Hazy Clouds in Aurora (and children)

Herro,

I have survived the first two weeks of Hockey Camp everyone! Whee! It has been a rollercoaster. A very long and slow chug, chug, chug up and up and up and then whooooooooosh! last minute mega madness!

I am having a lovely time but it is quite stressful. The children are fun and make me feel welcome. I am awesome and cool and have the best accent. This is what the 6-10 year olds thought, polls show. I am inclined to agree. I got chants on the bus about it. Everyone knows that makes it a fact.

My first slide show fell on deaf eyes: there was disorganisation (not on my part) and hardware crashes etc but I got the DVD made and over to the place in time but the projector etc was such that widescreen didn't work! So the slide show was a major let down. For me, at least. So for the last week, I have been living on St Andrew's Campus and was lucky enough to get my own room. It's hot and humid but it's mine. I get up in the morning and edit photos while the children are on the ice and then I photograph them playing other sports and team building exercises back here on campus in the evenings.

The food started off shaky. Not like jelly (or Jell-o). I asked for the veggie option on the first night last Sunday and got given fish. I smiled and repeated myself. They then repeated themselves. "Fish may be the veggie option, but it's not a veggie option." I said. Mmm, dry pasta...

It got better as the week went on (save for some beef-riddled vegetarian samosas) and I have enjoyed veggie quesadillas, stuffed vegetables including peppers and courgettes, pizza (twice)...

The slideshow on Friday went down a storm and I had kiddies afterwards telling me that I got some sweet, sick and nice pictures of them. Sick in Canada = good. I'm told. People speak funny here.

So the third week of camp has started again and I have already taken the shots of children crying and saying goodbye to mum, dad, big sis and the hairy dog. Sometimes it's hard to tell the latter two apart. And now I am waiting to head out to the field to take photos of the same children as last week (mostly) meeting each other for the first (well, second) time. I assume the team building evolves each week otherwise: yawn.

I don't really have any other news apart form the fact that Amy is still here, but annexed to the rink so I hardly see her, and getting to know the other staff is making things more enjoyable in that way. In other news Ab Fab kept me company last week as did Brittas Empire and this week it will be Keeping Up Appearances. That's exciting. Any other good British sitcoms to recommend?

More updates as events warrant!