Ohio!

Session one is done!!!  I can't believe that one seventh of my summer is over.  I've been at camp for four weeks! It does not feel like it's been that long at all!  We had two weeks of training, then ten days of campers.  Even though this camp is now a bilingual camp, the first session was kids from the States, so it was all English kids.  They were some of the sweetest kids I've ever met!  My group was the oldest girls, four of five of them were thirteen, and the fifth girl is turning thirteen in September.  I absolutely loved them with all my heart!  Saying goodbye to them was the hardest thing I've ever done.  This is my fourth summer working at a residential camp and this is the first time I've ever cried saying bye to campers.  I've been sad, but I've never cried.  I am actually going to miss them so much.  They've all  promised me they were going to write me at camp this summer, and hopefully we'll stay in touch for a long time.  A couple of the girls told me that my co, Shine*, and I were like their second moms.  Does that not break your heart?!  One of the sweetest things anyone has ever told me!  I love my job!

So Thursday, I got to go to Columbus, Ohio to escort a bunch of the kids home and it was actually a lot of fun!  It was my first time being in Ohio, and even though we didn't get to see much, it was still fun.  We left camp at 6:45 Thursday morning, went to the Halifax airport, flew from Halifax to Toronto, nearly missed our flight, flew from Toronto to Columbus on the smallest plane in the world.  Then we took a bus to get the kids back home, then went back to the hotel.  We got there around seven at night, and I was way too tired to even do anything.  Then we left the next morning at 10:30, flew from Columbus to Toronto, had a couple hours in the Toronto airport, where I spent way too much money (but I got paid yesterday, so whatever).  Then we flew from Toronto to Halifax, and drove back to camp.  I don't think I have ever been so tired in my life.  It's not like we were doing anything extremely tiring. but traveling so much in such a short time does drain you.  Four airplanes in two days?!  Exhausting!!

So session two starts tomorrow!  I'm pretty stoked, I think I've got a pretty good group of girls, and my co, Whisper*, seems pretty good.  She's not much of a leader, from what I can tell, but I'm really a leader, so I feel like we'll balance each other out.

Days until Canada Day: 12
Books read this summer: 28

love <3

*We have camp names at this camp.  Mine is Boomer...because I'm loud! :)

Camp Day!

I don't know how many people know this, but this summer I am working with the Tim Horton Children's Foundation as a camp counsellor at one of their camps.  So today was the annual Camp Day, where sales from every single coffee sold at every single Tim Hortons in the world go towards the foundation, to help send kids to camp.  Because we're working for the foundation, all the counsellors spent today going to various Tim Hortons stores and trying to encourage people to buy a coffee and/or make a donation.  My group made it to four different stores over the course of the day.  In the morning it was really cold, but then it warmed up nicely and ended up being really sunny.  I actually had so much fun today!  I got to stand on the side of the road, wave posters, scream, and try to get people to come to the store.  I got really into it, I'm not going to lie.  It was a really good day. :)

Books read this year: 25

love <3

P.S.  I don't have a lot of computer time, as there are at least twenty other people who need to use this computer.  This means that I don't have time to write all about the week that I've been here.  I will tell you that I am having the time of my life, and I could not be happier.  When I have a chance, I will give you more detail, I promise!!