Impact: Day 1

What an eventful first day of camp! Not only did I get pied in the face during kick-off chapel...again, but I also have an absolutely disgusting set of utensils to use for the my meals this week, and I am in a never-ending game of blow dart. Last but definitely not least was Cirque du la Groove las night which was out of this world! What a crazy first day, let me break it down for you.

So during opening chapel I explain to all the campers the premise of the week-long game, and I also intro the rules that should be followed at Camp Evergreen. So just like last week as I was explaining the week-long game to the campers, Ashely comes up behind me and pies me in the face. I guess she pied me in the face to emphasize my point that when the cabin has the cleanest living space they are allowed to choose a specific staff member to pie in the face. I guess I was the first victim to get everything off the ground, you know?

For those of you who don't know I actually have been on a meal challenge all summer. Now this challenge doesn't involve weight loss or any special diet but it did include a set of rather unique utensils. For example, the past 6 weeks I have been eating all of my meals with the following; a melon baller, a lemon zester, and an apple corer. But my fellow staff, mainly Bacon and the program team saw that I was rather efficient at using said utensils and thus offered me with another tougher utensil challenge. The gave me three pairs of extravagant utensils, such as an industry sized soup ladle and an industry sized whisk, a piping bag and a lifter, and lastly a meat tenderizer and a giant serving spoon. Now all of these options weren't to bad, and I was allowed to veto one of the choices. So I vetoed the ladle and the whisk, simply because of their size and how impatient I would be at the end of week trying to eat with Goliath sized cutlery. Then all 78 something Impact campers voted on the pair of utensils for me to use. The score was 7 to 6 in favour of the piping bag. But since we need a 2/3 majority when voting on any "official" matters at Camp Evergreen, they combined the two options. Therefore leaving me with the PIPING BAG and the MEAT TENDERIZER. Should be a solid week! Thumbs up!

Now to explain the epic game of blow dart. First you must swear yourself into the game, and then swear to not back out of the game for any reason. So the rules are as follows. When you make eye contact with someone else who is playing the game, one of you may blow dart the other person. This is done by raising your fist to your mouth and making a blow dart/spitting noise. Once hit by the blow dart, the person smacks their neck where the blow dart hit them and then falls to the ground and lays there for 30 seconds unless another person comes over and pulls the "dart" out of the victims neck. The only way to protect yourself is to a) not look anyone in the eye or b) have your hands up crossing your chest, this is your "shield of amazon", thus protecting you from all poisonous or life-threatening blow darts. This game is ridiculously fun as you never now when you may get blow darted.

And lastly I have to blog about Cirque du la Groove. Cirque du la Groove entitled a Mennonite "dance" party to disney dubstep tracks and the following. But it was more then just that as we had Colter (6'7') walk around on stilts, Kim Precht do her Cirque du Soleil rope routine for the campers, and it was awesome!! Here are some pictures of the night!

Cirque du la Groove

Reilly and Fritzi

Colter and Moody 

Emily "Rodeo Clown" Poulin 

Emily and Courtney 

Kim and her rope routine

Ashley and "Casual Clown" Taylor 

Deanna, Katie, Felicity, and Fritzi

This week is going to continue to be action packed and I can't wait to see what happens next! Movie Night tonight as Mike (our speaker) expands on his book study of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, super stoked! Here comes day 2!