Day three

Afternoon all,

Today was my second day at camp, with noticeable imrpovements. Firstly, breakfast was massive with waffles, fruit, yoghurt, sausages, cereal, porridge, donuts, danishes, muffins and hot tea and coffees. Possibly not the best menu for those who are unrestricted with how much they eat... but fruit and yoghurt and waffles were fine for me!

One of the other counsellors drove a small group of us to Torrington (near Burrville hahaha) to get drug tested and get our social security numbers. Torrington is a very sweet town and the houses here are just amazing - so neat with beautiful gardens and neat lawns and tall maple trees. Passed several Dairy Queen's, Wendy's, Burger King's, and a Friendly's, which is apparently a type of restaurant specializing in ice creams.

Also had my first visit to a Walmart. Um, well, what can i say? It is massive. And it is big on, well, being BIG and being cheap - I'm not just talking about the stock too, about 95% of the people are wider than their trolleys, which are stacked full of 3kg packs of plastic-wrapped sausage sticks, 5-for the price of -one Mac & Cheese's, and jumbo packets of chips which are literally twice the size of our largest packet, and only something ridiculous like $0.87.

Another thing are the radio stations... For those of you who have ever played Grand Theft Auto, then this was Exactly like that (i.e., completely ridiculous, a spamming of funny-sounding websites (babiesovernight.com) and funny ads going: *sweet-sounding lady* "Do you feel hungry?" *grumbling man voice* "Mmm" *lady voice* "Well, why don't you come on down to Friendly's..." or something like that. (you have to imagine them saying it in the American accent to get the full affect)

I also took a hike (only 10mins) over to Camp Hide-away, which is where the Ranch Camp is situated. I am lucky to be working there - it's stunning! It has several cabins and a dining hall which overlooks the lake, as well as a wooden stage area down by the water (which i found out is Lake Triangle).

Ranch camp training starts tomorrow - wish me luck - and particularly once i start working with the summer kids i won't have much time to blog, so i'll try fit what i can into now! Photos are mainly up on facebook, by the way, as it takes a while to upload photos here.