Almost done

I am very,very lazy. I haven't updated this page in so long. My bad.

I jumped out of a plane a few weeks ago. We went up to 13,500 feet and were in freefall for about a minute. Scariest thing I've ever done, I was on a high for about a day afterwards.

Week 7 down. I'm over camp. I'm over being told what to do by people and being controlled by stupid rules I don't agree with. After week 8 I'm heading to Toronto, grabbing a hotel room and sleeping for about a week. Plans after that are to head to Vancouver and taking a tour, then I don't know.

Last week we went to a giant amusement park. It was going to be awesome, but I woke up with a sore neck. On the way there it got worse and worse, till finally we got there and I couldn't move. I sat in the first aid room for 2 hours, then went to the doctor. It was all caused by a knot in my neck, so I took awesome painkillers and muscle relaxants to fix me up then went back to the park. My day after that consisted of following my friends around to all the awesome rides, and sitting by myself till they were finished. I spent $50 going to the stupid park, then didn't do any rides. Grrrrr.

I also realised I wouldn't need anything from home to move here, or anywhere I had a job. I could easily survive with what I've brought with me on this trip. I'm coming back, but it's good to know :) (Don't worry Jess, love you babe)

Photos will be coming soon, it's been hard to get them uploaded because I am unorganised. Hope everyone is good back at home.

Regular beatings keep the doctor away

Children just don't listen! ARRRGG!

So, finished week 2, and it was a long week. I had a bunch of kids who liked to run away/not listen/fight. We counted 7 fist fights in 30 minutes on Friday. Luckily they left on Friday, and now I am at peace. I've spent the day sitting in the sun chilling out, which has been quite nice.

I figure it's important to do as much stuff as I possibly can while I'm over here, so I went with a big group to the drive in last night to see Harry Potter. It was good, but I need to see it again because I missed everything in the bottom right corner of the screen due to a big stupid van. This philosophy of doing stuff of mine also means that I've signed up for skydiving. Sigh.

Here's something really weird. Most people buy milk in Canada in bags. Bags of milk. It's so weird, I don't get it at all. You cut the corner off the bag and put it in a jug. Crazy. They do have a restaurant with 101 flavours of wings, so I guess I can accept small pieces of madness.


Here are a few links to photos of mine. The first one are just general photos of my travels in Canada:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91644&id=514933895&l=8a1c790b90

The second are of pictures of my actual camp/campers:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91635&id=514933895&l=48c61a8954

Week one down

Just finished my first week at camp. I'm feeling ok, but it was really hard. The kids are a real handful. Most of them were fine, but some of the ones with ADD or behavioral issues were really tough. It's around 30 degrees every day, and my feet are super tanned/burned because of wearing jandals all day.

We finally got a PC in the staff lounge, so there are about 30 people in the room watching Zoolander while I'm writing this post. It's appropriate, because my camp name is Zoolander.

My co-leader for week one was a guy called Kermit. We worked really well together, he was bad cop and I was good cop. We've been moved around now, so I'm with a guy called fozzy bear. I'll upload some photos soon, my room for the next 7 weeks is pretty small.

I better let someone else on the computer now, but I'll get some photos up in the next day or so.

First post

I'm not good at being literate, so this blog will be all over the place, with no connecting themes, underlying messages, or any real value. If you've mad it this far, congratulations! You're a winner.

Sitting in airports for 8 hours sucks. You can't sleep, because you know someone will steal your stuff, and when you try to out of sheer exhaustion fat americans kick you out of your seat so they can sit next to their hairy wife. Yup, good times.

I'm staying at a backpackers in Toronto right now. I'm in a dorm with 5 other smelly guys, who for some reason keep closing the window. Coupled with the fact that Toronto's garbage men are on strike, it's certainly an interesting atmosphere/stench. I got really drunk on the first night, which ended up getting me invited to a party on Sunday at someones flat. I should get drunk more. SUPER hung over the next morning though, more than I have ever been before.

Went to the baseball on Saturday. It was about 30 degrees, sitting in the sun, eating nachos with plastic cheese. Our team lost, but that's baseball.

I head off to camp on Monday morning, and I'm really looking forward to it. So far I've met Brazilians, Brits and Aussies who are coming to my camp too, and they're all good people.

There's probably more I'm supposed to write, but I'm tired. I also have to walk 3k's back to my room. Sigh. Check me out on twitter, www.twitter.com/smithersnz