CAMP - July 2008 part 2

my neck is sooooo sore, i cant move it....my parents think its tonsillitis, cause it happened to my little sister before. Its very stiff, trying to move it left or right hurts, esp when im praying...OUCH

my last post about camp wasnt very long, cause i was rather tired when i wrote it. Heres a more detailed one of some highlights from camp.

I loved how i had 9 girls looking up to me, this required me to REALLY think about everything that i did, and everything i said infront of them. I never swore at camp, out of fear one of my girls would hear me. ("taibah are you mad with a capital P?")Whatever problem they had, i was suppose to help them with it. Migraines, lost clothes, broken cameras, waking me up at 3am EVERYDAY to get escorted to the washrooms, waking them up for fajr, dragging them out of bed to get ready for breakfast, constantly reminding them to attend their clean-up duties, coaching them through skit and chant prep, building their confidence as we're doing quran reading together, creating a sense of sisterhood between all of them, making sure they finish their food at meal times, kicking them out of my sleeping bag, making sure they've worn deodorant and enough bug spray...

it was challenging in the sense I had to ensure they were having fun regardless of all the rules that have been thrown at them. Alhumdulliah, there were no conflicts between ANY of my girls in the cabin on anything. One of my girl's cried one night cause she heard a jinn story from another cabin, and another one of my girl cried one night cause she had a migraine. Both, equally difficult to manage. Overall, they participated enthusiastically in all activities at camp (except swimming lol)

thats enough about them, more about me! :D

Other than chasing my girls around, i did have ALOT of fun.

The 2 hour hike after Fajr prayer with my friends who were also counselors, canoeing after breakfast in the lake, while the girls were away during Olympics...i would run off to hangout with my own friends/counselors, raiding the fridge in the early morning (only to steal fruit such as apples and a nectarine), i almost jumped a cliff cause my walkie talkie fell out of my pocket and was skidding down the rock, making drug deals lol (insider), scaring campers with my mosquito mask, reflecting and contemplating the mysteries of life while sitting on a giant rock infront of the lake....only to leave when it begins to rain really hard, taking pictures of the sunrise, bossing other campers around lol ("as a counselor, i have the authority to make you finish that one leaf of lettuce from your salad before you can take more seconds of mashed potatoes...now get back to your table"), confiscating magazines and other "inappropriate" reading materials, letting my girls do me favors. I also went swimming this year, in the past, i was too paranoid or scared to bother going into the water. This year i went in, and i really enjoyed it....even tho i dont know how to swim, it was fun splashing around and watching the minnows swim around me. One of my girls in the cabin got a leech on her foot while she was in water (several other campers did too), after that incident ALL my girls were too scared to go in the water...i wasnt however, thank god for water shoes :D

i videotaped my cabin while we presented one of our chants to the entire camp, we ended up winning first place :D

i will upload it on youtube soon, and post a link soon. We "islamified" the song 1234 by Fiest and changed up all the lyrics so that it related to our cabin. yeahhh, this song was MY idea, the girls loved it :)

-taibah out