WILAC III

What I Learned At Camp, mark III (although some of them are just quotes)

-Muscles are measured in bananas
-The pastor shoots like a drug addicted watermelon
-Pears>grapes in a food flinging contest (was actually last week)
-Welcome to Red Lobster, home of the Red Lobster. Can I take your order?
-"Do you have some of those...what are they called? polytheistic rings?"
-I am apparently immune to paintballs
-There's a four-sting version of Relient K, and they sound awesome
-150 Lumens is enough
-Nursey can be bribed (as can I)
-Montana is a lie
-Cardboard is heavy when wet
-I should have brought my swim trunks
-Leia is now blind in her right eye, wait, what? now she also has a "broken" foot?
-It is entirely possible to drop a pen in a fan
-Having "Sunny With a High of 75" on a day where the temperatures reach 116 F isn't nice.
-Said high temperatures plus a head cold equals not-niceness
-Senior highers are the real precious jewels.

Okay, so this past week was the one and only Senior high week with possibly record-high temperatures (I have a picture on my phone of the thermometer reading 106 F at 10am). I had only been a camper during Sr. High week once, and I don't really remember most of it (too many mangas I guess). So it was...an experience. Unfortunately, I missed the end of it due to being majorly sick and going home Friday night, so I missed the bonfire and a few other things. I still feel a little iffy so please pray for me this coming week that I might fully recover quickly.
So, ignoring the heat and the sickness, my reactions to this past week? I now realize why so many of the "older" generations look down on my age group so much. True, I have gone to a private Christian school for all of my high school career, so I may have seen the better side of people, but some of the people I met, I was almost ashamed to have shook (shook or shaken?) hands with them. Now, I did not actually meet a lot of the campers, but I must have encountered most of the guys in the course of bathroom cleaning. Some of them have no respect at all. At one point, a kid who had alread been warned against disrespectful behavior was making a mess in the sink while we were cleaning, Christian (the other maintenance worker who knows way more than I do) told him he was going to have to wipe the shaving cream of the counter. So what does the kid do? He looks Christian straight in the eye and dumps shaving cream on the floor. Now, I did meet several people who were kind, courteous, and fun, although strangely not one of them was male...
Anyways, I was talking about it on the ride home with my mom (and I was strangely lucid due to a dose of NyQuil) and she said that one of the reasons is because her generation never fully instilled manners into the current generation. Now, that could be part of it, but I've been thinking about it over the past couple of days and I've come up with a blanket, albeit grim, assessment: The world is just plain evil. Now, I'm not talking full-scale Hitler-evil in every one, but doesn't the Bible say we're all inherently evil? Now, here we run into a controversy in whether a person can be "good" without being saved. Without going into any length, I say yes. So is it just a flawed spirit that makes people jerks? I don't know, I know many Christians that are meaner than atheists I've met. Meh, i guess all we can do is be a good example and not let them get to us.
So, next week is a jump to the first Junior week, which is ages...8-12, IIRC? It's the next age group down from Jr. High. It should be a relief, since I get along better with that age group, and the only bathroom issue will be the rush during Shower Day. So yeah, drop me a line if you have time, I feel like the only one I've talked to from home this summer's Heather.