another week has managed to slip by here at kingsley pines camp, it sems that every time i blink time flys by in a way thaty i am not ok with! i guess that on one side it is a good thing but on the other it is not becuase i want to be here longer and i need to me making money for my bills this summer. what i get per week is barely making it. and i still have a large ammount of money to pay off. today i spant a good chunkj of time moving aorund in portland maine and recalling how much i hate the city for many many reasons. i managed to go to the bank and cash my small tiny tax retun, it paied for lunch and not a lot more. i am meeting up with lix and xander for dinner tonigh back in portland i have to say that i am looking forward to seeing them but at the same time i am not looking forward to the drive again. when i got back form the twon i was looking forward to going on the lake but there was another major storm going on here at panther pond no surprise there at all. well i think i wil keep this short as i feel that i need to do a lot more with my day off here
peace
td
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
work and such
i have now been at kingsley pines for about three weeks with one of them haveing been training and the others haveing been with campers, it is almost the end of the first session, which has been going on for the last two weeks. the kids that i have will start going home in the morning.
i think that while my cabin is finally starting to run smoothly and the way that it should things need to move on and the kids ned to go home. for the most part the kids that i have are all great ... you know your typical 12 and 13 year ild boys, they think that they can do anythign and that they know everytthing. and they all happen to be very stubborn so naturaly there will be soem clashes that happen when you have these people living in close quters fopr two weeks in a row.. my goal for the whole thing is for these kids to come away from this saying wow that was the best summer of my life and i had a blast, i want to com back next year. who knbows if that will happen or not but i hyope that they can walk away form this being friends with all of the othyer boys that are in their cabin
on anohter note this week was the first week that i got to really dive in a teach high ropes course, it is nice to be out of the training and see all that we learned ap[ply first hand, and i tell you what it is nice to see hoe some of the stuf that i learned in school at unity is applying to the kids here at camp... the best moments of my day are when the kids who are really afarid or hesitant to go up do and meet their goals and do it with a smaile on my face, we had two kids like that today and it was totaly worth while to stand there in the rain and belay them throguh the whole thing, to talk to them and let them ,mnow that they can do it...
well i must go as it is almost dinner and free time is almsot over i need to go and find all of my kids and make sure that they get to dinner
peace
td
i think that while my cabin is finally starting to run smoothly and the way that it should things need to move on and the kids ned to go home. for the most part the kids that i have are all great ... you know your typical 12 and 13 year ild boys, they think that they can do anythign and that they know everytthing. and they all happen to be very stubborn so naturaly there will be soem clashes that happen when you have these people living in close quters fopr two weeks in a row.. my goal for the whole thing is for these kids to come away from this saying wow that was the best summer of my life and i had a blast, i want to com back next year. who knbows if that will happen or not but i hyope that they can walk away form this being friends with all of the othyer boys that are in their cabin
on anohter note this week was the first week that i got to really dive in a teach high ropes course, it is nice to be out of the training and see all that we learned ap[ply first hand, and i tell you what it is nice to see hoe some of the stuf that i learned in school at unity is applying to the kids here at camp... the best moments of my day are when the kids who are really afarid or hesitant to go up do and meet their goals and do it with a smaile on my face, we had two kids like that today and it was totaly worth while to stand there in the rain and belay them throguh the whole thing, to talk to them and let them ,mnow that they can do it...
well i must go as it is almost dinner and free time is almsot over i need to go and find all of my kids and make sure that they get to dinner
peace
td
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Its early moday morning
i am finaly back in maine after being away for almost a month, i think i have travled enough fr a while and i am ready to settle down and start work. i arrived at the camp i will be working at around 12 30 this morning and currently i am sitting in the next town over taking advantage of the free wifi that seemes to be coming from the vip car shop that is next door.
why am i not asleep you may ask? well fist of all i really dont have anywere to sleep and i am not looking forward to spending the night in my car which is what it is gonna have to be, well that or pitching a tent somewhere. i think i will gor for a car becuase i managed to find a small parking lot with other cars in it at the camp that is no where nead the main part of the camp... or is it ? i dont know it is way out int he middle of nowhere and i didnt want to poke around too much since it is private propty and i am not due there intill the morning, of course if i had been thinking i would have just let them know that i was coming in today, but who does that kind of thing, i mean reall thinking in advance like that.
anways, i am excited to start work, it is looking lke i will have a week of staff training before the first of the kids arrive, and while i am looking forward to that i am very nevrous, i have to do this job well, this really is my foot in the door, this is what i can put down when they ask of i have any outdoor work experience. i dont know if ropes course instructor is goign to count but i figure it is a great shot of making a bit of a name for my self.
the camp its self looks nice, well from what i can see of it in the dark, and what i did se of it, i went abotu half a mile down their little road, perhaps a bit more before i puled off, lots of space and lots of trees, and i already managed to get my first bug bite of the summer season, just by pulling on to camp proptry. its sheer luck that i even found the place becuase i wasent bright enough to get good directions once i got to the town of raymound maine. which by the way is barely on the map but it seems nice enought, i guess only time will tell with that one. right now i am in whidam, just about ten miles and about as many mins from the camp, i am thinking that if i can manage getting all of my days off at the same day every week then i will be able to trvle into this town and perhaps get a second job, surely ther is somthign that needs some one once a week for somthign, it looks like there is a few place that are open 24 7, mainly that i can see two gas stations and a tim hortons, i guess i wouldnt mind working in either of thos if it ment an extra fifty bucks a week or so
i dont know, its late and i have so many thoughts at the moment, i am sorta thinking of pulling an all nighter, but i am not so sure that is wise i want to make a good impression on my boss tomorrow, i need to be up early enugh to get out of there, there being the camp, sice it is looking like i am going to be spending the night there i dont want to be caught asleep ont he propterty, so i guess if i am up by six then i can get a bit to eat and perhaps go in early.
cheers for now its late
peace
td
why am i not asleep you may ask? well fist of all i really dont have anywere to sleep and i am not looking forward to spending the night in my car which is what it is gonna have to be, well that or pitching a tent somewhere. i think i will gor for a car becuase i managed to find a small parking lot with other cars in it at the camp that is no where nead the main part of the camp... or is it ? i dont know it is way out int he middle of nowhere and i didnt want to poke around too much since it is private propty and i am not due there intill the morning, of course if i had been thinking i would have just let them know that i was coming in today, but who does that kind of thing, i mean reall thinking in advance like that.
anways, i am excited to start work, it is looking lke i will have a week of staff training before the first of the kids arrive, and while i am looking forward to that i am very nevrous, i have to do this job well, this really is my foot in the door, this is what i can put down when they ask of i have any outdoor work experience. i dont know if ropes course instructor is goign to count but i figure it is a great shot of making a bit of a name for my self.
the camp its self looks nice, well from what i can see of it in the dark, and what i did se of it, i went abotu half a mile down their little road, perhaps a bit more before i puled off, lots of space and lots of trees, and i already managed to get my first bug bite of the summer season, just by pulling on to camp proptry. its sheer luck that i even found the place becuase i wasent bright enough to get good directions once i got to the town of raymound maine. which by the way is barely on the map but it seems nice enought, i guess only time will tell with that one. right now i am in whidam, just about ten miles and about as many mins from the camp, i am thinking that if i can manage getting all of my days off at the same day every week then i will be able to trvle into this town and perhaps get a second job, surely ther is somthign that needs some one once a week for somthign, it looks like there is a few place that are open 24 7, mainly that i can see two gas stations and a tim hortons, i guess i wouldnt mind working in either of thos if it ment an extra fifty bucks a week or so
i dont know, its late and i have so many thoughts at the moment, i am sorta thinking of pulling an all nighter, but i am not so sure that is wise i want to make a good impression on my boss tomorrow, i need to be up early enugh to get out of there, there being the camp, sice it is looking like i am going to be spending the night there i dont want to be caught asleep ont he propterty, so i guess if i am up by six then i can get a bit to eat and perhaps go in early.
cheers for now its late
peace
td
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