Sunday, June 17, 2007
I've been helping out at the youth camp and it's been very very tiring. I must first of all commend those who have been at the camp for all the days. Your strength, and endurance through thick and thin is admirable.
I've only been helping out for less than two days in total and I am dead beat, with aching shoulder muscles. I helped plan a camp during Easter for OCF, and the thought and effort that went into the camp was just overwhelming. The help we received from everyone. It made it that much easier and I now appreciate all the help and advise that was given, especially the volunteering. The effort spent to put this youth camp together was no less, and might even have been greater.
And now I know why the experience was so different. A camp for youth requires a camp committee filled with the energy of youths. People who stay up till the wee hours of the morning just to chat, and talk over the phones for hours. People who scream when meat fall to the floor, and where weather is the last thing that will stop them. A camp for you adults require freedom, and a lot of room for improvisation. It is a camp broken down to its core of just food and the reason why people are at the camp.
I'm sorry if I sound random now, and I'm sorry to Jolene if I left early. I saw the look of "What you're leaving? But we still have 2 games to go.." in your eyes...did I? The thoughts going through my head, the memories coming back. People have changed, and phased onto adulthood, and I think it's time that I do too.
Dan
1:15 am
