This morning I woke up extremely early. I am not sure if it was nerves, excitement, or the chance to really start to work and do something. No matter the reason, I woke up really early and only Cami and Steve were awake. Steve was not really around, so Cami and I sat outside in the wonderful warm, but not too warm weather, and just enjoyed nature. The mornings here are beautiful as long as they are cool, but at times they get a bit hot. Yet this morning was a nice cool morning.
As we were sitting outside there were a few birds that had a nest just a few feet away. These birds were quite funny as they didn't mind getting close to us, but there were between 4-6 birds fighting over the same nest. They were just squawking at each other and kicking each other out of the nest. Eventually we took the nest down because they built on the outside of one of the cabins. As normal though, they built it up again and we had to take it down. I feel like taking the nest down may turn into a weekly occurrence, but time will tell.
After everyone woke up we had breakfast and as we sat outside I heard a bird, but this was not just any bird. It was a cuckoo bird. It sounded familiar, but I just could not place it. When I asked about it they talk about this bird and how the last team that was there helping with the camp was extremely annoyed by it because it just keeps going and going and going. Kind of like the energizer bunny, but rather the energizer bird. :) The bird reminded me of home because we have a cuckoo clock that goes off every 30 minutes. In a way I am thankful for that clock because I was able to tune the bird out so I did not get annoyed.
After breakfast Cami, Steve and I started to stain the cabins. It is a really dark and pretty stain and we had quite a time. Staining upwards we had a lot of trouble with drips and such, but eventually we were able to work out a routine and the next time we stained we started from the bottom and worked our way upwards. It made covering the drips up much easier.
When we were almost finished staining I cleaned up and helped David, McKenna, and Renee make a video. At first I was a little torn between what I should do, but Cami encouraged me to make the video with them. I am glad that I did because it was a lot of fun. We used so many different places and costumes. The video almost did not happen because my camera did not want to work. After the four of us messed with it for around 30 minutes we put some different and stronger batteries (because I left my batteries back in Bucharest and my SD card in the US) and it finally worked. Thank goodness.
While messing around with the camera to make it work, I definitely decided that I wanted to be part of the fun as well. So I put on random articles of clothing so I was dressed very strangely, but it was fun and that is all that matters. At times I was wearing a shirt as a skirt, a tie, a pink wig, a whole bunch of necklaces, a pink wig and/or a hat. It was wonderful. Kind of like dress-up for big kids. :)
Well for supper that night I was able to have a good European meal. We made schnitzel, which was extremely easy. You just cut boneless chicken really thin, pound the chicken so it is pretty flat, flour it, dip it in eggs, dip it in the breading (crumbs that are even thinner here then in America), and fry it in a pan. Super easy, but not the quickest. I really enjoyed eating them for the first time and thought it even more interesting that three different countries claimed the meal. Austira, Romania, and Germany all say that they invented the schnitzel, but looking it up on google it says that Austria is the original creator. Who knows what is really true though.
During the down time of the day I yet again struggled with being at the camp. Even though I helped with the staining of a cabin I was still feeling useless. I was to the point that I felt like I shouldn't be there. It's not quite that I didn't want to be there, it was more like I felt like I could be more useful somewhere else. That created a decent sized problem. The feeling stuck with me all throughout the day and I could just not shake it. So needless to say I was thinking about it while we were watching the movie Push that night. During the movie I decided that I should talk to Cami about me feeling this way because it is a very common thing, wherever I am at. I also decided that I should wait until the next day because we were both extremely tired by the end of the movie.
By the end of the day I wouldn't call my first day at camp a success, but things were accomplished and fun was had. I feel like no matter how I felt, it was a good day. Relationships grew stronger and the front of a cabin was stained. As well as having an amazing European meal.
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