not gone let it stress me no more.

Had my day off a couple days ago n went into Amherst and Northampton, as planned. We went to this awesome breakfast place where I tried vegan pancakes for the first time. They were amazzzing. I wanted to give my leftovers to this homeless guy on the corner, but he wasn't there when I went back :( We also we to a vegan bakery in Northampton called Evolution Cafe. I had this awesome double chocolate cupcake with chai icing. mmmmm. It was a total vegan day until I came back to camp and had a burger haha. The shops around these towns are so unique. None of these stores would stand a chance around us! Oh, and there's a Whole Foods and a Trader Joes a couple blocks from one another. and they're both less than 5 minutes away. I also bought the Dr. Horrible sing-along-blogs DVD :)

Yesterday wasn't nearly as good as my day off. It was a full day of working out and I stupidly decided that I didn't need to take my period off. So by the end of the night when I was supposed to be giving my all to my Indonesian soccer team, I was hurtin. I also realized that I wasn't in the best of moods, and neither was one of my campers. So I took her back to our suite and we talked for close to 2 hours. She talked about her family a lot, so by the time I sent her to bed I was feelin kinda homesick myself.

So I'm in a somewhat crappy mood thinking about how the people I want to talk to all the time, I don't. and the people who I thought wouldn't check up on me at all are constantly asking me how camp is going. And I know, phone works both ways, I can do the calling myself. but I don't know, the thoughts of not hearing from some was definitely not improving my mood. So I found Kiel Kim and Nick and we all got ice cream. And thennn I hooked myself up with a diet coke, and all was pretty right with the world again - just getting off camp for an hour really helped. the simple things in life..

This post doesn't have any real point to it. It's kindof just a reminder to myself that I don't want to let myself get in a bad mood around here. This is a great experience and I know it. so I'm gonna try real hard not to let anything get to me, from home or otherwise. I've got 7 weeks here to make a real difference for myself and a whole buncha rockin campers. keep shinin on.

xoxo

Workin at the CK Lounge

ooooof, camp is exhausting. these updates may go severely downhill as the days wear on. but it's still a lotta fun, my campers rock. Today one of our girls told me I was the weirdest person she knows. but also considers that a compliment, haha so do I. Another girl calls me "foe" because I'm apparently too skinny to be called a friend. Then I tackled her to the ground and told her I'm gonna make her love me.

pants-off dance-off tomorrow night!! Renee and I are using this sweet program she has to make a big 'ole 3 minute compilation of songs. And then we make up a routine and perform it tomorrow night. So far we've got Thriller, Hot n Cold, Right Stuff, Single Ladies, What is Love and Boom Boom Pow. Tomorrow night actually starts my official first day off, but there's no way I'm missin this dance-off. More explorin of Northampton probably on Thursday with Kim n Kiel!

mm, missin home already. go figure. but camp is great, and I'm pretty tough ;)

xoxo

Nice Bum, Where Ya From?

I'm totally diggin Massachusetts so far, and will be raving about it for the rest of this post. First of all, our camp is located on a total hippie campus. Apparently, the average Hampshire College student gets high at least twice a day. Which explains why things like "majors" and "grades" don't really apply here. The suites are pretty cool, I've got my own room and then we have a common room and a kitchen (that we can't use) downstairs. All the vegetables we eat are locally grown and instead of trashcans at lunch, we have a compost. But Hampshire is a private school and it costs somethin like 60 grand a year to go here. oooooof.

Best part of this campus? I'm a 5 minute walk from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. hell yes.
I was taken on a tour of Amherst and Northampton yesterday. Amherst was pretty cool. We went to this place called Crazy Noodles and I gotta Thai Iced Bubble Tea. dee-lish. thenn we went into Newbury Comics, which I've never heard of before but apparently they're all over the east coast. It's like a glorified toy/music store. I dig.

but ohhhemgee, I already want to live in Northampton. It's this cute city lined with a buncha small shops and boutiques. Unfortunately, everything closes pretty early, so I didn't get to explore a whole lot inside. I'm plannin on spending my next day off in Northampton and shopping my ass off! but anyway, we went out there for sushi, which was amazing as usual. And then we went to Herrel's for ice cream. I got Rum Cake Batter ice cream and it was like heaven in a cone, seriously.

basically, I'm still definitely loving it here. I'm overwhelmed by how much I want to do on my days off! The campers get here tomorrow. My division has the 16-17 year old girrrls. haha, we'll see how that goes!

xoxo

What's More Fun Than Puddles?

Just got done playing a hardcore game of volleyball in the rain. Even though I totally sucked it up, it was really fun. soo, yesterday and today have been a whole lotta training/information sessions that can get kinda boring. But then we throw in some unregulated team sports and the day gets exciting again. I've been doin some real runnin! finally. I even have my own personal cheerleaders that make me keep going. Meals are hysterical. There is this one girl, Renee, who has by FAR the best laugh on camp. and it's so freaking contagious. We went bowling last night and everyone said they were jealous of our lane cuz we look like we're havin so much GD fun. we are.

it's supposed to keep on rainin.. through tuesday =/ I should probably invest in some real rain gear. but uhhhm, not much else I suppose. Our first dance is tonight, campers on Sunday!

xoxo

Dear Blog,

I haven't kept a blog or a journal in a very long time so I am quite out of practice. But judging from the past two days, this summer is something I'm going to want to remember. I'm talking about camp of course. So I'm gonna document all of it! blog-style. I know it's only been a day and a half but I have loved every single minute of it so far. I'm in a division with 4 other counselors, 3 of which I clicked with almost immediately. From there out, I made an effort to meet everyone I saw, and have been doing a damn good job of it I think. I don't remember every name I was given, but the faces are familiar! Everyone is super nice and just about as eager and energetic as I am. Today my staff director was talking about the friendships that you form at camp and how "a day at camp is like a week." Not that camp drags on, but that spending a majority of your everyday with the same people really connects you with them. I can already feel how right she is. I hung out with people tonight and acted as if I'd known them for months. It's a good feeling, to say the least. Cheesy, I know.

I could bore you with how happy I am about the decision to come to camp out here on the east coast, but I would much rather my next 2 months of blogging do the speaking for me. Plus, I am not used to early mornings yet and must go to bed early. So I will watch some How I Met Your Mother and drift asleep. Sweet Dreams!

xoxo