Charlette's Amazingly Awesome Travel Blog: Americans like to say "regular" a lot.

Yo yo yo dear readers. As its my night in and my campers go to bed at 9.30 I thought now was the perfect opportunity to write some stuff down!

Well, the campers have been here for 6 days now. Its been an interesting time. The campers in my cabin are pretty cool. They get a bit hyped sometimes but are pretty good about getting into bed which is nice. We had an incident earlier in the week where we we given some pretty strong evidence that a camper had their phone with them in the cabin, and so we were threatened with a "GI Party" which is where they take all your (campers only) stuff outside and you have to come and put it all back. We still haven't got the phone despite our biggest effort, but everyone is a little more vigilant now! It can be hard to get these girls to keep things tidy, but the promise of a pizza party at the end of the week for the tidiest cabin is a real bribe for these girls. Luckily I have a couple of draws that I can live out of so I'm able to keep myself reasonably tidy. We had a recycled fashion show tonight and that was fun, we managed to snag best formal wear in the intermediate cabins. Nawwwww. We have quite a few of our 11 campers who are only here for 2 weeks, so they leave next Saturday, so it will be interesting to see what happens with a new bunch, mixing with the people who are staying on.

I think I seem to be settling into camp life quite well. At the moment, in the mornings we have all the cabins going to each activity for 50 minutes to try everything out. Took me a while to get an idea of what to do (and in all honesty I think I scared them away with the amount of paperwork I'm having them do, but we only have one computer to edit on, so the more streamlined we make editing, the better!) but I eventually got there with a few cabins. I'm making them make a music video that tells a story. I eventually figured out that they would watch a music video and if I pause it they will tell me whats happening in that story, hello Taylor Swift!You Belong With Me is an awesome story video and the perfect example for the girls. And of course, so is What Makes You Beautiful (well, not as much, but it gives some good basic camera angles and techniques) so thats fun. With no influence from me, one group is doing I Just Can't Wait to be King telling the Wills story (I did have to correct a few of their facts however) and another doing What Makes You Beautiful. Love it. I'm also editing the session video which the girls take home with them. Its a lot of fun to play with and I hope we can sort out privacy laws soon so I can show you guys!

Last night (Thursday) was the first social of the year with Awosting. We have one a week. It was a nice chance to get a little dressed up (just a summer dress was all that was required) and a little boogie. It was so funny to see the segregation on the dance floor - mind you it was so damn hot that hardly anyone was even inside for most of it! It was deffo a highlight so far! I had to leave a little early though cos it was my night off so we decided to go bowling. That went pretty horrendously haha, I only got like 61 or something, whoopsie! Not even one strike :(.

One team - Tom (Kitchen, From the 'Tron) Charlotte (Waterfront Director, From England) Maja, (Arts and Crafts, From Holland) and Gabby (Kitchen, From England)

My team! Ruslan (Kitchen, From Russia), ME! Catherine (Kitchen, From England) and Angie (Kitchen, From Mexico)

Group Shot!

My score. Horrendous.

Today was pretty damn hot. It was like 95deg Fahrenheit, which I think works out around 30degrees Celsius. Hot anyway. And the humidity on top of that was not desirable either. They cancelled the second elective today and had what they call a "Coney Island" which is where everyone has to go in the water and cool off. Me being me, literally just jumped in, then out and went straight back to the video camera lol. But everyone was having a good time and it really was nice to get out there for a little. Meant to get even hotter tomorrow, rats!

Looking forward to Monday though when its my day off! I think we are planning on meeting somewhere for morning coffee, getting supplies and then heading to a beach to chillax for the day. I'm keen to head out to the, mall for a bit too, but I have a feeling we wont be able to convince the guys to do the same.

Oh yeah, while I remember, we woke up to such a severe thunderstorm on Monday, the lighting sounded like it was just above us. Awosting got all their phone lines cut out and their computers all crashed, so we were actually quite lucky. Great first day for some of these campers!

Anyway, must nip off, books to read, videos to watch.

Feel free to write me letters and postcards, my campers keep getting heaps of mail and I have none :(. I can email you the address if you want it

Catch yas xx

Sunday now, not much more to report. Went out for a drink last night and ended up talking to a guy from Awosting who is from Bath about Stephen Donald and Anthony Perenise . Lolz. We also talked Cricket. Was quite nice. First day off tomorrow!