A Day in the Life... Continued...

5:30pm- dinner
6:00pm- get groups started with all-camp capture the flag
6:15pm- run to the fire pit to start setting up campfire for tonight.
7:15pm- get after-hours call from home office (that's weird, doesn't the office close at like,
4pm?). Talk on the phone while hauling wood. Almost drop phone in fire.
7:45pm Silently mouth directions of what we are doing to the counselors who have just arrived to campfire with with groups.
8pm- nurse asks me to take sick camper to get his stuff from his cabin so he can spend the night in the health center.
8:01-(sick kid sitting next to me on the golf cart)- get walkie talkie call that one of the bathroom toilets is overflowing.
8:06- scramble around camp looking for box of tissues for health center (why don't we have any of those?), stop by office to see boss sitting with two crying counselors, let him know toilet is overflowing.
8:07- boss delegates said problem to me.
8:08- find tissues, drop them in health center, RUN to bathroom, attempt to find shut off valve for toilet (swear as I step in ankle deep toilet water), find shut off valve. Start sweeping toilet water out of bathroom.
8:45pm- check on groups as they get ready for bed. Kids are RUNNING wild. Step in to organize silent game.
9:25pm- go with difficult group to help counselor during evening devotions.
10:00pm- boss walkie talkie to let me know he's plunged the toilet and clearly saved the day.
10:35pm- give boss credit for being such an amazing guy while swearing uncontrollably in my head.
11:00pm- check email. Ask boss about next week's staffing situation, since we have twice as many kids and seemingly no game plan. No answers.
11:30pm- sit with one of the crying counselors from earlier and talk to her about her day.
12am- go to bed.