.........Day 9, The kids have arrived!!!!

Hey all!!

This is going to be an epic post, I have so much to tell you!! The internet has been down for about 5 days (it stops working when it rains and has to be reset) so I havent had contact with the world! Its been stressful! Actually I havent really noticed coz its been so busy, did want to check the football scores though, the camps been going mad about that!! Sad news about losing to Germany, cant say any of us were surprised!!

Today is a pretty easy day for Music people, the kids are on callbacks for the dance show and various plays they auditioned for yesterday, so not many of them want lessons! Proper timetables start tomorrow so Im looking forward to that!! Ive been co-put in charge of evening activities as well so I get to do that at night, which is nice coz its kind of like being back at Stafford House! Except this stuff has more of a drama theme, last nights was 'Paperbag Dramatics' which involved getting a bag with 7 items in it and they have 5 minutes to create a skit out of it. Then during it we throw random items at them and they have to include them and they get points for how well they do. The kids are scary amazing at it and dont even blink, last night was so much fun!!

Was very glad when the kids arrived, mostly because it meant we could stop having 'trainings' about when the kids arrive!! As funny as Geoff (my boss) is with the millions of camp anecdotes he has, it got to a point on Saturday where I literally couldnt take on any more new information and switched off. It all seems to be going ok though, no major disasters yet!! There are twelve 12 year olds in my bunk, which sounds like a nightmare but actually theyre all really good kids! And they sleep which is great coz although my body is adjusting to how long its awake during the day it really isnt ready to lose any more sleep!! I decided to go sleepwalking the other nigh, I woke up by the front door of my bunk carrying my blanket wondering how and why I was there! All very odd, it hasnt happened again since though thank god, coz that would really freak the kids out!!

The weather here is insanely schizophrenic, it can go from gorgeously hot and sunny to a total downpour within 5 minutes. I did wake up to the most amazing thunderstorm over the lake the other day though, it was actually beautiful! We've had one full day of sunshine since Ive been here, which I spent inside painting! I have wooden shack that I teach in and it was boring and plain when I got here, its now a lovely yellow and white colour with tie dye sheet coverings! Its immense, and as soon as I work out how to, Ill get the pictures up. I cant wait to start teaching, we had orientation day yesterday where we had to introduce ourselves and play something (I played the damn triplets from the Beethoven, not particularly well lol but from memory so not too bad!!). I did however miss most of the day though as I was out checking out the surrounding areas medical services! Thats right, its taken me a good week, but Ive finally injured myself!! Woop!! I was walking down some steps and slipped and kicked a golf cart thing that the directors use to drive around camp, and as I was in flip flops I came off the worse!! The nurses thought it was broken so sent me to the doctor, but lots of driving (we're in the middle of nowhere!) and millions of x-rays later (they thought I had metal embedded in my toe, turned out to be a glitch on the machine, flipping radiographers freaking me out (sorry Becca!)) it turns out its not broken, Ive just jammed the joint. Which is as pleasant as it sounds! Its so insanely painful its ridiculous, its hideously bruised and swollen and means I cant wear my new wellies (if the damn things ever show up!) It should heal in a few weeks, once the swelling goes down it should un-jam itself, the doctor offered to do it manually for me but it was politely explained to him that if he pulled my bruised toe Id kick him in the head so he said we'd wait!! I go back Friday so will let you know!! :)

The food here is still great, I got another (belated) birthday cake today which was AMAZING!!! it was 2 giant brownies with milk and white chocolate sauce in the middle with cheesecake flavoured 'frosting'. It was unbelievably good!! We also had a BBQ the other day with corn on the cob still in the husks, which was by far the best corn ever! I will say though, Sloppy Joes are as disgusting as they sound, luckily theyre chilli so I had an excuse not to eat them!! Oh and the American version of Walkers have the green and blue flavours the opposite way around which was very disappointing! :(

Went out on a random boat trip the other day, the owner was going out and rescued me and Joy (the piano teacher) from sweeping to go to! We went for miles, and he showed us Sigourney Weaver's house (apparently her daughter works in town) as well as the best house ever that was on an island surrounded by trees, but up on a hill so to get from the boat dock to the house there was a train!!! Oh to have that kind of money!! We found the end of the lake and he told us that it goes for 75 miles north and east before you so much as meet a road, its that remote up here!!

Its not just the campers who are talented, the staff are a bit mad too!! As part of my new evening activities job I co-hosted the staff talent night on Saturday and its amazing what people can do! The tennis guy is amazing at the cello and my co-counsellor in the bunk is the third best in Sweden at jump-rope (skipping!) Shes going to teach me to double dutch when I can walk again which is something Ive wanted to do for years so yay!! Helen (the girl who got me the job) sang Daddy's Son from Ragtime, which annoyingly choked me up again, I even knew it was coming this time!!

Spent last night on the phone catching up with England, was good to say hi and thank you to everyone who stayed up and talked to me at stupid o'clock in the morning, Ill try not to do it again! Good gossip all round haha and I miss everyone!! Orange performed a MIRACLE and actually did as I asked them first time, so my UK phone is now suspended so my US one is the one to contact me on: 001-801-389-3817. The signals pretty dodgy here but Ill get back to you ASAP if you text!! Hope you're all ok, email, facebook or text anytime you feel like it and Ill get back to you as soon as I can!!

Loves!! xxxx