My first official week of camp is done! I am so glad it's over! It was definitely rough. My dishwashing partner, Jessica, was made a temporary counselor so she wasn't even in the kitchen a majority of the time. My "boss", the cook and one of her assistants were so helpful though and pitched in. We were feeding 265 people! And I get to do it all over again this coming week, cuz we'll have 280 people. But Jessica won't be a counselor again so I'll have her and my younger sister is volunteering to work this week too, so even more help! It is os hard to work with Jessica, especially with everyone around her not liking her, which I am working so hard on! Sometimes I can't help but get frustrated. Yesterday, she was supposed to help after dinner but she had to go to a staff meeting for counselors so I was by myself. Sort of. It was chicken pit, which is where campsites have to clean different places everyday and thur, whoever has the least points have to come in the kitchen and work. When she walked out the door, Ken threw his water bottle on the floor and told me he threw it for me since I didn't have anything to throw. I laughed. I love that guy. Which goes to show looks shouldn't matter, he has a mohawk, lip piercing, ear piercings, two tattoos. But one of them says family, which I think is cool. Today I went tubing, it was my first time ever and it was A LOT of fun! And now my upper arms hurt from holding on so tight so I wouldn't fall off. Even though I complain about it, I love my summer job and I'm thinking about moving up to cook's assistant next summer. I love Karen and Ken. They are amazing! Karen and this other woman, Juleah, decided to hold a Bible Study, cuz they're both Christian and I was invited to join in. We've only had one so far but it was cool. We talked about bushes and trees. How bushes have no roots so they dry up and die but trees have roots so they can get water from streams and how we're like trees and Jesus is living water and with him by our side, we'll never get thirsty. It was interesting. And I liked it. the lady I had been watching, June, she died Tuesday, kinda sad but I think everyone knew it was coming :( I'm pretty sure I had a lot more to say, but my brain is tired. I just saw Ed's email about Pastor Chuck resigning, that's sad, I liked him. Just a side note, I love Karen, out of the many Christian women I have met, I feel closest to her. She's like my mom away from home. I have three or four moms now. One in Oswego, one at camp and then my mom :-) Karen is amazing, in case you haven't caught on yet. She's one of the few reasons I decided to work at Oswegatchie again this summer. And if someone came to visit me, I'm sure he'd be able to meet her (hint hint). I am so amazed by God. I only need 2300 to come back to Oz now, thats for fall and spring :-) So yeah, that's another lovely week in the life of me. Love you all!! Oh! So on the fourth of July, a bunch of us played card games and then someone had told us about this parade a bunch of residents near camp had. He told us it was at 1:30 so we all got dressed up in random clothes from the arts and crafts building (I wore an orange curly wig, yellow raincoat, weird tie and a black hat with a big purple flower on it). we climbed into the back of this guy's truck and drove down the road. No one was around. Turns out the parade wasn't until 6 pm. So some of us went into the main building and watched four movies total. We watched Transformers, which I LOVE, Swing Vote (I hated that itidnt tell us who he ended up voting for), Chicago (lost respect for Queen Latifah), and A Walk to Remember (LOVE it!!). Ok, I'm done now. I'm gonna go watch tv now or somethin. Adios.