Another kid from my cabin got kicked out the day after the last camper left because of his sickness, so I have six left, and only five until the one kid gets back from his thing. That's been interesting.

Today is pretty much the halfway point of the camp. It's hard to believe I've only been here for twenty-two days, but it's also hard to believe that so much time has gone by already. I might have written this before, but every day feels like two days and every morning I wonder where the time has gone. Those things seem antithetical, but there we are.

One thing that's weird about being here is how little I know about what's going on in the world. Usually Google Reader keeps me abreast of world and sporting events, but I'm almost totally sheltered from all that here. That's why I didn't know until a couple days ago that Nebraska joined the Big Ten, leaving us with twelve teams and leaving the Big XII with eleven teams. Cuhrazy. I wonder how the divisions will be, er, divided.

Some of the recent night programs have been pretty good. We played Capture the Flag, boys v. girls, with a human flag, which was a lot of fun. There was Renegade Rebel, wherein the staff get numbers 1 through 10 and then hide, and the campers have to find them in order. It could have been fun, but the campers mostly just gave up early and went back to the conservatory. We also had a Gong Show, which was amusing for the most part. One of my campers and another guy went up with a pocket watch and lasted twenty-five seconds doing nothing before getting gonged. Sigh.

Kayla--one of the other counselors--Emily, and I went to a Chinese buffet in town before lunch so as to have some real, non-camp food for once. It felt like we were parents getting away from the kids for a day; we just talked about the kids in conservatory.

Experiences like this remind me of how weird I am, haha. Let me explain. I have probably gotten to know most of the kids better than I've gotten to know the rest of the staff. Like, while they sit all at one place at one table, I'm out with the kids. They hang around in one group during sealed orders--a 15-minute period of devotions plus mandatory silence each day before dinner--and I basically sit quietly somewhere else. How do other people make friends so fast?

In a week and a half we're going to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, a water park in Texas. I'm told this is fun. However, I'm a little anxious. We have eighty (well, less than that now) kids to take down to a water park. We're staying overnight at a Salvation Army corps on the way. How is this not going to be the most stressful thing of all time? I feel like I'm being lied to.

Okay, so...more later? Adios!