Never ending line of excuses!

Greetings and salutations! Wolfie here!

My camp went really well. We do a community based camp for girls who are NOT in Girl Scouts so they get a tiny taste of it. It's held in an indoor location and is mostly lessons about the environment, science, art, including all girls, growing up strong by eating right. The past four camps I've helped with for the community was ones where I was the teacher (teaching about energy and environment) and saw over a hundred kids a day for five days straight. This time, I had a different kind of challenge. I was an adult in charge of 20 first graders, with another adult who used hard hand techniques (while I prefer soft hand techniques) and two teen helpers (who made Fluttershy seem social and actually vocal.... I'm not kidding. One girl literally said only about five things that I could hear from half a room away during that entire week. Technically it was the last day when I managed to hear these five things. ). I had never had to follow one large group around at camp before (not this kind of camp at least), it was interesting but odd.

I like to think of myself as the goofy kind of adult. I like to make kids laugh and act really silly to get them to do things, because I've asked nicely while being silly. But while leading the group (because I was the one in charge. The other adult was more than willing to let me lead), I felt like I had to be much more serious. I was suddenly the one who was 'controlling' how the girls behaving and focused. I felt like I said '(insert name) sit down' and 'buddy line! I need my buddy line! This isn't isn't a buddy line, it's a blob!'. I was afraid that the girls only saw me as their mean unit leader. At the last day, I just had to ask the girls if they thought I was 'ok' and they said they loved it (and me). That was nice.

But then I head straight into Home Depot's Spring Black Friday event And I've been busy and tired since. I'm a garden associate, I work with the mulch (loading it for people, sometimes for the entire day), lawn mowers, other garden stuff. It's just going crazy since the weather warmed up. I've come home every day smelling of mulch and being dirty from lifting that and soil for people, and hadn't bothered to work on anything for da ponies or bronies.

...... It also might not help that I re-read and caught up on Fairy Tail, the manga...... Whaaat? The other kids and some other friends were referencing it and reminded me how great it was. I'm a sucker for those nakama/friendship based anything.

There is good news though! I had to draw a lot of ponies for the teen helpers (and a few of the adults too ) and you can see them here. Wanna request something? Go right ahead! Though I can't promise when they will be done. (yes, I'm working on both of yours, Shutup868 and Gwg ).

ALSO! I've got a start on the next updates, and with my need to write back, it shouldn't be very extremely long before I get those finished.

I was also thinking of doing a type of blog where I mention the interesting things I've noticed while watching the show/reading the comics. Though so far my notes are about what I've seen in the show. So keep an eye out for blogs about interesting notes.

Thanks and I'll see you around!

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[Wolfie 03]

3003696 I'll have you know that numbers is my number one weakness :P Be happy I managed to get two out of three numbers right : )