Hey LJ, long time no talk ( Read more... )

I leave Camp Daggett to go home tomorrow and I definitely have mixed feelings. On one hand, there are people that I'm going to miss that I probably won't get to see very much until next summer. But on the other hand, I feel so out of the loop here sometimes that I want to get as far away as I can...dramatic, I know. There's nobody here that I ( Read more... )

There is a significant part of me that wants to come back to Daggett next year just to prove that I can do better. It won't happen if I get into Teach for America, but if I don't, I think I need to spend another year here and do a good job ( Read more... )

Fate sure does like to kick me in the ovaries, I'll tell you that much. Sarah and I were talking on the phone yesterday (yay, finally!) and she said that in her psychology classes they talked about how people re-live the same situations over and over again because they basically put themselves in them over and over again. Well it's definitely ( Read more... )

Still at camp, a few more mosquito bites after covering myself in mud and sitting in the woods for Neanderthal night, grunting at the kids to get them to build shelters out of sticks...my night off was last night and I played putt-putt and didn't completely suck. It was sweet, I came in second. I was also out with four guys who all love to say " ( Read more... )

So pretty much the coolest thing just happened. We were making a haunted house for my night activity tomorrow night and it ended up just being Shane, Tom, and I in the room...there are these mattresses stacked in three piles against the wall (shortest pile furthest away, tallest in the middle, medium against the wall) and Tom was on the one ( Read more... )

I really wanted to post something, but I realized I don't have much of anything to say. This weekend was Blissfest, a hippie music festival that involved a good amount of alcohol and some hooking up that I was thankfully not involved in. I really really should not drink anymore. I used to be a happy drunk, I don't know what happened. Got an ( Read more... )

Okay, so I really need to stop drinking really really sugary pop at night. I am so damn awake right now so I'm going to talk about some of the staff ( Read more... )

Well, my first week of camp is over. Got rough in the middle of the week, but ended on a good note. Spent today hanging out, watching movies, and being generally lazy. I think the next several weeks are going to be full of drama, I can feel it, but considering I spent a good chunk of today watching boys play video games like when I was in ( Read more... )

I've been at camp for almost a week now, whew! The kids show up tomorrow, but I've been training, organizing, shivering, and sweating all week long. The panic has mostly subsided, everyone is really great here. I don't have time to describe the rest of the staff and you all probably don't care, but they're great ( Read more... )