June Review

This week I've just been thinking to myself "June is almost over, where did it go?" With that, I mark my summer being more than half way over. But it sure doesn't feel like that. I still have a lot planned for this summer. I've still got a lot to do before I go back to school this fall. I still have a lot of people to catch up with, I still have a lot to do. Plain and simple. And then I realize June ends today and I can't believe we're here already. So much has happened in the last month or two, and it just doesn't seem like I'm ready for summer to move at such a fast pace. Tomorrow July begins, and I have very high hopes. It's looking to be the best month of my summer, and I hope that's certainly true.

Last week was a very busy week for us in the kitchen. It was our largest group yet, and we're just really get the hang of things. This week is our last week through our first set of rotations. In other words, I'm doing the last of my different shifts this week. Thankfully, it will be a more relaxing week. It's called Camp StarBound, a group of students 8-18 who are here to practice their dance and show choir skills. This week the campers will not have any sort of disabilities, on of the two weeks that will happen this summer.There's about fifty girl campers and three boy campers, or so I here, which I guess makes sense since it's more of a dancing camp than anything. This week is also more laid back because they're doing most of their own programing, so they require less of us. There's no morning unit times and program staff only has to help with programing in the afternoon for a few hours. It'll be a nice week to prepare for another crazy week following this. I'm really looking forward to it.

After this week we'll begin to cycle through our shifts again, but this time it'll be a little bit different, we'll get to do more like modify our menus and be able to take more control of how the food is prepared and made. And after we cycle though our shifts again, we'll be on the last week. It seems so far away, but I know it'll creep up on us. So right now I'm looking forward to a wonderful July and another month with the friends I've made here before we depart (possibly forever) in August.


OH! And also, one last thought: yesterday on our time off we went in to town and stopped at McDonalds for lunch since we had gift cards and it was the strangest thing. We cook here with a lot o the food they have at McDonalds, so it was just weird to see cups, containers, water jugs, and other food supplies there that we see and use on a regular basis. Needless to say, a trip to McDonalds will never be the same.