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So Proud.
Period. You are amazing and it is such a pleasure to watch you grow as an individual and as a counselor. I love you, and am VERY proud of you. Congrats. ((and thanks for my bday love!!)
so, the way the CA program works at bonnie brae is that all of the CAs live together in one cabin. we wake up early in the morning, separate before breakfast, and go to our various units and program areas for the day. one CA may go work at the waterfront all day while another goes to work with the group of girls that is learning a guitar while et another spends their days with the girls who are working on a musical. at nine o’clock every night, the CAs meet up with eachother and whatever other leadership program is running that week (CITs or staffers) to debrief the day with our two main counselors. next we shower and go back to the cabin to talk to our “night supervisor” and hang out until we fall asleep and do it all over again.
today i found out that me and my good friend nannerz (anna to all you non-camp people) have been assigned to sleep in a unit for the next week, just like full counselors. this doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it is. CAs have not slept in units for over ten years, but nannerz and i have been told that we have earned it. the fact that we are working with the same group was surprising enough, because normally they don’t put really close friends in the same unit. the director told us that it was her idea to put us in the unit because we both have been doing such good jobs this year and we deserve it. i am so flattered and excited and comforted about the fact that they trust us so much, and i can’t wait for sunday.
i had a ticket to go to jason mraz on tuesday with talia and nicole. i was really excited and had already cleared it with the camp director that i would leave monday around noon and return to camp before breakfast on wednesday. when i came home today, however, plans were slightly changed and would result in me missing even more camp time. had this coming week been scheduled like a normal CA one, i would have attempted to push things around to get to do both. but given an opportunity as rare as this one, i would rather miss the show than miss a week as full of potential as this one.
so i am currently in the process of finding someone to buy my ticket. as excited as i was for this show, i am even more excited to be able to spend a week on the level that i will hopefully be next summer. and as difficult as it is going to be to hear jason mraz music and realize i passed up the show, it would be even more difficult wondering what i missed while away from camp.
i hope this is the right choice.
