22.5.09

Working Life

Well today was my first full day at work. Yesterday, Celeste and I went to First Calvary Church at 8:30am, but it turns out that we wouldn't have to go there until June 22. Instead, we would meet our coordinator at 2pm at another location. So we went back to our apartments and I passed out for three more hours, ate some lunch, and went to work. The kids are really adorable and friendly. I already know that I like some more than others. The girl that none of the kids like is disliked for good reason. I really like the John family (John, Johntaye, and Johnae). Johnae's so cute, but she's going to be so spoiled. John's a funny guy but he's totally going to be such a pimp when he gets older (he took a picture of himself on my phone today, and he's always hitting and poking girls. Johntaye's pretty thoughtful and encouraging, but she's definitely a handful. Torian's a great big brother to Zipporah. Mikhi is such a character; he kissed my hand yesterday trying to bribe me to type for him. He will be such a handful... he likes to ask questions...
This morning, I went at 9am to babysit 4-year-olds. They're so adorable. I got along really quickly with Janet, and she's probably my favorite. She made me the bead bracelet, and she likes to teach me spanish (orange juice - hugo; strawberry - fraissa). Her and her friend (Corina) are really cute together, and I wonder if they'll always be good friends. Today was family day, and their parents didn't show up. I really wish I took Spanish instead of French; I didn't realize how useful Spanish could be until days like today when the parents would be muttering Spanish to each other and I would just blankly smile at them. Sue/Dorian is probably one of my other favorites. He's so little! Two of the other kids have the oddest food allergies, but it's so sad that they can't eat these things from such an early age. One of the kids can't eat pork, but I think it might be for religious reasons because his dad is from Sudan. 
I can't believe my memory for names has deteriorated so much... I used to be so good at it before college and right when I need it the most, it just dies on me. 

Camp Calvary itself doesn't seem to be too structured... the coordinators just tell us that we can choose what to go to, and that in the next three weeks that we have before the camp actually begins we'll be organizing the camp supplies and thinking up ideas. I don't even know what they want from us.