and the stories just keep comin!

so this pudgy, awkward kid named storm (no he doesn't have a sister named sunshine) has the hardest time keepin up his pants. we counslers are always laughing because they are so droopy on his awkward little body.

oh yea, he runs like a penguin with his head just a wobblin.

anyway, we were playing with clay today and storm went to the little sink to wash his hands.  jonathan, a junior counsler said, rachel, look!

there's storm washing away with his drawers around his ankles and his "Cars" underwear smiling  back at us. 

i ran over to cover him up almost tripping over my own feet cecause of the tears coming out of my eyes from laughing so hard.

ah. you just never know what will happen next.

paper clips and six year old boys

what is with boys and there dying curiousity of any and all things dangerous?

so, today was counsler switch day at camp horizon. i was NOT excited that i was leaving my safe little groups of eleven 5 year olds. i was being thrown into the den of lions, otherwise known as twenty four, yes twenty four, 6 year olds. 

yay for me.

thankfully i was working with another counsler, bobby.

p.s. how do you spell counsler?

back to the story...

so we are playing musical dots (same idea as musical chairs but with plastic dots) and i'm running the game, and bobby is discplining a kid. garrett decides that he needs to get this paper into the little holes in the wall, ie., the outlet. how he manages to get the paper clip unwound and in not one but TWO outlets and not shocked is beyond me. he said post-shock that he was just trying to get it out. OK...

so bobby says to me rachel, i think this kid just shocked himself.

no way. what?

yea! he just shocked himself.

are you okay? let me see?

 at this point he starts to cry. he is holding his finger sin his mouth because the air burns his fingers.

i take him to the office and explain the situation. their answer was the same as mine. what?!

so we place his hand in a cold cup of water. jenn, the director contacts the vice principal over in her office. they both come into our room and look at the outlet. the VP decides that the FIRE DEPARTMENT needs to be called in. yeah.

so then we all, as in the entire camp has to go outside for a fire evacuation. that's like 110 kids.

did i mention that there was also summer academy at the school at hte same time? oh, i didn't? well, yes, the was summer school in the building too. so they had to evacuate. oh the look on the teachers faces.

so we stood outside for fifteen minutes waiting for the word that it is okay for us to go back in.

bobby and i looked at each other and said, well nice knowing ya. guess we'll be getting those pink slips . 

but good news the kid is fine. he should be a camp tomorrow and bobby and i did not get in trouble.

yay.