This week we have the Junior Campers. At least, that's what I have. We're also having Young Teen Camp at the same time, but separated. It's made for quite an interesting challenge, but it seems to be going well so far, even though the staff is already exhausted!
For my cabin, I have 8 lovely girls, all from the same town. The majority of them are relatives in some way as well. I've got ages from 9-12 in that mix. Makes the cabin dynamic very interesting. Prayers are much needed, as always, but I have a few specifics in this cabin. Last night I had a very VERY upset camper. She was very homesick, and it was completely random too. We were sitting there going through our Happy Camper Conduct (a contract we have the kids sign to say they'll follow camp rules), and then she suddenly sounds like she's hyperventilating. Thanks to some of my friends on the staff, we got her calmed down and she is perfectly fine this morning. But my ladies would NOT go to sleep last night. Our 9:30 lights out turned out to be more along the lines of 11:30 still talking. Two of my girls claim they were up at 2 still. I hope this all means that they'll sleep tonight! The funny thing is is that when I got up at 6 for my own private devotions, they wanted to be awake too! So if what a few of these girls say is true, some only got 4 hours of sleep. That also means that I need to be concious of that when the girls say that they don't feel well, or if they start to nod off in the middle of the afternoon. Hopefully I'm not nodding off with them! One of my girls also has a phobia of thunderstorms, so prayers for good weather would be welcome as well.
On a more funny note, Miss Katie Strupp decides this morning that I need to practice leaping into her arms for our skit. So I do. Then she half drops me on purpose and lets me swing upside down!! I do that with litte little little kids! Not someone who's 20 years old! Our media man also got it all on tape too! That better be on the staff video!
The title of this blog is an early morning cheer that we sometimes do, and me and Katie lead it for Flag Raising this morning. I just hope you caught the sarcastic tone of it right now :D
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