Saturday, January 24, 2009

Back in Wisconsin

It's been awhile since I last posted anything of substance, but that's because I've been super busy the last month and a half. The flight back was easy and painless. I arrived on time, but my baggage came back about 90 minutes later. My dad met me in Chicago, and I was ushered back to the midwest with some cold weather and about 3-4 inches of snow. 30 hours later, I was driving up to Boulder Junction where I started work at the Staff Recruitment Coordinator/Outpost Director. Now I'm back where I was about a year ago, except this time I have responsibility, and a place to stay besides Jay and Brooke's guest room. It's been a wild turn-around, but fun. I'm still finding things that I learned in Chile coming up in my everyday life, and finally came to realize that I'm not going to go "back" to where I was before, but I will forever keep some of my year down there and it has further shaped who I am. My first week was centered around learning what goes on in the office, and getting acquainted with everything. Last week I was down in Cincinnati, Ohio for the Mid-American Camping Conference which was a blast. It was nice to get some new ideas and talk to some of the other camps from around the midwest. I think there were about 200 other camp directors ranging from Nebraska to Pennsylvania to Missouri and one camp from Florida. So we had a lot of experience at this conference and a wide range of scenarios that were discussed. Also it was nice to see another camp, since I've been at Camp Manito-wish since the mid 90's, and spend some quality(or quantity) time with two co-workers. We drove down to the conference, which translates to about 30 hours in a van with these two other guys.
Today's Saturday, and I just got back from about an hour cross country ski with the weather showing a balmy -3 F, and clear skies.
I don't know how much I'll update this now that I'm back in the US, and doing more of a job than kind of exploring South America, but I'm sure when I get some downtime I'll update it every once in a while.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

summer break pictures

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Here's my summer break pictures.