Week Six: Night Owls... again!

Hey All!

Well last week was quite a good week. It was very refreshing on Sunday night not to have any homesick campers and get a decent night's sleep! On the Sunday evening after opening campfire we took our kids down to Chapel Point and made a fire to toast marshmallows on. On the Monday we had a night hike up to the outer units (Nyoda and Hiker's Hill) where I'd never been before so that was quite spooky.

On Tuesday morning we got woken up by a fire drill at 7:45am (since we had Night Owls we were allowed to sleep in every morning and eat breakfast at our cabins - obviously not this morning though!). And then around 10am just as we were getting dressed the alarm went off for an LBD (Lost Bather Drill) too. What a morning. In the evening on Tuesday we took our sleeping bags, pillows and a few groundsheets and slept on the front lawn under the stars. It was really good, but us counsellors were really giddy that night and it took us ages to get to sleep.

On Wednesday it was cookout day, but surprise surprise it thunder-stormed again (just like every Wednesday, like clockwork) so we ended up cooking our English Muffin Pizzas in the dining hall. I also fell over on my already sprained ankle that afternoon, gashing my knee and leaving a nasty cut. I was limping about like a muppet for days afterwards! On Wednesday evening we had our movie night in the Health Centre, and then we persuaded the kids to go "raid the kitchen" (something we'd already secretly arranged with the kitchen staff so they could catch them in the act!). It was really funny cos the kids thought they were really in trouble!

On Thursday evening we did my treasure hunt. Whilst walking along a trail from the Barn to a unit called Four Corners, the line of girls in front of us parted and some girls started crying. Walking through the buddy line was a cloaked and hooded faceless figure. To my horror I realised it was a counsellor, and I'd totally forgot that she was gonna try and scare us that night. Well, it TOTALLY freaked the girls out - they were crying and really upset, so I told them that an old camp legend stated that there was a hooded figure living in the woods who helps lost campers, and we'd obviously seen him tonight. That didn't make a difference so eventually I told them the truth. But the legend was so much more fun!

On Friday the kiddies went home again, and I learned that I wasn't going to be moving again which was good. This week we have another theatre group, but they're a lot more raucous than the last one so we've got our work cut out! It's scary though that these girls are gonna be the ones who go home the day we all have to say goodbye to each other and go our separate ways. It's really sad.

Anyway, on the Saturday just gone everyone was off for the weekend, and the nurse, Duckie, got us discounted tickets to a nearby theme park in Agawam, Massachusetts, called Six Flags. It was a great day, lovely and scorching, and we went on loads of cool rides, including a rickety old rollercoaster called 'Cyclone' and a new one much like the Pepsi Max but longer, called 'Superman'. Apart from the huge queues and masses of people that were there it was lots of fun.

That's pretty much everything in a nutshell that's gone on this week. I've also got tickets to the 'Warped' tour in Boston on the 15th August (straight after the end of camp before I fly to Denver), which is apparently like Glastonbury but a bit more hardcore (!) so I'm looking forward to that.

In other news, I got accepted into my first choice of halls at uni! It's kinda worrying that my student loan is only just gonna cover my accommodation there, but I guess that's all the more incentive to get a job! So I'm excited about that too.

I'll post again soon! Hope your all ok x