Day What?

It's official. I have no calendar or concept of time. Today was my day off. It was kinda special and a big deal because the directors don't usually give a day off when campers are arriving that same day. I was able to this one and only time because a close family friend was preaching in Salem. I set my alarm with enough time for a decent shower and hair straighten, everything was going to plan until I slept through my alarm. This is pretty amazing because I have never done this before, in all the days I've been here I have not once slept through one alarm. On the day I have to drive 50 minutes and put effort into my appearance I do. Man! The devil is working hard to make my life a hard one, but he will not prevail. I took a quick shower (didn't get to straighten my hair) and made it to church (20 minutes late). The good part was I didn't miss the sermon and potluck was super good. Success.

The calendar part would come in handy because I am getting confused on how long campers are staying over. I guess it doesn't really matter because as long as campers are here I'll keep having fun with them and still have the wildest conversations. A calendar would still be nice because I had it in my head that campers would be here till Friday, but the campers we received today for camp are going home on Tuesday and we will get 2 new campers from Tuesday till Friday.

"What will they ever do with just 2 campers?" you say. Well it is a lot of fun. They just chill with the staff and we do a whole bunch of fun activities with them. For example, every camper gets to catch a fish. We have made a "pool" if you will, in the section of the stream along camp. The camp at the beginning of every summer has the "pool" stocked with trout. Once the fish is caught we kill it by thumping it on the head or sticking a knife into it's brains. Side note, I have never tried any of the previous mentioned methods of fish killing, but I did pass a dead fish to a camper on a paper towel. This experience was quite horrific for me and I hope to avoid it in the future. Some other more pleasant activities we do with the campers are sock puppets, Tye dye shirts, wind chimes, and my favorite bowling. We actually have real bowling pins and one real and one rubbery bowling ball. (I prefer the rubber one...less injury). Depending on the mobility level of the campers we do a nature hike and paddle boating/swimming. An activity that all the campers like to do is archery. Paper plates are used as target and before getting to shoot them up, campers get to paint their target how ever they want. At the end of the week we put together bags for each camper. The bags consist of all the crafts done that week, a frozen fish they caught, an archery target, and camp shirt. These little mementos might seem small and insignificant to the average person, but to these campers summer camp and the things and memories they make are the world. At the end of every week each camper has become a part of our world. A world in which God reigns supreme and we are all His beings.