Summer's here

I had to get an ultrasound taken today. They were checking on my liver and gallbladder. While they were doing the ultrasound, I asked them if I was pregnant. The younger one kind of forced a laugh out. I think they might of heard that joke one too many times. But I thought I was clever. That, or a smartass. After poking and prodding me for about twenty minutes, they gave me a towel so I could wipe the jelly off of my and let me put my shirt back on. I should be getting the results on Tuesday, even though I'll be up at camp.

I'm leaving tomorrow morning. I'm going to wake up, shower, eat, pack the bike, and leave. So don't expect any posts for awhile. I'll be coming back home in mid-August, or should I say leaving home to go back to my parent's house? Friday and Saturday, there will be an OA ordeal up at camp. I'm the lucky one(note the sarcasm) who gets to be the Taskmaster. I'm pretty sure my job is this: The Camp Director tell me what we wants done, and I give out the specific tasks to the DOMs. They, in turn, set their clans to work with those tasks and make sure they get done. The only thing I've ever done at ordeals were ceremonies, and those take place away from the rest of the work. On Sunday, the commemoration for the new totem pole will happen. There will be Haida dancing and everything. Even a salmon dinner. YUM! After that, me, Scott, and Ray will get to work on organizing Staff Week. Aaron also expressed some interest in becoming a commissioner for a week during the summer. I just need to talk to a few people and secure him a uniform, and he should be good. He'll be a good one also. He's a hard worker and understands that things need to get done. He's also not an old guy that creeps the rest of the staff at Sno-ho out. We've had more than our share of bad commissioners who think that their job is harder than ours. Just because they get three silver beads on their pouch doesn't mean they work any harder than an area staffer teaching four merit badges! Anywho, I'm really excited about this summer if you hadn't noticed already, and I figured that this should be a long post since it will be awhile before I post again. Out there, away from civilization, you can truly find yourself. You can feel free of the outside world. That is my home.

Staff Orientation

I got back from camp last night. Just about all of my stuff has been moved up there now. On Friday, Scott showed Rena and me the slide show and what we're going to be doing on Saturday. We went to town with Ray and watched the new Harry Potter movie. I was never a big fan of the Harry Potter movies but I really enjoyed this one. When we got back, we decided to hook up my ps2 to the projector that we had in the Pigott Lodge. We played DDR that night and it was so cool on the big screen! We woke up early the next morning to get ready for the orientation. More people showed up than I expected, most being new staffers. It was good seeing old and new faces. We ended the orientation by circling up and singing the Camp Brinkley and Camp Pigott Staff songs, a fitting ending. I'll be moving up to camp for good on Friday. I'll be taking my mom's motorcycle for the summer. It's a Honda Nighthawk 650cc. I'm so excited for this summer to begin. This is finals week for all of my friends and they will start filtering up to camp soon as well.

We got a lot of work done last weekend. I was in charge of fixing up Broken Bow, one of the campsites, on Saturday. Let me tell you, it was under water. It was ridiculously wet. There was also the matter of trees laying across the campsite. Its looking a lot better now though. I'm pretty sure all of the campsites got fixed up during the weekend. The best part was being able to see a lot of my fellow staffers again. We got off after dinner every night so there was a lot of time to hang out with them. Rena's coming over tomorrow night and we will be leaving here the next morning for camp again. Scott (the program director) and I need to finish getting ready for the staff orientation on Saturday. Pretty much everybody will be up for that event, and it will be much more laid back.