Blogs from Detroit, Michigan, United States, North America - page 12

AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE… OYE,OYE,OYE was herd all around the camp this week! This week’s theme was countries and me n Mel (a local) had the Australian group. I would yell aussie, aussie, aussie and they had to yell oye,oye,oye back and come over to me and listen to what I had to tell them and it worked real good! This week we had 18 little boys 5-7 yrs and RICHARD ( the autistic kid)again!! I also had PM care this week so me n Liz ( a local) had to look after kids that get picked up as late as 6:30. But we would go get a snack then go swimming and play on the sports court so it wasn’t too bad. The Friday before mum sent me a qantas vegemite pack and a jar of ... read more

PUT YOUR PANTS ON!!! And stop running around naked! The amount of times that I have had to say that in the boys changing rooms. Little boys luv to run around in their b’day suits and flash each other. This week if any of the boy groups had swimming and had to get changed I had to be there helping them get dressed, undressed, sunscreen on and making sure they don’t run wild because they would if I wasn’t there! Because there are only 3 guy counselors and Ying is tower instructor most of the time so he isn’t a counselor and Ryan is with the A-team the older group and they do different shit to the rest of the camp. And we lost Charles (the African) how had to go up to the resident camp ... read more

Go the Tigers! I was so pumped to be getting out of camp, even though we get weekends and afternoons off we can only go somewhere if the American staff take us out. And since I was with Detroit fans and I was staying in Michigan I became a Detroit tigers fan. We finished on Friday and got set and Ying drove us to Detroit. But in his little 2 door sporty car we had me and him in the front and Gaby from Mexico, Sara from Denmark, Nstia from Russia and aika from Kazakhstan in the back. So the car was riding low to the ground. We get to Detroit and couldn't find the stadium so we drove around the ghetto in Detroit for a while trying to find out where to go. So we ... read more

Week 2 was pretty similar to last week with a few variations. Firstly our camp director Dustin got sick and was in hospital for most of the week so we had the big boss Bear in working with us. He is a bit full on and a bit of a natzy, you can't wear pluggers or sandals without back straps and we had to carry our first aid kits at all times. And he made a heap of changes which resulted in nobody knowing what the hell was going on, but we managed and it was all good. I had a mostly different group of kids, I had 3 kids from last week and 4 new little devils! These kids where little shits, fighting, crying, not wanting to participate or listen to me! And each day ... read more

I arrived in Detroit on the 1st of June and was met by one of the camp staff, that by the way has been fired for swearing and being rough with the kids. But anyway I got settled in and had a day to chill at camp and have a look around. Then I went to a place called Alma for 3 days, 2 hours from camp to do an American red cross lifeguard course. The next week we had a few days of staff training then a school group for 3 days. I taught a few canoe lessons a day and it was pretty Cruisey. We had camp fire on the last night and sung a heap of songs and they get stuck in your head, it's real bad, but a heap of fun. The ... read more