It’s been a while since my last post so I figure it’s about time to do a little catching up. I'm sorry that I haven't been so regular lately as I was in the start. The past few weeks have been crazy busy with juggling work and my normal life. Ha! Sometimes I really can't tell the two apart. :) Here are some of the high lights from the past few weeks. Read the topics and if they interest you read on. Enjoy!
The cook at our site, Wayne, organizes a weekend every year called, “Climb and Vine.” We went to this place down the mountain called New Jack. There wasn’t snow but is was cool and quite windy. I was excited to finally use my climbing shoes that I bought from the 'damaged and dent' sale at REI. I drove down with Wayne, Emma, and my roommate Jessica. Jessica and I really just wanted to go camping. She wanted to try out her new tent and I wanted to use my new stove. But it didn't turn out to be the kind of camping we were thinking of.
When we got there we got there we set up camp and then hit the rock. Jessica did the longest climb there. It wasn't to hard but it challenged your endurance. She did great! I went up one run that was about a 9.8. It was really hard at the top when your hands can't move or hold onto anything because they are so cold and tired.
This is a photo of me mid-climb. It was really fun but SO cold! Some people passing by made a comment to my friend about my hands. They said, "She's got some crazy gloves!" I actually wasn't wearing any gloves at all. It's just that my hands turn funny colors when I'm cold and so apparently my hands where so red that it looked like I was wearing gloves. You can click on the picture below and see it for yourself.
After we were done climbing we went back to start dinner only to find that Jessica and my tent had blown over! Oops! We put in the stakes but I guess that wasn't enough. Jessica's poor tents maiden voyage did not fair so well because the wind actually put some holes in her tent. :( It was still funny and so then when Jessica and I set up our tent for the second time we choose a better location and came up with the idea of putting rocks inside of our tent to keep it on the ground, which actually worked! :)
So besides the wind and the cold it was a fun weekend to hangout with some different people and to get off the mountain for a while.
Working at Edwards
The week before last I got sent over to our other site, Edwards, to work. I had a cabin shift that challenged me like it hasn't before. Going over to the other site is always difficult because they do somethings a little differently than we do at Nawakwa but these 15 girls presented some different challenges. At the beginning of the week I had to deal with the contagious homesickness but we got them laughing by playing some games. They really liked to talk about boys and so when they asked about John, they wanted to know everything. They wanted to know if he was cute (yes), his eye color (blue), and what he did for a living (works for health insurance, which they translated to that he was a doctor!).
The trouble started mid-week when the girl drama started. The girls started to form clicks when we waited for the bathrooms. They would stand around whispering to each other. The girls would gossips and talk about boys and relationships. It didn't really know how to deal with this since when I was growing up I tried to avoid all of that kind of stuff. I knew that the tension in cabin was high and so I sought out some advice. As a cabin we ended up having a talk about gossiping and decided to put an end to it. This helped and was just a preview to what is a head as these 6th graders are now becoming 7th graders when the drama gets worse. Yikes! :) Oh drama...drama...drama
Huntington Beach
After a crazy week all just wanted to get out of the snow and relax so we went down to Kelly's house at Huntington beach. It was really nice! I got my taxes done! woohoo! I'm such a big girl! :) And I also went for a run! Two in fact! On Sunday we went out to the beach which was so nice! The water was cold but it was just so beautiful! A bunch of us went for a run to the pier on the beach. It felt so nice but hurt my arches a little bit.
Time and a half
This past week was another one of those weeks that is just so crazy that you can hardly tell one day from the other! I was working a time and a half plus covering for my friend Kelly on Monday. I only really had Tuesday off for my phone interview with Wood Lake Nature Center. Otherwise I was working around the clock. To add to it all I taught line dancing and had a total of 17 girls in my cabin. It was crazy!
The school I was with was a privileged high maintenance fifth graders. It was amazing to see the difference between 5th and 6th grade! The first couple nights I had about 5 girls who were homesick which seemed to spread like wild fire. I had one girl who cried every night! I had another student who I was warned had some social issues and was a little demanding. Her name was Delaney and she really only gave me trouble the first day. She cried the whole time carrying her luggage until after lunch when she magically got better and had no problems. Then she threw another fit when I tried to get her wear green gear pants. hmm...I thought, my week is off to a great start! :) It actually wasn't so bad but was definitely hard.
We didn't have proper drinking water so we were boiling and bottling water all week and many of the staff was sick or on vacation. This made it a challenge for everyone to be covering shifts and make it to the end of the week. But now it is here! Yah!
3 Day Weekend!
This weekend we are just kid of rolling with the punches and really don't have many plans. Last night we got some money from our boss to go to dinner and a movie. It was a nice break after such a crazy week. We went to go see Alice in Wonderland in 3D. It was so crazy to go see a movie in theaters since I haven't seen one since Christmas. :) It was good and relaxing. We'll see what the rest of the weekend bring??? Maybe camping in Malibu? Who knows?
Other updates
I finally got to talk to my parents and found out about my mom's new job! Woohoo! She's going to work at a health center for seniors. It's all brand new and sounds really exciting.
My parents also told me that they've began working on the kitchen remodeling again. It sounds there are some big plans and of course mom wants to have more white! It's fun to hear the plans for the design and styles they are thinking of. Yeah new kitchen! :)
As I mentioned above I had an interview for an internship as a Naturalist at Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield. It would be a great position if I can get it. There was a little confusion with the position at the interview but I'm working on smoothing that out and hopefully the out come will be good. We'll see... there's still plenty of time...
That's all for now! I hope this was interesting and I didn't bore you with too many details. :) Thanks for reading! I miss you Minnesota! I hope you are all well! Thinking of you lots!
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