This morning I woke up and I was extremely tired. I know it wasn't from me working too hard the day before, but I was still tired. It may have to do with my sleeping patterns here. I have realized that since being here in Romania I do not fall asleep during movies, sleep well through the night, wake up before my alarm and I am dreaming. That is something very different then what I am used to and I am thinking about starting a dream log or something. When I do dream they are really weird and they also come in pairs. Very strange, but not too interesting unless you were there in the dream, so I digress. :)
The second day at camp was quite fun and felt a bit more productive. Steve, Cami and I started to stain the front of the other cabin and we had an amazing system. It worked extremely well and we still could not get over how beautiful the stain was/is. While staining, Cami took a break and I was able to hear all about how Steve and Cami met and chose to come to Romania from Steve. It was a good talk with a lot of insights.
Their meeting was super cute because they met at their workplace (they had two totally different jobs so they had never ran into each other before) and started talking. After talking for a bit, Steve invited her over to his house to help clean for it was the end of the semester and he needed to move out. At the time he was renting one of his parents houses and was moving out. He said that asking her this question would determine what type of girl she was. Well, as we can imagine, she said that she would come over and help. Then afterwards they went out to eat at McDonalds. Ever since then they have been together, which you can tell by there wonderful, loving relationship with each other.
Well, enough with the mushy gushy talk, but if you want to hear more, there is plenty more to tell but that can come at a later date. After Cami's finished with her break she came back and started staining again as I helped Steve by holding a ladder for him so he could finish something up on the roof. I am not exactly sure what he was doing, but I knew that if he got hurt it was definitely my fault so the roof was done.
After lunch I was able to catch Cami and talk to her about what had been on my mind so much lately. It turned out to be a very good talk and she said that she would try to include me with things and give me something to do so that I didn't feel useless. She also told me that I just need to speak up if I do not want to do something because she is very good at just giving directions and not thinking twice about it.
Cami also explained how this first trip up to camp was more for relaxation instead of work. She told me how things had been so hectic and crazy that everyone really just needed a break. That was also contributing to why I was having such a hard time with feeling useless and such. They (everyone except Steve, the dad) came up to relax and take a mini-vacation and all I wanted to do was work. This created a slight problem, but it wasn't too big because I understood how everything was being viewed so I could be more understanding of the situation.
We also talked about the differences in the length of stays in Romania. She said that because I am here for so long I will be getting more of a missionary lifestyle feeling while here instead of a shorter mission trip that is pretty much all work and no play. Later on in the summer I will see more of the difference in these two lifestyles and at that moment I was not very sure which one I would prefer better. I had a feeling I would prefer the shorter mission trip for just a few days, but I could not be certain of anything yet. Only time would be able to tell.
After another productive day we had supper, played some speed-mitten which had become almost like a ritual after supper thing, and Renee, McKenna and I chose a movie to watch that night. Because we are such great girls we decided that we had to watch 17 Again with Zac Efron. We were kind of on a Zac Efron kick because we had just watched the first two High School Musicals. :) Before the movie though, Steve and I installed a window which was somewhat tricky because we had to make it level, but we had two good pairs of eyes handy so it was not too hard.
After another day we went to bed and it was somewhat sad because we were going back to Bucharest the next day. Things were beginning to be accomplished, people were relaxing, and we were adjusting to a slower paced life again. Yet we had to go back. We had a couple of visitor's (the Faber's) coming in on a flight in a couple of days. So another adventure was about to start.
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