Learning

I am trying to do this every-day so that I have lots of memories and ways to see myself improve. So today I think I will talk about Learning.

Every day in my life, I try to learn something new. Weather its small, or big. Being here at HH for 7 years now, I still learn something new every summer about myself. This is my second year through full staff training. Yes, it is pretty much the same as last year; boring, fun, long, tiring. And it is pretty much the same information. But I still try and pull something new out that I didn’t know.

During lunch today, we had a huge dance party in the middle of the dining hall. It was FANTASTIC!!! We were all just jumping and dancing away like nobody cares! It just shows that here we can be who we are, and just be silly. I finally remember the quote that Liz Casline had said yesterday, “I can jump on the table here, and yell and scream. And I know that I will have support from everyone around me.” And its all true. No matter where you are at camp, or what you are doing. You always will have the support of each and every one of the staff. It doesn’t even matter if you are on campgrounds. You have their support.

We also got to do the Ropes Course tonight. It gave the Ropes staff some practice before the campers got here. But I think it also showed us, the staff, just what our campers are capable of. Megan McN. and I did the Dangling Duo. It’s where you have two people and they work together to get to the next level of the giant ladder. It is very hard, and very demanding. Our children here at camp, do that. They jump off the Flying Trapeze, and they do the Elvis Pelvis. They do all of this! How can people in the real world tell them they cant, when we see them do it in front of us? I just don’t know.

So I figured out what I learned today while writing this entry. I have learned that I need to do what our campers do more often, to put in perspective of how demanding their lives must be.