Tuesday, Week 1

Hello!

This will probably be a quick update, as it is almost time for lunch, but I wanted to give a bit of an update.

First off, I'm still alive so far! And I haven't killed any campers, either!

Okay, so actually, my campers aren't that bad. I ended up with 7 boys, 6th and 7th graders. Two of them like to make things a challenge for me, but that's okay. Most of them are really good, one of them is in my path, and two are on my Team Competition team.

Path is kind of like their major for the week - what they're studying. I am the guy helping out with high adventure - rappelling, rock climbing, ropes courses, and the like. Abby, and Nikki are the leaders of high adventure, and I am helping them. We have two boys and seven girl campers in our path, including a 50 pound fifth grader. The whole group is pretty small, but that works, because it makes doing their safety stuff pretty easy - except for trying to find harnesses that fit. It's been good, and I am really enjoying working with them.

Anna and I were the two counselors assigned to lead one of the Team Competition teams - after trying and trying and not being able to come up with a name for the team, we finally decided on "Danannas" - kind of like bananas in how it's said. That's a good group of 12 kids that we get to work with, though, and I expect it will continue to be good.

Last night the campers played a game called "Mission Impossible" in which they try to sneak from one "fire" to another across camp without getting caught - if they get caught, we take away their white tickets, give them red ones, and they have to go trade them in and start again. I ended up with 27 white tickets that i had taken from campers by the time the evening was over - but it was a lot of fun for the campers, too - not just the staff that was looking for them.

Well, I need to go, but wanted to post a quick update. As usual, I'd love to hear from you, and I'll get back to you when I can if you do write to me. I don't expect to have cell phone service until I leave here, except for maybe one Saturday afternoon, but I don't even know which week yet.

Take care, and may God bless you this week.