WEDNESDAY
Breakfast Entrée: Pancakes & Vegetarian Patties
Every breakfast comes standard with 8 different types of cold cereal, packaged oatmeal, four types of fruit juice, 2% milk, almond milk, rice milk, or soy milk, fruit, fruit cocktail, yogurt, granola, toast, bagels, cream cheese, peanut butter, jelly, and everyone has to have at least a half cup of water. In addition to entrée, we also served sliced fruit, tater tots, ketchup, salsa, and various other toppings associated with breakfast.
Lunch Entrée: Pasta Bar, Breadsticks, & Mixed Vegetables (steamed)
Lunch also includes a starter salad (with romaine and iceberg lettuce) with 9 different vegetable toppings, two crunchy toppings, three salad dressings, cottage cheese, Jello, fresh fruit, peanut butter and jelly, three types of bread, soda, tea, milk, rice milk, almond milk, and soy milk, along with orange slice and dessert.
Dinner Entrée: Hot dogs with assorted toppings and beans
Dinner comes with everything listed for lunch, minus soda.
The standout event of today involved a bird, a cabin of boys, and our daily flag lowering ceremony. It was very inexplicable, but I will get into the details a bit later.
Today it was a really pleasant day at camp, a bit hotter than yesterday but the weather held up and we drank a little more water and took a few extra breaks to cool down in the shade. We have a shade policy here at camp that mirrors the labor code laws in California for our staff; so our employees always invite the campers to stay in the shadow of a tree or building for at least ten minutes per hour. Shade breaks are the perfect time to refill our water bottles and put on sunscreen.
I mentioned in a previous post that we have three sunscreen breaks between 7 am and 1 pm, but we also have two sunscreen breaks in the afternoon between 2 pm and 6 pm (three afternoon sunscreen breaks if you're in the pool). Still, in spite of our efforts, I always spot a few reddened faces when I walk up the line during morning attendance and flag raising. It's a constant battle with the sun at times, but usually I feel like we're winning the war.
After flag raising Pastor John gave us a short devotional before our morning activities. Today I wasn't able to attend even one of the morning activities because I had meetings, but I kept my radio with me to listen for any important calls. At camp we have radios with allow us to communicate over the entire site and they're very useful in a pinch. You really never know what's going to happen any day and the radios allow us to reach the camp nurse, leadership team, maintenance personnel, or camp administrators at a moment's notice.
Tomorrow I've planned a visit to our camp photography class, so I should be able to give our readers an update on how that activity is doing. Photography class is full every week and the short film class is full next week. Overall, the media department is just one of those areas where technology and camp come together to create an activity that campers want to attend each summer.
After lunch (which was pasta bar: two types of pasta & two types of pasta sauce) we had some downtime at camp for store and rest period before the next activity rotation at 3:00 pm. Today I didn't have a hike, but we did have four campers at Pole Position in Murrieta for me to worry about until they arrived safely back at camp. Afternoon activity rotations really went off without a hitch, mostly because of all the planning that goes into creating the schedule.
After rotations we had Big Event (large group game of the field) which today was a game called 'Jedi Dodgeball.' I've played before but its a bit chaotic so I try to stand on the sidelines and help control balls and campers who are getting to into the game. It can be hard to remember that winning is nice, but it's never a good thing to hurt someone else because of a game.
We had a couple campers get a bit out of control, but for the majority of children they just had fun and when the game is over they talk about all of the different times they scored points or almost scored points. Campers and staff love a good theoretical conversation, and all of them seem to lead to the inexorable position that if they had just done one thing differently, the outcome would have landed more in their favor.
Even as an adult, I think along similar lines quite often.
After a nice dinner we lowered the flag. It was during flag lowering that a bird seemed to fall out of the sky near the line call area, flop around a bit, and then it stopped moving. All of the staff and most of the campers were looking out of the corner of their eyes at the plight of this sick or injured bird as it lay completely still on the ground.
One of the staff called for a shovel while the flag lowering continued, and we all tried to ignore it at that point, figuring that the worst had happened. When the flag was handed to me and the cabin finished their presentation, they started walking in the direction of the bird and when they came very close to it, the bird seemed to wake up and it flew away.
Everyone cheered. It was a good day at PSR Camp today.
Blessings,
-Jeremy
The standout event of today involved a bird, a cabin of boys, and our daily flag lowering ceremony. It was very inexplicable, but I will get into the details a bit later.
Today it was a really pleasant day at camp, a bit hotter than yesterday but the weather held up and we drank a little more water and took a few extra breaks to cool down in the shade. We have a shade policy here at camp that mirrors the labor code laws in California for our staff; so our employees always invite the campers to stay in the shadow of a tree or building for at least ten minutes per hour. Shade breaks are the perfect time to refill our water bottles and put on sunscreen.
I mentioned in a previous post that we have three sunscreen breaks between 7 am and 1 pm, but we also have two sunscreen breaks in the afternoon between 2 pm and 6 pm (three afternoon sunscreen breaks if you're in the pool). Still, in spite of our efforts, I always spot a few reddened faces when I walk up the line during morning attendance and flag raising. It's a constant battle with the sun at times, but usually I feel like we're winning the war.
After flag raising Pastor John gave us a short devotional before our morning activities. Today I wasn't able to attend even one of the morning activities because I had meetings, but I kept my radio with me to listen for any important calls. At camp we have radios with allow us to communicate over the entire site and they're very useful in a pinch. You really never know what's going to happen any day and the radios allow us to reach the camp nurse, leadership team, maintenance personnel, or camp administrators at a moment's notice.
Tomorrow I've planned a visit to our camp photography class, so I should be able to give our readers an update on how that activity is doing. Photography class is full every week and the short film class is full next week. Overall, the media department is just one of those areas where technology and camp come together to create an activity that campers want to attend each summer.
After lunch (which was pasta bar: two types of pasta & two types of pasta sauce) we had some downtime at camp for store and rest period before the next activity rotation at 3:00 pm. Today I didn't have a hike, but we did have four campers at Pole Position in Murrieta for me to worry about until they arrived safely back at camp. Afternoon activity rotations really went off without a hitch, mostly because of all the planning that goes into creating the schedule.
After rotations we had Big Event (large group game of the field) which today was a game called 'Jedi Dodgeball.' I've played before but its a bit chaotic so I try to stand on the sidelines and help control balls and campers who are getting to into the game. It can be hard to remember that winning is nice, but it's never a good thing to hurt someone else because of a game.
We had a couple campers get a bit out of control, but for the majority of children they just had fun and when the game is over they talk about all of the different times they scored points or almost scored points. Campers and staff love a good theoretical conversation, and all of them seem to lead to the inexorable position that if they had just done one thing differently, the outcome would have landed more in their favor.
Even as an adult, I think along similar lines quite often.
After a nice dinner we lowered the flag. It was during flag lowering that a bird seemed to fall out of the sky near the line call area, flop around a bit, and then it stopped moving. All of the staff and most of the campers were looking out of the corner of their eyes at the plight of this sick or injured bird as it lay completely still on the ground.
One of the staff called for a shovel while the flag lowering continued, and we all tried to ignore it at that point, figuring that the worst had happened. When the flag was handed to me and the cabin finished their presentation, they started walking in the direction of the bird and when they came very close to it, the bird seemed to wake up and it flew away.
Everyone cheered. It was a good day at PSR Camp today.
Blessings,
-Jeremy
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