Hello, world!
I made it through Girls' Camp, and I'm all cleaned and scrubbed and now smell decent enough to brave it into the real world again. It took me a couple days. ;)
Camp wasn't what I expected. This is mostly my fault, but partially just a difference of expectations. I'd been to Girls' Camp for 6 years when I was growing up, and it was always a blast! And then I did Bear Camp every day all summer for 5 years, and man, I LOVED it! I always had tons of energy and sang songs and enthusiastically did crafts and dodgeball and everything else.
But fast forward a couple years, and you have me at YW camp this year: I didn't get any sleep the night before I left (I was packing and sending cute e-cards to Kevin all night), and then the first night at camp and every time I tried to take a nap, there were girls giggling and talking and NOT LETTING ME SLEEP. But I always hated it when the leaders would come around and tell you to go to sleep, so I just let them do it.
AND... I was kind of looking at camp as something to fill up my time. I knew it would be fun and time would just rush by. It did, but when that's all you're at camp for, it's not as exciting as it could have been.
It was awesome to get to know the girls better, and there were some fun times. There's this activity set up in the Confidence Course where there's a big steel rope tied around three trees, a couple feet off the ground. Basically, you and a friend start at one end where the ropes are close together, and then you lean towards each other as you walk on the ropes, getting farther and farther apart and leaning more and more against each other. I did this course with my neighbor, Deon, and she and I were the only people who made it to the end. We are so cool!
I "got" to talk in church about camp, and Deon got after me later about not mentioning the Confidence Course in my talk, so this is to make up for that. :)
Camp was nice, and time has passed, and now there are only 3 more days til Kevin gets back. Yay!