Not dead yet! · 5:09pm Apr 21st, 2014

As the title says, I'm not dead yet! I know I went from almost weekly updates to highly irregular, but I worked at a Girl Scout camp last week that was 9 hours long. I worked with 60 girls twice a day, since I was a teacher for two different kinds of classes (a science based one and a renewable vs. nonrenewable class); both of these classes pretty much was different for each hour block, since I worked with K and 1st graders for one block, 2nd and 3rd graders for the next and 4th and 5th graders for the last. Then I rode the bus with them since they needed an adult watching, which took up another hour in the morning and another in the afternoon..... All in all, I was tired after each day, especially when I had more girl scout stuff to do in the afternoon.

But I'm back now! Another chapter of New Kind of Party has been sent to my editors and if you give us a few more days (we do have actual lives, outside of watching and reading MLP stuff.... honest!), you'll get an update. And it's another longer one, like I get the feeling most of my chapters are going to be like....

Also, I've gotten a new toy. I got a drawing tablet! Here is my first rough draft thingy using it:

Pinkie was having a bit too much fun with flipping the pancakes and Twilight rushed over to help. It is rough, I'm still getting used to all the features and how it feels instead of using plain ol' paper, but this should rise the quality of my art once I get it down. This particular picture only took me ten maybe fifteen minutes to make. I still have to work on proportions, but ponies standing up has always been a rough area for me anyways. I'll try not to get too distracted with my new toy and work on more chapters, Pinkie Promise! (cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye)

Wanna hear how my monday to a long week of work started? (Because I went to work at Home Depot on Saturday and Sunday, meaning I worked everyday last week for 9 hours doing lots of walking, talking and working.... I finally got a day off today!)

So, I sometimes (a lot of times) get lost when driving to new places and actually didn't realize that there were two schools with the same name on the same street, except one was a middle school and the other a high school. So I went to the wrong school to wait for the bus and got really upset because I've never been a bus rider for these kinds of camps before and caused the bus to be late because they went back for me after I finally figured out what happened by tearfully calling the camp director and asking what the heck happened.

After that bad start, we were traveling down the interstate for about ten minutes of the 20/25 minute part of the ride when the bus got a flat tire. We had kids on the bus and it was a mid-busy day for drivers in general, which made us nervous as we pulled to the side of the road. Our bus driver had never gotten a flat before either. So it took another 10/15 minutes for someone to come with a large van to pick all of us up to go to the camp (some one else having gone to the other and last bus stop to pick up the kids there as well as the adult that was keeping watch).

After we finally got to the camp location (a three storied building with basement in teh middle of a city), I fell down 4 or 5 stairs. It has been years since I took that bad a fall, so it really really hurt because I landed mostly on my right leg (scrapping my knee and bruising my leg (and probably my ankle which then started to pain me afterwards)) and spilled most of the extra supplies and cup of coffee I was carrying down at the time. So I had to spend most of my first day either sitting down and trying to get a bunch of kids to focus or get things ready for the next class.

Well, apparently on a different level, they were tye-dying shirts and a blue dye spilled all over one teen aid's pants and shoe. So she had a black converse and a bright blue one as well as a lighter blue on her jeans. And then! Several of the other teen aids fell down the stairs as well, one actually scrapped her upper thigh and cut herself on a metal table.

But it's not over yet! There were several kids who forgot their lunch (luckily we had something to give them) and lots of tearful kids who weren't sure if they were being picked up at a bus stop or directly from camp. By the time we got them calmed down and on the bus, we were running a little late and got to the first stop late. It was to our shock that some parents still weren't there to pick up their kids! We had to call parents and found that one had forgotten about it while the other had already picked up their kid from camp and it just wasn't told to the adults watching over the kids on the bus too well. So we go on to the next stop (after 25 long minutes of a drive) and it's mine, with most of the parents there except for a parent of a teen aid who I actually knew personally! It was a half hour later then when she was suppose to pick her kid up and I had been about to drive her home myself (because I wanted to go home) when the mom showed up. Apparently the kid told her mom that pickup was at 5:30 when it was actually at 4:40.... a big difference.

And that was my first day of camp. I have never had one so bad before .... It's all over now though!

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