Malagash 2008: Jr. Teens I

After a week of training, it was time for us to put our training into practice. The first camp of the summer was Jr. Teens I. The first week is always exciting since everybody has a lot of energy and are anxious to get the party started. The week was directed Jenn Spen and Miranda Collins who did a great job (And a great job at keeping us up really late every night). The competition between cabins for the week was the Seals versus the Sharks, versus the Alligators. Our mascots were inflatable water toys. By the end of the week I'm pretty sure that each mascot had been popped and peed on by Jr. High boys. The competition was fierce and furious, but the Sharks came off on top. Obviously my cabin was part of the Sharks. The reward for winning: shaving cream in the face of one of the leaders from the Seals and the Alligators. Democracy prevailed as Julia and Chris were selected to be pied. The speaker for the week was Jeremy Marsh, and once again he did an excellent job challenging and encouraging both the campers and staff.

Some highlights of the week:

• Playing grogs with my cabin. It was one of the rare times that I was working with the campers instead of being a grog scaring campers. We kicked butt, killing multiple grogs and found a plethora of stones. The sharks got a lot of points because of this.
• The dump outside of my cabin, and the bottle of pee. You'd have to be in the cabin to understand.
• The beach walk to Blue Sea Beach. It was a beautiful day (well the weather was great all week long).
  
• Dress up meals are always fun. This week they included twin meal, and crazy hair meal.
• Counseling with Jeff. It was his first week back in a couple years so it was nice to help refresh his memory as to how everything works. Its always fun to work with another Sr. Counselor. And its alot easier when you have an awesome bunch of guys.
• Bruce

Malagash 2008: Training Week

Training week was here, and now its gone. Training was shorter in time this year compared to last year, and there were a few less bodies around as well. We had a fun-filled action packed week where we were trained for whatever the campers and the camp experience might throw our way.
The first night the boys and girls built separate forts in the lounge to sleep in. While the girls created a mass comprised of all the couch and chair cushions, the boys went on to construct a huge fort. Have you ever seen a fort that had too spacious rooms for the 4 boys to sleep in, complete with adjustable roofs. Behind the rooms we had a spacious "lounging" area equipped with a laptop for music, a disco ball, and some flashing lights.
We were spoiled with the most delicious of meals, and desserts that made were so good you felt guilty about eating them. Luckily we did lots of work outdoors to work off just a little bit of the food we had just ate. Lots of work was spent working on the chapel skit and full time skit, and also work on the songs preparing for chapel next week.
Keeping the tradition alive, the staff traveled into the bustling town of Pugwash to watch their spectacular Canada Day fireworks. While there were no major exciting events, it was nice getting to know some of the other staff better. Unfortunately approximately 8.2 days of our lives were lost by the smokers beside us who just didn't know how to butt out!
The girls grew closer this week when they were locked in the janitors closet for a little while one evening. Why all of the female staff were in a small room you can be locked inside, I do not know. They got back by locking us all out of the lodge by locking and closing every single door, window, nook, and cranny.
Before we knew it, the week was over and the weekend was here. Today we all went to Taddie to pick my favourite berry; the red, plump, and delicious strawberry. It was a perfect day for picking as it wasn't too hot, and it wasn't too cold. And who wouldn't like eating, errr picking strawberries!

Quotable quotes and notable notes of the week:
"Cool whip" - Ryan
"Is that your angry voice?" - Jeff after Natalie says "Ryann"
"There goes the Christian"
"Would you rather be a King's student or unemployed?"
"The Mint Quat is leaking!"