Some of you may be wondering...what exactly am I doing this summer? Well...let me just tell you.
My official position is "Events Staff." Each day I meet with my team out at the High Ropes course (there are 9 of us...plus our boss, Jason) at 8 am and we all do a devotional together. It's nice that not only is this a summer job for us...but a place where we are being ministered to as well. After, we all split up and usually perform different jobs...sometimes cleaning boats, sometimes planning games for our program camp coming up soon, before now we trained at high ropes (but now we're all official!), sometimes organizing certain areas, painting our equipment room, etc. Then it is lunch time and after lunch time we run our "events." We rotate throughout the week so somedays I am renting out bikes and signing people up for adventure recreation out of the equipment room, other days I am helping kids in and out of canoes and paddle boats on our pond, other days I set up and run paintball (I hate being referee...always the chance of getting shot and it HURTS), other days I run our 20 foot high rock wall we call Rocky (clever...I know), and finally other days I am running High Ropes (my absolute favorite!) After work (we usually get off around 5) it's dinner time...I usually go on a run and then either hang out or run into town (the only place where I get cell service and good internet) to run errands or to just steal Starbucks wifi...well it's not really stealing when I get iced tea every time! hehe. Many of these trips into town are by myself...it's nice to get away...but usually once or twice a week I come in with coworkers and we all go out to dinner or get ice cream (any chance we get to escape camp food...we jump on it!) On Saturday mornings everyone who works here all help "turn around" the camp...aka deep clean it for our next group to come in. I get 24 hours off a week at least...from Saturday at noon till usually Sunday at 2. Hopefully at least one weekend we can get a little more time off!
Tomorrow I run High Ropes and I'm stoked! It's kind've sketchy because each kid, as well of myself, are responsible for clipping ourselves onto each element (attached to nothing on the ground) It took a while to get used to hanging out 40 feet in the air on wobbly elements and then zipping down the zip line...but I am confident in my ability to run it and while I sometimes still feel nervous...I am definitely not scared anymore! Especially when in my training I had to free climb up the trees clipping myself in the whole way instead of being belayed, had to hang upside down in my harness, and then to top it all off...had to hook myself into the zip line and send myself down...after double checking each carabiner 20 times...I was finally able to send myself down. You learn to be extra careful real quick when you put your own life in your hands. haha.
So yup...that's my life right now. Pictures soon to come!
Also...I write a lot of letters...if you would like one...send me your address! Or...write me a letter and I'll write back...promise!
McKenna Bennett-CSP
Sugar Pine Christian Camps
48478 Mill Canyon Road
Oakhurst, CA 93644
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