Hey, guess what? I'm employed again. I know, right! I'm impressed too.
But anyway, not much to report. I had a very nice little 'Ah, young person' moment. Which, once again, is an 'I know right! kind of thing' seeing as I am, you know, a young person.
Ok, in real time. So I'm watching so you think you can dance and Gah! I can't take the crying and the sob stories. And!!! my friends just called and serenaded me to 'love story' through the phone (I'm not sure if that's a sentence).
So we all went over to our friend Evo's house and watched movies and had a drunked stumble to the 7-11 to buy noodles because they're cheap and we're poor uni students. Then, in the morning we had a usual maccas run. And then played monopoly deal in the pool. with typical resulting shenanigans. There were quite a few soaking cards at the end. It's odd though, from a female perspective as we're all campers and it's the first time in a while we've been swimming outside a 'must keep children alive' setting and all the girls still wore shirts and shorts in the pool, the fact that none of us brought togs may be the reason for that but still.
I have induction tomorrow. I think it will be fun.
And I'm reading 'Sacred Scars' by Kathleen Duey and it's insanely well written. I'm hopeful. Must read the first in the series though.
Until next time
Katherine
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
we've got to work, work, work it out
Hey, look. No not there. Here! It's a blog post. I know, I'm excited too.
I've just come back, and by just I mean 2:30 Saturday morning, so not really just, from two weeks of camp. The 11-13yrs trad camp which I captained and the 14-16yrs Hybrid where I big buddied. I don't want to say too much here because it seems too much like a debrief journal and all the let's express-our-feelings-ness which I'm programed as a young person to be a little weary about.
But I might list a few favourite moments in no particular order.
1) The time when all our boys where asleep!!!! This did not happen all camp. It was the last night and most of the boys hadn't slept much all week. We'd strategically planned bed time and after playing sleeping soldiers for about an hour and a half. They were all asleep. It ended with a three person, group, jump hug, quickly followed by racing my co-captain to the shower, which, being a boy, he let me go first.
2) Speaking of which, this was the day I let the buddies paint people's hair using *shudders* acrylic paint. We were using the poster paint in another activity. I let two groups paint hair before some told be that wasn't the greatest idea, my bad. (this is probably not a fav moment, but seriously some of the girls looked pretty, very avatar-esk, and one of the boys who refused to engage with his buddy, well, engaged with his buddy, saying he was putting red on her face (cause they were in red team) when he was really putting yellow, well played little dude).
3) One of the boys telling his big buddy that he was his best friend after telling him he didn't have any at school.
4) Smiling at a quite girl and having her smile back
5) All of red team (the rowdy, all boy, team) sitting down quietly making maps. Our theme was uncharted, which was a generic, adventure, explorer kind of theme, so it wasn't just randomly, let's make some maps.
6) Having a girl, find it hilarious to put disgusting stuff all over my face; cake icing anyone? Watermelon? Cicada shells (ok technically that was my hair). Going to the pool with green marker covering my arms, legs and face. Ninja Nerd!
7) Having a girl let me play around with her wheelchair and find it hilarious when one of the boys pretended to drop me from the wheely position. it's terrifying!
8) earning a girls trust when it was not easily given.
Ok, that last one was a little bit reflective. I think that's the indicator that I should leave it as that.
Until next time.
Katherine
Oh, also, is there nothing more adorable that a guy pushing a tiny girl around in a wheelchair? That would be a guy pushing a girl around in a wheelchair for a touch football game, with all the guys on the field cheering her on and the other side letting her score. twice!
I've just come back, and by just I mean 2:30 Saturday morning, so not really just, from two weeks of camp. The 11-13yrs trad camp which I captained and the 14-16yrs Hybrid where I big buddied. I don't want to say too much here because it seems too much like a debrief journal and all the let's express-our-feelings-ness which I'm programed as a young person to be a little weary about.
But I might list a few favourite moments in no particular order.
1) The time when all our boys where asleep!!!! This did not happen all camp. It was the last night and most of the boys hadn't slept much all week. We'd strategically planned bed time and after playing sleeping soldiers for about an hour and a half. They were all asleep. It ended with a three person, group, jump hug, quickly followed by racing my co-captain to the shower, which, being a boy, he let me go first.
2) Speaking of which, this was the day I let the buddies paint people's hair using *shudders* acrylic paint. We were using the poster paint in another activity. I let two groups paint hair before some told be that wasn't the greatest idea, my bad. (this is probably not a fav moment, but seriously some of the girls looked pretty, very avatar-esk, and one of the boys who refused to engage with his buddy, well, engaged with his buddy, saying he was putting red on her face (cause they were in red team) when he was really putting yellow, well played little dude).
3) One of the boys telling his big buddy that he was his best friend after telling him he didn't have any at school.
4) Smiling at a quite girl and having her smile back
5) All of red team (the rowdy, all boy, team) sitting down quietly making maps. Our theme was uncharted, which was a generic, adventure, explorer kind of theme, so it wasn't just randomly, let's make some maps.
6) Having a girl, find it hilarious to put disgusting stuff all over my face; cake icing anyone? Watermelon? Cicada shells (ok technically that was my hair). Going to the pool with green marker covering my arms, legs and face. Ninja Nerd!
7) Having a girl let me play around with her wheelchair and find it hilarious when one of the boys pretended to drop me from the wheely position. it's terrifying!
8) earning a girls trust when it was not easily given.
Ok, that last one was a little bit reflective. I think that's the indicator that I should leave it as that.
Until next time.
Katherine
Oh, also, is there nothing more adorable that a guy pushing a tiny girl around in a wheelchair? That would be a guy pushing a girl around in a wheelchair for a touch football game, with all the guys on the field cheering her on and the other side letting her score. twice!
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