I know I'm not supposed to make judgements about kids I work with, because it's hard to treat kids equal and fairly if you have personal feelings toward them, but it happens. There is often the annoying camper or the sweet camper. I try REALLY hard not to be biased, and have gotten much better as I've gotten older, but yesterday, I met the CUTEST camper of all time.
Each week, we have a camp nurse that volunteers in exchange for a free week of camp. They usually come up on Sunday and bring their campers with them. Last night the camp nurse arrived with a TINY child. He's 7 but looks 4. But when he speaks he is very clear and sounds more like 7 year old.
As I took them on a tour and showed them around, he was SO excited. He had wide eyes and kept exclaiming, "this is so exciting!" and then he would throw his little fist in the air and say, "I'm the first camper of the week! This is so great!"
As we wind down and summer is coming to a close, it is difficult to maintain the energy I had in the beginning, but last night, listening to his excitement, I was re-energized and couldn't help be excited too. I think this is going to be a really great week and I'm bursting with eagerness for the campers to get here.
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