Me, taking a shot at glory, trying to capture the flag!
D1 you ask? What's all this number business with the sessions all of a sudden? Well It's all part of the fun that is session D. Split into 2x 1 week parts, we had 126 kids for the first week of D (D1), but approximately 70 of them were only staying for 1 week, so the camp has pretty much halved for the rest of the session. It's a nice change of pace, because 126 is the biggest session we've had all summer.
So we've had a pretty fun week, campouts, the talent show on wednesday night, and out (in)famous game show, "sounds of chatuga" The basic premise is that a random sound which has been pre-recorded by a counselor is played, and a cabin of campers has to go and take a coloured piece of paper with the counselor's name who they think made the sound. Once they have guessed correctly, the camper who got the right piece of paper is asked a fiendishly difficult trivia question. If they answer correctly, they win an icecream party for their cabin, if they get it wrong, they get to choose from behind 4 doors. One has an icecream party, one has candy, one sees their counselor get a bucket of water dumped on them, and the last sees the counselor take a pie in the face. So for the kids it's 100% win. for the counselors it's pretty much 50/50. This necessitates having 2 "bouncers" usually head staff without a cabin, who make sure that counselors don't try to make a break for it when the pie comes up etc.
In my case, i had my shoes off, ready to make a break for it, but my camper (amazingly) fluked the initial question and won us an icecream party!!
Tonight we played capture the flag, instead of the scheduled water olympics. This was due to a strange cold snap we've been having lately. I hope it warms up just a little bit more before camp is out, though it makes running around doing field sports a lot more bearable!!
