okay this could be a huge note but i am pressed for time so i'll see how it goes. i think ill write half now and finish next time im online... but ill try!
its been busy busy times for me lately. At camp it has been Olympics!! and i was a lieutenant!! now to explain to all those reading that wondering what im going on about. okay so junior side is broken up into 6 teams which are named after countries for the big end of summer competition, or colour war as alot of people call it at other camps, which is called the olympics and none of the kids know when it starts, they have olympic break out when it just suddenly begins and they all go crazy. for senior side its called red and grey sicne they are the 2 teams... just a fun fact for you there... but yes olympics was on and each division on junior side has 2 captain representatives and 6 lieutenant reps. last year i wasnt chosen much to my disliking but this year things went my way, as they seem to have alot, minus the start, with the cape cod trip and all that, so was lucky enough to be chosen.
straight away things were going well with me being sent to 'Samoa' and the other 2 lieutenants on my team were awesome! then they start announcing the kids which was great cause they are all going crazy and really excited for it. as it turns out, 2 of the kids i missed the most from last year were put in my team!!! i was so excited!! this goes on for about 2 hours while every child is individually announced and then put into a team. After the kids are all sorted each team is given their captain.. as it turns out luck was still going for me and i ended up with james who is awesome!! - and australian so how can he not be awesome..
day 1..
day one was a wake up for those in the olympics of around 6:30am i think it was. all i know is that it was early!.. us lieutenants each had a sport of choice to coach. mine was basketball, nick was american football and dans was soccer. if there was a sport that none of us knew anything about then who ever was left without their sport of choice did it. my introduction to olympics had be 'coaching' hockey... wtf... yeah.. defend defend defend and push up... thats about all they got from me.. but here is the crazy part.. we won our first game!!! it was so funny. sadly we got smashed in our second game but who cares i coached a winning hockey team!!..
the day went really well but heres the thing about olympics.. voices are not part of the deal.. voices disappear and run away and its not long till each word feels like your throat is bleeding.. amazingly its still all worth it.. but yes but lunch time day 1 i was losing the voice.. by the end of day one it was gone.. and all day 2 and 3 it was well gone!... but i'll get to that later.. as for reasons why the voice goes so fast... it is non stop chants that we make up or alter to our advantage plus calling stuff out while coaching and having just 4 people to control a 6th of junior side all combine as one giant voice killer!..
from day one though we did know what our song was going to be for song and cheer which is the biggest event of olympics and the one the kids work the hardest for. we were doing ours to 'dynamite' .. hence the title.. as soon as i was told this i had half the chorus figured out in my head within about 5 mins.. all those times of making up random stupid songs with new words was finally paying off.. best of that was that james had worked out the other half! woop woop!
day 2
this was definitely the most painful day for my throat. but it was also a winning day!.. samoa got off to a slow start when it comes to winning gold medals but this was when things changed. i coached hill camp basketball - the youngest kids - and we did not lose a game and with strong defence and 2 kids that are just amazing we never looked like losing the gold. the afternoon was filled with the swim meet which i was put in charge of and we did really really well. to be honest i was surprised cause alot of the people i know as strong swimmers we didnt have. but we did have enough to get us through it since they are all relays and had a fairly even team. so it was alot of medals and happy kids cause some of them were gold!.. during the basketball came i was trying to call stuff out to the kids and literally nothing was coming out which was sad!.. but i fought on and ended up with a sore throat which is still on going actually..
sadly my time is now up so i need to finish this next time.... next time ill do day 3 which is the last day of olympics and ill do campers day out which was to 6 flags which was today!... yay!.. hope all is good peoples!!...
take care
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