i want to be eight again...

this past weekend, i went to will-a-way and worked on saturday. the camp was just there for that one day of activities. camp sweet life, for kids with type 1 diabetes. the most energetic kids ever! they were so enthusiastic and nice and willing to do everything, it was so much fun. i spent most of the day on the high ropes course, its my favorite to lead! everyone is terrified when they get 40 feet in the air, but seeing who steps up and encourages and leads is an awesome experience. in the morning we had the older girls. it was just a basic session, everyone got to go up, and everyone made it across! there were tears and people fell, but taking everyone off the zip line, i didn't get one complaint or sad face, they were all ecstatic. thats how it always is and that's why i love it! second session was older boys, this one didn't go nearly as smoothly...
to start off the sessions we always go over fears and try and get everyone comfortable as well as going over rules for when were in the air, well there was this one boy named rj, and he is adorable! we were talking about silly bands while he was waiting for his turn to go up. the whole theme of the camp that week was toy story, so all the silly bands were toy story ones and he was showing me his. he had this awesome bullseye, you know, woody's horse..., and i was like o thats so cute, so he gave it to me, and it just made me miss being a little kid, when all a boy had to do was give you a silly band or be nice to you and it made your whole day better. because it did. getting the brown bullseye silly band made my entire day, the crappy week before just got erased from my mind because of this adorable thirteen year old. this is why i love camp!
but back the session...there were some boys that were really excited, and others that were not. like not at all. the first two boys got up there nice and easy (in order to get up, you have to climb up this cargo net). the next one had to take a lot of breaks on the way up and then got really light headed at the top and so we tried to perform a rescue up on the platform (belaying him straight down to the ground), but he couldnt hold himself up and his harness would not hold him in if he was not sitting up, so we had to get him to climb back down the cargo net, only problem with that is that if you lean forward too far you start tumbling down the net, and obviously that is no good. so i climbed down with him and it was awesome. everyone applauded because he even tried. it was so cool. then we had to get two other boys down too. but everyone else went across successfully and made it to the zip line. we had a candy snack break up in the air to get peoples blood sugars up, it was a lovely time!
my last session of the day was biking. it was with older boys, so we actually got to go on trails. it was great. lots of fun, and a nice little work out.

all in all it was a great weekend, very fun, but too short. can't wait for the next one!

Hardgrove

So the summer is over, and I know at the end i slacked hardcore on keeping you updated. (i say you, because i think julia is the only person who ever read this!)

anyways...it was the absolute best summer of my life. like changed my life. i changed my major because of it and my whole life course basically. these kids and the people i worked with were incredible.

i still get the privilege of working a few weekends with new camps or camps that come back. this past weekend i worked with hardgrove. its a camp for adults with brain injuries. they were awesome. there were some really old people who were absolutely adorable and kind of hard to understand. most of them just wanted to talk. hearing the gossip of old ladies is wonderful :). i got hit on by a 33 year old man. had a 20 min walk with him because it took him that long to get down from the bike shed to his cabin. that one walk made the weekend all worth it. there was also a war veteran who was very with it and helpful with everyone, and an ex- pro basketball player. there was also a 21 year old kid (well he was 3 days away from 21 and super excited about it!) his story is sad though...he was in high school when his brain injury happened. he was very popular and active, but one day he just flipped and shot himself in the head. he survived, but not without some major problems. he is such a fun guy though its hard to think that he wanted to end his life. people and stories like that are what keep me coming back to camp. and theyre the reason i changed my life plans.

amazing stories still to come, just not as often. enjoy

dancing machines

another morning of lifting little girls up the climbing wall. these were neuro normal, however, so it was a little easier to at least get them to face the wall so their butts were not just hitting random rocks as we lifted them up, and some were a little heavier so they had to do a lot more work, but it was still awesome seeing their faces coming down. what makes it all worth while.
after the wall i went off to dance and movement, my second least favorite camp activity :) i try and get out of it all the time, but we are just slammed this week. so i get to the dining hall and the kids are there, we wait until its time to start and i go back to the ipod to get the music playing and its dead....like won't even turn on dead...and the dock we use does not charge it....so i'm frantically asking around for another ipod with camp dance music on it...no such luck obviously! so i find one of the ladies that works with us because she has a stereo dock that charges them, so i go get her radio, but guess what, it doesn't charge this ipod! so one of the counselors says that she has an auxillary cord...thank god!!!! i have no idea what we would have done without it. so i just had to have the charger in and hook the cord up to the stereo and place a microphone near the stereo speakers so it would be loud enough. no big...! it was a decent dance session, it was with the developmental disability group again, the one with the little girls that we had to lift up the rock wall, so they didn't really catch on to a lot of the dances, but they love just jumping and twirling around. we had a meeting about keeping the dance sessions orderly and flowing, but that wasn't really working out, so i figure them having fun was more important and let them sing some michael jackson and justin beiber. camp favorites!

all in all a good morning. lunch and then rest house and then an off session. my favorite! means i get a 2 hour rest break technically. which means i have plenty of time to get food, because were having "sub pizza", and nap. lovely!

two and a half weeks left :(

rock "climbing"

so i just had an epic/scary rock climbing session. it went well...i think. it was with a developmental disabilities camp and they were really little girls, most very low functioning. well these counselors are intense and with kids crying they pulled them up the whole way. i was real nervous about it, but when the girls got down they were giggling hysterically and had huge smiles on their faces bragging about how good they did climbing the wall. its hard to tell sometimes what is acceptable and how far is too far to push a child. i have never lifted a kid so much though. good thing they were little!

why i love camp...still

so were 10 weeks in and i still love this camp times a billion! every week its a new demographic and every week they make me fall in love with them! its been a while, but i just had an awesome archery session that i had to share. i don't really know why, but it was awesome, i mean this happens all the time, but maybe its just because of the kid. we were just shooting like usual and then i put balloons out for the last 2 rounds. now this is camp inspire, its the special olympics kids, so they all have intellectual disabilities, but they are a fabulous group! so this one kid shot the balloon. popped it on the spot. and yes i was holding his bow to make sure it wasnt pointing at his neighbors face and maybe the arrow wasnt wriggling around because my finger was on it, but he had no idea. i was doing absolutely nothing in his mind and that is what was so great about it! he did. all by himself. it was like he had just won the gold metal for archery. he might as well have. again, i don't know why this one stuck out so much to me, but it made me so happy to see him going around high fiving everyone in his cabin because he popped the balloon. love these kind of days! love these kids. love this camp.

its been a while...

we had 2 weeks of camp big heart. the first week was kids, second was adults. they were awesome, both groups! it was real different from the other camps we have in the organization and involvement that we had with the campers but i think it worked out pretty well. fun times, very tiring though. a lot to deal with but also super rewarding.

this week we have twitch and shout and camp journey. twitch and shout is for kids with tourettes. journey is for kids with autism. they don't do much together because they are obviously very different camps, but they do all of the same activities, so its very exciting for both of them. i am cabin buddies with a twitch and shout group. little boys about 10 years old. adorable!!! troublesome, but adorable none the less. it kind of stinks though because i don't get to spend much time with the journey kids, except for while running some activities. i did get to attend their dance tonight though, that was excellent! it was very different from most because to start it their director had a whole shpeel about how to ask someone to dance and how close is too close and so on. it was funny, but they followed it perfectly. most of them were very into so it was a success. then we went down and met up with twitch and shout for their camp fire, and it was very noisy! still trying to not be startled by the sudden yells or jumps, its fascinating though. seeing how they deal with it and how its not a big deal at all. everyone has different tics and they just accept it. sometimes other kids will ask if that was a tic or if he is just weird, but once they discover its a tic they tell about a really odd tic they have. its just a great group of kids with a lot of energy.

today we put a twitch and shout group up on the tech course which is our high group ropes. they were ticing away at 40 feet in the air. up there the "shits" and "fucks" didn't seem so out of place! it was definitely nerve racking though, especially when the boy who has jumping tics went up, but he was a rockstar and didnt even fall, just stepped over those cables like a pro.

already love them and its only monday, cannot wait for the rest of the week. but now its time to catch up on sleep :)

you just let me know

these kids are awesome! all they want are some friends. and thats exactly what this camp is giving them. they are eating it up. i get high fives from almost every person i pass, i know almost all of their names and what makes them freak out or what means they are happy. its so fun seeing them interact with one another and just by themselves. some of the activities are not as interesting to them as kids usually find them, but they enjoy them in their own ways, even if its just sitting down for an hour instead of standing around.
they had their talent show tonight and it was funny. they all got really into it so it was a success. we started outside, but then the rain came, and we had to run to the dining hall and finish indoors. good times none the less.

the weekend is calling my name. it has been a long, hot week. i am ready for some athens...

you lookin' good in that pink.

so just fyi, if you ever need a pick me up, come to camp big heart. all the boys will tell you how pretty you are, except for justin, but hes so cute it doesn't matter. in love with my cabin already! i was meant to spend time with 16 year old boys...in a non pedophile way of course. theyre just awesome. they love to talk about anything!

basically today we just hung out with our cabin buddies and had some pool time. lots of fun. ive gotten asked to the dance 3 times. and i am sooo excited! not much for today, but there will be more after some actual sessions. yay BIG heart

youre a whine baby

so oo-u-la is the best!!! they bring all of their own stuff, mostly do their own, have amazing kids and staff, and have snacks for us! haha. they really are great. so prepared for everything and know how to get the kids super interested and involved. there theme this year was medieval times. so naturally there were knights and kings and castles everywhere. of course its burn camp though, so there were also handsome firemen and a gold cart suited up as a firetruck with siren and horn installed. it was great! the kids were awesome, so open and loving. one of our counselors talked about how hard it must be to have scars so visible. some of these kids have their faces and arms covered with skin grafts. i can't even imagine some of the looks they get. he talked about some of the kids and how the opposite sex doesn't want to date them because they look so different, but just talk to any of these kids and how could you not want to be with them all the time. i cried when they left today because of the impact they had on me. first it was rachel with the water works that got me going and then when my boy waylon came up i almost lost it. going to miss him the most.
waylon is the little country boy from dodge county ga. he lives on a farm and work in a watermelon field. he is 15, going to be 16 this year, and he is the love of my life! (sorry babe) in five years he will be such a stud. he said he already is. said he had lots of girls waiting a home lol. he got burned when he was about 1. he was riding around his backyard on his little toy truck thingy and ran through a hole that his dad had buried coals in from the barbecue. when his mom saw it she just thought it was like sand or something because his skin was bubbling up, so she ran water over it and then figured out it was a burn. to top it off when he was 6 his dad died. but hes a trooper. and now he has a step dad and an older step sister and a younger brother and he seems completely in love with his life. he doesn't take anything to seriously, but at the same time hes pretty mature for a 15 year old boy. i mean minus the watermelon comment about increasing size. :)
they were just fabulous! can't say enough about them, but i guess thats all i'm going to say. i really hope i can work here again next summer just because they all said i hope to see you next year and now i'm dying to since were not allowed to be friends with them on facebook :( super sad. because i have friends who are 16, and i would love to friend my boy...

you have a fake nose?!

so this week is camp oo-u-la. after missing sunday i felt completely lost. and that was only half a day. thankfully i feel all in the loop again. i eat meals with my cabin buddies but i definitely do not feel as close to them as i have to the other camps. my favorite group is actually the 14-15 yr old boys. love them! and ive only spent today with them, but they are fabulous. we did dynamic ropes this morning and it was fun getting to know all the personalities and such. theres one boy in that group that doesn't talk much and would not try any of the high ropes stuff. one of my bosses told us about him before the camp came. he got burned in a domestic dispute. his parents were in a fight and the dad decided to get back at the mom that he would pour gasoline on his son and light him on fire. ridiculous. i would be quiet too. but hes awesome. he still gets involved by cheering the others on and keeping the counselors company. definitely a good kid. my favorite kid in that group however is mr waylan. and he is as country as his name and adorable. he is fifteen and the biggest flirt i have ever met. loves him!!!

so yesterday kira was talking to this one counselor who is also a burn victim. he was telling her about how he got burned, and it turns out it was in a car accident. they actually put him in a morpheme coma for 2 months after while he was healing. but he said he had very vivid dreams during the coma, like when he woke up he remembered being in jail and getting raped by these inmates. he went to california and all sorts of crazy things that he thought were real. he could not decipher real and not for the longest time. i cannot imagine! but at the end of his story he was like wanna see something cool, and took his nose off! like its just a fake, he just has a hole in his face. we couldnt tell at all. he said it helps that he always wears a hat and he has glasses that cover up the bridge of it where it attaches and other scars so you can't really tell a difference, but it was still pretty ballin. and i know he probably doesn't think so, but i mean different can be very cool i think!

these kids are so cool! can't wait for more. but its time for flagpole and tonights my night off, so after dinner i will be heading to my real dinner :)

life with the campers

so this week we had to live in the cabins with the campers because this camp did not have their own counselors. such a different experience. it was great because we got to know the girls super well, but at the same time, it was a lot to handle them 24/7. this was camp weekaneatit. its a camp for kids with celiac disease, which is a fancy label for kids allergic to glutan which is a protein in wheat. (i think i got that all right...) anyways, the point of the camp is to give kids a week where they can have everything that is served. they dont have to go ask if it is glutan free or get the weird food from the other fridge while everyone else is having the good stuff. i mean just think about it. how many things do you eat on a daily basis with glutan in it? bread for one. pancakes, cookies, chicken nuggets, the list goes on. so basically these ids have nothing physically wrong with them except that most of them were very thin due to the absence of carbohydrates in their diet. i'm pretty sure there are people starting to eat glutan free as a diet plan. theyre crazy, the food is not so great, and we had the good stuff at camp.
so basically they were just like any other preteen kids. which is absolutely crazy. they hung all over us which is not exactly acceptable in our position and constantly talked or in some cases, ran away whenever confronted. it was definitely an experience living with them, but i will be glad to have my own bed with its two feather mattress pads and three pillows back for next week.

we had a little prank war which was an absolute blast. the boys started with silly string, then we planned our revenge, but before the day that we had planned it for, they got us again with water balloons, so we got some shaving cream water balloons and attacked them on their way back to their cabin. then we got them again at 3am on the last morning. we got all the girls together and went to the drumming/percussion closet. got the loudest items we could and ran through their cabins screaming bloody murder. (then we went to the visiting counselors cabins and did the same thing. one of the girls actually ran outside because she got so scared. it was lovely, but i'm sure payback is coming when their camp comes for the week.) that was the highlight of the week i guess just because it was so different from what we had been doing.

it was a great week though. the kids were sweet and adorable, just a lot to handle. last year they were the last camp to come, and our counselors still had to live in the cabins with them, and i can not imagine that. being so drained from the whole summer and then having to live your last week with them would be soooo tiring! kudos to last summer's staff!


well now i'm home. had a birthday dinner for my mom and brother last night after i got off, have a bridal shower for my cousin tonight, and a graduation party for my brother tomorrow night, so i'm taking sunday off. which kind of sucks because thats when opening cermonies and such are, but i'll have mon-fri with them, so no big deal. next week is oo-u-la. its cherokee for cool water or something like that. its the burn victim camp. i'm super excited because everyone says it is one of the coolest camps. they bring a lot of their own stuff for activities and such, and they have like 100 firefighters with them who are supposedly HOTTT (sorry eric <3). i'm pretty pumped! its a big camp too, so well be getting into the swing of what regular weeks are going to be like. its going to be crazy. can't wait!!! and well be in our own cabins so i will be able to keep you updated much better.

things get hectic

so its been a while, but things get hectic after the kids are here and we actually get to know them. it was awesome though! loved them! they were adorable and nice and friendly and chubby and adorable. i miss them already!

we saw a wolf spider one day at the archery range. good thing it was boys and not girls, i can just imagine all the shrieking. we only know its a wolf spider because it was carrying all its baby's on its back and theyre the only spiders to do that? so that was an interesting experience. it was huge! very creepy! but exciting at the same time.

we ended the week with a celebration in athens. a few of the vita counselors came up with us since most of them were in the pharmacy school at uga. that was fun.

time for a new adventure and trying so glutan free foods. supposedly people are starting this as a diet too, so maybe it will be a good thing. or maybe i'll just be hungry the entire time...we'll see! bed time. loves you all!!

WIPEOUT!!!

so today we started off with a bike ride for the little girl's cabin. two of them had never ridden a bike before, so they just learned the whole time, and they got so close by the time the session was over! it was sooo cute! everyone else went on a ride around camp. theres this one downhill thats on gravel and some slate pieces, well, one of the girls, maddy, i guess didn't know how to use the hand brakes and went sliding off into the cars. flipped her bike, scratched up one of the counselors cars and hit the dirt. surprisingly the car had more bumps and scratches than she did. she was such a trooper, she got right back up and rode the rest of the way just being a little more cautious. we showed her how to use the hand brakes and she was great! i probably would have called it quits and walked my bike the rest of the way. loved it!!!

after biking i headed to the rockwall and then to lunch. after lunch we hit the pool for a little free swim. those boys love their footballs and water guns. spent the last ten minutes flirting with collin, the cutest boy who loves camp to death!, and shooting other kids with water guns. too bad he hates me because i go to georgia and thinks i'm a creeper because i smelled him because he smelled good...story of my life! but he is adorable, and i will keep trying to be his friend! :)

now its time for cabin choice and then dinner. yum yum. (i'm really liking the fact that were having healthy food, but i'm really craving a big mac...terrible influence for these kids!)

ViTA without the rents :)

these kids are fab!!!!
so today they got organized in their cabins after their parents and siblings and such left. (only 18 kids. the adults here definitely outnumber them, and i havent decided if thats a good thing or a bad thing yet...we'll see when oo-u-la comes and it the other way around) already we could tell there was a difference in the way the kids acted without their parents looming over them or their skinny brothers and sisters showing them up in everything they try. i feel like thats what life is like for them, so its nice to have all that gone and to just be with kids that are just like them now.

so while the kids were getting settled, we took some newbies and the waterfront crew up on the tech course. its a group roes course about 40 ft in the air (i don't actually know how high it is, but that was a nice even number :)) i stayed on the ground with michael in case anyone freaked out, which quite a few of them did. can't wait to see kids up there! (although it won't happen this week, because most of these kids arent' old enough. you have to be 13, and this vita ranges from 3rd-8th grade) it was a lot of fun though and just more good experience which is what these first weeks are all about!


after lunch we had free swim, then we met our cabin buddies (BLUE LAGOON=older girls) went to dinner, and then went to the field to play some group games. afterward we hit up the amphitheater for opening ceremonies where we rocked it with our epic stomp. i'll have to post a video sometime!!!


it was a good day. tomorrow will be great. but as for now, its 10:00 which equals bed time and i still need to shower, so peace out homes!

more to come

WACKY-O

today we had our first week long camp start! well technically it started on friday, but we didn't come until today to get started with them. we met them at breakfast. then they had their family time and while they talked, the outdoor adventure (oa) staff went to the rock wall and trained some more. afterward it was time for lunch and then the activities began! i was at archery all afternoon, which i LOVE!! very chill, and rewarding when the kids hit the target considering i still have a hard time doing that. then we had a dinner break and wacky-o came next! (wacky olympics for those of you who were wondering) basically we get the kids out on a large field and they play games. dirty and wet games usually. the best kind! we had relay races, shaving cream faces, noodle soccer, slip and slide, sprinkler limbo, and other great games :) i just showered and got the facepaint and baby shampoo off of me! ready for bed and its only 10! loves it!

SO right now the kids are here with their parents and some of them with siblings. basically its a support system before the kids are left to face camp by themselves. this camp is vita, which is for overweight or obese children, so most of them do not want to be here. think gerry garner in heavyweights when he first hears hes going to a fat camp! so tomorrow the parents leave around lunch time and its just us and the kids and their counselors for the rest of the week. i can't wait! i think the parents just put added pressure on their children.
ex. at archery today, there was a little boy who was struggling a bit, not uncommon, but his dad was all up in his face telling him how to do it and how he was doing it all wrong and just driving the kids nuts and frustrating him.
can't wait for that to be gone. they just get to be kids. running around!
we have a healthy menu this week, which means that i am not really a fan. i'm a fatty, so the worse the food is for you, the better it probably tastes. can't wait for chicken fingers to be back on the menu! but other than that, it has been a great start to our first week camp! yay!!!!!

another noche hermoso

yall are going to get tired of these real quick, but its not really up to you :)

tonight we had a talent show. most of the staff was in it, and it was hilarious, mostly awkward and random, which equals hilarious (in case you didn't know!) good stuff good stuff. seeing two straight men baton twirling to celine dion music, so harry potter musicals, dancing food, peeing centipedes, and so on makes for a great little evening of entertainment. i thoroughly enjoyed all of it!
tomorrow the other group is leaving. and we get the night off. super stoked about that. and then we get to come back to our first full camp!!!!!!!! thats really really exciting!
but first another attempt at a morning bike ride. see i failed to actually get out of bed this morning for the group one i was going to attend. this time i actually have to go though. considering my riding buddy is in a different cabin and would be all alone if i did not show up. looking forward to it. ill let you know how 6:30 am me does on two wheels!

thought of the evening, never go to bed angry. it will be the worst sleep you have ever gotten. glad we cleared that up :)loves you all!!

actual kids!!!

today the lionheart school came. its a school for autistic children. IT WAS FABULOUS!!! they were only here for the afternoon, kind of like a little teaser. just so we know what it will be like when there are human beings' lives in our hands. started out with some games, then went to paddle boats, the rock wall and archery. paddle boats went well, they loved splashing each other and being out there on the lake without actually having to get in the cold water. most of them loved the rock wall even if they couldnt get up very high. just because they felt on top of the world if they were just a little bit taller than their teachers. there was only one girl who had a problem with it, but even she made it further than she said she would attempt, so that was successful too. archery was good too, but after going about three times the kids got tired. then it was lunch time and afterward, free swim. seeing them in the water was incredible. they were all over everyone, and really are just regular kids when you allow them to be. they were splashing, there were boys hanging on girls, games of volleyball with beach balls, tons of kids in line for the slide, and just everyday pool activity. definitely a good start and makes me way less nervous about the first full day i have to run when a big camp comes. so excited! vita is coming on friday. its a camp for obese children, so they will be adorable! we get thursday night off until saturday morning, so it will be nice to refresh before having to go full force. i'll keep you updated!

starry night

so you never realize how beautiful the sky is in the city. or eve in the suburbs where i call home. but tonight i went out on this amazing gorgeous fishing dock we have. it looks over the lake and has no lights around. the view of the night sky from that dock is indescribable. it literally BLEW MY MIND :) things like that just make me appreciate the world so much more. like really. makes you wonder why HE even bothered with things like that. why did we need all of this beauty, its not necessary. but i guess its things like that that make people realize how little we are. how much we dont know.

short one tonight. still no campers. just more training and learning how to play with children. my favorite activity :) (wow that sounds creepy....don't mean it that way obviously!)

tomorrow morning were going on a bike ride. that is if i can get my lazy butt out of bed at 6:30!!!!!! were meeting at 6:50. i need something to keep me semi healthy after all this food i'm eating! i'm pretty excited about it. i'm pretty sure the last time i rode a bike was in amsterdam the summer before my freshman year of college. this will be a little different...but just as great i'm sure!

CAMP

ok, so i'm not one for blogging. never have before..well unless you count the awesome days of middle school thinking zanga was the greatest thing in the world...zanga? was that what it was called? i don't even remember. but i did use something like that to tell the world about my endless trials and tribulations of being a squat little kid haha. but this just felt like the perfect time to start one! :)

this summer i'm working my first job...yes i am 20 years old and will be 21 this year, but hey, you gotta start somewhere. but i'm pretty sure i have the best job ever! im working at camp twin lakes...the will a way location in winder, ga. the basis of the camp is that its for kids and teens with disabilities. whether it be mental, physical, or something of the sort. i got into this through my sorority. our philanthropy in service for sight which benefits the blind and dyslexic. so we would volunteer one weekend to work with cvi (center for the visually impaired in atlanta) they came to a camp every year for a weekend at camp twinlakes in rutledge, ga. i fell in love with these kids. this year was my second year with them, and it was great going back and seeing the familiar faces. a place like this where kids fit in with everyone else and theyre no longer the odd one out is so powerful, you can just see it on their faces, that theyre not afraid of anything. everything is possible, and they succeed at whatever they try in one way or another. so i decided to apply for a job. AND I GOT IT (obviously...) so here i am.
we arrived (well some of us) on may 9th for a staff dinner. got to know some people. then the rest of the oa staff showed up and we began training on the ropes course. i won't go into too much trouble because this is the boring part. they awesome part will be when the kids come (at least thats what i'm hoping for!) so were still going through training and kids come soon. our first camp in camp vita, its for obese teens, and i'm super pumped about it! i'll let you know more as i go! enjoy :)

guess i should also mention why my blog has such an odd name...well it comes from the cvi retreat. theres this boy named deangelo and i seriously want to adopt him, he is the greatest thing alive, and while we were in groups playing name games, we each had to "bring" something to a picnic that started with the first letter of our name. so "I'm Caitlyn and I'm bringing chocolate." well for some reason he thought this was hilarious and the rest of the time he would just yell out chocolate...usually at the most inappropriate times. and if i did not turn around he would alternate between CAITY and CHOCOLATE in loud obnoxious voices until i acknowledged him. LOVE :). so that's it...good story i know haha