Here's what all happened!
FRIDAY: I woke up crazy early to go to DPS and get my license renewed, I then ran some errands (talk about last minute packing), brought Kole lunch and dad a lemonade from Chick-fil-a, and then went home. I loaded up my car (to the brim I might add)...
...and then went over to Renee's to help her pack for the camp that she is working at this summer. At around 1:00 I left Renee's and headed off to CHO-YEH! I rolled into camp around 2:30, and drove down to the cabin that I was going to be staying at this week. There were people taking a nap in there, so I quietly unloaded my car (not unpacking), and drove back up to the parking lot. I found Lindsey (co-counselor from last summer) and Carley (best friend) and we sat at the Cho-dome (basketball court) talking and catching up, while meeting the new people as they walked by.
For dinner, we all dressed up in one of the costumes that we have for the various theme nights this summer (pirate, hillbilly, nerd, luau) and had a cookout. There was a lot of introducing ourselves to each other and trying to remember all the names of the people that you had met. After dinner there were icebreaker games, and then there was a huge meeting where all of the leadership team was introduced and we talked about Cho-Yeh's mission and vision. Later, we had praise and worship around a camp fire (yes... there was in fact a burn ban) while making smores. We all then went back to our cabins to create our cabin's "full value contract" (essentially the rules that we want in place for our campers for the following week--often created on Sunday nights) and went to bed early. Well, like 11:30--which would prove to be early considering the times the lights finally went out the rest of the week!
SATURDAY: On Saturday we did typical morning things (prayer meeting, pretty potty (cabin cleaning), quiet time, and breakfast), and then spent 3 hours doing low ropes. It was a lot of fun getting to experience low ropes with people I had never met before, and getting the opportunity to get to know them more. We then had lunch, and had a cabin life round robbin where we learned about various different parts of camp. We had our first rally that afternoon, and learned how to have effective one-on-ones with our campers. We then had a camper bible study (all of this years bible studies are interactive--so neat!) and dinner. and then praise and worship that night with a speaker. We went back to our cabins and learned how to lead a devo, and finally went to bed... LONG (yet amazing) day!
SUNDAY: Morning things, 2 different Camper Bible Studies, learned how to "love your camper", lunch, rally, signed up for activities, learned how to run "lost campers" (person who walks around during activity periods to make sure that all the cameprs are where they need to be), had 2 more Camper Bible Studies (there are a total of 10 that are on 2 week rotations), had dinner, praise and worship, and then had a devotional back at our cabin. The 8 girls in my cabin got super close--it was really neat because we all came from different walks of life.
MONDAY: Morning things, we reviewed fundamental key points of Christianity, and how to not delve into different denominations and difference within their beliefs. We then had rally and Alpha/Omega showdown, and signed up for different Staff Bible Studies that we were interested in participating in. We had lunch out at the pool which was fun to just relax and chill (and watch a bunch of guys attempt to play water polo... they walked on the bottom, wrestled, and caught the ball with 2 hands...). We then learned how to meet campers where they are in their relationship with Christ and had to expand upon that. We had another camper Bible Study, and then got to go to an activity to learn how to teach it. I played volleyball for about an hour--I still got it down! We then learned about what to do if there is an emergency at camp. After all of that, we went to dinner at Garret's house (camp director). The food was yummy and the fellowship was awesome! We got into small groups and just talked and got to know each other, what was supposed to be a 30 minute conversation took about 3 hours... I don't think we got back to camp until after midnight. By the time we all showered and did devo, it was around 1. Another girl in my cabin ended up sitting on the porch and talking till about 3--it was such a great conversation that we really didn't care what the time was!
TUESDAY-after 3ish hours of sleep I was exhausted! Morning things, praise and worship, Camper Bible Study, lunch, and then we spent some time playing at the lake at camp. After that we got a chance to learn about the different ages of campers and try to figure out where we want to start out the summer. We then went to our 3rd activity (I went to sling shots). After that we had a question/answer session with returning counselors/new counselors. At that point, I had to pack up my cabin in order to head back to Houston for Senior Stuff this week.
Let me just say--this summer is going to be a phenomenal one! It's going to be hard at times, and I'm going to miss my family and friends back in Houston quite a bit, but I know that God is going to be doing amazing things this summer at Cho-Yeh, and I'm so excited that I will be there to witness and partake in them!
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