Showing posts with label camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camp. Show all posts
Friday, July 9, 2010
Is this real life?
I busted my head on the backseat of a 15 passenger van trying to remove it from the aforementioned van. My head is still throbbing.This is about as good an example of the summer as I can give you.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
That's so Wonderful!
AUGH! I am back in my favorite place on the planet, CAMP GREENTOP! So, yeah, that's the reason for the CURRENT break in updates! I am going to try to be a little bit better (oh my god, how many times have I said that?) but, well, friends, here's the rub: internet sucks at camp. I can use it pretty easily on my phone, but it is a bitch to try to type an entire entry on my phone. It is doable, but I just don't know if I want to blog that bad(ly?).
Camp is INCREDIBLE! I already feel a billion times better now that I am here. We have been so busy for the last week...the time has just flown by! Between getting everything set up and cleaned, pickups, saying goodbye to staff from last year who can't come back for the summer, and Family Adventure Weekend it has been total chaos. (By the by, we managed to do all of that from Monday of last week and the last family just left from Family Adventure Weekend a little while ago TODAY, just to give you an idea of how efficient we have been at camp.) And yeah, I completely love every second of it!
So, I'll keep this one short since there is stuff to clean, emails to be sent, and bonding to occur, but I am pretty pumped to have the opportunity to do this again, and I am excited that you guys get to come with me!
Camp is INCREDIBLE! I already feel a billion times better now that I am here. We have been so busy for the last week...the time has just flown by! Between getting everything set up and cleaned, pickups, saying goodbye to staff from last year who can't come back for the summer, and Family Adventure Weekend it has been total chaos. (By the by, we managed to do all of that from Monday of last week and the last family just left from Family Adventure Weekend a little while ago TODAY, just to give you an idea of how efficient we have been at camp.) And yeah, I completely love every second of it!
So, I'll keep this one short since there is stuff to clean, emails to be sent, and bonding to occur, but I am pretty pumped to have the opportunity to do this again, and I am excited that you guys get to come with me!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Camp, the New Year, and Bodily Functions.
It was brought to my attention by Meghann that I promised an entry about camp and bodily functions and the future and stuff. So, here it is.
CAMP WAS UNBELIEVABLE! I was really nervous going...not as nervous as I was during the summer, but there was definitely some trepidation. The good news is that I was not even remotely concerned about flying. I ended up taking three different flights over the summer, and combined with the four I took to get to and from winter camp, I can comfortably say that flying is a breeze. I mean, yeah, it's a hassle and annoying, but I don't really panic about it anymore. AND I DO IT ALONE LIKE A GROWN UP!!!!! I said "the good news" as if there would be some bad news to follow. I have no idea what I intended to add. My bad.
Anyhow, being a counselor was out of control! I got INCREDIBLY lucky and got into a really good cabin and group (they are not necessarily mutually exclusive) so I got to spend time bonding with great campers, and great staff. There was some NOT SO GREAT STAFF, but why dwell on the negative when I can talk about the awesome that is Jenny&Jennie. Jenny should've been my roommate at summer camp, but then life happened and Ami ended up as my roommate. I wouldn't change that for the world, b/c Ami was an AMAZING cabinmate, and we bonded and handled business and all that good stuff that you'd expect, but, secretly, deep down, I was a little sad once Jenny got to camp and I saw how awesome she was. It was like having two great choices and not actually being able to pick either...once is just given to you. So, yeah, winter camp was a great chance for me and Jenny to bond. And then Jennie...holy crap....you know how you meet people who just GET it? That is Jennie. Jennie just GETS IT! And I love that about her.
As far as the campers themselves went, my group was amazing. We only had one camper who had anything that approached the "behaviors" that are rued by all counselors, and even then it was pretty easy to figure out what the camper wanted. There was an incident on new year's day with one of my campers involving a seizure, a trip to the ER in an ambulance, and a pregnancy scare, but I can't really go into the deets on it b/c I am sure it violates the privacy policy and all that. I will say that shit was INTENSE!!!!* It's a good thing I learned to drive the liftvans over the summer...IT'S A LIFE SKILL, MAN!
After camp, I went and staying with my PA bestie Daniella for a few days. It was kind of awesome minus my racking cough and seemingly random rectal bleeding that I did not REALLY notice until that Sunday and that did not STOP until the Thursday after I cam home (that's the really gross bodily function part). After some deliberation, soul searching, and medical consultation (my friend Sadie is a nurse) we decided that I probably had a hemorrhoid that exploded early in the week and I was too dumb to notice b/c I was also on my period. Apparently, hemorrhoids do not always hurt. WHO KNEW?! So yeah, it was a total relief when I stopped BLEEDING FROM MY BUTT. And I had fun at Danielle's.
I am trying to be optimistic about the new year. I made some AMAZING friends last year, got closer to some old friends I hadn't talked to in years, strengthened relationships with friends I already had, and learned so much about myself. I hope I can apply it to my future...I hope I can use the past to take me somewhere.
*Anytime I say ANYTHING is "intense" I think of this ridiculous camp joke about League Pioneers. League Pioneers is a camping program offered for higher functioning campers and they sleep in tents and cook over a fire and do lots of hikes and cool stuff. The joke goes "Did you hear about League Pioneers? It's INTENTS!" You know..."intense"="in tents." And yeah, I really do think it's a funny joke.
CAMP WAS UNBELIEVABLE! I was really nervous going...not as nervous as I was during the summer, but there was definitely some trepidation. The good news is that I was not even remotely concerned about flying. I ended up taking three different flights over the summer, and combined with the four I took to get to and from winter camp, I can comfortably say that flying is a breeze. I mean, yeah, it's a hassle and annoying, but I don't really panic about it anymore. AND I DO IT ALONE LIKE A GROWN UP!!!!! I said "the good news" as if there would be some bad news to follow. I have no idea what I intended to add. My bad.
Anyhow, being a counselor was out of control! I got INCREDIBLY lucky and got into a really good cabin and group (they are not necessarily mutually exclusive) so I got to spend time bonding with great campers, and great staff. There was some NOT SO GREAT STAFF, but why dwell on the negative when I can talk about the awesome that is Jenny&Jennie. Jenny should've been my roommate at summer camp, but then life happened and Ami ended up as my roommate. I wouldn't change that for the world, b/c Ami was an AMAZING cabinmate, and we bonded and handled business and all that good stuff that you'd expect, but, secretly, deep down, I was a little sad once Jenny got to camp and I saw how awesome she was. It was like having two great choices and not actually being able to pick either...once is just given to you. So, yeah, winter camp was a great chance for me and Jenny to bond. And then Jennie...holy crap....you know how you meet people who just GET it? That is Jennie. Jennie just GETS IT! And I love that about her.
As far as the campers themselves went, my group was amazing. We only had one camper who had anything that approached the "behaviors" that are rued by all counselors, and even then it was pretty easy to figure out what the camper wanted. There was an incident on new year's day with one of my campers involving a seizure, a trip to the ER in an ambulance, and a pregnancy scare, but I can't really go into the deets on it b/c I am sure it violates the privacy policy and all that. I will say that shit was INTENSE!!!!* It's a good thing I learned to drive the liftvans over the summer...IT'S A LIFE SKILL, MAN!
After camp, I went and staying with my PA bestie Daniella for a few days. It was kind of awesome minus my racking cough and seemingly random rectal bleeding that I did not REALLY notice until that Sunday and that did not STOP until the Thursday after I cam home (that's the really gross bodily function part). After some deliberation, soul searching, and medical consultation (my friend Sadie is a nurse) we decided that I probably had a hemorrhoid that exploded early in the week and I was too dumb to notice b/c I was also on my period. Apparently, hemorrhoids do not always hurt. WHO KNEW?! So yeah, it was a total relief when I stopped BLEEDING FROM MY BUTT. And I had fun at Danielle's.
I am trying to be optimistic about the new year. I made some AMAZING friends last year, got closer to some old friends I hadn't talked to in years, strengthened relationships with friends I already had, and learned so much about myself. I hope I can apply it to my future...I hope I can use the past to take me somewhere.
*Anytime I say ANYTHING is "intense" I think of this ridiculous camp joke about League Pioneers. League Pioneers is a camping program offered for higher functioning campers and they sleep in tents and cook over a fire and do lots of hikes and cool stuff. The joke goes "Did you hear about League Pioneers? It's INTENTS!" You know..."intense"="in tents." And yeah, I really do think it's a funny joke.
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