Be Martyrs But don't Die

Each summer I go to Hummingbird Music Camp and it seems like each year I forget how much I truly love it there. I got up there and went to the Hummingbird meeting, got my awesome orange shirt (that says your a counselor), and met up with a lot of my friends from last year including Bridget, Jessica, Chris, and Noah. Then there were CIT's from last year that were counselors this year including my Beth, Anna and Phil. The only new person that none of us new was Kyle, but he turned out to be really nice. The head counselors this year were Liz (the most awesome girl alive), Robyn, Katie, Jeff, Frank, and Pat. I stayed on the Left side of Pierson (the girls dorm) or as Liz and I referred to it, the "hot side." Beth was on the "cool side" of Pierson. Our side didn't have air conditioning..but it could be taken other ways to.

So the schedule goes like this:
Sunday is square dancing
Monday is the camp fire
Tuesday is the overnight
Wednesday is game night
Thursday is skit night
Friday is the Moonlight hike
Saturday is the dance.

The camp fire is awesome you sing camp songs for a little while and then the heads do a skit.

On the overnight each counselor group has to make a skit, they are rather fun. The first week I did a quest and the second week I did a synchronized swimming contest. The best part about the overnight is after the campers go to bed, counselors get the peanut butter party, where we eat peanut butter sandwiches.

At game night all the counselors and CITs get assigned a game to be in charge with. I got Link Tag (best game ever besides big fat pony) and ZOO.

Skit Night is awesome all the groups make up skits with skit topics given to them...the skit topics are funny because often they are inside jokes between the head counselors. I did a spelling B skit and the best part about it was Mary Rose saying in a Texan accent "I can remember when she spelled her first word she was running around the house with panties on her head and spelling undies U-N-D-I..." On the second skit night they do Boogaloos. (I think we should do this for Drama) Its where you say " booga, boogaloo, booga, boogaloo. Let me see your (insert name). What did you say? I said Let me see your (insert name) What did you say? I said (insert impression of the person) Mine was a very hyper version of Big Fat Pony. Beth's was "OK I'll do it but only if Alex does" Bridget's was "one out of three ain't bad" Jessica's was "There not my campers" and Phil's was "I lost my curly side burns" (he's Jewish)

Friday is the Moonlight Hike, this is where everyone hikes up to the waterfalls at night and you can shine your flashlight on the falls, and if you sit in the dark for a little while the fire flies appear...it is seriously one of the prettiest things in the entire world. For counselors though this night is hard you have to run ahead of the campers and stand in a dangerous spot, like in front of poison ivy, or another trail, and wait for all the campers to go by then run ahead of them again and do the same thing...this is all up a mountain. Very Tiring. My favorite part about this is when you come down all the counselors stop and Frank says "Turn off your lights, get away from one another, put out your arms and look up and spin as fast as you can" It is so much fun, star spinning.

Saturday is my favorite event, the dance. I LOVE the dance. Imagine prom with you closest friends and awesome themes (like Peter pan) Then take not having a single care about being cool or impressive, add the time warp and with or without you and you get the Hummingbird dance. I love it.
After that is the friend ship circle...there are no words to describe this, no feelings to amount to this, and no way to explain it without making it sound grossly cheesy, also there are some things that need to remain in peoples hearts, and not in there mouths.

Sunday it all starts all over again. The first week I had 20 girls and the second I had 23.

My personal experiences:

I got my underwear stolen...all of it. Anna did a skit on it but she called them "Alex's small cloths". Huge joke as to who took it.

There is the continuing joke of Chris following Noah's advice last year about showers. Noah told Chris that he should get Christina (the girl Chris wanted to hook up with) to look at a leaky shower and kiss her, Noah was joking, Chris took it seriously. So this year Noah mentioned something about the showers and goes "I thought that was pretty funny myself" Eventually him and Anna go and look at the showers and you hear a door slam.

I got a letter from Greg. (THE GREG!!) He wants to get coffee or at least talk... I have to make a great impression...being that I plan to marry him and all. Here's a copy of the letter:

"Dear Alex,
How are things going? Having a good time at camp? As much as I loved Hummingbird I was ready to leave when I did. This summer I'm working with Children's Adventure Company in Santa Fe. Its a blast and a half. I'm so glad Liz is doing well, and a good job. She's a lot of fun. We've gotten very close over the last year.
School is going well for me. I finish in May, which is both exciting and kind of scary. What school are you at? Well, I'd write more but I'm about to leave for Arizona for the next few days. Anyway I'd love to hangout sometime this summer, maybe get coffee, or at least talk. My number is ... so give me a call when you get back. Take care
Greg"

I became rather close to everyone. especially the girl counselors.

The Hookups:
Bridget and Phil (AKA Rabbi Phil) (look at the bread!!!)
Anna and Noah
Chris and Desire (sort of)
Kyle and Maya (check the KP room)
Alex and Robyn (what?!?!?) just play along! (this is such a long story and its not a real hookup it just makes me look interesting)

Over all I had an absolute blast and Liz asked me to train so I think I shall!!!