Camp Part V

I am back at camp now. The next session starts on Monday so the staff is running around finishing up things. The second session is a lot smaller than the first by about 30 kids. It will make for a much closer group of kids. I switched age groups this session. I will now have Arazim: 6th and 7th graders. Right now I feel like it is such a change of attitude from the campers I had last session. Machon was easy for me to connect with the campers. They were old enough to understand things if I talked to them like a normal person they generally got it. But now I don’t really know what to expect. I’m sure I will do a good job. I’m just nervous.

Today I swam across the lake. About ¾ mile. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. My knees hurt a little, but it was really refreshing.

This next session there are five campers from KC! Granted three of them are from the same family and two from another, this leaves for a potential of programming in KC next year.

Speaking of next year, I am so excited! Today I ate lunch with about six of my fellow staff members who have all be on year course. They told me all kinds of funny stories. It just made me really excited. Also on the plus side, there are about twenty or so Israelis at camp. Which mean that while I am in Israel I will have about twenty people to go hang out with! Hopefully that involves free food :)

Right now I am sitting in the art room working on signs for welcoming campers with some other staff. We are also rocking out to “Bad Touch” by the Bloodhound. Good Times.

I’m starting to wonder if anyone even reads this thing. I know my parents do, or at least they say they do. I hope at least a few people read it. At least its a good way for me to keep a track of what happened.

I really want to upload photos here, but the camp’s internet has been temporarily slowed. We exceeded our limited for data exchanged (thank you face book). We are only allowed 17,000 megabytes a month. It is hard to imagine we got there, but we did.

Quote of the day:
"Its not rain. Its liquid sunshine!"

Until next time,
Daniel