kept staring whenever she came to me. I spent two days straight sleeping (the time that I was not at the bathroom) and not eating anything. Now I'm just hoping this week to end and can't wait for next week!
ps. A game called messages to Garcia is the funnest game ever ;)
Last week I was off the end of the week, it was super nice. I was just laying down at the beach and working on my cast tanline, because it's off now! I sunburned my back after falling asleep at the dock for an hour. The very next day I was lifeguarding, which I liked a lot! I didn't save anyones life though...
At the end of the week I got sore throat and started coughing and on Friday when it was ridiculously hot and humid I started sounding like an asthma attack victim. I almost fainted so I had to spend the afternoon at the nurse's office, I had a heat exhaustion, people drink water!!!! Little did I know how well I would get to know that office this week....
Weekend was just amazing. First we had our weekly staffparty in a house with a hottube etc. The next day we were wondering around Wisconsin with one of my friends and ended up sleeping in his comfortable aircondisioned house (well basically we told him that we were gonna stay there, so he didn't have a choice). Moving on to an epic Sunday. We overslept like an hour and got to the camp at 10. But me and Crisscross (an international from England) HAD to do laundry, so one girl dropped us at a place called Launromat, where we do our laundry. (Camp has one washing machine, but we are NOT allowed to use it...ridiculous) We ended up being stuck there and had to call a P-staff member to pick us up, they were not very happy with that. Ooops.
The camp for this week was for innercity kids who are potential high school dropouts and they would get their gym credit by coming to the camp. We knew we were gonna have a crazy exhausting week ahead of us, but I was really bumped, especially when I was supposed to be cos with one of my best friends here. There were supposed to be 300 kids. At 1pm on Sunday 107 of them showed up. I was told that I would have 15 kids with my co...well NONE of them came. I was so upset. I was looking forward to that experience and challenge and then they were telling me that I will not have any campers. We figured that the problem was 4th opf July, so we were calling all of the kids who didn't show up and offered the choice of coming on Tuesday. Until Tueasday the rest of the staff just had to hang in there, shadow some groups and do service projects. We were so pissed. We had to cut some trees and paint buildings etc. Just ridiculous.
We were expecting 60 more kids to come on Tuesday, but only 15 came. So that was 1 more girls cabin and 1 more boys cabin. I would have gotten a group, IF I wasn't so sick. I had a cough AND I also somehow got a diarrhea on top of that. Lovely. I have just spent the most miserable two days of my life at the nurse's office. The first day I was just complitely off, I don't remember ANYTHING, except for that the nurse had a red circle in her shirt that I kept staring whenever she came to me. I spent two days straight sleeping (the time that I was not at the bathroom) and not eating anything. Now I'm just hoping this week to end and can't wait for next week!
ps. A game called messages to Garcia is the funnest game ever ;)
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