Long Time No Blog

So what have I been up to you are probably wondering? I have been rather busy. Jamie (who i replaced) left a few months ago and I knew I had to take on a lot but I have ended up doing more than realised. I will give you a brief rundown of the past few months

I haven’t been on too many holidays. We are just near the end of winter over here and it is pretty cold and rainy so that limits the amount of times that I can bless this country with my Speedo. But worry not… summer is coming fast.

We had a huge camp at the start of June called HM Rage. This is the celebration of the queen’s birthday and for some reason it is a holiday time in NZ. They get a week off. Crazy stuff. I would say she is more my queen than their queen and I don’t get a holiday when I am home. Anyway… The camp was fun and I didn’t realize that my role was as big as it was for this camp. It turned out that I was the main mc guy running the week. Stress aside it was a great time. We had some amazing bands play and on the final night in front of probably 500 people during our banquet live on stage I tried to phone the queen to sing happy birthday to her. I had her on speaker phone (can I call her ‘her’ – will I get in trouble for that) well I didn’t actually have her on speaker phone. It was the receptionist from Buckingham Palace that answered. When I asked if I could talk to the queen she was very polite and hung up the phone. So I decided to try again... same thing happened. Final time… she didn’t even answer. Good job that I was using Jeremy Bennets Cell phone. So I gave it to my NZ friend who went outside and rang and explained what we were doing, we came back on stage and over speaker phone we all (500 of us) sang happy birthday to the queen. Fun times. (Thinking about it, she probably heard my accent and thought that it was a threat)

Then we have had camps, more camps and more camps again since that. In the middle of July we had our Winter Kids Camp. This is the first camp that I have actually done since Jamie left and I was a little worried at first. But what a fun week it was. A few people have said that it is the best camp that they have ever been at. So I was quite pleased with the job that myself and Rachel (who I work with) had done. It was a carnival theme and the highlight for me was the last night. We changed the gym from being a gym into a circus. WE moved all the bleachers into a circle, put up edging around them, strung streamers and about 350 balloons to the ceiling. The kids earlier in the week had to put together a performance and the winning teams (or the ones that didn’t suck) got to perform during the circus. No one knew who was up next so all teams came prepared to act. We had a VIP section for the best cabin during the week and they had a sweet seating area, with comfy chairs and we had a waitress who served them drinks. We finished off with a huge dance, let the balloons down and then did a conga from the gym back to the dining room.

We have amazing leaders here at the camp and I love getting to know them. Their passion and energy for the work that they do almost scares me.

I don’t have any pics to add at the minute cause they are all on my ipod. And funny enough my ipod has frozen and it won’t let me get any of my files off it and it wants me to reformat it. It just adds to my frustration and makes me hate Apple even more. They really are the devil.

I shall go for now. I will definitely try and update it more frequently. I kept wanting to but the longer I leave it the more I have to write. Later Peeps….