Wanna know what's fun about staff training?

Seeing Jamie again was the perfect way to start off the first day of staff training and the summer of 2012 at the beautiful Camp Tecumseh.  I love this girl more than she knows and I'm so glad that we can even be back together at the same place for the entire summer.  Even though I'll miss her in Lake Village, I know she's going to do a great job teaching those CILTs to be leaders and lovers of Christ.  

 

Our nature day was probably one of my favorites of the entire week.  Mike took our group all over camp to each of the different sleep-out spots, on trails that I never knew existed, and then ended with a hobo dinner cookout and pictures on the giant chair.  Getting to know all of the new staff, and even returners that I didn't know well last summer, was awesome.  Being in this place just makes life easy.  Friendships come naturally and sharing and being yourself is effortless.

Watching and listening to these guys doing chapel practice at night on the picnic tables of Scheumann was one of my favorite "little moments" of staff training.  Listening to the music all together out under the stars was the perfect illustration of what this week was for me.  It was a chance to unwind from the stresses of school and the craziness of real life and be able to enjoy the simplicity of life and nature and God.

Unit and partner pairings are two of the most anticipated events of all of staff training.  It's like in Harry Potter when they put on the sorting hat and learn their fate.  Mary Lang and I spent the two days leading up to the event freaking out and having extreme anxiety about it all, only to end up with amazing partners and getting to live on the same porch together.  My partner Bre is not only my partner, but my sister.  She's a Delta Gamma at Purdue and we are sure to be DG scooping together all summer long.