For the longest time.....
Wow. It feels good to be home. I haven't updated in soo long because I haven't been home for soo long. Ok So I am a sort of Junior Councler deal at Tamarack. Teen Support/Service Staff, TSS for short. We have week rotations. I have been at camp for three weeks
Week One: Orientation week.
Aka week of hell. Seminars and lectures, group role playing, and boring shit. We had a cook out like every night, yay fake hot dogs with no buns. tst. OK The role playing included what to do if you walk in on a circle jerk, what to do if a boy has a girl in his bunk with her shirt off, etc etc. Wow. My Supervisor is really weird. His name is Dan and he is a former klepto who likes to play pranks and was ahuge troublemaker. I don't even know. Hes funny, but our personalities are soo different. He didn't get along with my old councler who i loved and who i was a lot alike. Oh well. He picked me to be in his group because he thought i was Canadian since my last name is very French Canadian. He puts the 'u' in on all the papers. Um my group had 13 people in it, Nick got fired this week for being an ass to Dan and for smoking and shit. So then there is Jason who i swear is afraid to admit he's gay, jack your radar would be BLARING, but hes nice, Jay is pretty cool, a little temper issue, i love the rachels, Mel is nice when she isn't around her other friends, Jordan ive known since my camp career, but i think he acts weird towards me, i dunno, um dimitry is hot when he doens't talk, but annoying when he does, Kuba and Chen are from Israel and they are really cool, so funny, though Chen can get kind of annoying, I like Jackie a lot shes fun, and Lauren who is sorta weird but nice. Ok so that the intro to camp, it sucked, i wanted to go home.
Week Two: Grand Resort
Or Isolation week. We were taken away from all the other TSS to go live in Cheboygan and work with little kids and families that payed waay too much to go to this crappy little camp where the director is a fucking psychopath. No seriously, this lady got up in the middle of meals and sung songs that were ridiculus and expected all of us to do them with her. Her Husband yelled at our Sup. every day for our supposed bad work even though we were doing what they wanted us to. I sat on the beach all day one day and got sooo burned on my boobs and shoulders, i couldn't even wear a shirt to bed. Then I had to sit in arts and crafts and do lanyards and beads with the kids. I had to follow arounds a 2 year old for hours while he played, he was so cute but still. There were too little girls who were already bratty and spoiled at ages 4 and 5. The 5 year old had a boyfriends there, and they would fight a lot, but kiss it was so cute. The parents all got drunk by the fireplace and fed us with good food they had brought up. It was a good week, but we missed our day off. So we went to Macinac instead. But they made us pay for our tickets over. 16.50. Holy piss. We might get half the money back. Rachel and I went around and we ate ice cream and went to all the stores and got the stickers they give you. Then my family took me and her out to eat that night when all the rest of them payed for their own pizza. We were told to work hard to get tips, but only 4 people got tips. Damn them. I got dinner though, so its ok. Ya. I dunno. Staff there was cool, there is soo much to say jeez...........
Week 3: Bunk Placement
Or my breakdown week. Ho hum. How the fuck to camp counclers do this?? The girls are cute, i was working with 9 and 10 year olds. But they are bratty. Very. They whine, they want to go home, they fake sick, they cry about other people crying and being loud, they scream, they refuse to do anything, they won't clean the bunk, they won't go to bed.....it never ends. Sigh, its supposed to be the most rewarding, but it is hard. I think i would like working with older kids...maybe. We'll see. But it was really just tiring and never ending. I needed my day off that i didn't get beforehand. So half wasy through we are told that next week is changing from something easy to something hard. I like freak out, cry, want to go home, don't think its worth it. Dan and i had a talk about everything, he agreed that it all sucked, but said i should stick around, have potential, all that crap. I just don't think 400 dollars is enough for this shit. I have double day off two weekends in a row though :).
So that is camp. It doesn't sound like i'm having fun. But my cabin is so amazing, we have fun, my friends are cool, love possiblity doesn't look good at the moment, but we will see. I have no idea what is going on at home though. Wow. And i haven't seem my sister in forever, her party was the last time i was home so we didn't really see all that much of each other. Its weird i miss my family. i miss my friends tons. I haven't seen matt in so long, haven't seen clio at all, haven't seen cait in too long, i miss steph at camp, haven't seen rayle, haven't seen court, saw mike for the first time tonight....Its crazy. Ok well this is too long so more to come on the weekends, sorry for the super long entry
Lis
Week One: Orientation week.
Aka week of hell. Seminars and lectures, group role playing, and boring shit. We had a cook out like every night, yay fake hot dogs with no buns. tst. OK The role playing included what to do if you walk in on a circle jerk, what to do if a boy has a girl in his bunk with her shirt off, etc etc. Wow. My Supervisor is really weird. His name is Dan and he is a former klepto who likes to play pranks and was ahuge troublemaker. I don't even know. Hes funny, but our personalities are soo different. He didn't get along with my old councler who i loved and who i was a lot alike. Oh well. He picked me to be in his group because he thought i was Canadian since my last name is very French Canadian. He puts the 'u' in on all the papers. Um my group had 13 people in it, Nick got fired this week for being an ass to Dan and for smoking and shit. So then there is Jason who i swear is afraid to admit he's gay, jack your radar would be BLARING, but hes nice, Jay is pretty cool, a little temper issue, i love the rachels, Mel is nice when she isn't around her other friends, Jordan ive known since my camp career, but i think he acts weird towards me, i dunno, um dimitry is hot when he doens't talk, but annoying when he does, Kuba and Chen are from Israel and they are really cool, so funny, though Chen can get kind of annoying, I like Jackie a lot shes fun, and Lauren who is sorta weird but nice. Ok so that the intro to camp, it sucked, i wanted to go home.
Week Two: Grand Resort
Or Isolation week. We were taken away from all the other TSS to go live in Cheboygan and work with little kids and families that payed waay too much to go to this crappy little camp where the director is a fucking psychopath. No seriously, this lady got up in the middle of meals and sung songs that were ridiculus and expected all of us to do them with her. Her Husband yelled at our Sup. every day for our supposed bad work even though we were doing what they wanted us to. I sat on the beach all day one day and got sooo burned on my boobs and shoulders, i couldn't even wear a shirt to bed. Then I had to sit in arts and crafts and do lanyards and beads with the kids. I had to follow arounds a 2 year old for hours while he played, he was so cute but still. There were too little girls who were already bratty and spoiled at ages 4 and 5. The 5 year old had a boyfriends there, and they would fight a lot, but kiss it was so cute. The parents all got drunk by the fireplace and fed us with good food they had brought up. It was a good week, but we missed our day off. So we went to Macinac instead. But they made us pay for our tickets over. 16.50. Holy piss. We might get half the money back. Rachel and I went around and we ate ice cream and went to all the stores and got the stickers they give you. Then my family took me and her out to eat that night when all the rest of them payed for their own pizza. We were told to work hard to get tips, but only 4 people got tips. Damn them. I got dinner though, so its ok. Ya. I dunno. Staff there was cool, there is soo much to say jeez...........
Week 3: Bunk Placement
Or my breakdown week. Ho hum. How the fuck to camp counclers do this?? The girls are cute, i was working with 9 and 10 year olds. But they are bratty. Very. They whine, they want to go home, they fake sick, they cry about other people crying and being loud, they scream, they refuse to do anything, they won't clean the bunk, they won't go to bed.....it never ends. Sigh, its supposed to be the most rewarding, but it is hard. I think i would like working with older kids...maybe. We'll see. But it was really just tiring and never ending. I needed my day off that i didn't get beforehand. So half wasy through we are told that next week is changing from something easy to something hard. I like freak out, cry, want to go home, don't think its worth it. Dan and i had a talk about everything, he agreed that it all sucked, but said i should stick around, have potential, all that crap. I just don't think 400 dollars is enough for this shit. I have double day off two weekends in a row though :).
So that is camp. It doesn't sound like i'm having fun. But my cabin is so amazing, we have fun, my friends are cool, love possiblity doesn't look good at the moment, but we will see. I have no idea what is going on at home though. Wow. And i haven't seem my sister in forever, her party was the last time i was home so we didn't really see all that much of each other. Its weird i miss my family. i miss my friends tons. I haven't seen matt in so long, haven't seen clio at all, haven't seen cait in too long, i miss steph at camp, haven't seen rayle, haven't seen court, saw mike for the first time tonight....Its crazy. Ok well this is too long so more to come on the weekends, sorry for the super long entry
Lis