Jr Hi 1

Well. I know it has been a while, but I finally have a chance to update this.

This week was the first week of camp. Jr Hi 1. It was pretty sweet to be able to counsel this week alone. I had 9 beautiful girls who were a challenge for me. My week began with them not knowing much and not wanting to do much. They did not seem interested in the activities here but were more interested in spending the whole day in the cabin reading. It was quite frustrating on my part because no matter what I seemed to do, they did not seem happy.

The week continued on like this. Not wanting to anything for activities that was not at the water or was not the screamer in turn I was doing my best to tell them that they had to go to their activity. In q-town they would never stand while singing, never jump, and get distracted while sid was speaking. One of my girls turned to me and said "do we have to hear a lecture every day?" that was kind of harsh i found. My skills with disipline are minimal, but this had gotten to the point where I was struggling to know what to do next.

Other than one girl injuring herself multiple times I was also faced with a meltdown. It was filled with raige from a girl after she got hit in the eye with a branch because a boy called her a weiner and she was chasing him. Meenwhile I had a CIT in my cabin telling her testimony for the first time and I wasnt there to support her. I was unsure of what to do next. I decided to give up and call in Amanda. By the end of the week the girls, though they still would not listen nor were they enjoying the activities, seemed to finally be soaking what sid would say up thanks to a play the drama team did and a movie that sid showed. They saw that there was a point behind everything. That was really good to see.

It was a very long week filled with struggle. but I have come out od it feeling good about how it ended. Though the only games they liked were the night game and big blue, and the only period in the day they looked forward to was open activities, they seemed to have a lot of fun in the end and told me that they all had a great week.As for me, one week alone with jr hi's is tiring.....lets see what 1 week alone with jr's will do.