Hi everyone!
Because of a likely turn of events (lightening and thunder in the Blue Ridge Mts), I am stuck in the administration house. During lightening drill, everyone must be under a roof, or, if out in the field camping/hiking, we need to pull out our lightening mats ASAP and spread out 15 ft apart from each other. Exciting stuff! :-) Thus, I'm chilling in the admin house.
**Up above is a photo of our staff at camp!! Jazz Hands!**
Haven't had much of a chance to update the blog lately. But, last week was our final days of what we liked to call "Counselor Camp!" As a staff, we went into the field and hiked for two days and spent one overnight in the field. We slept under tarps and set up camp just like home :-) Haha, it was a great time! On our second day, we hiked 5.5 miles with our packs and everything. The most exciting parts for me during the hike was having to tromp through 8 or so streams - some of which were flowing pretty good! At some points, we were in water up to our thighs. Our dry hiking boots turned into "Water Balloon" boots. My group deemed ourselves "Team Sock Juice!" Definitely a highlight of the week!
Yesterday our campers finally arrived! We greeted 34 campers for this week. By the end of the summer we will have had just around 100 campers come through. Hot diggity!
My co-counselors and I are in charge of 7 girls ages 16-18. Being that it is only the first full day of camp, the girls are still a bit nervous about being here. Most are signed up to stay 6-8 weeks. Should be interesting to see how the group dynamics unfold!
I am scheduled to work 3 days in the office this week from 9-6. I am kept super busy running mini errands around camp and uploading photos to the Parent Website so parents can check in on how their kids are doing. Tomorrow and Saturday are my days of this week. BUT, Thursday and Friday I am going whitewater rafting and riding the duckies with my cabin girls!! So very excited for that :-) We will camp out Thursday night and also do a bit of hiking too. Awesomeness.
By the way - This is kind of a neat thing going on at camp right now. There is a girl here from England who has been at the school since September of last year and has lost over 200lbs! Last week, PEOPLE Magazine was here to interview her and take some pictures of camp. ANNNNND, she may be on the cover of PEOPLE this Thursday!! She will also be interview on "Good Morning America" on Thursday morning!! So, tune in to that if you can! Also, she is staying my cabin till tomorrow morning when she leaves for New York. She is such a sweet girl. She is off to the camp in England for the summer and then will return to NC in August to attend the academy again in the fall.
Hope all is well! I think lightening drill is just about over....sky's clearing up anyhow :-)
