JB-What A Day!

Yesterday was officially Day 1 of training for JBA, the summer camp I work for. The job is a combination between glorified camp counselor and teaching assistant and it is the best summer camp type job in the world. This is my second year and I'm so glad to be back. I met all of the new staff and got to have some fun with the old staff as well and it seems like we are going to have a really strong team this year.

As a preceptor at JBA, one of the responsibilities is to make door decorations and a bulletin board, which I touched on in an earlier post. I have some photo updates on that front. I made Walk of Fame Stars and pairs of flip flops for each of my girls and my Boggle board game bulletin board is well on its way, it even has velcro on the letters so that I can change them part of the way through camp.

With all of that crafty work and hours of getting to know you games (including Mafia where I lasted the longest I ever have and successfully helped with identifying three of the seven mafia members), I was exhausted by the end of the day, which came around 11pm, but I still hadn't unpacked anything so I was up until 2:30 am getting my four-person room situated for just me. Note: I am once again sleeping on a mega bed, this time with four mattresses.

The next few days are general JBA training, but the real fun starts when the kids arrive. I'm so excited for the theatre class! At the end of the session the students perform a 30-minute play and this year we are doing Witch Fairy and (NERD ALERT) I get to stage manage it!!!!! I spent many hours over the past few weeks making the ultimate stage management kit specifically to show off to the kids--and to use of course. It's a tackle box that is roughly two feet tall and it is full of medical supplies and highlighters. I've actively "geeked out" over it on several occasions.

If yesterday was any indication of how my summer is going to go, bring it on because it's going to be fantastic!!!