And We're Off...

I have officially made it through all of staff training without getting sick for the first time ever. All two weeks. This is exciting to me. And oh what a two weeks it has been.

I made it to camp at some point on Sunday evening and me, Liv, Stacey, Marissa, and Lauren managed to scare the newb Stephanie sufficiently on the first night, including me singing and doing motions to Father Abraham in the shower. I don't know. Then we had a meeting for returners, where we all had to scale a wall together pretty much. I managed to somehow take part of my toe nail off and smear my blood on the wall. It's still there. Makes me feel hardcore.

After that, all the new people came and we started the fun process of awkward get-to-know-each-other and are-you-sure-you-know-what-your-getting-yourself-into stuff. We left for staff trip, which was just at another camp. A less nice camp, to be honest. So whatever. The first day, it was hotter than nylons. Soooo ridiculously hot. The next day was better. We went to Lake Michigan. They told us it was a 30 minute trip. 2 hours later, we arrived, and found out the the "beach" was actually all rocks. But I was grumpy and determined enough at the time to go swimming anyways. I figured if I had had to ride a bus for 2 hours, I was going to go swimming in Lake Michigan, no matter the circumstances. It was cold and rocky. But fun nonetheless. Lizzi and I had a good time being naturalists together. We then decided to go to an actual beach, which was indeed less rocky, but unfortunately kinda gross. It had a TON of dead fish on it. Gross. We went back to our camp the next day. Oh. After that, we had all the rest of training. Lost camper drill, bonding, lost swimmer drill, testimonies. OOOH! And also, I went off the zipline! It took a little convincing, but it was so fun!

Ooooh I forgot. I experienced every guitarists worst nightmare. I opened Olivia's guitar case, and there her guitar lay, the headstock completely broken off. Awful. I freaked out. Kim immediately offered to buy me a new one, and then I told her it was Liv's, and then Liv started to walk over cuz of all the commotion, and before Liv even reached the guitar, Kim was like "WE'LL BUY YOU A NEW ONE!!!" before she even saw that is was broken. So on the way back from Camp B to Camp A, we, as in all 28 of us, stopped at Guitar Center to "help" Olivia pick out a guitar. I banned everyone from the acoustic room so Olivia wasn't under pressure. So she picked one, and we left. It was rather crazy.

So overall, staff training went well. I really like this year's staff. A lot of awesome people. A lot of broken people. But I really really like them. Lots of good and fun people. Possibly my favorite staff yet? I don't know. Too early to tell perhaps. But seriously a bunch of great people. And that, is staff training.

We are now in Junior Explorer....

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