I'm on the website!

Well, I've finally made it onto the Mini-Yo-We website! It's not really that big of a deal, but I'm excited. I am hidden away deep in the site on this page, only to be overshadowed by the picture of my ex-girlfriend who is prominently displayed in the top-left corner of every page but the front, but that is another story for another time. It's okay, though, because all I need to do is wait another year-and-a-half for the site to be redesigned.

My job at Mini-Yo-We is the greatest. Well, everything except the pay, but that's not my biggest concern. Being at camp during the year is so different from the summer. No people complaining about being underpaid (even though 2007 was the first summer workers were actually paid, past years we were only able to earn from fundraising), no people complaining about the new rule that has everyone angry at whomever they wish to blame, usually the Director. There is a wider variety of groups that come, from school groups to Youth Retreats to a group of ladies who come to sew for a weekend.

The only thing that I don't like about Year-Round programs at camp is that the groups aren't in the whole time. There are times when no one can be found in the whole camp, and that gets a little spooky. Luckily, I have DOG to keep me company.

This year I'm learning how to do everything that has to do with camp. Getting my NLS should be fun (not!) and useful, but I think the most fun will be getting my Chainsaw license in November. It should be awesome.

The staff up here are great, but not really my age at all. The guy who is closest to my age is twenty, which is close, I guess, but he hangs out with Shane a lot. Everyone is awesome up here, though. Even Mike A.

I'm missing ATF this weekend, which is alright. Apparently all it is is one big ad for Youth Missions, which I have some different views on, but there are a lot of my friends who are going, all of them friends who I have not seen since the summer. It's alright, though. We have a group of seventy in right now, which got a little hectic on the administrative end of things, having only two staff working in year-round ministries right now, but we managed to get enough people to work.

It's pouring outside, and I'm tired. Plus, there's not much reason that I should not go to sleep right now, so that's what I am going to do.

Removing the Docks 2007

The coolest thing so far this year was removing the docks from the South Camp waterfront. It wasn't exactly the hardest job that I have done so far, but it was one of the most time-consuming ones, next to setting up the two stupid portable garages that were "easy set-up, easy take-down", but that is a completely different story.

The best part about taking out the docks, though, was that there was a crane there! Not the animal, but the huge machine that can lift much more than I can. It was awesome! I think it could lift a maximum of 36000 somethings. Pounds or tons, I forget which. I have a video of the crane in action. It's not too exciting and it is rather long and probably not worth watching, but I have nowhere else to put it.

So, yeah. The dock day was pretty fun and exciting. We also moved some giant canoes aka war canoes from Boys' Camp (the big dragon viking one with the brown dragon head, I don't know what they were thinking) and Chemawa (the plain, red one that isn't very exciting). They were so heavy. Whoever moved them up onto shore had them really high up on shore. Mix that with rainwater filling up the insides of the canoes, and the fact that they were already heavy enough to begin with, well, they were just insanely hard to get back into the water to move them close enough for the crane to pick them up. It took me and Alex about half an hour just to do that simple little job.