Hello
So I’m sorry I’ve been slacking on the blog posts. It has been pretty manic recently and with lots of other stuff 2 weeks has just flown by and before I know it it’s the last week of camp!
So since I last posted, my first week I spent in an adult male cabin. It was a great cabin that was pretty easy and had some real funny characters. On the Monday night though I got asked to move cabins into the one next door that was a lot tougher and really struggling. I was a bit gutted but it turned out not to be so bad. They had a lot of campers that just like to wander off. Especially ones in the wheelchairs funnily enough. You’d turn away for 30 seconds, turn back to find them rolling down the meadow! All fun.
That weekend was super fun too as the entire group of staff went pontooning. It had been booked for ages but cancelled because of the weather and now we finally got to do it. We initially split up between 4 boats and then tied ourselves together and hopped between them for about 6 hours. We bought loads of food and drink and it was cool to just jump into the lake when you feel like it or just mingle with everyone.
Last week was ok, I was the cabin leader for a girls kids cabin. All was going well, our nightmare one on one didn’t show up on Sunday, we only had 8 campers – life was great! However, on Monday she showed (in the end she wasn’t as bad as her application made out but I wouldn’t describe her as a bundle of joy either.) On Monday night I spent the whole night with a high temperature and the following day the nurse kept me in with a fever and I was too I’ll to be allowed to work. The next day I woke up not feeling great but ready attempt work again but lasted all of half an hour before needing to head back to the nurse again. Felt very guilty as my cabin only had 4 staff including me as it was and it was all a bit stressful. By Thursday it was all good though and I headed back to my cabin to finish the week.
On the Friday a few of the girls all headed out to this hibachi restaurant where the chefs kind of put on a performance and cook all the food elaborately in front of you. It tasted soooo good. After, we headed downtown to meet up with the rest of the group and had a good night there. Saturday morning was an early start as we were up at 8 ready to spend the whole day tubing. We split up into cars driven by Americans and drove about 30 minutes to the massive river. From there we got an American school bus to the top of the river (which burst its tyre and broke on the way!) where we start. We headed into our dingys with our coolers of food and alcohol and spent about 6 hours floating down stream! It was fun to be with everyone and just spend a day chilling.
Again I’m writing this on my night duty. Not feeling fantastic which isn’t helped by the fact that the staff on night duty last night got a solid total of 30 minutes sleep. Dreading it is an understatement. Oh well, final week and all…let’s see how it goes!* Scary to think it’s almost all over now – 9 weeks seem to have flown by!
Speak soon x
*just FYI, it was a terrible night as expected!
Abby Goes Travelling! 