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Saturday, 26 August 2006

so yeah, never finished that entry, or any after that. and in case you were wondering, i have no intention of doing so. fourth session of camp was totally amazing, but i'm gonna leave the memories to my mind. and also, this is gonna be the last time i post here. i finally joined the myspace craze, so i'm using the blog there, which means here is no longer necessary. so if you're supposed to know what my myspace is, you will (if not, too bad). i'll be continuing my blog there. this blog is officially dead. so says me. fare thee well.
~Hoshi

Thursday, 10 August 2006

CURRENTLY:
- Feeling: rushed. i don't have a lot of time to post now, and i'm definitely not finishing
- Listening to: fan lol
- Doing while I write this: chillin'
- Loving: the fact that today was awesome
- Hating: the fact that i lost my one earring (it's a silver-colored dangly earring that's the kanji for "happiness") and that driving today was crazy (will explain)
QUOTE: "No smiling, please." -a sign. mai and i were at the state fair today, and they had one of those old time photo places where we got pictures taken (we were saloon girls yay) and there was a sign there that said it. i think i had a better quote, but i can't think of it right now...

so, as i mentioned, today mai and i went to the state fair (i won't tell you what state, though). but first, a lil about what happened before we got there. last night, i was thinking about not going cuz i was so tired i was crying (a lot) and i just wanted to go to sleep, but in the morning i felt better, so i went. first i went back to camp cuz ashleigh was gonna come with me. on the way, i filled out an application for a cafe i wanna work at once school starts, got stuck in this hideous traffic mess cuz a road was only letting one lane go at a time cuz of roadwork and i had to wait for like 10 minutes, visited ******* and got a book from him that i wanted to borrow (i already read it, but i wanted to see one part of it), and got lost. i was driving down the road looking for the sign that would lead me to camp, and i missed it. a few minutes later i notice things getting unfamiliar, and then i see a sign that kindly informed me i was entering the next county. not cool. so i turned around and on the way back, i found the camp sign and turned and got there okay. the only problem was, ashleigh wasn't around (i later learned she'd gone to walmart), so i couldn't go with her. on my way to the fair from camp, i almost got lost again cuz i made a turn i wasn't sure about, but quickly realized i'd made the mistake and corrected it. things were going fine until i got there, where i got into my first car accident! the car in front of me and i were stopped and people were waving us into parking spots. the first car went and i followed to park behind them, and i thought my foot was on the brake when in fact it was on the gas, so i slammed on it, thinking i was gonna stop, but instead shot forward and hit them. luckly, no one and nothing was hurt (no damage done or anything). however, i lept out of the car and started practically having a panic attack. i burst into tears cuz my nerves were racked enough from getting lost and not sleeping much lately and i was freaking out, and the people were all trying to comfort me and stuff and i apologized about a hundred times for hitting them and for crying and once i'd calmed down a bit i told them i would be okay and we went our separate ways. but damn it was scary!!!

so then i was at the fair, and i'll write about that another time cuz i need to go now.

Wednesday, 09 August 2006

CURRENTLY:

Feeling: lazy
Listening to: AC (back home again)
Doing while I write this: being cool
Loving: the fact that tomorrow i'm hanging out with some friends
Hating: the fact that tomorrow i'm hanging out with some friends and therefore can't sleep late and laze around all day

QUOTE: "...your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others." -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (yes, i've finally started reading my summer homework assignments)

so before i forget, the all-night OD things aren't going down cuz caitlin told us not to do them. so we're back to the old method. boohoo.

so yeah, i've been lazy about posting here, mostly cuz nothing exciting's been going on. like i'm having fun and stuff, and there are things i love and things i hate, but nothing i'm compelled to write about, so this is gonna be short. um, let's see.

noteworthy things for monday: evening activity was a steeplechase, which means we have zoomed in pics of things at camp and we gotta figure out what it is and go there for the next pic, and each pic has a line from a lil story so we gotta make the whole story. our cabin won, but only cuz Tara and Kelsey were in it to win it. our campers were glad they won, but it was bittersweet (which has been my word lately) cuz Tara was like forcing them to run and being a hassle to me as well. i was pretty pissed and talked to caitlin about her again. oh joy. but i'm over it now, so whatev.

noteworthy things for tuesday (yesterday): one counselor Karen had to lead a croquet activity, but she had no idea how to play so i ended up leading it, which is fine cuz, secretly, i love croquet. only problem is like no one played and the whole activity just fell apart at the seams. very bad. i was so aggrivated cuz it's not that i'm bossy, but i hate people not doing what someone in an authoritative position tells them to. i was raised that if someone told you to do something, you did it (granted, i'd whine a lot, but i'd usually do it), so sometimes people not following that same guideline agitates me. but, like with Tara, i'm over it now, so whatev. lol. so that night, the awesome game of Paranoia began. for paranoia, every person has a target, and they have to elimiate their target by tapping them on the forehead. once you eliminate someone, you get their target, and the game continues. now if someone sees you eliminate someone, they can say they saw it and the elimination is nul, and the target now knows you're after them. good times. my camper Devon had me, but she didn't want to eliminate me, so she told me and promised not to. later today, i was getting really bored with the game cuz i didn't wanna kill my target (my target was Chris, a rather sweet little boy who as Down's Syndrom or something similar to that) and i knew who had me and that i was safe. so i told Devon to kill me, which she did, then she took my target, but she didn't wanna play the game anymore, so she went around seeking her killer. it's really funny cuz she said she wanted to be eliminated to one of the counselors, then out of nowhere comes Josh, the counselor who has her, and he eliminates her. numerous other members of my cabin have been killed as well. good times with paranoia. last thing for yesterday, our evening activity was split into boys and girls cuz we had a rap session with one of the doctors where we could ask any question we wanted about diabetes and life. some good questions, too. so while the boys went first, the girls did a photo scavenger hunt, where we had to find various things at camp and answer some trivia, and when we found each item, we needed to get a picture of it, which was the really fun part (and probably the sole purpose of the activity). we took hilarious photos of the items (including one of me pointing with a terrifed expression to a canoe, the item we had to find) and it was just a lot of fun. so the rap session was pretty cool, and we carried it back to the cabin. i didn't get to be in on it cuz i had off, but when i came back they were still talking (these kids are allowed to stay up till 11, vs. the other kids where lights out was 10) and i'd wished i'd stayed cuz they seemed to be having fun. but oh well. maybe we'll have another one. OD was fun cuz like everyone was low at 12:30s, and i ended up staying up till like 2 checking everyone and making sure they were coming up okay. not fun, esp. cuz one girl was 30 at one point. heh...

and today: paranoia struck with Ian, one of my newspaper kids. Kelsey has him, and went with us to newspaper to kill him. he managed to avoid her, and from then on was paranoid. for the newspaper, we're doing a paranoia diary thingy, and his entry was SOOOOOOOOOO funny cuz he exaggerated everything about his encounter with Kelsey. it was awesome. i love newspaper when we have good writers. so um...Ashleigh and i did karate today for one of the activities, which was fun cuz it was pretty much just my cabin and like two other people, and almost everyone had already done some form of martial arts, so for like the last 15 minutes, we just showed off all the fun stuff we knew. good times. so now i'm off, and will be until 6 tomorrow night. tomorrow, i'm hanging out with Mai and i'm pretty excited about that. yay time off and spending it with friends (esp. cuz Asheligh is gonna be hanging out with us too cuz she has the day off and wanted to get away from camp for a bit).

Sunday, 06 August 2006

CURRENTLY:
- Feeling: gooda
- Listening to: counselors talking...and the fan
- Doing while I write this: nuttin special
- Loving: schtuff. lol. i guess most that my counselors and i have developed a system where we each take one full night of OD rather than shifts. so i get the whole night off except for 4 nights, and i can get more things (like summer homework) done on the all-night ODs
- Hating: that we have 10 campers and 3 counselors, and that one of them lives in the lil hovel with me (CITs and JCs share the lil back area, and normally during 4th session when there are no CITs, JCs get the back area for themselves, but i have to share it with a camper cuz we have so frickin' many!!!)
QUOTE: caitlin was reading us the things that weren't allowed at camp, and one of the items listed was machine guns. my reply: "Are regular handguns allowed?"

so, session 4 and i think i love it already. lol. omg nothing bad happened to me today (i mentioned that i have horrible luck on intake day). granted, last night ryan went really low and like didn't come up for a while, and i felt weird for a while, and i went low at 3 in the morning, but honestly, it was nothing that bad.

since there are no more CITs, JCs have to do the jobs on intake day. super frickin' duper. but i was lucky. i got to be the one who sat at the entrance and told the parents what cabin their kids were in and where they needed to go next. it was easy, and i got to meet all my kids in advanced. however, most of my campers i already knew. becca requested me, and katherine ended up in our cabin, too, as did ashley, who i had last year. then megan and devon i didn't have as campers, but i hung out with them. the other kids all seem cool too, but one girl is so shy and quiet, like she whispers all the time, even at like lunch when it's really noisy. the only reason i knew what she asked for at the lunchtable was cuz i could read her lips. but all in all, i like our group. we're generally loud and excited, and just in general this session seems cooler cuz the kids are more mature and responsible for themselves, like we don't need to nag them or anything. anyway, yeah, i have 10 kids in my cabin: the 8 usual beds are filled, the one in the back with me is filled, and we have a camper on the top bunk of one of the beds, which technically isn't allowed by law cuz if she has a seizure and like falls off, we're screwed, but we need to cuz like i said, there are so many kids this session (but just for the girls. the guys have a decent amount, and JCs don't have to share beds). as for my counselors, i have tara and kelsey again (both i've had before). they're pretty cool, but for some reason i feel like there's a barrier there. like, they aren't mean to me or anything, but it just feels like there's a block. but whatever. so half my girls are crazy about anime, which makes me very happy. i just need to remember not to befriend the kids this year cuz i had a problem with that last year (with becca and katherine, as a matter of fact). so i'm trying to keep my head about me. let the kids play with other kids.

anyway, today was pretty dull. the pool is broken (apparently, the filter got hit by lightning...) so we couldn't go swimming, and instead we played get to know you games. the evening activity was dutch auction, and I GOT TO BE THE CALLER!!!!! i was so frickin' happy!!! lol. it was fun. i went really low during it so i kept forgetting what i wanted to call, but i didn't treat the low (didn't wanna stop the game) and eventually felt better. towards the end other counselors wanted to call things, which i didn't like cuz i was so happy i got to be caller, but i kindly relinqished my post and helped them come up with weird things to call, and boy did we have some weird ones lol.

anyway, i have off tonight cuz of this whole one person OD thing, and frankly i'm gonna go to bed cuz i'm tired. but gonna shower first, so i'm gonna go do that...lol