Last Week of Camp

This week is a ball of emotion. This is our last week of camp, and my last week living in California [for now] and we keep having "lasts" that I'm not ready to have. Everyday is now our last "day"- our last sunday, our last monday, our last... whatever. And it's weird. Little things that we keep doing week after week is now something we'll do for just one last time. And I don't like it. I started packing yesterday. Or at least I started organizing to start packing. It's hard to pack when I use a lot of the things I need to pack, so I have a feeling I'll just be packing on Friday before I leave on Saturday. I'm just trying to take in everything for the last time this week.

Last weekend me and three of my friends went to Lake Tahoe again. We had originally decided to go floating on the river, but they were closed, so we went to Kings Beach with Ali's family who came to visit for a few days, and I'm glad we did that. Ali's family is great and her younger sister, Lanie, is hysterical!! We hung out at the beach and went out for dinner and walked around the village by their condo, even sat around an outside gas campfire for awhile.

This week has already been good. The campers are great, and there's a lot of them. It's the largest group we've had all summer, so there's always plenty of people around. One thing that's stuck out about this group to me is their names. And maybe you'll think this is weird, but their names are unique that it's interesting to me. And most of them have "normal" american names, but it's the spelling that's different:

Jaramie instead of Jeremy
Shayne instead of Shane
Leia instead of Leah

The list goes on, but those are three of the ones I can think of now.

Last night we had the special olympics. The night was full of fun games such as javelin throw, disc throw, hockey, badminton, 100 meter dash, bowling and more! I got to act as photographer for a good portion of the night and then helped set up pins for bowling. All in a day's work.

I know I've probably said it before, but I'll say it again! I have been so blessed this summer, and I am so glad this opportunity was given to me. I will treasure my experience here and the friends I have made for the rest of my life. I know this is my last week, but I'm going to make the best of it and soak it in while it lasts.