Hey y'all!
Middle of the camp week- tomorrow is the last full day of camp, and tomorrow is OMC, which stands for Organized Mass Chaos. It is what it says it is- 350 kids, shaving cream, hoola hoops, skipping, jumping, yelling, smashed bananas in hair, singing, ice water poured over heads... last week I ended up with so much shaving cream in my hair that my kids were able to spike it. It was pretty hilarious. But mostly just shaving cream-y and gross. Talk about insanity! Here are some OMC pictures:





I would love to get some snail mail while I'm here in Georgetown. If you wanna send me mail that would be so great! You can send it to this address:

Miriam Rowe
Centri-Kid Staff
Georgetown College
400 East College Street
Georgetown, KY 40324

Humorous Happenings from the Camp Week

Some more humorous camp occurences:

Last weekend our team went to a coffeeshop downtown called the Lock 'n' Key for some unwinding time before getting ready to start camp. Brandon stood in a corner, contemplating the coffee beans for a while, and then said (to no one in particular),
"Is it faux pas to sniff the beans?"

...I guess he decided that whether it was or not he was gonna sniff the coffee beans, because he sat there and was entertained for a long time by sniffing the beans.



The second funny thing involves Kyle. There's always that one kid at camp who everybody knows and everybody has funny stories about. Well this week Kyle was "that kid". He is going into fourth grade, is around 3 and a half feet tall (still too short to ride roller coasters, he informed me), blonde hair, freckles, gap-teeth, and a cast on his arm because he fell out of a tree a few weeks ago.

Kyle is a great story teller, and during free time on Thursday he was telling me this long, involved story that started out as a story about playing foursquare, then moved to a story about baseball. He was still in the middle (as far as I could tell) of his story about baseball when he got really quiet and sat down on the lawn. I went and sat next to him and he was quiet for a few minutes and I could tell he was contemplating something. After a little bit he looked up at me and said very seriously,

"I'm allergic to squirrels."

Me (caught a bit off-guard): "Oh really? How do you know that?"
Him: "Well, I don't know that Im' allergic to squirrels, but I think I might be."
Me: "Well what makes you think that you are?"
Him: "Whenever I get within a foot of a squirrel I start sneezing like CRAZY!"
Me: "That sounds like a pretty good reason to think that you're allergic to squirrels. How often do you get that close to squirrels?"
Him: "All the time."
Me: "Do you like to sneak up on them and see how close you can get?"

At this point Kyle looks around, then looks behind his back, then leans in toward me and says,
"They like to sneak up on me."

Done, Done, and on to the Next One!

First week at camp was cool, chaotic, and great. It's over, we've moved from Lambuth College in Tennessee to Georgetown University in Georgetown, KY. We don't have internet for the first week here at Georgetown, but I'm taking quick advantage of a stop-in at a local coffeeshop in town. Camp starts again tomorrow, which means another week of sixteen hour workdays, super-speedy meals, and hundreds of hot, sweaty, dirty campers who love you and want to be just like you when they grow up. Lots of learning of new things and lots to do. Give me a call and leave me a sweet voicemail during the week, since I won't have internet access for a while. So anyway, lots to write about but it'll hafta wait because my whole team is standing in line to use my computer and the interwebs. Love y'all!

p.s. Photos of camp-thus-far can be found at http://uga.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2079831&l=a35cf&id=4922861

"Welcome to camp- kids come today!"

"Welcome to camp- kids come today!"
This has been our battle cry for a while- "Welcome to camp- kids come next week!"..... "Welcome to camp- kids come in a few days!"..... and now the big day is here. Exciting! :-) This first week of camp is a smaller crowd- we'll only have about 200 kids. Most weeks it will be 500 or more. It's rather nice to be able to start out small.


A rather funny moments in the life of our team:

We were praying for each other, and part of the prayer time the guys prayed for the girls and then the girls prayed for the guys. The girl who was praying for the guys started off with, "God, thankyou for these men that you've put on our team this summer. Thankyou for the leaders that they are and please help them become even stronger leaders as the summer progresses. God, please let these men burn with fashion......
......
....i mean, passion......"
She prayed some more, but I don't think any of us heard anything after that. We were too busy shaking with laughter. When she finished the prayer we all fell down, rolling with laughter.