Okay, I know it's been a long time, but things have been a little crazy during the first week of camp. I "have" lots of free time during the day, technically, but recently it's been taken up by dealing with camper issues. We've had what must be a record number of minor-ish health issues that we've had to go to the nurse with, lots of behavior issues that have had to be dealt with. Sigh. I got switched on the first night of camp with the adjacent cabin, and I went from having lots of first-year kids to having veterans...who have a reputation already for making trouble. And they've made plenty of trouble. We have a sort of Hogwarts-esque house cup thing, and our cabin is already well behind in points. They can earn it back by practicing a lot and doing lots of music theory worksheets, but....well. That seems to be problematic.

I think my Northern accent is gradually being replaced by a more communicative Southern one. I have now already told someone to "put up" something, rather than "put" it "away." As far as accents go, this camp is an interesting place. Some people come from Arkansas and have a distinctive accent from there, others of the staff are from Louisiana, plenty are from Oklahoma, which is sort of divided between Midwestern and Southern.

I think I mentioned that I've been super busy here. Normally the kids have an elective class--I teach sports--at 1:45, then they get canteen (1 drink + 1 snack from the canteen) at 2:45, then free time at 3. The regular summer camp staff get weekends off, so I had to teach sports, run down and staff canteen, then go over to the pool and lifeguard for a couple hours. Needless to say, I'm pretty beat. Fortunately, the camp has a mandatory 2-hour nap on Sunday afternoons...it's going to be soo nice...

Prayer requests:
--Energy to keep on going despite lack of sleep and sometimes not really having time to eat and drink enough.
--Faith that God is working in these kids' lives even when they're being very difficult.

Keep me updated on what's going on with y'all! (<-- see that?) Hopefully I'll get to update again within a few days...