Daniel's Summer Blog

The second week of camp usually brings a sense of normalcy, calm and routine to both the campers and the staff. There was some of that. Then there was also the frenzy of planned and unplanned chaos that is camp. Aside from chugim beginning (and switching of chugim starting today, already), which caused me considerable amounts of work and sun, there were more than a handful of visitors this past weekend. First off, it was board weekend. Secondly, it was UNC visitation weekend aka, Hannah, Alyssa and Alli. Naturally, I got the latter OKed, before someone realized it might conflict with the former, but Fred the Head worked it all out for us, and every got to come. This unfortunately meant something of a food shortage, but more importantly, that I missed hockey in favor of social engagements for the second week in a row.

Saturday night we had our first all staff meeting, mostly to demand that people fill out forms that should have been in a month ago, and to say keep up the good work and then make it better. Also, the director gave us specific instructions which all the senior staff knew very well, having been given quite the explicit lecture by the previous administration, at a very similar meeting.

Last night I had toran (now rosh shmirah) for the second night is a row, but I am sure that I will be well-compensated for it. While Ester and I were making our rounds, we discovered, among other things, a fairly large frog in the road. Details can be found at the top of the post.

At the moment tower staff is a bit short, as we have two people out on a trip and another at college orientation. This leaves us with only six people to cover our chugim (one of which is on said trip). I leave for my 24 on Tuesday, for the long-planned trip to the Brown House.