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When you are super excited about applying for springhill
When your campers keep asking why you aren't very good at something
When you go home on weekends to get away from kids
When your kids keep beating you at "Where's My Chicken" so you have to step your game up
When you try to explain to your friends how you manage to stay up late every night and still wake up before 7
When you lead a morning meeting and no one is talking at all so you try to spark a discussion
When it's week 8 or 9 and you have absolutely no energy remaining
When you try to decide if you're going to be the really fun counselor or the one who lays down the law and keeps the kiddo's in line
When you have all of your activities outside and it's 95 degrees out
When you try to tell your friends that you're not doing camp for the money
When your host home asks how they can make your stay more pleasurable
When it's Friday and you have to prepare to say goodbye to a really great group of kids
When one of your kids asks what activity you're doing next right after you told the whole group
How you sound to your campers on Monday morning when you try to explain all of the rules
When your campers try to tell you that you're the one in the skit but you try to ignore them
When you have a camper who is acting out of control and res staff asks how you were able to deal with him
When you're about to do counselor splash off and you know you're gonna crush it
When you're the bad guy in the skit and you finally embrace that the kids will hate you for the week
When you have the youngest kids and you try to put scripture passages into really simple forms so they understand
When one of your campers say that they like your co better than you
When people ask how you feel being co's with your best friend
When another counselor says that one of your campers does something crazy but they do stuff like that all of the time
When your campers ask if you're the one in the skit
Your campers when you wont let them know what activity you'll be doing next
When you tell a camper they can go first on the rock wall just so they would stop bugging you
When you don't get paid until the end of the second week but you still gotta pay for gas and food
When you're playing gaga ball and your CIT or co counselor is going way too hard
When it's Monday morning and you gotta be at camp at 7 A.M.
When the water feels like ice but you still gotta get in with the kids
When you're in crafts and your campers ask if you've ever created anything cool
When you've heard "it's like we're climbing to Jesus" for the 157th time this week during de-brief
When your CIT harnesses your kids and they put it on completely wrong
When your parents question if you're able to handle having 18 kids a week for 10 weeks
When your kids keep throwing down the helmets after you tell them to make a happy turtle.
When someone asks you how you are doing on a rough day
When you try to explain to new people how to dance to Chainsaw
What you tell your kids right before you decide to go up on the flying squirrel
when they try to tell you that we aren't gonna play the song "This Little Light" this summer
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