For the last few weeks I've been working as a programme coordinator at camp and focussing on all the paperwork and making sure that everything runs smoothly. This week I have been given a break and I'm working as a camp counsellor again! Its amazing what a difference it makes working in a position of power and responsibility and then going on to a position where you have the least amount of work to do and the least amount of responsibility, life suddenly looks rosy and sparkly again. As the saying goes, a change is as good as a holiday!! I feel like I'm on holiday right now and really just have a week to enjoy hanging out with 12 9 year olds who just want to have fun and enjoy being in the mountains.
These are my reasons to become a camp counsellor, if any of you out there are considering a slack off career for a few months.
1. you get to hang out with kids and show them how to have fun
2. you get paid to do that
3. being around children who find joy in the smallest things helps put life in perspective. There is still delight in slugs and worms!
4. you get to experience the joy of teaching children the fun and important things in life, like building a fire and surviving the mountain monsters
5. children still have imaginations, so we can have them too, without being considered weird
6. if you wake up and decide to wear your underwear on the outside of your clothes, no one will even think that is odd, its camp
7. no group of people drink as well as camp counsellors (unless maybe ski instructors...)
I have one more week of being a grown up kid before I go on holiday and am forced to mingle with the regular people who have no idea why most of my wardrobe is multicoloured and absolutely none of it matches! But its ok, its only a few months then I can join the best real world again!
