stuff...
Time for me to get sappy! Yay!
I left Ransburg sometime after 5:00 on Monday afternoon. Camp was so quiet. My family and I were the only ones still there because the regular staff had all left hours ago and the directors had gone into town for dinner. But this post is going to start before that...
While I was waiting on my family to get down to camp so they could take my refrigerator, I walked into Rapp cabin. It was completely quiet, and the only one in there besides me was Luke. As I said earlier, the regular staff had all left some time ago. So anyway, I asked Luke to sign my canvas (a piece of tent canvas that I was having staff members sign). After he signed it, I sat down and looked at it, and that's when it hit me. Even though this was the third summer I've been working at Ransburg, this was the first time I'd been there for almost the entire summer. As I looked at the names, I thought to myself that these people were really like a family. I do think that this year I made more friends on staff than I had before, and the thing that hit me hardest was that I really didn't have the chance to tell most of them goodbye before they left. I know that there's going to be a staff weekend next month, but there's always someone you want to talk to that doesn't go to the staff weekend. I guess the thing is that since the earliest I'll be back to Ransburg will be 2008 because of my mission, there's a good chance that most of the people I worked with won't be there when I go back. It's kinda sad, really.
*music changes from sappy song to a happier tune*
OK now I'm going to talk about some other camp stuff.
Tear down was great fun, let me tell you. Since I worked in the trading post for the last half of the summer, I was in the trading post during tear-down. For those of you who don't know, tear-down is when the staff takes everything down for the winter. Tents, dining flies, everything that isn't a permanent building is taken down and stored in various areas of camp during the off-season. Now, if you're a member of the trading post staff, your tear-down is slightly different. It basically consisted of us sweeping the wazoo out of the floors, making sure the store was fully stocked, and then Murphy's Oil Soaping the wood. Basically, we were coming up with stuff to do that kept us in the trading post and off of a tent crew.
That's about all I can think of to say about camp right now. This post is kinda long right now, so I'll talk about what I did yesterday in a different post.
Until next time,
~David~
I left Ransburg sometime after 5:00 on Monday afternoon. Camp was so quiet. My family and I were the only ones still there because the regular staff had all left hours ago and the directors had gone into town for dinner. But this post is going to start before that...
While I was waiting on my family to get down to camp so they could take my refrigerator, I walked into Rapp cabin. It was completely quiet, and the only one in there besides me was Luke. As I said earlier, the regular staff had all left some time ago. So anyway, I asked Luke to sign my canvas (a piece of tent canvas that I was having staff members sign). After he signed it, I sat down and looked at it, and that's when it hit me. Even though this was the third summer I've been working at Ransburg, this was the first time I'd been there for almost the entire summer. As I looked at the names, I thought to myself that these people were really like a family. I do think that this year I made more friends on staff than I had before, and the thing that hit me hardest was that I really didn't have the chance to tell most of them goodbye before they left. I know that there's going to be a staff weekend next month, but there's always someone you want to talk to that doesn't go to the staff weekend. I guess the thing is that since the earliest I'll be back to Ransburg will be 2008 because of my mission, there's a good chance that most of the people I worked with won't be there when I go back. It's kinda sad, really.
*music changes from sappy song to a happier tune*
OK now I'm going to talk about some other camp stuff.
Tear down was great fun, let me tell you. Since I worked in the trading post for the last half of the summer, I was in the trading post during tear-down. For those of you who don't know, tear-down is when the staff takes everything down for the winter. Tents, dining flies, everything that isn't a permanent building is taken down and stored in various areas of camp during the off-season. Now, if you're a member of the trading post staff, your tear-down is slightly different. It basically consisted of us sweeping the wazoo out of the floors, making sure the store was fully stocked, and then Murphy's Oil Soaping the wood. Basically, we were coming up with stuff to do that kept us in the trading post and off of a tent crew.
That's about all I can think of to say about camp right now. This post is kinda long right now, so I'll talk about what I did yesterday in a different post.
Until next time,
~David~
posted by David at 5:27 PM
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