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North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit August 1st 2005

Last week of camp!! Time has gone so quick it’s crazy. Me n Kim had the older boy group this week. It was a pretty good week, the boys weren’t too badly behaved and on Tuesday I went to see the Kings of Leon in concert. Then on Friday we had our farewell dinner, which was a bit of fun. There was some fun awards like camp flirt and most likely to sing camp songs after camp. Ying made up a slide show of the summer on power point, which was a laugh. No more thursday nights, no more "i miss my mum i wanna go home", no more let's all go canoeing, no more buddy check, no more short necked buzards & no more EXCUSE ME WHATS YOUR NAME!! LOOK @ ME!!!! Ohiyesa knows what ... read more
Staff party
walmart
me n mel

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 30th 2005

A big hello to all you guys in dads maths class! I hope he isn't working you too hard! Thanks for all the msgs you guys send me it's really cool to hear from back home. Sorry about only gettin back to you now but it's really hard to get on the net at camp because we only have 1 crappy computer for all the staff and the internet is really slow and it crashed the other week and hasn't been working since. Next week is my last week of camp then I travel round the U.S and canada then to London, I can't wait!! Work hard, play hard see ya later!... read more

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 25th 2005

This weeks theme was super hero’s and me n Ying had the batman boys. ( the older boys 7-10) I also had shitty bus duty with Ryan a local doing an art major at college (he’s real good at drawing comic book characters! This gave me an extra 4 hrs every day, which sucks! One morning we left on of the little girls at the Y.M.C.A where we picked all the kids up and had to go back and get her, making us an hour late to camp. But it wasn’t entirely our fault, no one told us to go inside and sign her out because the parents usually come to the bus. For talent show Dustin gave us a skit from a scout skit website to do. It was about an elevator, quick and easy. ... read more
Fishing
Batman boys
Let's all go canoeing

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 22nd 2005

“I can change the world, with my own 2 hands! Make a better place, oh with my own 2 hands, with my own, with my own 2 hands!” A couple of thousand people with both hands in the air singing along, holy shit this concert was awesome!! After a full on week @ camp me n Ying (1 of the US staff) drove to Royal Oak a nicer suburb of Detroit. The Royal Oak music theater is an old school theater with big high ceilings, balcony, seating and plenty of standing room. When we got there a guy called Tim Freud was playing and he was pretty good. I went to get a beer from 1 of the downstairs bars and had to wait 15 mins to get it and it was my first one so ... read more
With my own 2 hands
Ben Harper
Ben's crowd

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 18th 2005

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
Aussie Activity
Happy little vegemites
Me, Mel & Richard

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 11th 2005

Hey Everyone, We are back in America and I decided to put one last post up for the sake of closure. We went through the whole range of emotions, from joy to anger, as you may have seen from some of our posts. I'm sure it helped us to become more unified. We did a lot, saw a lot, and learned a lot. Now we just need to do more. It would be easy to preach to you about how spiritual we are for going to India. It would be easy to accept praise from everyone about our willingness to sacrifice. It would be easy to be a storyteller. But that would be a disservice to the people that we met. I love America and all the freedom and wealth we have. I am definitely not ... read more

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 11th 2005

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
The voyager
The tower

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 4th 2005

Americans love their fireworks! Every person in the U.S lets off over a pound's worth each a year if you divide it All up! The 4th of July weekend (independence day or something) sounded like we where at war and the artillery was going sic, BOOM, BOOM!! non stop all weekend. It was tops though because the opposite end of our little lake are houses and they let off heaps. So we got to watch them lettin em off over the lake all night. The Monday was 4th of July and a holiday for the yanks but we had to work, only 7 kids turned up! So we only had to work half a day each, which was tops cause we still get payed for it! The rest of the week we had a few more ... read more
Bus duty

North America » United States » Michigan » Detroit July 1st 2005

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
Baseball fans
Fireworks

North America » United States » Michigan » Holland June 29th 2005

So here I am starting off my very first travel blog. I don't plan on updating again until I am actually in New Zealand.. which won't be until the end of August. But just wanted to test out the whole "posting" thing anyways!... read more




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