Newness

So I'm going with a new layout for the blog to go along with the whole "new" theme I've got going on right now. I'm in Boston at the moment, moving into a new apartment, hopefully finding a job somewhere. It's pretty odd. I don't know how to describe the feeling. I think mostly I'm feeling a little bit "out of it" due to the red-eye flight last night and the lack of sleep. But it's also just weird to be back. It'll take a few days I think.

Trying to be profound

I feel like I should have something deep and meaningful to say about this summer, since it was (as this website has hopefully shown) a pretty cool summer. As I think I've shared before, my experiences as a camp counselor this summer were at once exciting, scary, enlightening, challenging, tedious, eye-opening, exhausting, and rewarding. I really feel that I learned some valuable lessons that were only possible in the camp environment. For example, I had the unique opportunity to work closely with with teens which really taught me a lot, though at times I wanted to pull my hair out. I got the chance to work as a team with with fellow counselors who offered me support and friendship, which I'm totally thankful for. Finally, (and I feel most importantly,) camp gave me a chance to have a lot of fun. I know that there's going to be "fun" out in the real world, but having a summer filled with an overload of activity every single day was definitely a good time. There's so much I could say about camp, but there's no good way to write it all down, so I'll leave it at that. This summer was a good time.

DONE.

So it's been a crazy week. And I should definitely mention my trip to Half Dome, but first, I just have to announce that IT'S ALL OVER. DONE. NO MORE. There's no next session, no next week, nothing.

But yeah, I got the chance to do Half Dome for the second time this summer with Dan, Peter, and Pete, friends from Tufts. It was a ton of fun, though pretty tiring. I think they enjoyed it too. And I'll leave it at that because I've got to go celebrate the end of camp with my counselor friends. (The owner's preparing steak and lobster for dinner....)

more insanity

So we had another Special Day on Saturday. And it was pretty nuts. In the morning we had Regatta Day, which was relatively tame. Each cabin made a "boat" out of cardboard boxes and duct tape, and in the afternoon everyone got to race the boats down at the lake (the regatta part of Regatta Day.) So it was fun, but nothing huge.

Things got pretty crazy after we put the rest of camp to bed. The CILTs transformed the dining hall into a pirate ship with treasure chests, cannons, parrots, treasure maps, and big signs that said "ARRRR!" At midnight we went around and woke all the campers up and brought them down to the dining hall for a big carnival. There was eye patch making, sword fighting, alligator wrestling, fishing, and of course tons of candy and ice cream (exactly what every camper needs at midnight.) It was a lot of fun, and all of camp is absolutely wrecked this morning. It's good that there are no more special days because I think staff is pretty much spent at this point.

Here we go. One more week.

zzzzzz

I woke up at 3:00 this morning to canoe for one of my camper while he swam the length of the lake. I'm really really tired.