So it ends...

It's the first full day after camp has ended. Such a weird feeling. I miss people and yet at the same time I've gotten to see people that I haven't for many monthes. It's hard being here thinking of all the conections I have to re-form and the new ones that won't be easily made. That really makes me miss camp and all the stable connections I had there. The one thing I have really realised is that I always wish that I had gotten to know others better while I was at camp. There are always a couple of people that I wish I had taken the time to get to know better. It's really true this seeing how dead I was for most of the summer. Still there is always hope for the next summer if they come back. Then again being the shy person that I am I probably wouldn't do anything then either... Nah I hope to be in cabin next summer so that will really change things. Ah well big sigh for the times gone by. I raise my Tim Hortons cap' to all you quality camp kids that I never got to know and wish you all the best in the year to come.

Round and round we go...

I hate endings. I really, really dispise endings. I get so caught up in the excitment of new beginings that the end of things always just drags by. I'm probably one of the only people who, in the last week of camp, fervrently wishes it to be over so it will just be done!!! Even if where I'm going next is going to suck. Talk about awkward beginings, after almost four years I'm moving back home. Not only that but my sister moved back home earlier this year and is now going to school in my home town. Just to top it all off I have to work for money this year, something I have always failed misrably at. I can work at a job I like for little money and long hours. Yet working for good or great pay at a 9-5 job drives me insane! Here's hopping I can find a job I like. Fat chance.

Who is camp for anyways?

So my first blog post is a complete rant. I have been a camp concilor for three summers and working at camp in various other capacities for an additional two full years. I am sure however that you don't need my experience to know that camp is for kids. I was out tonight playing a wide game for guys night and I experienced one of my greatest pet peevs; councilors arguing rules to get the advantage for their team! Hey guys grow up!!! We play the games to make sure the game is fair not to make our team win! What the heck, nobody is going to care or remember who won a meaningless wide game as long as they had fun but I absolutly gaurentee they'll remember the councilors arguing the whole time and the alegations of cheating. Do the words "integrity" and "selflessness" mean nothing to you? Tiff I know you're with me on this one but really I think all camp junkies should be on the same page; camp is for the kids. If you don't agree with me than you don't belong in this business. No that isn't short sighted arrogance, it's just simple truth. People who can focus there energy on the kids, people who enjoy spending time and doing things for their campers, they are the ones who will forever impact the lives of campers in a positive way. I have been too a camp where councilors weren't there for the campers and I hated it. I was eventualy convinced to go to another camp and those guys were all about us, always hanging with us and going the extra mile and it rocked. In fact it's what got me into camp counciling. I love what I do and I just want too keep camp for the kids, because for a lot of them we can make this the best part of their childhood.