Staffination Strikes Again

A day in the life of camp. In case you’re wondering what we do on a daily basis, let me give you a taste of our lives. We have breakfast at 8:30 in the morning. What you do before that is up to you, depending on how late I was up the night before either from campfire singing or loud TA’s talking outside my room, I get up and go for a run. I’m still adjusting to the sleep schedule as I’m not usually up past 9. It’s okay on weekends and such, but for real, this late night stuff is killing me.

At any rate, we all file into breakfast, and occupy our room that is saved for the teachers. We sit at a long table and there are four or five sets of each of the food types provided. In the morning, hell, every day, there are tomatoes, cucumbers and some form of ham. There are always baskets of bread with butter and jam. We have water and tea, and coffee, and sometimes a warm pink drink that is some sort of compote. I’ll do a more in depth entry on the food, but these are the staples. After breakfast, we clear our table and bus our dishes to the kitchen staff who work their TAILS off serving several sessions of food each meal. We have about 30 minutes before classes start, so preparation is usually in order. We have four 45 minute class periods with a 5 minute break in between, then a staff meeting afterwards. We go over any issues we’re having in class and talk about the plan for the day. When the meeting is done, it’s about lunch time, so we return to the cafeteria, to be greeted by various forms of tomatoes, cucumbers and bread. Following lunch, we break off into either sports activities or something else that we would want to teach the kids. I’m doing a one hour photography activity twice. We’ll see how it goes. I also went to watch some of the sports stuff, but that’s mostly left to the TA’s to keep the 100 kids busy and active for two hours. If people want to, they can go for a hike, take a bike ride, have a nap - whatever suits your fancy. At 6:30 we eat again. Lunch is the big meal here, so dinner is typically a lighter meal which is nice. That’s it! That is how we spend most days here- one week down, two to go!