I like to view my life as a series of grand adventures. This blog will be mostly dedicated to sharing them as well as my views and opinions of events and ideas. I am currently a therapeutic recreation intern working at a summer camp for people of all ages who have disabilities. I love it! There could not be a group of people who are easier to love. I am sure as the summer progresses there will be more entries about them and the antics and drama of camp life. After that, who knows where life's next adventure will take me, that's what makes it so exciting!
Here's a little taste of camp:
This last week at camp, we had a pirate themed kick-off party. The other interns and myself were dressed as pirates, complete with eye patches and a plastic sword I'd found in the arts and crafts closet. I passed through a group of campers to go and set up for the party, and talking like a pirate tried to get them excited about the pending party. They were excited to see a pirate and a young boy about 7 years old, stopped me and asked me what kind of sword I had. I told him to take a look and he excitedly stepped up to examine it. After only a moment's inspection he gave me a disappointed look and simply said "ninja." I frantically tried to convince him that I was actually half pirate and half ninja, but he shook his head and walked away. How was I to know that it wasn't actually a pirate sword?
Later that same evening as the party was starting, I was handing out pirate eye patches for the kids to wear. A counselor came up to me and said "Little," (that's my camp name) "I think it's so funny that you're wearing a ninja sword!" I was dumbfounded. In a matter of a few minutes two people had called me out on mixing up my swords! I never would have thought twice if I'd seen that sword on a pirate! All I can say is: be careful not to get your swords crossed; the kids are watching!
