A few days into 'proper' camp

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So it's a few days into proper camp and it's going well. I am shattered but I'm trying my best to keep my 'game face' on. It's proving difficult to survive camp without an ipod but I'm doing well so far. I miss owl city though!







So the other night we had 'crab soccer' and here is a picture of what I looked like. Although my unit (yellow unit) didn't win we had a lot of fun:

Right. I need to go do laundry now. 10 - 4 as they say on the walkies.

Rach

Midway through mini camp!

Hey!

So mini camp is in it's mid stages. I am blogging from the Lewisburg library and the air conditioning is PHITT! The heat surely has been taking it out of me.

Here is a pic of mini camp opening night that has been put on the website:











In this photo I am with newly made mates Elsie, Sarah Kay, Lauren T and Becca. We are having a right laugh. COME ON ENGLAND!

At camp.

Hey.

I've been at camp for a week now. I am on a netbook so excuse typos. It's awesome. Today I did a church service sermon about no gossip which went well. Really well actually. It made me think about potential careers. Then I led a memorial service which again made me think about potential careers. Today the mini campers started and they are so cute! I've been really really busy and my phone card isn't working. It might need activating or something but I'm not too sure. I am fine without it though. Things are awesome. It's really hot here and I've got a tan already. It's so exciting to have leadership roles and my staff are awesome. Staff training was intense and we had a famous american camp association author guy come help us with the training who was absolutely amazing. He rocked my world. Well ... not really but it was funny pretending whilst it lasted. Met some amazing friends this year. All the British counselors are AWESOME!

Rach

En Route to Camp

So ... I am on route to camp! Currently sat at an internet terminal at the generator hostel London. I made it from Euston this time without having to get the tube to an easier navigation point like last year. So it's all good. I am feeling a bit on my own ... probably because I'm ... on my own. But that'll all be fixed by tomorrow night. I am absolutely shattered actually. Barely slept last night thinking about things I needed to pack. Over and out before I fall asleep.

Almost time to go back!

Hey!

So I've not blogged for a while. But I'm about to go back. Visa and passport finally sorted. I'm almost on my way! So I just thought I'd write to all my followers to say to expect more blogs coming your way! I almost feel like a bit of a celebrity having a blog.

So, "What's changed since last year?" I hear you ask. Well, good question. This year I have a few more jobs on the go. I'm gonna be a unit head, a department head and the new counselor mentor. Alongside doing some talks in church services and sorting out prayers and bits and bobs like that. So it's gonna be a bit more intense with possibly less time to blog which means, shorter, more readable blogs hopefully. We'll see! I am gonna try and just post photos of me here from the camp website. That'll probably some it all up.

Chow!

Rach

P.S. WRITE ME! Translation from the American: "Please write letters to me".

Address:

Rachael Price
Camp Alleghany
P.O. Box 86
Lewisburg,
WV 24901-0086
USA.

Camp has ended! :( and :)

Hey everyone!

Camp has now ended and some exciting stuff has happened. On the last night of camp we have a banquet followed by an awards evening type thing. There was a new award introduced this year especially for me apparently. They said that this was the only award where they have made an award specifically for a person rather than find a person for the award so I was so so so happy. My name will be up in the playhall on the boards of fame for many ghany years to come. It's called the "Beth Anne Thomas Award for an Outstanding Counselor" or something and Beth Anne (BA) was actually there at the ceremony not knowing that she was having an award named after her. I have a silver cup now that says what it is and stuff and it feels really good to be recognised. I think there are pics and stuff going to be going into the Camp Newsletter that gets sent to all counselors and alumni too. Crazyness. It was weird when they were annoucing it because they describe the person and what they have done and it all pertained (however you spell it!) to me and then I was like thinking surely not ... but then people kept turning around to look at me and I was like wtf. And then they said. This award goes to a counselor from Wales ... Rachael Price. And I was just like in awe. I had all my welsh stuff on too because the theme for the night was Ghany around the world. So it felt good! Wish I had washed my hair prior though as there are gonna be pics of it everywhere! I am really sad to have left my friends though and kinda wish I didnt have a self induced illness this morning as it meant saying bye was less important than preventing myself from vomming which was legit annoying.

At the moment I am in DC. After getting to DC I was a bit stressed about the metro and all sorts of stuff but I pulled myself together and just dealt with it. There were a few shady looking characters at the station but I just dealt with it as I said and looked experienced and tough and luckily no problems. Took a while for me to sort out how to get to the hostel after getting out of the metro center though.

Now I am REALLY excited to go see Nanse and then Carina and to finish off Carla. I am SO SO SO SO excited it's going to be awesome! Just need to sort things out with peeps then I am all ready to go. SO excited! Also excited to see dc though. gotta go 40 secs til i run out of internet time! aaaaaaaaaah!

Rach

Love you all!!!!!! XOXO!

Just a late addition for you.

Mixed feelings about the end of camp.

Hey everyone!!!!

Well, only 2 more nights sleep on the beautiful banks of the Greenbrier river before I have to sadly depart. Or is it sadly? Towards the end of camp tensions have been running high. We have had a major storm and currently 8 kids have had to go home apparently with the common cold. It's a bit crazy!

First things first, the storm. Well this was truly spectacular. I have a couple of pics of the aftermath but haven't managed to get them on the internet yet. So in the evening of "Christmas in July" all the kids were in the playhall watching a movie (film! ... whatever!) and so luckily they were safe, but the thunder and lightning and win and rain were soooo bad that the best part of a tree snapped off and landed on a nearby tent. Luckily that tent wasn't occupied with campers but two counselors were 3ft away from where the tree fell trying to braile or tack (basically close off) the tent at the corners. But I didn't see this. At the time I was just so mesmorised by how bad the winds were. So I run down from the counselors lodge which was where I was at the sudden onset of the storm. And I run past a fallen tree and have to take a double take. Then I see the head of camp Annie and I was like "Is there anything I can do?" and she was like ... "Just tack EVERYTHING in sight" so here I was running around tacking astuff and the storm gets worse and I hear Annie again from the bunkhouse "Run! Get inside NOW!" So I did and stayed in there til the storm died down. Then went out and it was like a military operation in Junior camp trying to get dry bedding and matresses to wet tents whilst some kept the girls from freaking out in the playhall. I just ran around like a mad woman in the ran which was fun. Then Sophie's campers were only young and were frightened of the storm and were freaking out later on when they had got back to the tent so I went to play games with them. So I thought something that needed them to concentrate on the game was best. So I was like " Hi everyone! We are going to play a game now ... It's called the association game ..." so we played that then eventually played the " I went to the store and bought an Apple, a basket, a ...." I can't remember the rest! That was fun and it got them all quiet.

Going to DC on Sunday which I am excited about and from there begin all my travels. woooh! Before that though we have end of term stuff to do. The "Around the World" banquet theme tomorrow night is going to be truly amazing. I am so excited for it!

I got my eval back today from the head of senior camp. And ... 5 means outstanding, 4 means excellent, 3 means good, 2 means ok etc. I got 5's for every single aspect of it and I was so so happy. I told them I didn't deserve it but they argued and I wasn't really up for fighting. So I am hoping next year if I ask to be head of a unit I can do that. That would be cool. Also the camp director writes stuff on this staff noticeboard if people have done good and the other day it said something like "Spotted: Rachael Price giving 100% of herself to Ghany and always volunteering first to do stuff .." or something along those lines and everyone was commenting on it. It was kinda embarrassing though.

I have enjoyed my time at Ghany and it's going to be sad to leave. But at the same time. In a good 9 weeks or whatever I haven't been able to lie in past 8.30am and I cannot wait for Monday morning at the hostel lol. I am gonna miss some of the kids though.

Gonna have to run now need to get back to camp. Oh .. and by the way. I am conquering my fear of the rowboat wooh! :)

Lots of love will try and keep you all updated....

Rach xoxo