Menno-Slow

Well, camp is going amazingly well. I'm senior staff this year and I'm surprised by how different it feels. I suppose it's just a matter of knowing how things work and feeling really comfortable in my role here at camp, but it's all good. The kids arrive tomorrow and I think I'm with 7 to 9 year old girls, so it should be interesting.

The computer we have here is an old-school IBM with dial up, so it's ridiculously slow. I sent an e-mail earlier this week and it took me 25 minutes, so the blogs will be few and limited to my days off, because I just don't have the time when the kids are here!

I'm so happy to be out in the woods again and just re-learning how to enjoy the mostly distraction free life of camp. I'm really making an effort to spend more of my time with the other staff and have fun with them. I had a hilarious midnight golfcart ride with my cousin and two friends the other night. That's what this place is all about. In the last week I feel like I've definitely been pushing my physical limits and have been amking it through. So I feel good. I feel like I have a place here. I mean I've been spending a bit of every summer here since I was five, so it's hard for it not to feel like home.

I'm currently thinking about piercing my nose as a 20th birthday thing. Any thoughts? After I got my belly button pierced I decided to never pierce anything again, but I don't know. I have a few weeks to decide.

So life is good! This place and this staff are just amazing. I mean, the whole place is run by people 27 and under and all of us have been here for years, so it has a very generational familial feel to it. So it's nice that I'm a part of this family and that I get to spend time with the kids here and hopefully let them feel like part of the family too. It turns out that two of the atff memeber worked with Kate, and one of the guys spent the year doing Katimavik with one of my best friends from elimentary school. So there are connections everywhere.

I hope everyone is doing amazingly well! I look forward to seeing you all at the end of the month when I'm all worn out and sunned and centered and grounded and at peace with nature. I hope anyway. I fell down yesterday due to a dizzy spell that took me all most an hour to recover from (i.e. to get my eyes to focus properly again). I hope that passes, because fainting in front of my campers would be so traumatizing for them! Oh, and on another note, I'm going veg for camp, and possibly afterwards, depends how I'm feeling. It turns out that bacon is a weakness. I blame Steve for that. Mmmm Steve. I miss that guy, but man is he a good one.

All right, enough with the rambling. I'll do my best to be on again with wholesome camper stories a week from now. Happy July!