Getting Things Done

Here's the community pool... and my friends Sally, Kyle, and Jordan...

The community pool was fun, but some of the rules were silly. We had to pass the deep water test as adults, and there is no jumping in anywhere except the deepend. (We had a cannonball contest with the kids there.) hilarious. there's rest period for everyone (including adults) every hour- but I think it was only 10 minutes. There were only four lounge chairs and they were metal. strange.

PT started on Monday at 6am... it was fun. not much to elaborate on there. After PT we each did presentations on policies & procedures. Then the staff took over again for another full day of training. After work we loaded up the 15ps and headed about an hour and a half away to the boys and girls camp. We did a ton of ice breakers while we waited for our dinner- the kids loved them! After dinner we set up our tents and-- poof-- it was dark. Luckily, the pool was lit and we had a blast splashing around for a couple of hours. I taught some synchro and everyone insisted on playing marco polo (ugh). I forgot a towel and was lucky to have my buddy Heidi let me use hers. After showering at the showerhouse (so happy to have one!) I headed to the fire circle, made smores and socialized with the counselors. They told us their camp ghost story- which wasn't scary at all. I made sure to get away from the fire before the last "authority left" so as to not have to be responsible for it...

I wasn't tired yet so I went out on the dock and listened to another TL, Patrick, play the guitar for awhile until the "monster" from the ghost story came out from his cabin and started running around with his chainsaw (leafblower)- oh those counselors.

Waited out the attack then headed to my three person tent to attempt sleep.

this is the view from my tent in the morning^

On Tuesday I woke up at 5:45 to go canoeing before tearing down camp and heading to the mess hall for some grits. The day was devoted to service learning- more learning than service. We were broken into four groups for stations. Our stations were: 1. tools training and bench building (I didn't get to take part in the benches because it poured for a while), 2. Trail clearing, 3. dock maintenance and fish habitat restoration, 4. roof training. After a fulllll day of work we headed back to campus and I passed out.

Here I am clearing some trail^

We had PT again this morning and then supervisory training all day.

I am sure you want more info about camp but I am super exhausted so I am going to have to sign off now. I miss you all

the TLs and some staff that came with us...

**I was trying to upload a few more pictures but it is getting rediculously slow so I will have to try to add them later**