January 6th
January 6th, 2004
So today we got to go on the ropes course in the morning again. It made me happy. I was TOTALLY in my element - learning new ideas that I can take with me, like the whole idea of the rope bucket. That is an EXCELLENT idea and I think that I would want to implement it for this summer. I also realized that I really DO know how to explain the full value contract without looking at a piece of paper. I did it today, and I really liked the explanation I gave. So this summer no more of that reading off of a paper thing. I really DO wish that we could get Gri-gris at camp. It would make things safer. But we work with what we can get I suppose. It’s really funny to me how much going through the training here makes me want to go back to camp this summer though. I think that’s really hilarious. Because I came here thinking that this was going to make me NOT want to go back this summer and instead it’s making me want to go back that much more. But we’ll see how I feel in a couple of months. I guess I really should talk to Kathie soon, though. But I want to talk to Sunshine first. Because maybe the whole talking to Kathie thing really isn’t even necessary?
The safety talk that we had today was just weird…It’s weird that I get excited about seeing that kind of stuff. But I still am thinking with a “firefighter/EMT mentality”. I look at the incidents and I look at the car wrecks and stuff and I think how they were similar to things we’ve done or how they would be fun to play with. But people around here just think that’s kinda weird. I guess that I would think it was kinda weird, too, if I hadn’t lived and breathed the fire dept. for a whole semester. See how things mess with your mind? I want to go back and play. It’s soooo ironic because before like November I wanted to LEAVE the station just as much as I now want to go back. Guess I just can’t ever be happy.
Mike was wearing a shirt that said “Scotland” today. It made me think of Jinx again. All the talk about camp, here, and all the stuff we’ve been doing in training here make me think of her, too, because it’s just like as if it were during pre-camp for Tohi again. It’s funny how similar training programs are…..TOHI PEOPLE, I MISS YOU!!!
We did a night hike tonight. It was really light out because the moon is still like full. But we did some neat things that I’d love to bring back and do on night hike programs around camp. We did something for each sense. We did a smelling sense game, where there were film containers filled with different things and we had to match up the scents with other people with the same one. Then we did hearing sense game where Mike had to say where he thought certain sounds were coming from - demonstrating that humans can’t really tell where sounds are coming from when they are at equal distances between our two ears. We did a “solo hike” which is kinda neat, but I guess that’s not the point of night-hikes to me. They stress the whole afraid of the dark thing, and I like night hikes to be more about learning about night life animals. Then we did that light thing and the lifesaver thing and we talked about a touch sense game where you identify objects by feeling them. Oh. And we did that marker game where you try to tell what color marker you have. I guessed red and mine was purple. Haha. And two people in our group couldn’t understand how we would know what color it was without keeping the marker. That was funny. I remember that I asked the same thing when Sweet Pea did that for the first time though. She laughed at me.
I have off tomorrow. I really want to find some time to order a router. I tried to tonight, but Diana needed the computer so I didn’t want to stay online. Blah. I hate sharing computers. It sucks. I’m suffering from internet withdrawal. I don’t know what to do when I have a limited amount of time online. Need to find solution. Yeah. Anyway….guess I’ll go to sleep now. Goodnight.
So today we got to go on the ropes course in the morning again. It made me happy. I was TOTALLY in my element - learning new ideas that I can take with me, like the whole idea of the rope bucket. That is an EXCELLENT idea and I think that I would want to implement it for this summer. I also realized that I really DO know how to explain the full value contract without looking at a piece of paper. I did it today, and I really liked the explanation I gave. So this summer no more of that reading off of a paper thing. I really DO wish that we could get Gri-gris at camp. It would make things safer. But we work with what we can get I suppose. It’s really funny to me how much going through the training here makes me want to go back to camp this summer though. I think that’s really hilarious. Because I came here thinking that this was going to make me NOT want to go back this summer and instead it’s making me want to go back that much more. But we’ll see how I feel in a couple of months. I guess I really should talk to Kathie soon, though. But I want to talk to Sunshine first. Because maybe the whole talking to Kathie thing really isn’t even necessary?
The safety talk that we had today was just weird…It’s weird that I get excited about seeing that kind of stuff. But I still am thinking with a “firefighter/EMT mentality”. I look at the incidents and I look at the car wrecks and stuff and I think how they were similar to things we’ve done or how they would be fun to play with. But people around here just think that’s kinda weird. I guess that I would think it was kinda weird, too, if I hadn’t lived and breathed the fire dept. for a whole semester. See how things mess with your mind? I want to go back and play. It’s soooo ironic because before like November I wanted to LEAVE the station just as much as I now want to go back. Guess I just can’t ever be happy.
Mike was wearing a shirt that said “Scotland” today. It made me think of Jinx again. All the talk about camp, here, and all the stuff we’ve been doing in training here make me think of her, too, because it’s just like as if it were during pre-camp for Tohi again. It’s funny how similar training programs are…..TOHI PEOPLE, I MISS YOU!!!
We did a night hike tonight. It was really light out because the moon is still like full. But we did some neat things that I’d love to bring back and do on night hike programs around camp. We did something for each sense. We did a smelling sense game, where there were film containers filled with different things and we had to match up the scents with other people with the same one. Then we did hearing sense game where Mike had to say where he thought certain sounds were coming from - demonstrating that humans can’t really tell where sounds are coming from when they are at equal distances between our two ears. We did a “solo hike” which is kinda neat, but I guess that’s not the point of night-hikes to me. They stress the whole afraid of the dark thing, and I like night hikes to be more about learning about night life animals. Then we did that light thing and the lifesaver thing and we talked about a touch sense game where you identify objects by feeling them. Oh. And we did that marker game where you try to tell what color marker you have. I guessed red and mine was purple. Haha. And two people in our group couldn’t understand how we would know what color it was without keeping the marker. That was funny. I remember that I asked the same thing when Sweet Pea did that for the first time though. She laughed at me.
I have off tomorrow. I really want to find some time to order a router. I tried to tonight, but Diana needed the computer so I didn’t want to stay online. Blah. I hate sharing computers. It sucks. I’m suffering from internet withdrawal. I don’t know what to do when I have a limited amount of time online. Need to find solution. Yeah. Anyway….guess I’ll go to sleep now. Goodnight.