August 15, 2011

Today was the first day of our last week. WOW I can't believe how incredibly and sadly fast time has gone. It is so weird thinking back to 10 weeks ago when we were first getting our instiliation passes on that first monday. Wow. It was an ok day. There were a lot of new kids, which as you know isn't my favorite. I like the kids that I know and love. Oh well. We just did normal stuff. One of the fun things we did was work on super hero costumes for tuesday. SOOOo excited for superhero day. Its going to be awesome! There were tons of kids, and like no staff. Idk where Corrie was all day. It was so lame. Good day overall though. Aiden started making me a friendship bracelet. He kept telling me all day how much he was going to miss me. He came up to me, and was like..."ms. Caryssa, I'm a little nervous." What I asked. "What if you forget about me?" I started tearing up. "I'm never ever going to forget about you, Aiden. Ever." then he said, "and I'm worried about something else too. What if I forget about you? My memory is usually only good for about a year." I was crying by this point. Also during snack, we were having a mix of fruit. And i was like, awesome! Ms. Corrie put everything amazing in it. he was like, "even you?" That kid man. I would do anything to be with him always. I love him to death.

August 14, 2011

Today....I took a personal day. I woke up pretty early, surprisingly, but I just ended up staying in the hotel room all day, and so did Rebecca. It was nice. We just packed and took rests. About ten minutes of packing per 30 minutes of resting and watching movies. I felt like it was quite a nice combo. And then...I went to bed at like eight pm. I am sooooo glad because for once in my life since being here I actually got some sleep. That was much much needed yay.

August 13, 2011

Today is Saturday! After getting back at 6am, I slept in until like eleven thirty pm, which was nice to sleep in, but it was still not me getting a lot of sleep. Then a bunch of us got ready to go downtown and go shopping. Downtown was really nice, and the weather was awesome. We only went a couple of places, but it was just right. We ate doner kebob's too, which was good because I think that's the last time I'll be able to do so before leaving the country. We went to the new yorker and h & m for shopping. H &M basically has the exact same stuff that they have had for the entire summer, so not that exciting. But....The New yorker was amazing! They had soooo many shirts on sale. I got nine shirts, a dress, and heels for about 40 euro. Not bad, even with the exchange rate I will say :) Good day. That night we got ready and went downtown at around ten. We went to the tequila bar first, just because it was the only place everyone knew how to find since it was right near the train station. We didn't stay there long, and then we headed out on the town. Only stayed out til like five this time, but really really fun night !

August 12, 2011

today was the second to last friday of camp.... so sad. The day went pretty smoothly. This was Kiara's actual last day. It was extremely sad. I did pretty good all day with this, and so did she. We had a heart to heart near the end of the day, and I told her about the plusses and minuses about going home and stuff. I think it helped her. At closing I almost had a breakdown and teared up a lot, but kept it pretty together. Mostly because Ms. Anna was being a jerk and was like really ragging on all of the people who were crying, which was quite a few of the kids. Sooooo sad. I don't know why she was being a jerk. As soon as we got back inside after going out for closing though, I had to step out of the room. I was crying really hard for a little bit and then a lot of the other kids who were crying got sent to the bathroom by Anna to clean up, and I saw them on their way. Kiara and I hugged and I told her that God was going to be with her on her journey in life. Then I was off work, and I got picked up by the Roys to go to dinner and then Planet of the Apes. It was a really really good movie, and I really enjoyed it for sure! Then came back, talked to mom for a bit and got ready to GO OUT! We had so much fun downtown. The girls from patch brought a dude from their work, Mr. Jacob, and Mr. Mike met up with us at like midnight. I guess he tried to find us at 11 when we said we would be at La'Oasis, the first place we went, but he didn't see us for some reason even though we were the only people there. Weird. But at least he met up with us. I didn't drink that much, but we all ended up staying out til like six or so dancing and stuff. It was for sure just awesome! The second place we went after La'Oasis was sooooo hot that I was literally completely drenched in sweat and I couldn't handle it so we left that place. The next place was called like Proton or something, and we ended up like dancing downstairs where the floor like lit up. It was pretty cool. Good good night

August 11, 2011

Today was our last real field trip day since next week will be opening ceremonies. It was to the zoo in Stuttgart, which was pretty cool. I was in a group with Mr. Eric again, which was really fun, and it was just awesome! We had a lot of the good kids. My favorite things were like the Elephants and stuff, but it sucked because a lot of the good cats weren't out. Oh well. Good day. Although it was weird not having Corrie there. She was on vacation. Ms. Margaret was not the same.

August 10, 2011

Today was a pretty good day, and I enjoyed it immensely. The kids were still nuts, but we had a lot of fun. It was crazy hair day and pajama day. Michael (the kids) showed up in like full on pajamas with a robe. Kiara had like intense ratted hair, and Devin. Omg… Devin. He like shaved his hair so that it was in an arrow like in avatar the last air bender. It was absolutely amazing. It was kind of nice to just wake up and change only a little so that I could go. And wearing sweatpants all day was absolutely the best. There weren’t very many of us today because Anna and Wesley had training, and so did Mike for part of the day. I had a good time though. After work Emily and I made the most likely awards for the kids. It was really good. But very sad at the same time. Now watching movies. Imma miss Germany for sure.

August 9, 2011

Today was kind of a rough day. The kids were nuts, and I was just having issues. I don’t exactly remember everything, but cooking club for example was a wreck. We made like pizza on tortillas, and it was like, the kids were going insane and crazy and I couldn’t even handle it. Kyiah at one point like knocked Z’kyiah’s pizza over even because they were so insane. I was really angry. Oh well. Things happen. Mike was kind of annoying too. I don’t know. The way he talks to the kids sometimes, he isn’t like mean but I just don’t like his tone. Even though I guess I can understand that the kids were nuts. Whatever. Day over. At the end of the day, some of us went to dinner at an Italian restaurant, and it was like really really good. Chris paid for drinks, and Cody bought most of the meals, which was really nice. Ok, night!