Last time I checked, Nortel’s stock was down to $1.17. It’s getting to where I just don’t even want to hear bad news anymore. I don’t know if we’ll ever recover. Anyways it’s not something I can control, so why worry about it.
VBS Junkies – there’s always people in the community who use Vacation Bible School as a free babysitting service. Each week they go to a different church in the community, drop their kids off at 9AM and then pick them up again at noon. This happens also at Short Mountain Bible Camp. Parents drop off their kid at bible camp on Sunday, leave them for the entire week, then pick them back up again on Friday. The kid goes home, washes clothes on Saturday, then back at bible camp for another week. The only problem is that while this kid is going to multiple bible camps throughout the summer, other kids who decided at the last minute they would like to attend a bible camp, are not able to go to even once because the camps fill up so fast.
From making these camp tapes, I’ve watched that camp video tape multiple times. I get an eerie feeling about it when the kid whom we had to send home makes statements on the video like “You don’t know what real pain is until a girl breaks up with you.” It was this “real pain” that caused him loose control and start throwing tables and making threats toward everyone. I should have seen it coming. He was pretty much obsessed with this girl. Do I think he’s a dangerous person? No. Do I think it was appropriate to send him home at that time? I’m still struggling with that decision. I feel like it might have been able to be controlled if he had been moved to a different cabin. However, everyone knows I could not have physically restrained him if he had lashed out at another person in the cabin. So in hindsight, it was probably safe to send him home. In any case, he definitely needed to be at camp last week. I’m disappointed he was unable to make it through an entire week.