A Day in the Life of an equipier!

Rachel's alarm goes off at a quarter to 7 with 15 minutes to get 5 girls through the bathroom before our expected arrival in la cuisine. We share one bathroom and two bedrooms which is ushually a fun experience minus these early mornings. Due to the limited time we all end up cramming into the bathroom together. One doing hair while a few others brush their teeth and mabey one cleanes up after the others. Its another typical morning for les equipiers of camp Champfleuri. To an outsider it might seem as though we have all known each other forever as we able to quickly manuver around each other and the particular morning activities that we are each engaged in. Truth be told we have only met about a week ago, yet a common thread--the love of Christ and a desire to serve him at this camp joins us as one.
Once everyone is done we all head down to the kitchen to prepare for the le petite dejeuner or to pack a picnic for les enfants trip to la lac this afternoon. Around us are the French alps rising out of a thick morning fog. To our left is a building built before America began and still being used as a chapel today. On our right a building taken and renevated from an army barracks into the rooms where the campers now slumber in their beds. The camp is slowly beginning to awaken around us as we enter the kitchen and meet up with the guys.
Today we are "visiting" Moracco. This means that the entire day is Morocan themed, from the food to the clothing to the activities planned for les enfants. Today we eat our lunch on the floor sitting on mats laid out by the counselors. The lighting in the room is a dull red as they have covered the windows with drapes. They have created a lunchroom that one could only dream up and the atmosphere is one of complete joy as everyone comes together for the afternoon meal.
Now we all sit together in la salle d'equipe. It is a room above the kitchen set aside for the workers at camp. It contains a small but functional kitchen, some computers, a bathroom, and tv with some sweet comfy chairs! Here is where we spend the vast majority of out time off. Between games of ticho and presidents we manage to fill out only non working hours with laughter and fun! In the week we have been here we have become good friends, sharing out likes and dislikes in music, food, clothing, and politics. We all speak different languages, from swiss german to french to german to english to zulu. We have over 9 languages that can be spoken at one time in this room between our little group and yet we all manage to communicate to each other. We have all become rather close in this past week, joined together by our work and the hours of fellowship we all share daily. In the background Terri sings to us in French and takes apart the bathroom wall with Jeremy (an american missionary to Africa studying here for the summer) and another counselor whose name i forget. Yet here we all sit on the computer or talking or playing cards together oblivious to the fast pace of camp all around us. It's merely another work day at camp Champfleuri for us and we have learned to expect the unexpected and you will never be given a shock here. From eating on the floor with only spoons to eat our meat to a bathroom wall falling down ontop of us, to getting a black eye from a coffee pot (thanks lucas) its all part of the life of an equipier!