CAMP!!

Well, I've made it to camp. Right now, I'm writing this on my tablet in my cabin cos the computers are always busy and painfully slow, so I'll just risk it and copy and paste this over later. I wish they had wifi! It sounds like I'm gonna get to have my own computer with internet in my little video cave so hopefully I'll be able to upload photos and stuff there.

Yesterday was my first day here and it was a nice chill out day, although it was kinda weird, the group of us that arrived on Wednesday night arrived just as everyone else was going out and so we missed all that, but we woke up to some stories. Turns out that one girl ended up getting fired yesterday for getting so bloody intoxicated, before even this thing called "precamp" begun today! So I think in the end I was pretty glad I wasn't there for that.

While I write this, there are some seriously weird noises coming from outside. We have been told they are frogs/bullfrogs/toads (I don't get the difference!) but they are so loud and weird! Today we had a talking to about the bears in the region, something new to think about. I am so thankful we don't ge bears at home, and snakes for that matter, but I'm yet to see a wild snake.

I don't know how often I'm going to get to update this, its a lot easier right now cos there are no campers, they arrive NEXT Sunday, so we have a while without them but once they get here, no phones are allowed to be seen etc, so we will see what happens. We have been told that we get off 2 nights a week which are from 7.30-1am which isn't too bad, and then we get one day off a week also which goes from 7.30am one morning till 7.30am the next. So hopefully we will get a bit more exploring done around the cities etc round here like Boston and NYC!

Today was information overload man! So much to take it, it was like starting at college in third form again, so much information! I should probably be reading that right now actually haha.

Turns out there are another 4 NZ counsellors here, from Dunaz, Invers and Chch and another from WGC haha (she was in Hannah's year). There is also a guy from the Tron in the kitchen and a man who helps run the place from Mt Maunganui. So ther are a few of us around which is nice. They know what I mean when I talk about Togs and Jandels (is it jandEls or jandAls?). There are a lot of Brits here which is nice, a few Americans, one South African and quite a lot from Hungary and one or two from Poland. Apparently quite a lot of the campers are internationals also which will be cool.

Hoping tomorrow to get to Walmart, there is so much I need to get! Maybe even a set of small plastic drawers, living out of a suitcase really isn't my style......And I need to get my ukulele!

Can't really think of much else to say right now. Oh, I've found a couple of people to go on a Les Mis movie date with when it comes out! Also managed to find some fellow directioners which is nice. I'm sure there will be more once all the campers arrive!

That is all for now everyone, hopefully I'll manage to post more photos soon!

So I wrote all that Friday night, and its now Sunday, but there have been a few fun things happen that I thought I should update about.

Last night, Saturday night, there was a rodeo in town so camp took a whole bunch of people down to it which was awesome. It was soo stereotypically American and hilarious! There were a whole bunch of these "confederate" flags which I learnt about which apparently made the whole thing a lot more hickish and American according to the locals. There was a giant horse which we paid $1 to go in and see (it was rather giant, but I felt so sorry for it, it was tied up so tight and looked so sad :-() but I refused to go into the animal freakshow, they had a 5 legged sheep out the front and it just looked so miserable that I couldn't pay and give the people that run the show my money.

Apart from that though, it was nice to get off camp for a bit. Just hang out with some people and see what the haps is around town. I was a little sad that we missed the horses and cattle run just for the lolz but what we went to was fun.

Oh yeah, one thing I mentioned is that we have to say Grace with every meal. They do have some cool graces, but I guess its just something I have to get used to. The other thing that happens every morning is the raising of the flag. They play the national anthem and raise the flag. Fun fact, the American Flag isn't allowed to touch the ground. If it does, you have to send it away to get burnt. Today, we wer talking about it and one of the Americans said to a Brit "what happens if you drop you're flag?" to which the Brit replies "pick it up, dust it off and get on with it". I loled.

Tonight, we went over to the guys camp -Awosting- for a camp fire which was fun. There were a whole bunch of skits and songs which were a lot of fun. I got pulled up for one - they obviously knew who I was and stuff (probably from precamp facebook) -anyway, my question was about who won RWC last year, I got very excited that I knew the answer and jumped when I pushed my buzzer (which happened to be on some poor guys head) and said who did, but the whole thing was rigged so I lost to some guy who said England invented Rugby so they win hahaha.....lame.....anyway, ended up drinking some cold curry soup which had whipped cream on top, not my fav! Thankfully I didn't have too much of the god awful stuff! All in the name of fun! Then a little later on, we had to play charades but we were told the people were gonna be acting and we had to guess totally what it was't. Pretty sure it was for the Star Wars one that I guessed the Justin Bieber 3D movie.....it got a good laugh which was nice.

Anywho, its hurting my neck to write this under this top bunk so I think I'll sign off.

Oh, one more thing, my cameras that I'm meant to film on, take floppy discs.....help!

I’ll do a post about my trip around LA soon!!