No Water. No Power. But Fireworks.

Yesterday was definitely an eventful one! We all woke up Sunday morning without any power or any running water! What a great surprise when you have over 85 people on site plus management and spring staff. Needless to say the maintenance team had a busy morning having to set up the generator to at least supply camp with running water. The problem was resolved in a couple of hours by about lunch time when the fallen tree was removed after it was found leaning against one of camp's main power lines.

The guest group left after lunch, and post clean was finished by mid-afternoon allowing for a relaxing evening off with the rest of the spring staff. We decided to head east, away from camp and shoot off some fireworks and just socialize/hangout. It was an awesome time as we all lit a couple of roman candles, threw a frisbee around and just relaxed as a spring staff team while blasting country music from our cars.

That wraps up my Sunday. This next week is extremely busy so hopefully I will still be able to blog soon!

Thanks for reading,

Bradley "Aflac" Jones

 This is Firework Church (at least that's what I call it) the destination for our Sunday hangout!

Mumford & Sons, Sports and Thrift Shops

Bayern München won the UEFA Champions League final over Dortmund 2-1! What a crazy game! Robben with the redeeming goal in the 89th minute to seal the deal and some phenomenal saves from both keepers definitely made the 2013 final a memorable one!

Watching the game today was definitely a nice break after a couple days of torrential rain. We've had over 108 millimetres of rain over the past two days and its definitely dampened some of the spirits of staff on site but with the sun shining late this afternoon, a Bayern München win and a couple of thrift shop finds that would brighten anyone's day, it definitely turned out to be quite a phenomenal Saturday.

Arjen Robben scores in the 89th minute to lead Bayern München to it's 5th UEFA Champions League Title

With that being said one of the highlights of this past week was getting to see Mumford & Sons in concert! They were sensational and completely lit up the entire stage playing Little Lion Man, I Will Wait, Babel, The Cave and even covering Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire for their encore. It was a memorable concert that I got the privilege of sharing with Felicity, my sister, and Nicole's friend from Ottawa.

Marcus Mumford from Mumford & Sons played in Calgary at the Saddledome on May 21st to a sold out crowd

So that's been my week I hope that I can continue to consistently blog and blog more about God, sports, and maybe some posts about hardcore music aka (Tim Lambesis from As I Lay Dying and his murder for hire trial and debaucel and August Burns Red's new album coming out in June)

UEFA Champions League Final

I realize that I probably should blog more about sports considering I love watching them so much. I find that while I'm at Camp Evergreen I don't get to watch a whole lot of sports but when I do watch games it's usually Union Rugby or UEFA and FIFA football matches. So with that being said I feel like I should make more of an effort to watch a variety of sports and the only way I can do that is by watching sports with other people. Courtney and Nate are great examples of people who let me watch Rugby and follow soccer more intensely then I ever have.

This brings me to the reason as to why I am blogging. It's the UEFA Champions League Final today between Bayern and Dortmund (both German teams) who are playing in the Super Bowl of soccer; the UCL Final in Wembley. Nate is pretty much a religious Bayern Munchen fan which makes complete sense because they are debated to be the best club team in the world next to FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Dortmund has also played really well recently which makes the final game an intriguing matchup. This is due to the fact that all games between Dortmund and Bayern have ended in draws this year so the final is sure to be a thriller. From what I have seen so far Dortmund has been taking it to the red and white with Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer being the main reason the UCL Final is still scoreless. Robben is still stone cold for Bayern and can't seem to get anything past Dortmund while Javi Martinez had the closest chance in the first half for Bayern with a header off of a corner kick that just skimmed off the fingertips of the Dortmund keeper. 

Go Bayern!

First Year is Over, a New Year Begins

Wow, Bradley Jones is blogging again! Why yes I am! You know why? Because I am back at Camp Evergreen, the only place where I find the time to blog so here it comes!

My first year of college was phenomenal, I couldn't have asked for better roommates and I couldn't have asked for better classmates, instructors, and friends. I learned how to broadcast live on the radio, how to produce and direct a live television news cast, how to write and record radio and TV commercials, and numerous other skills that I will need when I graduate from Lethbridge College next winter semester. I can't wait for next year but then again I can't wait for Camp Evergreen's summer season to get started. That leads me to my next point!

I'm back at Camp Evergreen! Doing the same thing I did last year and with the same job title, "Summer Director," not that the title really matters other then the fact that my current work days consist of planning, discussing, planning, discussing the planning, and planning some more. The last couple of days haven't gone the greatest, but after making a decent amount of progress today we (the summer program team) hope that we can start discussing and planning all of the fun activities and games soon, rather then focusing on all of the logistics and troubleshooting all of the kinks and knots. But the great thing is that it's spring! And all of the male staff have bonded really well, from making a rap about living in the mini lodge, to adopting a rotting taxidermy caribou as our pet, and to sitting on the roof of the Man Cave and looking at the stars. It's really been a blast and all of the guys and myself are enjoying every minute of it! The Man Cave includes Aflac (myself), K2 (Mitch), Sunshine (Cam), Fender (Dylan), Eiger (Adam), The Distraction (John), and Duracell (Christoph (everyone's favourite German)). We are still awaiting the last member of the Man Cave Bacon (Nate) who should be arriving to camp within the next 9 days, I'm sure he will be a great addition. Correct that. He WILL be a great addition to the group of guys and the rest of the staff!

Other then that life has been super busy as always, I'm going to try and blog more now that I am back at camp! So keep checking back for updates in the life of Bradley Jones!