Creative Hour

For the past five years, I've worked at OK Falls Parks & Rec as a camp counsellor for the day camp there, as well as an events coordinator. Over the past years, I've had to experience some crying kids, and some very messy days, but some weird things seem to stand out in my mind. One of those weeks was when we had forty-five kids all at once come in, and only four counsellors. We were all running around trying to figure out what we would do with all them. Someone had to be with the older kids and two more had to be with the younger ones, but someone also had to be taking the attendance, and someone in the office. All I remember was running around constantly counting how many kids we had while answering the phone. Thankfully, our volunteers showed up thirty minutes later and we were saved. All the staff was beat, but we still had six more hours to go.
Another weird and funny day at work was the last day of our camp when one of the other counselors got a little taste of what karma was like. All week he had been teasing the laughing at the other workers and on the last day it came back at him. Ryan had just mopped the floor and put up a warning sign about the floor being slippery. Not a minute later, he came running in to jump at his sister, when he slipped and slid across the floor into the cupboards. Everyone could not stop laughing at him. Our boss ran in and had heard what happened and she as well started to laugh. Later that day, we went out for our annual staff pizza party and karma struck him again. Ryan being the obvious clumsy one, spilled a pitcher of ice tea all over himself. We could not stop laughing at him. Later when we handed out our funny awards for everyone, I gave him the Ozzy Osbourne impersonation award, but really he should have gotten the biggest cluts award.

Awesome

Once i started thinking about the small awesome things in life, I thought about how when my dad is home, he always has coffee, tea or hot chocolate ready for me as I'm getting ready to run out the door. He is always sure to get up and ask me what I would like for my lunch and if I would like to bring a hot drink to school. When my dad has to go away for work, I realize that the little extra help in the morning, him having my travel mug ready to go, helps to put me in a good mood throughout the day just because I got a cup of tea for the ride to school. It's one of the little things I really appreciate!


Another little awesome thing I've noticed is whenever I come home from school or a friends house or any other place, the first person to always greet me is my dog, Jack. He runs up to me and wags his tail and starts to give me puppy kisses. Even if I'm gone for five minutes, its the same greeting I get every time he sees me. He is such a suck up that even if you get mad at him, you can't stay mad because he's just too darn good at using his powers of cute. It's just one of the great little things that I look forward too every day.