Caz

Going up to Cazadero yesterday was great.  I was only there for 4 weeks last summer, but J has been there for the last 10 summers.  It's so amazing to see these kids, all playing their instruments under the huge redwoods, it's like a whole little world in itself.  More amazing than the kids though, is the staff.  They all hang around for years, most of them started as campers, switched to CIT's (counselor in training) at 17 or 18, then became counselors, music instructors, stage managers, office staff, music faculty, deans, kitchen staff, store managers, and eventually, directors. It's almost like you start at age 10 and never leave.  J and I were going to work there this summer as well, but well, yea.  We didn't get hired.  That's a little bit of a sore spot.  Shh, don't tell anyone.  

But it was great to see everyone, most of the staff this year is the same as last year, with just a few exceptions, and it really felt like no time had passed, and it was last year, summer 07, and J and I were going to finish checking out this bunch of campers, go to the beach with everyone else, and then go back to our wooden decks, our beautified canvas tents (we all would bring lights and rugs, and everything else to make them pretty) and  get ready to welcome a new bunch of kids on Monday.  I wish it was that way, but instead we came home, driving too much, watched some TV and went to bed.  

Some pictures to show how it is.  

The bridge when you first come into camp... if you run, it creates waves in the wood. Sweet.

Junior High Performance...
High-school Band

Fun at Staff Concert Variety Night
Me and J at the Halloween Dance (there are dances every week for staff to dress up and kids to dance) 
Staff Guitar Ensemble (J on the right)

Staff Chior

Final Dance (Prom theme)
Me and my co-counselor Cassie at Prom
J and Megan Dancing
The Boys

A boys cabin...
Final beach bonfire... fire-walking!
STAFF! (or a small portion there-of)
My high-school girls cabin.  

Blergh

I'm not really in the mood for writing today, but I'm trying to write every day, so I'm going to say something...

J and I went up to Caz today, which was, well an experience... and I'll have a lot to say about it tomorrow.  

Mostly I just want to read my current book Fairest, by Gail Carsen Levine, as I am currently OBSESSED with it. 

And I did NOT want to do my yoga today, I wish I had done it this morning rather than waiting until after I'd been in the car all day, and then with people I was really hyper around, and then in the car for another whole day! (not really, we drove up and down today, but it sure felt like forever...) But yea, yoga was hard, but it still happened.  

Topics for the next few days:

Caz

Someone I shall call Jewel

Music

The Box

And more I'm sure.  

Armegeddon

I'm going to New York this fall, to school on Long Island, which to me, is not that scary. Apparently my mom does not agree however, she said this morning that she was concerned about me going so far away because there's "going to be a nuclear war". Now I like to think a little more optimistically, perhaps that the world is not going to fall apart immediately at least not in the next four years. Can I please get through college, get a degree, before we're reduced to cowering in the country, waiting for one beautiful city after another to go up in smoke.

What I can't understand, is why anyone, no-matter what their agenda, or their reasons, would ever, EVER, fire a nuclear weapon. Wasn't that the POINT of Mutually Assured Destruction? Even just one stupid teeny tiny nuke, just means the end of everything beautiful we have left.

Dear Terrorists, please don't blow up everything until after I get out of college!
Thanks, Em

That'll do the trick, I'm sure.



Yoga was a little hard today, didn't happen until 9pm. Plus, I'm going up to Cazadero Performing Arts Camp tomorrow to visit some old friends. So, no post tomorrow most likely... Not that anyone is waiting on their toes!