In all fairness I should start with Planetarium stuff to explain the title but first, picture this:

In the woods. Thirty-six kids running around. Counsellors cooking burgers and entertaining the kids. And one lone kid... taking a dump in plain sight. YES. That actually happened last night! Apparently he decided that there were too many spiders in the outhouse build for that purpose and so it was much more hygenic to POO IN THE FOREST!! And then he didnt even cover it up. HE just walked away and left it! I laughed until I nearly cried because it was one of the most disgusting, most stupid things I have ever seen. Ew. That is all I can say on the matter now. Ew. (Hahahahaha - still makes me laugh. He was loudly telling everyone about it too!!! And the kids all went to look!! I just didnt know what to do or say!!)

But okay, the Planetarium was funnier tho. Because first we entered a darkened room, to find ourselves subjected to eeiry music from the 1920s (when, as we soon discovered, our host must have been born!). The kids all sat down in these leaned back chairs and stared at the ceiling, which was dome with stars projected onto it. This would have been nice. Except that that things started to go wrong. The first time I laughed was when the man could not find the sun. He had to rewind the projector to find it. Then he lost the moon. So the 'eclipse' was delayed by about a minute whilst he had to 'find' the moon. I kept trying to laugh quietly.

THEN the guys showed us a movie that he thought we would all find "really interesting". Except that if you only project it onto one side of the dome, the other side (ours) is left twisting upside down to try and see it. But we swiftly realised we shouldn't bother because the video was aimed at six year olds, read out by ANOTHER old guy! (Maybe our host's best friend.) THEN he played an interesting video but this was spoilt by the fact that it ended before the actual ending. Another equipment malfunction.

Basically I just spent the whole time laughing and thinking it really was unfair to make a guy that old learn how to use a computer. At least he had breaks inbetween every time he told us to just sit back and watch the stars (heeheehee). It was HILARIOUS.

And speaking of hilarious, me and Aaron left Peter on his own with his six kids for the first time yesterday. His kids rioted. I laughed. But seriously, our six kids are good as gold, the other side runs riot and me & Aaron are the only ones dealing with it right now. But tonightr *oh joy of joys* WE BOTH HAVE THE NIGHT OFF!! So Sicky and Peter are gonna have to go solo!! AWESOME!! :D I hope they are still awake when I get back. I want it to be that back with them, just so they see how hard Aaron especially is working. Cause it's getting a bit ridiculous right now.

But since the sun is out and the kids are sweating on a hike whilst I enjoy the library's air conditioning.... Life is Good :)

Yesterday a woman at the laundrette told me that I should model because I had a "cute little body" and my face "wasn't bad either".

I take that as a sign that I should stop listening to old women in small towns. And also on the subject of listening to people: NOTHING CAN BE KEPT A SECRET AT CAMP! I havent told anyone at camp that I might be up for promotion. And recently I have found out that doesnt even matter. Everyone basically knows already. About 90% of them knew ages before I even found out. I shall repeat this wisdom for anyone who might not have understood this the first time: NOTHING CAN BE KEPT A SECRET AT CAMP!!

It makes me laugh and want to kick people at the same time.

Oooh speaking of violence, someone got Hitting-Kid-Disease in our village and got FIRED! I mean seriously, how hard is it to NOT hit someone?? So as a result, the five-counsellor situation we had going on in our cabin has ended and we are back to having four of us, two of whom do their best to do Nothing that could constitute work.

This is just a quick blog entry but it is like the teaser entry. Tune in next time to see how the other counsellors in my cabin can cope WITHOUT ANY HELP AT ALL!!!

(Dun Dun DuuuuuunnnnN!!!)

heeehee. miss you all!! xxx

I woke up today and it was my first day off from the kids. So naturally I spent three hours in the shower, did my hair and nails & ate some fruit by the pool... in an alternate universe! Actually I woke up and remembered that one of my kids was in the infirmary and needed clean clothes for the morning, one of my other kids needed socks for the hike and another kid needed to STOP slamming the door in the morning. And then I had to confiscate an aerosol from Mr I-Slam-Dorrs-At-6am and instruct two counsellors (one of whom has been at camp for THREE YEARS) how to deal with the kid who had wet his bed last night.

I realised then, that I needed to get out of camp asap.

Don't get me wrong, camp is great. I have an awesome co-counsellor and my cabin of (nine) kids goes to sleep before 9.30pm every night (a MIRACLE!) But camp is a bit overwhelming at the moment. Cause I might be being offered a promotion to Program Director soon. Which is something I hadnt even thought about before and is freaking me out (mostly in a good way). My class is going well but it takes SO MUCH ENERGY and lots of counsellors are in the first stages of oh-my-god-i-didnt-know-kids-could-be-this-tiring fatigue, so I have to be SUPER energetic to make up for it. And it KEEPS RAINING!! Right now I am boiling and the sun is out. I anticipate a thunderstorm tonight as payback.

We have no middle ground with the weather right now!

And some hilarious (to me) things have happened, like catching a counsellor using his drinking water on a hike to clean his sneakers (hahaha! that is sooo New York!) and a counsellor talent show that involved large men, short shorts and lots of athletic gyrating!! (it was before the kids arrived!!) and these are the things that make camp what it is (stupid and weird - just kidding!). But my voice is going cause I keep shouting every instruction and hyping things up in drama class, so I NEEDED todays break and also I needed the medicinal properties of Friendly's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream Sundae.

Which I am going to go get now. :D Mmmmmmm....

p.s. I got the Linguistic Prize for this year apparently! Who'd of thunk it???

I booked my flights to Santa Cruz today. And yelled at Camp America over a visa problem that was half my fault (should've got my visa done a couple of months ago - but laziness is a student's priveledge & they thought it was 100% their fault, so it all ended well *grin*)

Booking the flights scared me though. Not only am I arriving a couple of days late, after all the groups will be formed, but I am actually going. I just spent £400 confirming my journey to California. Before tonight the only commitment I'd made was on paper. But now money has been brought into the equation. So I am going. Definitely. OH. MY. GOD.

I have over eighteen hours of travelling to get through. I have to haul around my entire worldly goods (packed with every piece of clothing I own, otherwise it will disappear into the dark recesses of my sister's wardrobe - grrr). And - this is the worst part - I wont have enough baggage allowance for crap. The necklace holder I never use. The art box that has a million and one things I might use at some point. The 3,000 pieces of cooking equipment that I don't need to take...

Despite moving house fourteen times, I am a hoarder. Maybe because of it... But finally Mum is going to get her wish that I get rid of some of my crap (although I will just be storing it with them, so HA! I get the last laugh!)

Okay. Okay, I think I'm past some of the fear now. I'm going to California. Nope. Fear is back. Back with a vengence. But that's okay, it's a good kind of fear. The kind you get when you know that you are about to do something crazy and you have no idea what the result will be. But it's a good crazy. Not a mad crazy.

I think.