Whew! Back from camp. I had an excellent time. The staff was very friendly toward me. The kids were great. I think I made a positive impact at camp (at least I hope I did).
The relay races I had been so worried about went fine. The only problem is that I should have scheduled the shaving cream/cheese ball competition at the very end. Somehow having people with their face covered in shaving cream creates the tendency to make a huge mess. I gave the shaving cream participants a dollar so they wouldn’t play pranks on me. Surprisingly it worked. For some unknown reason, I don’t usually have any pranks pulled on me. I guess I am considered non threatening and would not make an easy or worthwile target. Maybe there are bigger and better targets to go after.
We did have an incident where we had to send a camper home. What basically happened was the camper lost his temper over being spurned on love. Threats were made and we thought it was best to send the camper home. It’s sad because the camper being sent home needed this camp more than any other person this week. I’m still frustrated that we had to send him home.
It is really weird to move from a very stressful environment of trying to keep up with data requests to another environment where the main concern is pulling pranks late at night. My campers seemed to be overly concerned with pranks. They started at full force Sunday night. By the time Wednesday and Thursday night had rolled around, they had run out of interesting pranks. I tried to get them to hold back until later on in the week, but they would have no part of it.
Oh yeah, if you want to look at old pictures of camp – go here.
Well I’m pretty sleepy, so I’m going to sleep. Might update this weblog later on…..