My time in America (Originally posted on myspace blog)
# 12 Sep 2006
Water should be sold in cans!!!
Current mood:anxious
Where did I gain the idea that lies in my subject title?
Yes I'm back at uni! That means long periods without anything to do, extreme laziness and a dramatic lack of kitchen utensils.
To explain in further detail I've been at uni a matter of hours, went to the takeaway, bought myself a can of rio.
I become thirsty later, after a haul of boredaziness (boredem and laziness) during which Matt sent me a pictures across msn of a set of pillows in his room all because I couldn't be arsed to go see if they were mine...upstairs. After dragging myself away from the computer into the kitchen I found we have no cups whatsoever. So I filled my can of rio with water and discovered that an aluminium can delivers soft liquids at a very good consistency!
Awesome! Just don't know how hygenic it is to use as a glass forever.
On another note my first day at the third year of uni has been rather awesome!
We got here, to discovered we'd been robbed which we weren't too bothered about I suppose, G lost the most and has insurance so it's all fine and dandy.
But liek we'd been there an hour and already peopel were coming to say hi, so it was pretty cool.
Then ember met up with mike, ben and liam. Had a good chat over a beer and chilled with some pool. All good.
So now I'm in my room, my shit is everywhere, all still packed. At least I've got the esstentials out good and proper.
The computer is completely set up with internet and speakers running and the bed is made...ish.
But that's all that matters. For now, sleep because tomorrow I think I'm gonna move this bed and wardrobe around to see if I can make this room look bigger than it already is! whoop whoop!
2:29 AM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york day 2...or maybe 3....I can't rmeember.
No doubt my drunken post last nigth got out so I'll explain.
Last night w went out to a comedy club. Bought some tickets off a dude in times square.
Twas well funny. Because we were English we just got ripped on all night. It made it a lot funnier for us.
Plus they weren't IDing so we bought a couple of drinks. $330 worth however. Man it was crazy trying to get home lol.
In the end we had two being sick. Worst of all though is that we put one of our mates to bed cause he was wasted.
At around 2am he rolled out of bed into a randomers. Then got up, went to the door of our room and began pissing on our door. The toilet is down the corridor. By the time we all realised he was half-way through and I rmemeber saying "guys he's done the damage we might aswell let him carry on."
Twas well weird. But awesomely funny. He don't remember a thing. Our dorm room smells of piss though.
Today i've been at 5th ave trying to shop. The Apple store is awesome. But everywhere else sucks really. Suppose H&M is ok though.
We took our mates to go buy broadway tickets, I don't have enough moolah for that so we jsut went for the walk. What interested me and John was the New York Church Of Scientology opposite the ticket booth.
We decided to walk in and take the piss, but they got us back by making us sit through a 15minute presentation on their faith. Man was it funny!
But it was proper like a cult. Walking down a corridor, children being interviewed, strapped to machines that read theaton levels stuff. Fucking scarey, thought they were gonna brainwash us or something. However we decided to get out of there before it got too serious.
And now I'm back here, jsut chilling for a bit. Probably go catch a movie late. Wanna see invincible or CRank. Looks awesome.
Gotta go, my cafe time is running out!
9:50 PM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york day 2...or maybe 3....I can't rmeember.
No doubt my drunken post last nigth got out so I'll explain.
Last night w went out to a comedy club. Bought some tickets off a dude in times square.
Twas well funny. Because we were English we just got ripped on all night. It made it a lot funnier for us.
Plus they weren't IDing so we bought a couple of drinks. $330 worth however. Man it was crazy trying to get home lol.
In the end we had two being sick. Worst of all though is that we put one of our mates to bed cause he was wasted.
At around 2am he rolled out of bed into a randomers. Then got up, went to the door of our room and began pissing on our door. The toilet is down the corridor. By the time we all realised he was half-way through and I rmemeber saying "guys he's done the damage we might aswell let him carry on."
Twas well weird. But awesomely funny. He don't remember a thing. Our dorm room smells of piss though.
Today i've been at 5th ave trying to shop. The Apple store is awesome. But everywhere else sucks really. Suppose H&M is ok though.
We took our mates to go buy broadway tickets, I don't have enough moolah for that so we jsut went for the walk. What interested me and John was the New York Church Of Scientology opposite the ticket booth.
We decided to walk in and take the piss, but they got us back by making us sit through a 15minute presentation on their faith. Man was it funny!
But it was proper like a cult. Walking down a corridor, children being interviewed, strapped to machines that read theaton levels stuff. Fucking scarey, thought they were gonna brainwash us or something. However we decided to get out of there before it got too serious.
And now I'm back here, jsut chilling for a bit. Probably go catch a movie late. Wanna see invincible or CRank. Looks awesome.
Gotta go, my cafe time is running out!
9:50 PM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york comedy club
twas awesome-o
I'm very drunk right now and we've been sneaking into the hosdtel well drunk too.
we racked up a $330 biull on drinks tonight. people are puking everywhere it's so funny;
other thn that it was well cool.
the guys had a well good time and most of the acts were really funny; it wadn't proper comedy central though.It was very hbo/unoffcial, we were lied to a little bit me thinks, but it was all cool. a laugh.
right now I'm just walking around the hostel in search of someone to talk to, its so boring when not everyone can drnk and theres suvh strict rules.
i dunno prettu gay. but the night was spot on and I'm really getting used to the whole newyork thing. like navigating and stuff.
Tomorrow....I'm going to have a huge hangover. we'll see what I do :(
I rreLLY wanna shop but I think I'm down to my last 100 or so. which isn't good at all. not for 2 days.
Migght need a loner from someone.
whoop anyways I'm going to go run around some more. maybe even have a shower@ whoop whoppo
# 29 Aug 2006
OC and new york
I'm in new york right now.
been at ocean city for the past few days living it up on the beach having fun dodging waves and saving peoples lives (ill tell you about that if you ask)
yeah it was awesome but very expensive and I'm running so low on money now its unbelieveable.
ive been in new yorkfor two days now. yesterday we walked times square til 2am and today I've been there checking everything out again.
tonight were gonna see a comedy show for comedy central!
yes! I'm going to be in the audience for one of those stand up shows I've been watching all my life! whoop whhoppp
anyways gotta go, sherie is supposed to be in this hostel somewhere so I'm gonna go phone her seei f she's around.
# 19 Aug 2006
Almost over
Yep, it's nearly there. Only one week of mandatory summer camp left then I'm free to go!
But am I gonna go?
I've put my name down to continue working here for a family camp. I think it would be awesome to work that cuz it'd be so chilled and I'd get to spend a little more time taking in everything rather than being rushed every two minutes.
Sherie messaged me today though saying she's going on the 1st. That would be an awesome time to leave, and I'm gonna check my ticket to see what time my flight is, just to see if I'm on the same as hers.
Ohh decisions, decisions.
Well the past two weeks have been horiffic to be honest. Ghetto kids. Being sworn at every 5 seconds, being called "cracker" and "nigga" every 2 seconds sucks too. I dunno why, but I still like being here.
It seems that there is something a little more worthwhile coming out of this rather than just the simple money or the "experience". Oh and don't get me wrong either, it's definetly not about the kids!
I dunno, tis very stressful, and you feel like you're working out all the time...weird.
There have been a few counsellors leaving recently and thats pretty sad we'll see how it goes.
I'm just glad it's nearly over.
Dunno what I'm gonna do after however.
I'm completely institutionalised now.
I can't wake up later than 7:00am, even if I try.
Sucks balls. But hopefully I'll be going out and getting drunk tomorrow night after I work for some extra money intructing some low ropes.
Dunno how I'm feeling right now. I'm ready to go home, but if I go too early I'm gonna miss something. And if I go to late I could end up spending too much money and leave myself in the shit for uni.
Ok...I'll leave this with a few more pics....
Done.
# 23 Jul 2006
Half way
I'm pretty ill right now to be honest with you.
I've got like a cold or something. It sucks balls. It's mainly from exhaustion because the work here is really hard.
I get a max of 6 hours sleep per night because some kids will have been up and messing about etc. That's why I'm ill.
I've been working on improving the paintball course over the weekend, we managed to drag a sailing boat, a canoe, and loads of random boat pieces down there to make it better.
I'm also designing a few new games which is cool.
It's a pretty good job working on paintball, you get to be really creative whilst playing paintball. tis awesome.
The only bad thing about camp is the kids really. Saying something 10 times before they actually do it is really annoying!
But we're half way. 2 and a half more sessions to go and then...god knows what I'm going to do. Suppose I'll go back to uni or something.
Haven't really done much outside of camp to be honest. Infact all I've done is eat or buy clothes. Not the best thing in the world.
I don't crave alcohol anymore which is very weird, have to sort that out when I get back home.
Got a vid up of me going down the zipline, it's not completely awesome but it gives you an idea of what I do everyday lol.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Heres two pics taken by a guy from the washington post, proper pro pics, AWESOME. there's loads more but these two are the only two I could get to actually load because the computers here are so wank.
Random water fights are starting to happen a lot at camp.
Me carrying matt, a kid from my cabin session 2...pretty cool photo!
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# 8 Jul 2006
Awesome time?
Howdy ya'll.
Rigth now IU'm in a country inn.
We rented it last night so we could get drunk in it. First time I've tasted beer in a month, it was gorgeous.
To cut a long story short, I slept in the bath.
First session over and I don't know how I'm feeling. It was hard, really hard. By thew end of it all I wanted to strangle children. It was all good though because we've got a good work group where most help each other out when they need it.
But it was hard. There were many times where you consider just taking off and leaving. It makes me feel sick sometimes when I have to proper bitch on an 8 year old. I don't know what's stopping me. There's something, it's definetly not the kids, or the experience. I think it's just the place. Getting away, stuff like that.
Plus I played paintball every morning last week for three hours shooting kids I hated. It was awesome.But I can imagine that next session they're going to take it off me :(
I'm going to a baseball game later, that should be a good cool-down activity.
Anwyays, better fuck off.
# 25 Jun 2006
Washington DC continued!
whoop, got some more time free, tis 1:30am now and I've got a little bit of time to post.
Went to DC today, I only wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial and I got to go there so it's all good.
We were in the middle of a bomb scare though...
We decided to sit on a patch of grass beside the white hou7se and all of a sudden the police came and asked us if wed left a bag that wasn't too far away from us. Within minutes there were police cordoning off the area, kinda crapped myself, but managed to get some of it on film.
Decided I'm going to take a lot more videos than pictures. I think they tell a better tale. Gonna get a vid of going down the Zip line in my first ropes session...well hope so. Then maybe take it on the paintball course try to vid some action out there in the counsellor game.
The kids come monday, shitting it. Got my new cabin yesterday though, and it's sweeeet! best cabin on camp, with a balcony, carpet the lot.
Been staying there the past few days.
Everyone has gone out and got drunk again tonight. I was going to be I'm so knackered from walking around DC all day.
Had an awesome time though.
Other than that I can't wait to get into the routine of camp. The other day they gave a presentation on what could happen if we didn't do our job properly. It was basically to scare us. It did. Not the gory stuff wit hte kid drowning, but what could happen to us when soemthing accidental may happen. I think it's had a bit of a negetive effect on the camp and counsellor morale. Led to a few more arguments too.
Things are starting to get tense around here. It's building, everything is good right now, I mean really good, but I can see soem stuff blowing right up soon.
But yeah I'm feeling shit about campers coming, I dunno what I'd do if I was wrongly accused of being a paedophile, and I think that is what is on everyones minds at the moment. How easily stuff can go wrong, and they're losing faith in management because of it.
There is this lapse but I think it'll straighten out in the first week.
Another that's scaring me is these "definite firings" that are going to happen. I'm told that it's certain there are going to be people getting fired. I can't imagine anyone at the camp getting fired. They're all too skilled, nice and just generally great. I wouldn't want anyone to go and I can't imagine camp without every single person that is here now.
Everyone has their own little contribution, tis why we're working so well. If someone goes, I wouldn't blame the counsellor themself. If any of these guys gets fired it's going to be because something beyond their control completely fucks up for them. Which isn't fair.
And you can get fired at these places for an event that was completely out of your control. No one will say it in staff training. But it's gonna happen.
Images on Myspace blog
gotta go...
# 25 Jun 2006
Washington DC
Went to WAshington today...blah blah...it was cool, not got much time, heres some pics...
Images on myspace blog
# 17 Jun 2006
Certification over
I've finished all my activity training now.
Paintball yesterday was awesome. Training on how to ref and then whacking out a few games at the end. I'm reffing my first session today, some stag party or something. Still, should be good to get a bit of experience in that sort of area.
Other than that I've been lazing and chillin in the sun, it's an awesome place, really picturesque, well across the lake and there's a suprising amount of deer around...
I'm dying for a beer. Really craving. Just a taste would do me. Everyone else went out last night and had a good time on the piss, I staying in, wasn't particularly up for it.
Not taken many pics yet, everyone else is doing enough for me, but I hope to get a vid of going down the zipline within the next week, so if I can find a broadband connection I'll get that vid up here.
Sorry can't comment back to anyone. I've not really got much time to sit on this thing and/or I just really can't be bothered to chat backto any of you ;)
I'm only typing this really cause I'm a little bit homesick, but it don't matter, I'll get over it in a day or two.
Right, I gotta get something to eat some how, missed breakfast and I better get somethin in me before I start running around like an idiot.
2:18 PM
# 15 Jun 2006
Camp Letts
G'day all,
I'm here posting from the summer office in YMCA camp letts maryland.
Havin a fucking awesome time. Got certified in rope climbing today, that's awesome climbing about all day. I've got paintball training on friday and then Six flags amusement on sat. Then a week of cpr training etc and the kids come.
Shit scared of the kids, but I think it'll be ok. Met a lot of cool people who will help each other through it all.
I'm eating pretty healthy, gettin up at 7am goingt obed at 12, fucking cool!
Well that's about all I can say. Gotta be quick, think they're closing this place in second. But don't worry, there will be more detailed posts, with a lot of pics coming in the future.
I'm havin' an awesome time :D
3:45 AM
Water should be sold in cans!!!
Current mood:anxious
Where did I gain the idea that lies in my subject title?
Yes I'm back at uni! That means long periods without anything to do, extreme laziness and a dramatic lack of kitchen utensils.
To explain in further detail I've been at uni a matter of hours, went to the takeaway, bought myself a can of rio.
I become thirsty later, after a haul of boredaziness (boredem and laziness) during which Matt sent me a pictures across msn of a set of pillows in his room all because I couldn't be arsed to go see if they were mine...upstairs. After dragging myself away from the computer into the kitchen I found we have no cups whatsoever. So I filled my can of rio with water and discovered that an aluminium can delivers soft liquids at a very good consistency!
Awesome! Just don't know how hygenic it is to use as a glass forever.
On another note my first day at the third year of uni has been rather awesome!
We got here, to discovered we'd been robbed which we weren't too bothered about I suppose, G lost the most and has insurance so it's all fine and dandy.
But liek we'd been there an hour and already peopel were coming to say hi, so it was pretty cool.
Then ember met up with mike, ben and liam. Had a good chat over a beer and chilled with some pool. All good.
So now I'm in my room, my shit is everywhere, all still packed. At least I've got the esstentials out good and proper.
The computer is completely set up with internet and speakers running and the bed is made...ish.
But that's all that matters. For now, sleep because tomorrow I think I'm gonna move this bed and wardrobe around to see if I can make this room look bigger than it already is! whoop whoop!
2:29 AM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york day 2...or maybe 3....I can't rmeember.
No doubt my drunken post last nigth got out so I'll explain.
Last night w went out to a comedy club. Bought some tickets off a dude in times square.
Twas well funny. Because we were English we just got ripped on all night. It made it a lot funnier for us.
Plus they weren't IDing so we bought a couple of drinks. $330 worth however. Man it was crazy trying to get home lol.
In the end we had two being sick. Worst of all though is that we put one of our mates to bed cause he was wasted.
At around 2am he rolled out of bed into a randomers. Then got up, went to the door of our room and began pissing on our door. The toilet is down the corridor. By the time we all realised he was half-way through and I rmemeber saying "guys he's done the damage we might aswell let him carry on."
Twas well weird. But awesomely funny. He don't remember a thing. Our dorm room smells of piss though.
Today i've been at 5th ave trying to shop. The Apple store is awesome. But everywhere else sucks really. Suppose H&M is ok though.
We took our mates to go buy broadway tickets, I don't have enough moolah for that so we jsut went for the walk. What interested me and John was the New York Church Of Scientology opposite the ticket booth.
We decided to walk in and take the piss, but they got us back by making us sit through a 15minute presentation on their faith. Man was it funny!
But it was proper like a cult. Walking down a corridor, children being interviewed, strapped to machines that read theaton levels stuff. Fucking scarey, thought they were gonna brainwash us or something. However we decided to get out of there before it got too serious.
And now I'm back here, jsut chilling for a bit. Probably go catch a movie late. Wanna see invincible or CRank. Looks awesome.
Gotta go, my cafe time is running out!
9:50 PM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york day 2...or maybe 3....I can't rmeember.
No doubt my drunken post last nigth got out so I'll explain.
Last night w went out to a comedy club. Bought some tickets off a dude in times square.
Twas well funny. Because we were English we just got ripped on all night. It made it a lot funnier for us.
Plus they weren't IDing so we bought a couple of drinks. $330 worth however. Man it was crazy trying to get home lol.
In the end we had two being sick. Worst of all though is that we put one of our mates to bed cause he was wasted.
At around 2am he rolled out of bed into a randomers. Then got up, went to the door of our room and began pissing on our door. The toilet is down the corridor. By the time we all realised he was half-way through and I rmemeber saying "guys he's done the damage we might aswell let him carry on."
Twas well weird. But awesomely funny. He don't remember a thing. Our dorm room smells of piss though.
Today i've been at 5th ave trying to shop. The Apple store is awesome. But everywhere else sucks really. Suppose H&M is ok though.
We took our mates to go buy broadway tickets, I don't have enough moolah for that so we jsut went for the walk. What interested me and John was the New York Church Of Scientology opposite the ticket booth.
We decided to walk in and take the piss, but they got us back by making us sit through a 15minute presentation on their faith. Man was it funny!
But it was proper like a cult. Walking down a corridor, children being interviewed, strapped to machines that read theaton levels stuff. Fucking scarey, thought they were gonna brainwash us or something. However we decided to get out of there before it got too serious.
And now I'm back here, jsut chilling for a bit. Probably go catch a movie late. Wanna see invincible or CRank. Looks awesome.
Gotta go, my cafe time is running out!
9:50 PM
# 30 Aug 2006
New york comedy club
twas awesome-o
I'm very drunk right now and we've been sneaking into the hosdtel well drunk too.
we racked up a $330 biull on drinks tonight. people are puking everywhere it's so funny;
other thn that it was well cool.
the guys had a well good time and most of the acts were really funny; it wadn't proper comedy central though.It was very hbo/unoffcial, we were lied to a little bit me thinks, but it was all cool. a laugh.
right now I'm just walking around the hostel in search of someone to talk to, its so boring when not everyone can drnk and theres suvh strict rules.
i dunno prettu gay. but the night was spot on and I'm really getting used to the whole newyork thing. like navigating and stuff.
Tomorrow....I'm going to have a huge hangover. we'll see what I do :(
I rreLLY wanna shop but I think I'm down to my last 100 or so. which isn't good at all. not for 2 days.
Migght need a loner from someone.
whoop anyways I'm going to go run around some more. maybe even have a shower@ whoop whoppo
# 29 Aug 2006
OC and new york
I'm in new york right now.
been at ocean city for the past few days living it up on the beach having fun dodging waves and saving peoples lives (ill tell you about that if you ask)
yeah it was awesome but very expensive and I'm running so low on money now its unbelieveable.
ive been in new yorkfor two days now. yesterday we walked times square til 2am and today I've been there checking everything out again.
tonight were gonna see a comedy show for comedy central!
yes! I'm going to be in the audience for one of those stand up shows I've been watching all my life! whoop whhoppp
anyways gotta go, sherie is supposed to be in this hostel somewhere so I'm gonna go phone her seei f she's around.
# 19 Aug 2006
Almost over
Yep, it's nearly there. Only one week of mandatory summer camp left then I'm free to go!
But am I gonna go?
I've put my name down to continue working here for a family camp. I think it would be awesome to work that cuz it'd be so chilled and I'd get to spend a little more time taking in everything rather than being rushed every two minutes.
Sherie messaged me today though saying she's going on the 1st. That would be an awesome time to leave, and I'm gonna check my ticket to see what time my flight is, just to see if I'm on the same as hers.
Ohh decisions, decisions.
Well the past two weeks have been horiffic to be honest. Ghetto kids. Being sworn at every 5 seconds, being called "cracker" and "nigga" every 2 seconds sucks too. I dunno why, but I still like being here.
It seems that there is something a little more worthwhile coming out of this rather than just the simple money or the "experience". Oh and don't get me wrong either, it's definetly not about the kids!
I dunno, tis very stressful, and you feel like you're working out all the time...weird.
There have been a few counsellors leaving recently and thats pretty sad we'll see how it goes.
I'm just glad it's nearly over.
Dunno what I'm gonna do after however.
I'm completely institutionalised now.
I can't wake up later than 7:00am, even if I try.
Sucks balls. But hopefully I'll be going out and getting drunk tomorrow night after I work for some extra money intructing some low ropes.
Dunno how I'm feeling right now. I'm ready to go home, but if I go too early I'm gonna miss something. And if I go to late I could end up spending too much money and leave myself in the shit for uni.
Ok...I'll leave this with a few more pics....
Done.
# 23 Jul 2006
Half way
I'm pretty ill right now to be honest with you.
I've got like a cold or something. It sucks balls. It's mainly from exhaustion because the work here is really hard.
I get a max of 6 hours sleep per night because some kids will have been up and messing about etc. That's why I'm ill.
I've been working on improving the paintball course over the weekend, we managed to drag a sailing boat, a canoe, and loads of random boat pieces down there to make it better.
I'm also designing a few new games which is cool.
It's a pretty good job working on paintball, you get to be really creative whilst playing paintball. tis awesome.
The only bad thing about camp is the kids really. Saying something 10 times before they actually do it is really annoying!
But we're half way. 2 and a half more sessions to go and then...god knows what I'm going to do. Suppose I'll go back to uni or something.
Haven't really done much outside of camp to be honest. Infact all I've done is eat or buy clothes. Not the best thing in the world.
I don't crave alcohol anymore which is very weird, have to sort that out when I get back home.
Got a vid up of me going down the zipline, it's not completely awesome but it gives you an idea of what I do everyday lol.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Heres two pics taken by a guy from the washington post, proper pro pics, AWESOME. there's loads more but these two are the only two I could get to actually load because the computers here are so wank.
Random water fights are starting to happen a lot at camp.
Me carrying matt, a kid from my cabin session 2...pretty cool photo!
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# 8 Jul 2006
Awesome time?
Howdy ya'll.
Rigth now IU'm in a country inn.
We rented it last night so we could get drunk in it. First time I've tasted beer in a month, it was gorgeous.
To cut a long story short, I slept in the bath.
First session over and I don't know how I'm feeling. It was hard, really hard. By thew end of it all I wanted to strangle children. It was all good though because we've got a good work group where most help each other out when they need it.
But it was hard. There were many times where you consider just taking off and leaving. It makes me feel sick sometimes when I have to proper bitch on an 8 year old. I don't know what's stopping me. There's something, it's definetly not the kids, or the experience. I think it's just the place. Getting away, stuff like that.
Plus I played paintball every morning last week for three hours shooting kids I hated. It was awesome.But I can imagine that next session they're going to take it off me :(
I'm going to a baseball game later, that should be a good cool-down activity.
Anwyays, better fuck off.
# 25 Jun 2006
Washington DC continued!
whoop, got some more time free, tis 1:30am now and I've got a little bit of time to post.
Went to DC today, I only wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial and I got to go there so it's all good.
We were in the middle of a bomb scare though...
We decided to sit on a patch of grass beside the white hou7se and all of a sudden the police came and asked us if wed left a bag that wasn't too far away from us. Within minutes there were police cordoning off the area, kinda crapped myself, but managed to get some of it on film.
Decided I'm going to take a lot more videos than pictures. I think they tell a better tale. Gonna get a vid of going down the Zip line in my first ropes session...well hope so. Then maybe take it on the paintball course try to vid some action out there in the counsellor game.
The kids come monday, shitting it. Got my new cabin yesterday though, and it's sweeeet! best cabin on camp, with a balcony, carpet the lot.
Been staying there the past few days.
Everyone has gone out and got drunk again tonight. I was going to be I'm so knackered from walking around DC all day.
Had an awesome time though.
Other than that I can't wait to get into the routine of camp. The other day they gave a presentation on what could happen if we didn't do our job properly. It was basically to scare us. It did. Not the gory stuff wit hte kid drowning, but what could happen to us when soemthing accidental may happen. I think it's had a bit of a negetive effect on the camp and counsellor morale. Led to a few more arguments too.
Things are starting to get tense around here. It's building, everything is good right now, I mean really good, but I can see soem stuff blowing right up soon.
But yeah I'm feeling shit about campers coming, I dunno what I'd do if I was wrongly accused of being a paedophile, and I think that is what is on everyones minds at the moment. How easily stuff can go wrong, and they're losing faith in management because of it.
There is this lapse but I think it'll straighten out in the first week.
Another that's scaring me is these "definite firings" that are going to happen. I'm told that it's certain there are going to be people getting fired. I can't imagine anyone at the camp getting fired. They're all too skilled, nice and just generally great. I wouldn't want anyone to go and I can't imagine camp without every single person that is here now.
Everyone has their own little contribution, tis why we're working so well. If someone goes, I wouldn't blame the counsellor themself. If any of these guys gets fired it's going to be because something beyond their control completely fucks up for them. Which isn't fair.
And you can get fired at these places for an event that was completely out of your control. No one will say it in staff training. But it's gonna happen.
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gotta go...
# 25 Jun 2006
Washington DC
Went to WAshington today...blah blah...it was cool, not got much time, heres some pics...
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# 17 Jun 2006
Certification over
I've finished all my activity training now.
Paintball yesterday was awesome. Training on how to ref and then whacking out a few games at the end. I'm reffing my first session today, some stag party or something. Still, should be good to get a bit of experience in that sort of area.
Other than that I've been lazing and chillin in the sun, it's an awesome place, really picturesque, well across the lake and there's a suprising amount of deer around...
I'm dying for a beer. Really craving. Just a taste would do me. Everyone else went out last night and had a good time on the piss, I staying in, wasn't particularly up for it.
Not taken many pics yet, everyone else is doing enough for me, but I hope to get a vid of going down the zipline within the next week, so if I can find a broadband connection I'll get that vid up here.
Sorry can't comment back to anyone. I've not really got much time to sit on this thing and/or I just really can't be bothered to chat backto any of you ;)
I'm only typing this really cause I'm a little bit homesick, but it don't matter, I'll get over it in a day or two.
Right, I gotta get something to eat some how, missed breakfast and I better get somethin in me before I start running around like an idiot.
2:18 PM
# 15 Jun 2006
Camp Letts
G'day all,
I'm here posting from the summer office in YMCA camp letts maryland.
Havin a fucking awesome time. Got certified in rope climbing today, that's awesome climbing about all day. I've got paintball training on friday and then Six flags amusement on sat. Then a week of cpr training etc and the kids come.
Shit scared of the kids, but I think it'll be ok. Met a lot of cool people who will help each other through it all.
I'm eating pretty healthy, gettin up at 7am goingt obed at 12, fucking cool!
Well that's about all I can say. Gotta be quick, think they're closing this place in second. But don't worry, there will be more detailed posts, with a lot of pics coming in the future.
I'm havin' an awesome time :D
3:45 AM