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Hehe - when I was in Vagas a couple of years ago I went to church and dispite what the internet said I had missed the most important part of our service because they started an hour earlier than the net said!

ouch! Silly internet.

Yeah, April seems really late to me too. oh well, at least that means that Flower has a good chance! yay! good luck!

Exactly 6 weeks until OE starts, so excited! Soon I'm gonna have to start doing my shopping which sucks because I hate shopping.

75 days!

Couldn't agree more.

haha, yeah shopping can be annoying- depending on what I'm shopping for! Book and camp shopping is awesome. Grocery shopping is a bad thing for me. I spend more money at Safeway than I do on shoes and purses combined!

However, yay OE!!!!! My camp's OE starts in exactly 1 week. Last spring we had a 14 week season. However, in the fall we only had a 7 week season (with training). This spring it's looking close to a 14 weeker, maybe like a 12 or 13, but still! I wish!! It turns out that training starts the Thursday of finals week, after I am done with classes so I could have done spring season and been at camp for soooooooo long it would have been crazy! Especially since summer starts like a week after OE ends. Anyway, I made the choice to do fall OE and it was fun, so I'm happy with that. Hopefully i will get a chance to do it again after I graduate.

Yeah, the dates are good for me at least. That's funny about the church service, Smudge. Guess that website wasn't kept the most up to date.

Hopefully a job will come of this eventually. It's different than what I was originally looking for, but there's so many great things. It's close enough to drive home in between sessions, but up on a mountain (at like 8500 ft.) so the weather will be much cooler than Vegas summers with trees and forest all around.

sometimes those are the best things- the ones you weren't looking for. Take, for instance, my summer position preferences. First on the list- littles UC/UL. 3rd on the list- counselor. I'm a counselor and I am exstatic about it!

Haha, I love grocery shopping except for the fact I spend way too much on snacks. I guess shopping for camp can somewhat be fun too because that means its close to being here but besides that, I really hate shopping.

never grocery shop when you are hungary you will buy so much stuff you don't need!

It takes all my will power not to buy lots of snacks and chocolate and goodies rather than healthy stuff! But I do try hard not to! Good thing I love strawberries and such.

During the summers its horrible, the first thing I do after leaving camp is hit up a gas station or grocery store or whatever to get a ton of snacks. I ate so much during the summer, which wasn't bad since I've been trying to put on a little weight but still unable to.

mmm, strawberries are delicious!! I spend way too much on junk food too though.

I looked at the calendar this morning... I've got three months... I'm not sure how many days that is.

- Teenster

I thinkwe might have been spoiled at chenoa cos we had a lovely (ish) staff kitchen were we could store snacks and real food - so there wasnt the same deseration for snacks when we went off camp!

We could get snacks easily on our daily 2 hour TOs. In some units we also don't have as much of a concern for critters getting our food. We could also store a little bit of stuff in the staff room though there wasn't that much room considering how many staff there are.

We had a huge shelfing unit in the kitchen Plus 2 fridges/freezers which we could "safely" put stuff in as long as it was labeled and one communal fridge where things like left over dining hall cake, birthday cake, and soda for sale was kept - anything that didnt mind people helping them selves to (or buying in the case of the soda) plus a Huge shelving rack - which people stupidly didnt put their food in plastic boxes and the critters would get at it - my friend and I shared a box and snacks - well actually she would share them with me in exchange for some of my yummy british chocolate!

Pretty much anything in the the kitchen we can help ourselves to too and then me and my co would always buy snacks and soda to keep in our cabin for us and other counselors. We keep everything in lockers and stuff, keeps critters away. But still, every off day the first thing I did was go by tons of new candy, ice cream, even pizza sometimes. It was the kid in me still....

hehe! We could raid the kitchen in the evenings - and sometimes if the chefs were in a good mood between meals they would let you have a sandwich or something! ANd we had free access during session breaks

We are welcomed to go in the kitchen whenever. Sometimes kitchen staff will even put snacks and stuff away for us to have and then we have a huge pantry of stuff that's for us to have. Pretty much, its their way of making up for us getting somewhat underpaid....they feed us well.

That is awesome!

we usually just have a large bowl of fruit, and if there were a lot of sandwiches made and leftover then those will be there too but that's about it. I'm jealous of those of you that can just go in whenever!

i missed having food when I was at main idea!

yeah, we are not allowed to go in and get whatever. In fact, we aren't allowed into the kitchen at all unless we are kitchen staff. (partially because we don't have food handler's permits and partially because it would get crazy in there with us going in and out and taking food they have planned for something else that week) In the staff room we have a regular house fridge and a pop machine, and that's about it for storage of our own food. The kitchen staff occasionally put leftovers in the fridge and they definitely stock it a bit with some sandwich stuff and maybe some other stuff over the weekends. We get some fruit and other leftovers as well but that's about it.

Yeah my camp is the same but this last summer it was really weird for me because I was aloud in the kitchen and it was part of my job to work with the kitchen staff. they were really cool and I had a lot of fun chatting with them. some times I think they had more fun in the kitchen then we had they were awesome.