Biding time ... and a bizarre day.

So your at camp, you have a repair man on site, and are waiting to find out whats the damage?

What do you do to keep yourself occupied? Play on the net you say, meh already done it. Talk on msn to your friends across the world, was doing it and well we ran out of things to say. Then you see the marshmallows sitting in the basket across from you and you start throwing them at the other person in the office. Its a very soothing way to bide your time. We then realised that maybe we should take it out of the office when 1. The repair man came back in rolling his eyes at us, and 2. When you have to lean behind the photocopier to retrive your ammo.

Outside we went, and blasted eachother with marshmallows, and then did the olden day 10 paces and shoot (10 paces is a long way, by the way).

It was good fun, bided the time and enjoyed ourselves throughly. Now I know why, when we saw a Marshmallow launcher the other day, why it was so apealing.

Went to the bank and came back ... accidentally fell into the lake to push Chatter, one of the other redshirts out of a kayak.

The marshmallow fun continued on everynow and then for the rest of the afternoon, until I decided to throw one at Nutz, and she came our chasing me and squished it in my ear. Not a fun feeling if you ever discover it.

At dinner time, the fun continued, I mucked around with Bigfoot and Wave, by bumping their hand into their face when they were eating Banana Cake ... it was innocent and they didn't get much on their face. But the second piece that Bigfoot had, well ... I bumped her hand again, Volley came in and pushed it harder whilst Wave completed it by rubbing the cake all over her face and glasses. We are laughing so hard we couldn't see. Bigfoot is a trooper and took it really well, she even finsihed eating her cake off her face.

Later on, I got a call to go and get Angel (a redshirt) from our 4 day canoe trip, this ended in another trip to the hospital. I ended up getting back into camp at approximately 10pm at night.

I was winding down for the night, talking to a couple of redshirts (Boom, Jabbers, Felix, Nutz) in york. We played a little prank on their campers as they were all being slobs, and hadn't put any of their shoes away. So I used a trick from school camp, thanks Nikki Bairstow, we took each of their left shoes and put them in a line outside. (I am told that this morning it was an absolute riot of a laugh when all of them were looking for their shoes).

So, back to my day, at around midnight I got a home call from Davinci on Juniper.

Davinci could hear human howling from a mans voice (strange as their are no men on site) and apples were being thrown at the tents. So down we went all of us in York in the camp car, to try and ward off the intruders. It didn't particuarly work, even after I turned on my teacher voice telling them that we had already called the police. So in I went to call the police.

The police arrived, and I got to ride around in one of the two cars that arrived circling camp to scare off the people who were in the bushes. In the end the police left (without catching anyone, the ran I am sure as soon as they saw we actually had the police there) at 1:15am then off to bed I went.

A day which was very bizzare in the end.

Week 3

This week was pretty good.

After a week of a couple of mishaps, frazzled parents, 1 anitsocial child (ask if you want more details, its kind of funny, but not something that I want to share to the entire world) and a couple of resuce missions to get the canoe girls who were stuck in a storm. So for dramas and mishaps it was pretty small, making it a great week. A couple of highlights follow ...

Had a wonderful high tea at one of our sites on Thursday, as it was British Invasion week. We arrived to the table set with tea mugs painted with our camp names and biscuits, with ladies hats and had a lovely time.

Friday night, we had a delivery of stuff from our old office, and a very flippin ugly picture arrived with it. So myself and another counsellor decided that it no longer to be needed in existence, so after a couple of mintues with an axe and then onto the fire, it let out of the steam for the week. So all in all I have a had a great week, and this weekend marks the beginning of the downhill. I can't believe that it has come along so fast!

Can say that at the moment I would probably still do it all again, as I am working with great people and having a ball. Don't know how I will ever go back to being a supply teacher again, but I am sure that once I get back into it, I will be fine.

Hope all is well. V

CANADIAN PHOTOS ...

So, I have finally gotten onto a computer which has microsoft picture manager, so here is a major influx of well overdue photos. First photos is one of the many farms around my camp area, and the other is my camp hat, which I proudly sewed - thanks Nan for teaching me how to cross stitch when I was younger.


Before camp in Toronto ... June 18 - June 20

The thimbil is one of the many many strange statues they have in toronto. Also here we have pictures of the Blue Jays game I went to with Jessica and Belinda (there was no S at the game), the Canadian cheeseburger I walked miles to find to eat, the CN tower (worlds tallest observation dock), me sitting on the glass floor of the tower (ahhhhh).











Now we have photos of antics before camp started June 21 - July 1

Our first nanna nap; we al fell asleep watching the movie matilda (yes, these are the directors of the camp, and then night antics in the local park, how many people can you fit in a garbage bag?, dinner antics, can you find the spelling error and setting off fireworks for Canada - July 1.













And now camp photos July 1 - July 10

This was our first camp fire, and it happens Monday night each week, the staff dress up as their camp name, first off we have Boom, then a group (Orange Shirt is Swing), Ice, bunch of campers, Boo and Bubbles around the fire, Boo and Jabbers









There aren't many photos of me up here, as I am the one taking these. But there is a solution, I have bowed to peer pressure and joined facebook, and there are heaps of photos of me and canada there, so search for me and you can see them.

Tornadoes

Well, did you know that Ontario is subject to Tornadoes ... no? Me either, but I found out last night.

Last night, whilst eating dinner, the sky decided to start to spin and we checked the weather warnings on line, and lo and behold we had a tornado warning. So we took the girls inside, our warning passed in 20 minutes and we were fine.

Found out this morning on my trip into town (driving alone, I must say, so proud) that one actually did touch down, and it was about 10 kilometres away from us. From the account it was only small, and only ripped apart a barn, but it was still enough to do damage. Scary stuff.

Now I can say that I have been near a cyclone and tornado. I have to say I like the prospect of cyclones better, bizzare concept I know, but hear me out. At least with a cyclone you know that they are coming for days and you can prepare. This thing, well as the movie goes, you've only got mintues to prepare.

But we are fine, and well prepared for any further occurances. Just something I had to share.

First Week of campers ...

Camp is going really great, I am very tired, but still enjoying myself.

I have been chef and assistant camp director this week, as unfortunately our chef had to resign. So I have been catering for 100 plus people, it has been interesting and one meal was a little undercatered.

The staff are already asking me to come back for next years camp, so obviously I am doing something right.

Have been driving around Ontario and loving driving again, even though I am on the other side of the road.

Talk soon, have found a computer with MS Picutre Manager, so I will be on the photo thing real soon.