It's been a long time since I've updated this page, and a lot has happened! Mid-June I started JST (joing staff training), a time of preparation for the summer. It was a great week full of preparing what we would be teaching the kids during the summer, and doing many crazy activities. In some ways it was like being a camper at a week of camp for me. It's been quite a few years since I went to a week of camp, so I really enjoyed it.
The biggest highlight of the week was spending time with my good friends on staff with me at Wilderness Ranch. Also, I enjoyed the toilet bowl olympics. Okay, so this is how toilet bowl olympics work: there are 4 different camps involved in JST, and we have this toilet bowl that is hidden each year in a different place in the camp that hosts JST that year. Last year, Wilderness hosted JST, and the toilet bowl was hidden on our property. We found it, and hid it this year at Hastings Lake Bible camp where JST was held. Throughout the week of JST, each camp gets to make up a crazy activity that we have to compete in each day. This year we had some interesting activities. First and most disgusting of all was a relay involving dunking your head in a rubbermaid full of lukewarm oatmeal and mashed potatoes to search for bouncy balls. Yuck! After everyone found one, we as a team had to consume a large can of Spam or a can of artichoke hearts. The pictures speak for themselves. I honestly felt a little sick after that one.
Wilderness Ranch's competition was also quite memorable. It was a fire-building competition. The catch was, there were only 2 axes and 2 knives for 4 teams. So we had to compete for the axes and knives by snot-putting marshmallows into each other's mouths, and dropping grapes into each other's mouths from our buttocks. Sounds crazy?? It was!
Altogether it was an awesome week.
The end of June, we had a work week at Wilderness to prepare our facilities for the onslaught of kids that would inevitably start coming the first week of July.
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