Made it!

Hi Y'all!



(I am totally going to be y'alling it up by the end of the summer *grin*)



So! I arrived in North Carolina on Saturday after a 18 hour drive with Dad. Dad was WONDERFUL and did all the driving! Thanks Pops!



North Caroline is beautiful. The forests are lush and green - I mean, GREEN green. It's awesome! Thank goodness for my new rain gear - it's rained everyday I've been here! And it's so funny because it will rain even when the sun is out. There is no predicting the rain showers here :-)



Thus far, camp has been mostly meeting and hanging out with other staff (who are all very cool by the way). We did CPR training on Sunday and Life Guard training on Monday and Tuesday. So I can now save all your lives. Or try to anyway... *wink*



I have already gone on a couple hikes in the Pisgah National Forest, which surrounds the base camp. We are located right in a valley and all around us are mountains covered in greenness. Between the mountains is the fog which settles into the creveses. It is stunning.



You pretty much always feel damp here. If its not raining the humidity is intense! On Monday the humidity was 95%. Last night, it downpoured and I awoke to a mini stream outside of my cabin. Yay for flipflops!



Today is our first day off before staff training begins tomorrow. Went for a run this morning along the windy highway that bends up the mountain. It was only slightly sprinkling when I set out but the rain started coming down pretty hard towards the end. But I like running in the rain!



Kids arrive on June 7th. All the new staff has already heard "horror" stories about the kind of trouble the kids get into when they first arrive. Many have behavior issues or are just not happy about being at camp for the summer. So, we shall see what kind of fun things go down when campers arrive...



There is a group of kids here now that attend the school. This is a program for middle and high schoolers so they can attend classes but also follow the program as well. These kids have lost anywhere from 200-50 lbs! It's pretty amazing. I've been able to chat with a couple of them and it's really interesting to find out there perspective on the camp. There is even a girl with the same name as me. And she even pronounces it the same way I do! We talked about how people always pronounce our name wrong - it was fun to connect with her that way.



Well, me and a few of the other lady staffers are heading down to the town of Waynesville for lunch and to check out the shops. Should be fun!



Catch y'all later!