Farewell for a while

**Rashika** · 24th May 2006, 15:36

Originally Posted by Nicksta

yay, someone agrees that we actually work at camp!!
thanks....
its in New Hampshire... on a lake called Winnipesaukee....
so its east coast, boardering Canada, we are approx 2 hours drive north of Boston and 5 from NY.... its in the White Mountains which are beautiful...
Completely different scenery from NZ... cant quite match the NZ scenery but its beautiful in its own rite...

I'm off in a few hours... so take care all.. i'll be posting about the bike week soon... Nic

Interesting... mine was in New York state, not far from New Jersey, 'bout 2 hours by bus from NY city. A camp for inner city kids, hard work, but mostly good.
I was one of the lucky ones, I got to escape camp life for a few weeks when we took groups on biking (as in pushbiking) trips around Pennsylvania, staying at Youth hostels, visiting Amish families for a bit of 'culture'. We lived in the 'bush' (american style that is) in canvas tents, cooked on open fires (mostly...breakie was usually cardboard box stuff), I was lucky i got the girls to stay with. Funny watching all these girls doing their makeup before going swimming, at 12 years old.
Those were the bits I loved... the bits i didn't were trying to stop some russian kid from skewering some smart arsed yankee kid with an axe.

ah well... enjoy! And dont slave too hard

**"D" FZ1** · 24th May 2006, 15:42

Enjoy the sunshine

**BarBender** · 24th May 2006, 16:02

Later girl. Enjoy the US summer.

**Gremlin** · 24th May 2006, 18:55

Geeeee.... I would say enjoy.... but I envy you, so maybe I won't

Dodging our lovely winter and all... sheeeesh

Have fun, and we'll see ya when you get back.

**UrbanMyth** · 25th May 2006, 18:33

have fun! wish i could escape the poo weather

**Nicksta** · 26th May 2006, 09:10

thanks heaps everyone... well i made it safe, only one flight delay so was a good effort, go the new Air NZ planes with your own screen!!! i got to watch the worlds fastest indian, when i chose to.... yay
tomorrow i start work, so will be mad from there... the lake is megga high for this time of year and its cold as at night.... already counted more harleys than hours i travelled to get here so bike week is starting early....

**Rashika** · 26th May 2006, 11:40

Originally Posted by Nicksta

thanks heaps everyone... well i made it safe, only one flight delay so was a good effort, go the new Air NZ planes with your own screen!!! i got to watch the worlds fastest indian, when i chose to.... yay
tomorrow i start work, so will be mad from there... the lake is megga high for this time of year and its cold as at night.... already counted more harleys than hours i travelled to get here so bike week is starting early....

waaaaaahhhhhhhhh....now I'm VERY jealous!!!

**Nicksta** · 28th May 2006, 06:33

well, i've had 2 full days of work now and i already want to shoot myself working with the main director this year

and there is now a zero tollerance to alcohol on campus, so no baileys allowed in my fridge

no wonder the assistant director didnt tell me or i wouldnt have come..lol
well all, i'll post some stories as they happen... laters

**Rashika** · 28th May 2006, 11:16

Originally Posted by Nicksta

well, i've had 2 full days of work now and i already want to shoot myself working with the main director this year

and there is now a zero tollerance to alcohol on campus, so no baileys allowed in my fridge

no wonder the assistant director didnt tell me or i wouldnt have come..lol
well all, i'll post some stories as they happen... laters

we weren't allowed alcohol at camp either...but the local bar was pretty good and only 5 mins walk from camp, hehehe...
waiting for some stories...there are always good ones

**Mental Trousers** · 28th May 2006, 12:29

No alcohol?? Damn. Even the no fun nazis at work can't stop us having an extremely well stocked booze fridge.

**Motoracer** · 28th May 2006, 12:41

Originally Posted by Nicksta

well, i've had 2 full days of work now and i already want to shoot myself working with the main director this year

and there is now a zero tollerance to alcohol on campus, so no baileys allowed in my fridge

no wonder the assistant director didnt tell me or i wouldnt have come..lol
well all, i'll post some stories as they happen... laters

Ohhh... stink for you!

Hopefully the main director of yours will get transfered to somewhere else (if that's even possible). Good luck.

**Nicksta** · 28th May 2006, 15:12

yeah, its pretty wacked out with the no alcohol policy this year.. the nearest bar is 17 miles away... at this rate i'll be getting a horse from the stables to get there...oh well... we have had 2 campfires so far.. not many of us here... without being able to go to the pub every night we are pretty bored.... so started playing pranks on people....

tonight one of the girls from california (who is megga afraid of the dark and bugs) decided to go to bed early... so she started on her way to her cabin.. we all (6 of us) ran round the bush to get there first and hid out in her bathroom, she came in hearing weird scratching noises coming from the bathroom, fearing the worst, she opened her door to us yelling arrgghhh... she was freaked...
oh well.. day off tomorrow.. going to the Naswa, beach bar... where they serve cocktails in fish bowls and you can sit in your bikini on a beach lounger half in the water....

**Colapop** · 28th May 2006, 15:19

It sounds like you've settled in well so far. Be sure you get some rubber spiders and fake vomit on your days off - I can even send you an awesome stink bomb recipe....

Practical jokes are fun - like many moons ago (it feels like) making gunpowder at school and blowing up a cupboard at the back of the scienc lab....

**Nicksta** · 4th June 2006, 09:59

well, i'm not really into the fake vomit stuff..... precamp is rolling along slowly... the no alcohol thing is still sticking unfortunately.... but it didnt stop one of the parents shouting us a night out at the Naswa!! dinner and drinks on the Cohen's.... was amazing... the weather has turned to shit for our 1.5 days off... its down to single didgits in temperature tonight... so we are going to the "Bad Moose" for drinks tonight.... scary pics to follow..... no gossip yet, except the boys bunk got infested by bull ants at 10pm at night and they had to shift.. they were jumping around like girls...lol... got to go... fried chicken for dinner....