Week 5

Firstly I would like to apologise for the lengthiness of my last entry. I guess it was just an action packed week!

So week 5 and the second half of summer camp (I cant believe it is pretty much half done!!!) began with super Saturday. Since we were short staffed, I had to do the GRSing without a partner which made it much more busy.

Saturday night and fusion this week was a kaffee haus (coffee house) which was just a chilled out café on top of the boat house, where it was an open mic/guitar where anyone could get up and perform a number. It was very entertaining with some of the acts, which included everything from Johnny Cash to Bob Marley.

Sunday went very well. The day started off with a skype to sister Talyse to do some mathematics homework. I found out that my schedule for the week couldn’t be any better! All week, morning and afternoon, split boat in the blue 210 super air nautique, which is housed in the boat house (no tarping required). Mornings with Slow Motion Steve Burns, and afternoons with Mark ‘Mr Incredible’ Harrison.

In the mornings my group only had 3 senior high kids, all of which were really cool and we shared some great conversations with. My afternoons are with quite a range of kids, but we share some great times!

On Monday morning I fought against my desire to sleep and got up to go for a run into Rosseau (about 4km) with Craig and Zac, both of whom are sooo fit. I struggled to keep up with the pace these guys were setting!

Monday lunch hit up some more tennis with the same boys as last time, good fun playing doubles. Neily poos and Derrick joined us as well so we played round robin.

Monday night was night off so Dylan, Liz, Jaqueline, Jess and myself drove into Bracebridge to Walmart. I stocked up on snacks for the rest of the summer. I also got an outfit for the staff dance on Thursday night. After that we went to McDonalds (Cinnamon Melts!!!) and Tim Hortons. Some of the others got some sushi dared me to eat half a spoonful of wasabi. To be honest I didn’t know what it was. Quite a burning and teary sensation though! I said Yes! Haha.

Raley Tuesdays arrived again. Early morning wakeboard with the boys. My abdominals had finally recovered from last weeks Raley Tuesday. After a couple of tries, I landed 4 raleys in a row. Even though they were pretty messy ones I was extremely stoked.

I got to ride with my morning group as well, but this time I couldn’t land anything, and I ripped myself up into a bag of bones with many successive painful stacks.

Met my stayover boys at lunch. They were great and included me and respected me. We shared some good games of bump (two ball – knockouts). At night we had a murder mystery cluedo type game. My boys gave up after about half an hour and so we played some more bump haha. After activity there was a gymnastics demonstration again. Never get sick of seeing Matt the gymnastics dude do his flipping stuff… he is nuts!

Bedtime –took about an hour for the boys to quiet down which wasn’t too bad.

Wednesday went by very quickly. Had my one on one with Douglas Earl Hunt the third at lunchtime. After the afternoon session, I took two staff; Taylor and Merideth out for staff ski and they had a wakeboard. Night time was eaten up by impact practice and impact. I played in the same songs as a few weeks ago. They have the same themes on a three week rotation. Purpose, identity, and relationships.

Thursday morning was staff ski morning. My set was terrible for some strange reason. I couldn’t even land the normal jumps. In my morning boat I taught Steve and the three other kids the game ‘ichi-ni’. Steve lost both times and it was hilarious to see his reactions to getting flicked. He also does a hilarious Aussie imitation. He loves singing ‘give me a home amongst the gum trees’ as well.

I didn’t have a lunch break because of the port carling trip. After bumming around for a while, gymming and internetting, all the instructors had Hot Jams dance at 9pm. The theme for the night was ‘who’s who at the zoo’. I got talked into wearing a baby’s piglet shirt with some pink tights, in association with Dylan as poo bear and jess as tigger. It was really cool because everyone dressed up for it. The dance was alright, a bit of fun jumping around and being stupid.

On Friday morning I woke up bright and early at 5am, trekked down in the dark from GWITMOC on the lookout for bears to the boathouse. I was so excited to watch this broncos game like you wouldn’t believe. But when I got down there I found out there was no internet on. So I couldn’t even skype. I luckily had my hard drive and watched the movie bran nue dae which was pretty good but could never match up to a broncos game.

Friday was another port carling trip. In the morning split, I got to have a decent wakeboard run. This time was much better than the run the day before. I was landing and improving a lot, which was great fun. In the afternoon session with Mark we had a kid who loved surface 180’s so much on the wakeskate that he did 196 in a row! It was hilarious to see him constantly doing them for around half an hour straight.

On Friday night, I had no plans so Neil, Jess and myself decided to go on an adventure. We went into Huntsville, jumped off the bridge over the river which was exciting. Then went into Rosseau for a swim. It was great getting to know them better. After that Neil and I headed into the boathouse for a sleepover with some internet and a movie. The sleep was great but we were woken up early by two of the big boss area heads who came in…..awkward. We promptly left with not much said from the two but they certainly weren’t impressed. Haha. Probably will get a warning from them for being where we shouldn’t have been.

The rest of Saturday morning was spent on the internet, writing this to you my faithful blog readers, and chatting to dad on skype. The weeks are flying by! Only four to go unfortunately. …. I guess it wont be an endless summer!