Camp Camp Camp
Came back from camp yesterday. It was pretty awesome.
This year was my first time leading summer camp. I lead with Amber, someone I did the internship program with last year. I was leading a 14-15yo group and they got side-tracked and off topic really really quickly. But they were still pretty cool.
It's probably my fault though. I really didn't want to be one of those super uncool, boring, uninterested cabin leaders who just tells you what to do, to sleep, to turn off the lights, to stop talking, to get up, to go to breakfast etc. But I realised what I was doing was pretty unloving. To the camp parent. Since it's the camp parent's job to get everyone sleeping on time, to breakfast on time, to activities on time etc. So he was just doing his job but I was making it hard for him. Next time I lead on camp I'll try to find a better balance.
I was pretty lucky to be put in Acacia again this year. It's usually the building reserved for the interns. It's a new building (in comparison) and the facilities are wonderful. It even has it's own wifi hotspot. But it was ridiculous cuz for some reason I couldn't access the wifi from my room. I also couldn't get reception meaning I couldn't even revert to using 3G. So that was pretty crap.
Also I've noticed a chindogu from the cabin I stayed in. Automatic sensor lights. The cabin we stayed at had automatic cabin lights for the toilet and shower (two separate rooms with two separate doors). I've come to discover that automatic lights are more annoying than they are convenient. There was this time when I wanted to close the shower door before going to sleep. The light was off but as soon as I closed the door, the light came on. And the timeout for these lights to turn off were ridiculously long. Like we were trying to sleep but the light from the shower and toilets were still on and wouldn't shut off for like another 20 minutes or so. Even if we closed the door the light managed to seep through. The dining hall toilets were kinda the opposite though. The timeout is ridiculously short. I will sit down to do a number 2 but then within like 2 minutes the light goes off. So then I have to stand up in the dark with my pants down and wave my arms around before the light turns on again. Rinse and repeat like 5 times. So even though these lights are designed to be energy saving or something they honestly seem to consume more power and energy than they save.
My camp crush wasn't at camp this year. I was pretty sad. I swear I'm like the most loyal camp crusher ever. But if my camp crush isn't at camp, is she still a camp crush? Hmm. I looked forward to playing card games with her on beach day but couldn't. :(
Speaking of beach day, this year on beach day it rained. Like really really heavily. It hailed too. Everyone got absolutely drenched. The clouds covered the sky and didn't look like they were disappearing any time soon. But I prayed really hard that God would clear the skies and calm the storm, like he did when Jonah was on the boat (we're studying Jonah this year at camp). I had faith and was confident that God would do it. Nothing really happened for 5 to 10 minutes. In fact it probably rained even harder. But after that the clouds slowly cleared and a rainbow appeared. The rain stopped and the sun came out. God is good. God is really good. He is awesome.
Also the music team was excellent this year and the variety of songs was much better than one of the previous years where I swear there was like a total of 5 songs on rotation throughout the entire camp meaning we sang like the same song 3 times in a day or something. The tech team clearly needed some help though cuz there were mics not working and sound not working and lyrics disappearing or not appearing or just slow. Also Andy Murray wasn't here this year so the day recap videos weren't all that great and well stitched together.
Oh and I was also a little disappointed that we only had hash browns for breakfast once in the entire camp.
But all in all, camp was quite fantastic. :)