Got A Lil Spicy Today 🔥🔥

Me over here having ideas for Catching Fire adjacent fanfic, but we're still on the Hunger Games...

“Can I have a beef stick?!”

- My campers… they were obsessed with slim Jim’s and jerky this week…

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

+ Letterboxd Reviews

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If you have the opportunity to sleep- take it!

Mental health tip

Get enough sleep.

Sleep is very important. Young adults (18-24) need 7 ½ to 9 hours and teens (14-17) need 8-10 hours of sleep a night. So, how does one get sleep at camp when it’s full of late nights, early mornings, and campers waking you up in the middle of the night. Tried and true tips:

Designate someone as the nighttime wake-up counselor. Everybody takes a turn being the designated person who gets up if a kid needs something in the night. Trade off? They sleep in a little bit.

Get kids to bed on time by using a nighttime routine and starting it early enough. Remember, it takes little kids longer to get ready for bed and calmed down enough to sleep.

Designate half the counselors to be bedtime counselors and half to be wake-up counselors. Bedtime counselors stay up later but sleep in a little and wake-up counselors go to bed a little earlier and get up earlier.

Don’t do your paperwork when you should be sleeping. Maybe that means you slip away during lunch to do paperwork, but reserve time in your tent for actual sleeping.

Take naps during breaks if you need to, especially if you were up during the night. 

Waiting for Camp

What Camp Friends think I do:

What Out-of-Camp Friends think I do:

What I think I do:

What I actually do:

What in the absolute AI’s version of a Dumbledore/Gandalf love child is this?

Y'all'd've

Does anyone else say this? Like why waste your breath saying "you all would have"?

I have definitely earned canoe tipping, sympathy band aid, didn’t lose water bottle for a week (followed by me leaving it on the train), random bruise, ran out of socks, and forgot words while teaching a song… yikes

For all the Scout and Guide camp counselors - Badges for Camp Counselors! 

Personal favorites (aka ones I’ve definitely earned): Watch Tan, Laundry at 2 am, Poop Story, Stopped Mid-swear Word, and Severe Weather.

It is important for campers to trust their staff.

9 year-old: “Well, it looks like lemonade and it tastes like lemonade, but the label says it’s fruit punch, so it must be fruit punch.”

(It was lemonade.)

4 more days! I can’t wait to go back to camp!