Hey everyone! Hope your week is going well. I'm absolutely exhausted! But having an amazing time. The last two days I've done NUTS (nights under the stars) trips with bunks of 14 of our younger campers. 2 outdoors staff take them from 1.30 and do activities, then we do a cookout over a fire (difficult yesterday, as we had rain for the first time since I arrived- used most of a bottle of lighter fluid to get the food cooked!)and then we sleep somewhere outdoors, ...

Hey everyone! So I'm on day 3 of 4, in my ropes training course. I'm so tired!! We have usually had to be on the course at about 7.30 am, and we finish at 7.30 pm only stopping half an hour at lunch and tea time. It's such hardwork. I have muscles aching that I never knew existed before! But it's such an achievement. I figured the only way to deal with being afraid, cause I do have to deal with it, is to get up and do everything. So in the past three days I've d...

Hey everyone! So quick update from where I left this... There have been a lot of meetings this week, about what to do when the kids get here, how to plan activities, medical stuff, first aid, homesick children... basically lots of paperwork. But there has also been so much fun stuff!! A couple of days ago I went caving for the first time. It was amazing. The caves are really deep and massive. We had to slide on our stomachs through the first bit, but then it ope...

Hey everyone!! I'm at camp louise, it's my second day (which in itself is odd, I really haven't been away from home for very long). Yesterday we woke insanely early (5am new york time) so went for an early breakfast, which was pretty impressive for a hostel.. juice, fruit and philadelphia cheese bagels. We were still too early, so we headed across a few blocks to the far end of central park. I went to central park!! It was very pretty, and ridiculously hot for 8...