Back to the land of the living. I would have liked the retreat to last longer considering the world I have to return to.
The showers were out on the boys’ bathhouse, so all 35+ of the guys had to share a lone shower in one of the boy’s cabin. God blessed me with a warm shower each day in that particular shower. Some of the boys gave up in waiting in line for the shower and didn’t have one all weekend. Is it my job as a counselor to make sure the kids get at least one shower? Not necessarily. I usually try to mention it in passing, but I don’t loose sleep over it.
We did have alot of boys who liked to play with fire. They had a few little fires going outside. Initually they were keeping it safe….building rocks around the the fire as an enclosure. At first I tried to stay by and make sure they weren’t buring down the camp. But then one of them got out the WD-40 and started a flamethrower. So I had to step in and make the world safe again by putting out the fires.
The food at the retreat was good. Almost too good. We had hamburgers, barbeque chicken, and spaghetti during the weekend. My only recommendation is that they should have had sandwiches as an option just in case some picky eaters didn’t care for the menu of choice. The barbeque chicken was good, although I could have filled up more on a couple of sandwiches that night.