Thursday
30th June to Saturday 30th July
Halfway
through! So, we’ve just ended a 4 day
break which marks the halfway point for Summer Camp. Our last camp was the peewees (5-7yr
olds). They were adorable. And funnily enough we didn’t really have much
homesickness to deal with (in our cabin at least) or any wet beds, unlike other
weeks with older campers – interesting…
For
anyone interested, so far we’ve had:- Single
Mums (or Moms as the case may be ;P), 8-10 year olds, 9-11 year olds, 10-12
year olds and 5-7 year olds (although that included some 4 and 8 year olds
too).
Camp
is great. Stressful sometimes and
definitely full-on 24/7 with not really any time to oneself except one day off
a week to recharge the batteries for the next week ahead, but the kids are
great and the staff I’m working with are good, plus we have a roof over our
head and food in our stomach each day so no complaints here.
The
camp here is very activities-focussed so most of my week is spent either
assisting dance or up in a tree 30 or 60ft (that’s 10 or 20m for the metric
ones of you out there) off the ground sending kiddies off ziplines or around
the high ropes course we have here. I
LOVE being up on the 60ft zip! In
between groups you can just zone out the voices below and listen to the birds
chirping, the trees rustling and, more often than not, the pitter patter of
rain on the leaves – magic!
On
that note, yes it has been wet, VERY wet!
Until the 4 day break we’ve just had in which the sun has shone, or at
least attempted to, on all of those days, we didn’t think we were ever going to
get a summer. Even people’s vege gardens
aren’t growing due to the cold and the Snelgrove’s cherry tree is already
turning because it thinks it’s Autumn!
Our
final 3 weeks are tween and teen camps (11-13, 12-14 & 14-16) so please
pray for us in those; that the Lord will move mightily amongst these young ones
and they would come to know Him personally and/or grow in their walk with Him,
that they’ll have a blast doing all the activities, that all would be kept safe
(there’s been a few bears spotted recently in the woods where we have all the
high ropes activities) and that the sun would shine.
On
a completely different note, I’ve recently discovered that pilot training is
MUCH cheaper to do on this side of the world so who knows, I may be back here
sooner than I thought. For those of you
gasping right now don’t worry, I’ll definitely be home for a year or so first,
but may look at just doing my PPL and theory in NZ and then completing the
practical side of my CPL etc. elsewhere.
I’m
looking at travelling to Banff and Jasper National Parks once Summer Camp’s
over with so that’s something exciting to look forward to :)
Hope
you all are well and the year is going swimmingly for you – I think of you all
often.
Over
and out for now,
Love
and blessings to all who take the time to read,
Mel
