In Penn...

Well -

The journey here was a long one, 2 countries, 4 states, in 2 days. I left the B.I. for Seattle with the maja on Thursday, in the a.m. expecting a day of paperwork at the border, but all I got was a 'why would you leave HERE for Pennsylvania?' from the boarder guard. We went to Salumi's restaurant in Seattle, a Italian deli that is owned and operated by the father of Ciao Italy! on the food network (I'm kind of obsessed...) anyways, it was fabulous, biggest sausages I've ever seen. Also had some fish thrown at me, 3 pounds to be exact, at the Pike Street Market, that I took to Arizona with me, for Drew and his fam.

Drew is good - Arizona was stupid hot. Some of India's friends were there en route to South America from Vancouver on their bikes, as in mountain bikes, very ambitious and cool people. I took an overnight flight to Newark, which sucked to say the least, but met L.Skeans in the Newark airport where we waited patiently for 6 hours to be picked up by the camp staff.

Once on the bus, all the Canadians that flew in found each other like magnets, and we, surprise surprise, are almost all from BC, and we all have friends in common, both in Squamish and Kelowna. Small World, as usual! Getting to know the 100+ staff over the last few days has been quite a challange, there are people from 30 states, 8 provinces, and 9 countries. There are a number of male staff as well that coach tennis, golf, do the heavy lifting... you know the usual. I think it will be good, a staff of all girls could get ugly.

I don't know what age of girls I will have are yet, but because I am doing the photography, I think I will have girls in the 8th grade or so, or 'upper seniors' as they are called here at camp. The camp is beautiful - and so huge. There are 25 sleeping cabins, 2 lakes, 2 pools, a pottery barn (not the store), an arts and crafts studio, a metal works studio, 2 dance studios, an aerobics studio, climbing walls, ropes courses, and endless tennis, basketball courts, and soccer fields. It's really quite amazing. The camera that I will be using is also amazing - brand new and digital, I've been playing with it all day...

We are going to Wal-Mart tomorrow night, woo hoo, it's what Honesdale (the town near by) is built around, mainly to supply this camp I think, as there is not much out here. The weather is hot, the cancelled one of the seminars to let us go swimming today. The owners are amazing, they treat their staff very well, making it a very enjoyable place to work, and I've only been here two days!

Well that is all for now, back to my assignments for school. I'll write more as the summer goes on...

Melanie