Spring Break

I snorted cocoa today, what have you done?

This would be just one of the many quotes that I have from Spring Break. It seemed amazingly short, since I actually did something for once. I almost always sit at home or have to spend it at work, so this was a nice change for my last semester of college.

I went to work at a Spring Break Camp for kids. But it couldn't just be any camp for kids. It was called Camp Rays of Hope, for kids who had someone in their lives pass away. It was being hosted at a Mile's summer camp, and although he didn't not specifically invite me (he invited all of APO), I took him up on it.

And I'm glad I did. I learned every kid's name (all 60 of them). I fell in love with every one of them (even the one's that drove me up a wall).

What happened during the days was they had grief counseling in the morning and the afternoon was spent with us, the fun guys. We worked different activities, like Low Ropes, Climbing Wall, Disc Golf, Zip line, and Horses. The better part of working these is that I got to do all of them :-)
But, I got to see these kids go through amazing transformations. We had a little boy who at the beginning of the week wouldn't leave his counselor's leg. By the end of the week, he had become an expert Elbow Tag player (by the way, if we were not playing some sort of the game Tag, the day was wasted). We had a girl conquer her fear of horses (cause her sister had died because of one). I had a kid tell me about his brother passing away, when all week he tended to avoid talking about it. I had kids conquer their fear of heights to make it to the top of the climbing wall (girls are really good at that!).

These kids were amazing. I learned so much from watching them play, have fun, and succeed.
It sounds so cliche or sentimental, but it was.

My co-workers were amazing and, all-in-all, an interesting bunch. As much fun as waking up to the theme song from "Saved By the Bell" was, I actually kind of miss it (Thanks, Mrett). And if I never hear the song "MMMBop" again, I would be happy. And I'm very glad Mcott sent us all a certain video of a certain someone doing a certain scene from a certain movie. Only those of you that were there know what I'm talking about ... but it was awesome!

I had a great Spring Break! Mile, I owe you one.

And so goes the life ...

P.S. Was also in a wedding over the first weekend of Spring Break ... just want to shout out to the bridesmaids!!! YOU GIRLS ROCK!