mikao's world

the summer job series, part 1

people always say i end up with interesting summer jobs.

my first summer job ever was working at a camp in northern alberta for two weeks as the "craft co-ordinator". it was a rather small camp, with i think maybe 20 campers at the most.

the only running water was in the kitchen shack... and so we "showered" in the creek that went by the camp, and there were a couple of outhouses out back. there were two cabins, one for girls and one for boys. i never went in the boys cabin, but the girls cabin was a huge log building with about thirty single beds with no mattresses (and no one of course had told me this previously to coming to camp, so i didn't have a mattress). there were three "junior counsellors", who all happened to be 14 year old girls. the campers were ages 10-13. there weren't any female senior counsellors.

once i arrived at camp, i had the job of spontaeously planning all the crafts using a big box of miscellaneous crud that they had... we made some interesting mud flags that i found in an ideas book. not one of those camp crafts you cherish!

there really wasn't anything else interesting about this job really. but it was my first summer job, and so it starts the series.