Sunday, October 7, 2007

   Warning! Lots of Pics coming up!!!
Hi folks.

This has been a fairly quiet week. I think I'm finally settled back in…now I really oughta focus my energies on finding a new job…I’ve already applied for two, we’ll see how that turns out. This week I’ve also been focusing on sorting out photos from the summer, and watching some of the anime I bought. I have finished watching “Tenchi Universe”, and am about halfway through “Outlaw Star”… I also gotta watch “Patlabor the new files” and in the mail today I got the first and third volumes of “Tenchi Muyo”, so gonna try and tackle them before I start watching those anime I listed in my last post. I also made up my Gundam models, they’re looking pretty sweet.



Anyhoo, I promised I’d have pictures from Camp today, and so I have. Unfortunatly, I have 123 images I’d like to show you and that makes for a WAY to big of a post, so I'm gonna split it up into easier to digest chunks… probably over the next 2 weeks or so, so you’re gonna have to bare with me folks. Also, I haven’t had the chance to get these in any sort of order, so I'm just gonna post em up with a small explanation of each photo… if you have any questions about camp life in general or anything at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.


So here we go… remember, these are in no particular order….




Camp Pecometh is a Christian Youth Camp in Maryland, USA, and it consists of 9 weeks worth of one week periods…that is to say, kids came on Sunday, left on Friday and we, the staff, had Saturday off. Then the next week would bring a new set of campers. Pecometh offers a whole bunch of different camps, including Splashdown, Adventure, Horseback, Riverside, River Runners, Wilderness, Rock N Roll, Sailing on the Chesapeke and more… Archery was one of the activities offered to several of the camps. This was from week one, and I had a group of ten year olds.



This photo was taken by my co-counsellor. Between us we had about 12 kids look after…6 girls and 6 boys, or thereabouts…



This is whats called a Belay team, and these are my second week campers. The girl on the far right is Erica, my co-counsellor. This is on the Pecometh Challenge course, which I spent a lot of time on over the summer. ^^ twas my favourite part of camp. And this group were my favourite group all summer. ^^



Back to my week one campers. ^^;; playing field games. Girl on far left is Billie, a lifeguard.



Oh Bob…so much to say about Bob… what a guy… anyway, this was for Movies Week, where we had a themed dinner where we were to dress up as characters from Movies. This was Bob’s costume, as Tom Hanks’ character from the Movie “Castaway”.


Bull’s-eye! ^^ am I good or what… ok, so it was the only bull’s-eye I got all summer, but still…



My first ever campers, from week 1. I cant remember their names… ^^;;;; I wrote em down somewhere…



Carlos and Jacob… Carlos is from the North of England...Jacob is from Hamburg, Germany. Carlos is about 300 different types of weird. Jacob is gangsta. Both of them are undeniably cool.


This is the Incline Log on the Challenge Course…its on of the “easier” high elements there…



Debriefing after a climb. Girl on the right is Megan Shitama, Camp Chaplain, Harry Potter Fanatic, and an all round nice person.



Sunset over Rec Field…we were treated to some of the most spectacular sunsets in the world during this summer… this is one of the not so great ones, but still pretty awesome.



One of the “low” elements on the challenge course, a 3-D spiders web. The object of the exercise was to remove the coloured ropes and the elephant without ringing the bells, “Entrapment” style…



This is one of my fav pics from the summer. Nuff said.



Another sunset at Pecometh, I liked the way it played with the clouds…



A lot of the counsellors on Camp were from different countries, and every week we had an activity called “International Spotlight” where we stood up and talked about our countries… there were 6 of us English folk, so it was easy. Tim (in the picture) claims to hail from New Zealand, along with a girl named Kim. We loved it when New Zealand stood up for Spotlight, cuz Kim would sing the National Anthem, and sang it beautifully, and Tim would do the Maori war dance known as the Haka, which can only be done by males. He did the version that the New Zealand Rugby Team, the “All Blacks” often does before a game of rugby. It’s big and manly and psyches you up… loved it. XD



Another “high” element.



We had these special services called “Galileans” every week, as a sort of culmination of the weeks events…some were good, some weren’t…usually depended on who was taking it and whether it was outside or not…this is a photo of an inside one…



Week one was “Super Heroes” week… I had limited resources, so a quick trip to a K Mart and some minor altercations to some socks later, I had a costume for theme dinner… XD



This is the face Levi (or Levente, from Hungary) pulls when he drinks Cranberry Juice. The weirdest thing? He KEEPS buying it all summer. Why? Cuz “we do not have it in Hungary”. Ooookay then…
Levi was my co-counsellor during special needs week. we both took it in turns to freak out. That was a tough week. BUT WE SURVIVED!



The “Little Zig Zag”, with my week 2 group. It looks easy at first, but can be deceptive….



Yah, so apparently, I WAS MARRIED for about a week. long story folks. Basically during Special Needs Week, all staff members had to be married to each other. The reason for this is that the Special Needers (aged between about 12 and 70) are very affectionate people and have been known to PROPOSE to staff members in previous years, and after the inevitable rejection, would become VERY heartbroken. So to avoid this, we were told to wear these rings and pair up with another staff member to try and avoid such situations…and it worked…kinda… there was still a lot of heartbreak that week. ^^;;; also, there were times when you needed a “partner” pretty desperately, so you grabbed whoever was on hand…I think I ended up being married to about 5 girls that week. ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;



More fun on the challenge course



MUSIC TIME! We had these several times a week and I loved them. Sure, they were just Christian songs, but everybody got really into them and there was so much energy and fun put into it. I miss it, I really do.





Heh, we made up alternate lyrics to this song too… XD



Pecometh is set on the banks of the Chester River and one of its most prominent features is the pier where they tie up the boats. This is a sunset taken from the pier.



This is my favourite sunset shot, taken from the Outdoor Chapel.



Tim Whale, Myself and Mike Doyle after Superheroes Theme Dinner. Tim is “The Deodorizer” , I am “L337 N1NJ4” and Mike is “Boston Red-Sox Man”



My week one co-counsellor Jamie and her campers at super hero week. Her campers were “The Crayons”.



Tim Whale, New Zealander, as “The Deodorizer”



Megan Baker and Katie Scott as the Wizard of Oz and The Good Witch of the North for Movies Week. Both these girls live in Wisconsin and are also hella awesome. I went and stayed with them a while after camp was over.



A pretty spectacular sunset.



That’s it for today folks…I’ll have a bunch more up for you on Wednesday, if I get my act together. Hope you enjoyed them!!!

And now, to finish off:




I have a whole bunch more Chibi Darke stuff coming up. Stay tuned folks!


Till next time!

Toodles.



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