The end of my first session

Wowzers... TGIF! This week has been full of surprises, but unfortunately last night I got sick and had to leave camp early today.

Time to recap!

Wednesday: Chaos!

For the first part of Wednesday, Camp 2 participated in "Chaos" - exactly what it sounds like. There were 6 stations set up on one of the playing fields, 1 being the closest and 6 being the furthest. My huddle (Huddle 8) was blue and we named ourselves the Blue Jays. There was a competition amongst the huddles and whoever won could make their counselor "walk the plank." To win, each huddle had to finish the activity at every station, after rolling a die to see which station to go to. That is definitely where they got the term chaos from... constantly running from a station to the picnic table, then rolling the die only to run BACK to another station! It was fun though. We didn't end up winning, but I got to paint everyone blue :P

Another highlight was seeing Andrew being made into a sundae. One of the stations required turning a counselor into a human sundae teehee

There's a portion of the day called 'choices,' where the kids choose what activity they want to do. I normally go to art (Go figure) and never do archery. However, my huddle had the chance to go to archery AND I got to go to art later, so I finally did archery lol. My mom bugged me all summer last year about doing it, so now I've done it!

Thursday: Circus Day

Everyone was supposed to come to camp dressed up like something/someone from the circus and there were special circus-themed activities for the campers that day. I didn't want to be a clown, so I settled for a mime... a sad mime lol. I had gotten face paint the day before so I could paint campers for Chaos, so I had appropriate face paint to become a mime. Although Carole and I stayed up late trying on makeup and playing with my new suspenders, I didn't do the FULL mime makeup (because I terrified myself in the mirror) and decided against the suspenders.

At first I was worried I'd look like a doofus (I know, stupid right? Everyone always goes all out :]) but I really loved everyone's costumes. There were a lot of mimes, lions, tigers, ringmasters, clowns, and one kid in our huddle was a bearded lady. During morning assembly, we were told that there were special stations available that day. I was curious to see what the campers would be doing!

Our first station was playing gladiator. You know, like American gladiators. There were pillow sticks (I know that's the wrong name for them. They're pillow something!) that the kids had to use to knock each other off the bench they were standing on. It was hysterical to see the kids battle each other, then battle counselors! They wanted to make sure everyone got to do it before the kids did it twice, so they made me battle our cilt, Lauren. I guess she thought I'd go easy on her, because she fell off right away. She wanted a rematch, but I was victorious once again :]

The next station was a water balloon toss. There was an odd number so I sat out and tried to capture the perfect water balloon toss picture lol

The last station was juggling. I was intimidated already and just watched for a little bit while Cameron explained the basics. I didn't want to sit there and do nothing, so I grabbed the scarves they were using and tried to juggle myself. I got the first basic throws, but I didn't know how to fluently juggle. Lauren and I both tried, but we just laughed at each other and ourselves because we looked ridiculous! We were dropping scarves left and right.

THEN something clicked... I started to juggle. I screamed "OMG LAUREN I'M DOING IT!" and she looked over. We started cracking up again because I suddenly was juggling, though quite badly. I had her take a video of me doing it, SO THERE'S EVIDENCE! I'll post it in a later entry :]

After lunch and during choices, it was nice getting to talk to a couple counselors and cilts I hadn't gotten to know yet. Spiro and I got into an ink/water color fight, Alex and I talked about The Beatles, Ryan and I talked about our artwork (he has yet to send it to me!) and Erin gave me some tips on my new major. They all asked me why I wasn't a counselor and I explained. It's really strange for me to be a volunteer and be so old... it's kind of funny watching everyone's reactions though.

On a totally random, non-camp related note, Carole and I tried eating a cactus pear... DON'T BUY THEM.

Anywayssss

I think that's it.

I'm still not feeling well - I feel kind of nauseous still, but the headache and dizziness are gone. In a little bit I have to get ready for a "date" LOL. It's totally not what you're thinking... but a select few know the absolute significance of me going out with these two amazing people tonight!

Tomorrow we're taking a trolley tour of Raleigh, so I'm sure I'll have something interesting to say tomorrow!

Until then,

xoxo