turkey, tuna, ham.

mountains in the sunset.

those are the lunch options (with peanut butter and jelly everyday) on tuesday, wednesday and thursday of camp, respectively. one of the days this week, there was quite the banter going on in radio land about these options. probably one of those "you had to be there" times, but it was quite funny and my students found it pretty funny, too.

this week was great! i had a very relaxed field group of 12 students. we did climbing and archery on the first day instead of the typical team discovery hike. the kids loved getting do to those classes on the first day!

i'm working on being more firm with the students about my expectations. the students are typically very curious about what time it is, what we're doing right at that minute (and the next few minutes), and when they get to eat lunch, so i've started to tell them at the beginning of the day what is going to happen. if they ask me later, i tell them to ask someone else who was paying attention. if they ask me what time it is, i tell them it's either lesson time or lunch time. it seemed to work well!

i've also been giving out three simple rules.

1) when i'm talking, you're not.
2) no interacting with logs, sticks or rocks unless i tell you (safety first!)
3) have fun!

that is also working well. students this week were actually asking if they could pick up sticks and rocks. my typical response: nope! i'm all for hands-on, but usually when a student picks up a stick or a rock, it ends up being thrown back on the ground. sometimes hitting someone else. not okay.

in the not-so-great news, 1 students broke his glasses and three of my students had multiple nosebleeds during the week. yikes!

my friend elysa from SCA massachusetts stopped by for a brief visit. it was incredibly refreshing to have her here! i worked a lot of the time and was exhausted the other part, but we managed to spend some good quality time catching up on gossip and taking a sunset drive around the mountains.

speaking of...here are some pictures that elysa took:

big bear lake at sunset.

my cabin in the woods.

elysa and i (on the left) with the sunset.