Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Well today began in much the same way as all the others before except we also made 100 picnic lunches for les enfants and the staff. Today the whole camp had a picnic at a lake about 20 minutes away. This was nice because we as the equipiers where given the whole day (well after 11:30) off and we could go to the lake also! So Rachel, Lucas, Istell, Yohan and I accomplanied the staff and campers to the lake for an afternoon of fun in the sun.

To begin with this lake is unlike any you have ever seen, so take all your past ideas out of your head and begin with a clean slate. This is the only way to fully understand the atmosphere and beauty of such a place. First off one must walk through fields to reach the lake and u actually have a choice of 4 lakes where you can swim and picnic. Once you reach the lake you enter through a little gate with a cute french speaking man who had a funny little mustache and voila there is this huge lake surrounded by mtns and boats and families. There is a little restraunt and some random playground like things for the kids. The nicest part is no lifeguards and no limit on where to swim...just dont die. Topless women, speedo wearing men, bikini clad 6 year olds and tons of smoking, this is unlike any lake in America that I've ever seen. The best part though has to be the amazing view accessible from any vantage point around the lake.

So here we are at this amazing lake with 80 children and we had a picnic lunch, played some fun games and then....o heres the best part...we went swimming. The water is amazingly clear, no bugs and NO SAND, rocks line the bottom, a much better choice. The water is also a very nice tempid temperature rather than a freezing cold we live in New England and love to freeze temp. So all 100 of us go into this lake plus the other camps that are there. Lucky for us it was a huge lake. Who knows exactly who began the water fight, but for the next hour and a half we had the most massive and incredibly fantastic water fight with 100 people. It was sooo much fun!!!! And in short that was the entire day!

This evening we are playing a game of soccer (football) and cleaning the kitchen in record breaking time. As the weeks have progressed we as a team have gotten mighty fast at our jobs and now we are beginning to make equipier history with our fast times at getting everything done. Not to mention we get even more time off. Poor Jeremy the other American is working sooo much harder and he keep finding us not working as we have already finished and just signs and then asks us if we're working hard or hardly working. It's becoming a frequent phrase around these parts!

O last night we watched Shrek 2 in French and that was pretty sweet. Other than that its been pretty laid back and we've just been chilling. A little guitar and flute praise on the veranda and some tanning on these blankets we lay out on the hills. It's been good and hopefully will continue until the end of camp. Rachel leaves on Monday so that will be a big change and Siljia leaves on Sunday. Two of my closest friends yet its been a fun two weeks with them and I'll be glad when STEVE begins.