Quick Update
Posted by Jackie , 04 August 2010 8:42 PM
I can't write to long tonight, since tomorrow morning I'm going to swim 3 miles in the local lake! Yep, you heard me. I will be up at 5:30 to swim at 6 from my camp to Harrison, the town on the other end of the lake, and back. I am special - and slightly crazy - in planning to swim both ways. The lake is only 1.25 miles, but accounting for all the weaving around the lake I'll do it's safer to call it 1.5 miles. I plan on swimming free style to Harrison, hoping to beat 45 minutes (my .5 mile time is 15:30), and to relax on my way back. I'll let you know how I do tomorrow afternoon/evening!
The past few days have gone by so quickly. On Sunday, my last full day off, I went to Kennebunkport, a town just south of Portland. It's basically the perfect coastal town that you would see on a postcard - quaint; nice, old homes; well kept; little beach with a few picturesque rocks sticking out of the surf. I got a few pictures of the Bush Compound (the H. W. Bush summer home), explored the beach, and took a two hour sunset cruise. It was a great way to spend the day.
The campers in my bunk have completely given up on bunk ordering in the past few days. They seem to think that since Ten Day Calendar (aka TDC from now on) started this morning, and since we are counting down the final days of camp, that cleaning the bunk doesn't matter this morning. Thankfully, it got so bad that one of the upper level directors had to make an announcement to the kids. Hopefully, they'll pick it up a little bit now, especially since Jess and I are making the girls clean during rest hour and 5:20 time if the campers' areas aren't clean enough.
The other big thing I've done recently was a bet I made with one of my campers. She bet me a WHOLE pack of the green trident layers (it's something like green apple and pineapple flavored - yum) that I couldn't go a whole day without saying the word "legit." It's not necessarily a good habit to say the word, as it lowers my vocabulary, but I use it nonetheless when I'm excited and want to get my point across quickly. It bothers the stuffing out of some of the girls in my bunk, though, which is why we made the bet. Thankfully, I won...it cost me all my wits to keep from saying the word, but somehow I prevailed! Haha.
As I said, TDC has started and there are new and special things going on every day. I'll keep you posted as we go along! (I can't believe it's only eight more days till I'm back in Illinois!!)
