Pre-Camp

      This past week my sister and I started our new jobs. We are both working at a girl's camp. She is in the craft shack and I am a counselor. This week was called pre-camp because this week was just staff. They taught us our schedules for each week and we learned how to hook up the zip line and repelling. We also went hiking and there was so much snow and it was really cold. Just a lot of preparation and training. I am even now CPR certified! Woot woo! This coming week we will be getting the girls. They are 12 and 13 years old and each counselor is in charge of 10 girls. I am so excited and yet really nervous. There is only 1 of me and 10 of them.

We got cabin roommates. 2 counselors per cabin with roughly 30 girls in there sleeping. We all have nicknames up there. Mine is Sunny, my sister's is Ric Rac and my roommates’ is Buttercup. So if I keep talking about them, that's who I'm talking about. Back at home they need a dictionary to help translate what we are saying since each bathroom, cabin and staff member have a completely new name. (ex. the 2 bathrooms are called Skunk and Daisy) Mom got really confused when we were saying things like, “Well then Boots was telling Squeaky that the group was meeting at Brownie Rock.”

Buttercup and I had to deal with a ton of moths and a dead mouse that we found in a trap underneath our bed later in the week. At this point I'm already thinking. "Oh for Pete's sake, might as well bring on the misquitoes!" I know it's going to be so much fun though.

It’s also cool because not only is this a job and we get paid for doing it but it’s also a calling that we are set apart for. We have to be up there Sunday nights and we get back Friday’s late afternoon. No cell phone’s aloud and no internet access. All staff members have Walkie-talkies to communicate with each other which are pretty fun.

Here are some pictures.

(Above) On the hike

Mutual Night on Thursday, we each received at rose

Indian Legends Ceremony

Zip line!

A lot of snow

On the way up the hill to our cabins the snow was to my knees

It is so gorgeous