First Night of Staff Training

Howdy All!

We have a new leadership member from Texas, so I felt obligated to start off my new post like that.  Hope you enjoyed it.  Camp is just like it has been for the last two summers, with a few minor improvements.  Well, improvements in my book! There are now 3 lovely stripes down the hallway of the... the... gym building.  I think I forgot half of my camp lingo over the school year! But anyways, that looks great, and the craft room walls have been painted fun colors!! I was bummed for a split second before being completely happy I didn't have to do that.  I'm a little painted out after my Painting 1 class this semester.

There's a great aray of old faces and new faces, though it seems that quite a lot of the new faces are just younger relatives of the old faces.  Sarah Maslo's sister is here, and there are three Vik's that I've never got to meet before.  Vik's are amazing.  On our tractor ride around the camp, I spent quite a while aiming gummy bears into Amy? Vik's mouth.  I think I had 4 out of 7, and I think that's a pretty good shot!! Specially since I can't hit my mom with a sock and she'll be 6 feet away from me! There are still quite a few people not here yet, but I think I may just think that because they were still in the dish room when we were all gathered together.

Pretty much all we have done today is go on our camp 'tour,' eat, and then do teambuilding exercises, and then a short chapel service, if you want to call it that.  Three leadership people shared their testamonies,  and to sit and listen to those really gets you back in the camp spirit.  Those types of life changing moments are what we hope for for our kids, and hearing of ones that started at camps is really uplifting.

This girl decided that the midnight priemere of Men in Black 3 was worth being this tired (crazy I know), so I am going to bed an hour and a half before lights out.  Not so crazy.  Actually, that's very VERY normal.  Just not for the first day :). By the way, I totally suggest Men in Black 3.  It was so much better than the second, and it ties all three together well.  Not for small children though.  Some parts were really gross and I covered my eyes.  That kinda says a lot seeing that I'll be 21 in a month.

Hope everyone has had a wonderful day!

Lindsay

ps- sorry for any obvious typos.  I'm very tired and the blog program doesn't have those lovely red swiggles under the word to let you know you've messed up... :)