Summer plans

Well I thought it was about time I brought you all up to date with my future plans. I have decided to stay until the end of the summer. I signed a spring contract this week and have been offered a leadership position for the summer in form of supervising the store on camp [The Woods even has its own clothing line!]. Weighing up the pros and cons I know its best for me to stay longer. My role in the Spring doesn’t change too much from what I’m doing now, however The woods may send me on a course to become a canoe instructor which would be pretty cool so that would be an added extra to my job and ill still lead a closing team same as winter but the team will be bigger.
In the summer myself and another girl will be managing the shop. I will look after 8-10 employees, over see the daily running of the store and I’ve been asked to organise the rotas. If I came home at the start of summer I would probably get a shop job as a stop gap so staying here and getting managerial experience is definitely the way to go. Also I’ve been told the store is the place to be in the summer! I’m also going to be involved in organising bible studies, church services and one on ones with the rest of the 300 summer staff. I really see being here as an experience builder and character development. Reflecting on the past 7.5 months I’ve spent here, I’ve realised how much I have learnt and experienced- I’ve lead a lot of diverse groups of people and kids, developed my teaching and instructing skills, dealt with conflicts, working in an office as well as getting to use the climbing wall, zip line, skate park whenever I want and learning to ski!! I think the hardest part of my decision was that if I stay I would not be able to go to Ukraine this summer it will be very weird as I have gone for the past 8 summers! But change is good and it doesn’t mean ill never go back. Plus I love my bosses, I love that I get on so well with my them, they are definitely 2 of my favourite people here!

Here’s to playing basketball, writing stories about each other on the whiteboard, moving house on Sunday, green t-shirts, “Just kidding!”, Steph duct taping the bathroom door shut!, making cookies and putting in a 1.5 cup of salt instead of sugar including Bradens reaction, “Good choice of words”, the taking of our winter staff photo, “I hope they had a photocopier in those days it would suck if you had to write those all out by hand…” “Eh you do realise that the printing press was invented in the 1400’s?!”, Activia pear yogart, going round all the summer cabins acquiring stuff for our room in Spring [we even found a microwave!!!], new spring staff arriving next week, Helen Keller, the sound of ice cracking, the surprise that Lindsay left for Steph, “gunshot wedding!” to buying an all in one bug net, Yetunde letting me use her flat for the weekend, walking into Rosseau with Tom, Bodger and badger, and to climbing the CN Tower for the world wildlife foundation at the end of April.

The pictures our of the winter staff, the second one makes me laugh its just so random! No one was ready for the picture at all, expect Lindsay who is sitting perfectly with the ESBMLM Thropy.