Thursday, June 28, 2007
Sacrificed?
Two of my apprentices doing a buddy (tethered) climb. First things first, I received a beautiful wedding invitation in the mail last night. Postmarked June 16th, and delivered to one of my two mailboxes here (I discovered that too, last night) June 27th. Really it might have been delivered a week ago, and if AdAm had not shown me that we share a mailbox, I may have never received it.
My Yitziyah with Sollelim came off mostly without a hitch yesterday. The river was shallow and cool, no one flipped their tube and died (ok, nobody died) and no one was lost up or down stream. The ice cream guy was half an hour late, but everyone still got ridiculous amounts of ice cream, apparently two scoops equals a pint in Helen.
In my first game at Yonah Bowl, (who/what is Yonah, and is it jayohoh related? There is also a roller-skating rink attached to the bowling alley, and in the same city, a Yonah Burger restaurant) I got into a fierce duel with our bus driver Everett, which I won, because of my turkey in frames two through four, total score 148. Second game fatigue set in and I bowled a miserable 85, Everett won with a 114.
We watched Nanny McPhee on the bus, a falsely British comedy which was funny, but moved too quickly for the characters to develop properly. We also watched the first half-hour of Holes, which was mostly a well-done prologue, but I hear the movie goes downhill from there, though I loved the book.
I was on Toran (making sure there are people in every bunk at night) with Sarah last night, which is always an interesting experience. She would prefer if I drove the golf cart less quickly. I'll work on it. Part of Toran is calling each bunk before we visit it, to see if anyone can pick up the phone and say "I'm here." There are 34 bunks in 15 buildings, (two buildings have four bunks, the rest have two) which makes for 17 phone calls that have to be made prior to physical rounds on the golf cart. Of the 17 phones, three were busy, two were not picked up, one was out of order, another somehow put me on hold, listening to elevator music without picking up and five others had not yet finished their evening activities yet, so neither counselors. So, six cabins were successfully reached and confirmed as having people in them, watching the kids. That meant that we had to visit the other 11 and see where they were. Then at 12:30 we have to do second rounds to every bunk in camp to make sure there is at least one person in each bunk instead of in each building. Party Times.
Today at lunch I am sitting with Nitzanim boys, just like my first summer at camp. I can't wait.
# posted by Daniel @ 1:35 PM 
