Camp Recap
Mood:
hungry
Topic: work
Yay Thursday! I'm off tomorrow, so I have cause to celebrate. R's family is having a cook-out, which I am really looking forward to. I don't know why, since I'll just be eating salad and maybe a veggie burger. I guess I'm happy to just not be at summer camp.
It's not so bad. It can be summed up this way: the afternoon field trip was cancelled today because of their behavior. The older kids were cutting up yesterday in the afternoon (after I leave) and the sixth graders were cutting up this morning. So they have no one to blame but themselves. The camp is structured a weird way, not really the fault of the passive-aggressive organizer. It's the namesake of our school, a member of the county school board. She really insists on everyone being included and the kids being off the streets as long as possible. Of course, it makes for a long day, with kids that are probably too old for camp. For this kind of camp.
This morning was fun though. We went with the sixth graders on a field trip to a local rock quarry, so it was more educational than fun. But to me, educational is fun! The kids liked it well enough and were inquisitive and sang along to a video we watched. The coolest part was actually driving down into the 750-foot pit in the school bus, with our yellow plastic hard hats. Thank god for these small things.
I had a better day laughing and talking with my coworkers too. The non-news teacher was reading a book by John Irving, who is an author I just discovered and love! Even the lead organizer is a nice person, someone with a young son, who likes to shop online. We talked about buying plus size clothes, which was funny. I might need to do some shopping myself for work clothes. As I said before, a lot of the problems in the camp are not her fault at all. Well, I hope the cancelled field trip really sinks in and the kids come back on Monday with a better attitude. Right?
Posted by mary
at 10:05 PM EDT
Updated: Thu, Jul 10 2008 11:36 AM EDT