Friday, April 29, 2005

Back from the Glen!
Quote of the day: "We're trying to make Humpty-dumpty a verb. Hey guys, let's go humpty-dumpty!"
-Chris (?), fellow counselor.

So yeah, I'm back. Poo-on-a-stick that most of my friends are on their way to Boston right now with the school band. Oh wells.

Anyway, my week at the Glen definetly had its ups and downs. The kids were nice, but there was so much DRAMA going on between girls in the class I was counseling. I also found out that fifth graders know a lot more nowadays than we ever did at that age.

The first day (Tuesday) it took us forever to unload the buses. These kids packed like they were going on vacation a week to Disney World! The kids I was assigned to look after during meal times at my table were an interesting bunch. There was Sam with his many scabs, Kimberly who didn't stop laughing unless she was tired, Darlene who was extremely attached to me, Sam and Erin who were attatched to each other at the hip, and cynical Chris. Cynical Chris was very interesting in that the first day we were there, he basically announced he hated everything. Until I started talking to him about videogames. Yeah. That really opened him up and I found out that he is a flippin genious! I had arguments with him about evolution and the big bang theory.

The counselors there were pretty nice. I mostly hung around with Ali, a tenth grader from Havre De Grace. I was the only one from Edgewood there, so I felt kinda left out coz most everyone else knew each other pretty well. There was funny Frank, whom the kids say they hated but he was super popular. Then there was Jen, who all the kids thought was going out with Frank. There was Chris or something who was a lesbian I think or something. Griffy, as I explained before, is the younger sister of Jake, my sis's ex boyfriend. She's pretty funny, but she called me Anastasia once on the first night (which is my sister's name). Ashely and Kate were attached at the hip and Amber was really good at taking charge along with Rachel and Rachel. Andrew was plain beautiful, but kinda quiet but I wasn't around him much since we were assigned to different classes. David was nice and sorta cute. He braces off today and I am soo jealous.

I had some homework time while I was there and my longest was around three to four hours long. I got some homework accomplished but definetly not all of it. During one of our homework times before the nightly campfire, we were trying to figure out a skit to do after the fifth graders did their skits at the campfire. Five minutes before the campfire, Ali remembered this nusery rhyme rap that she learned at a camp she went to. So we did that. The kids fell in love with it and we taught it to them Wednesday night. We also sung it for the parents on Parents Night Thursday night. I don't feel like typing the whole thing, but my friends at school will be hearing it from me excessively.

We did lots of fun activities like a four-mile hike, fishing in streams for bugs, and composting (which I got to miss because of homework time). Overall I had a pretty good time and I will be singing those camp songs we learned even when I'm senile and have forgotten my children's names (and I don't know if I still want to have children anymore! Those kids were evil durning bedtime!)

I'm going to miss everything though. The kids somewhat, but mostly the counselors I met because I realized that I'm probably never going to see them again. Which is probably why I started crying when I got home. Don't laugh at me! I'm a very emotional person.

So that's all I feel like typing now. I need a nap.
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