Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamp!!

Yay summer! Wow I have not been on here in a while. Not much internet access at camp! So now that I am at camp…. I am going to make all my updates about that! No camper names will be mentioned (for confidentiality purposes). Not only is this for me to keep a record of everything that happens, but also to let everyone know how awesome it is!! And, well I really suck at keeping in touch with people over the summer. Not much free time! But that’s okay with me!!

What camp do I work at? Only the best: Camp Twin Lakes!! A camp for kids with life challenges and serious illnesses. There’s a new camp pretty much every week! We cover kids of all shapes, sizes, and disabilities. I am at the Rutledge site, but I went to Will-a-way during staff training!

What do I do? I am on the arts and music staff leading drumming, radio, ceramics, improv, and dance sessions. I am also in our ballin band, the CeeTLes playing drums (yes drums. Right now just a djembe) and whatever else. A post dedicated to the band will follow!

What’s new? My nametag says “LeeLee” not Lelia. Let’s face it, it doesn’t quite look like it sounds and this is MUCH easier for kids to say! And lots of them say it all the time!

This week is Camp Braveheart, which is for kids with congenital heart defects and transplants. The campers are between 7 and 13 years old. They got here Sunday and tonight was the TALENT SHOW!! Let’s just talk for a moment about how incredibly cute all the kids were doing their respective talents. Outside my cabin buddies (cabin 8 what what!) I have to say that my favorite act was a group of 7 year old boys doing magic tricks! You could not take the smiles off their faces throughout the whole thing! There is a girl in my cabin who is always in her own little world (I have 12 year old girls this week) and when she got up to sing, it was a whole new person! Everyone was in shock. She was hamming it up like nobody’s business. I could go into exact details about every act that I remember, but to sum up the talent show I will say this: Justin Bieber’s “Baby” or whatever it’s called is OFFICIALLY the most popular song of the summer.

More later, but for now I leave you with the saying on the back of our 2010 staff shirts: There’s a camp for that. And there is at CAMP TWIN LAKES!!