Finally a day off!

Today was my first day off since last week. It's strange to be working at a Christian camp and not have Sunday's off, but on the weekends we have huge college groups in the hundreds there is no way we can have anyone take off the day. Therefore we each get two days off per week except for last week as we had a longer weekend. So here I am finally at my day off. It feels so good to sleep in. I actually slept through breakfast...and lunch! I have been suffering from a seasonal cold or allergies or both. I was reminded today by Hannah that last year around this time was when I get my famous death plauge during XC. So perhaps this is the same sort of illness, sure feels like it. It is of course magnified by the lack of sleep and constant working, which I'm sure is making me feel sooo much better!

I went to the doctors yesterday and he gave me a prescription for two antibiotics which I am now taking. Hopefully one of these will work some minor miracle and I will be able to breath a bit more normally. The doctors was quite an experience for me. First of all I hate doctors, always have and probably always will. They are the people incharge of the needles, its really that simple. Who likes the person who's stabbing them in the arm with a little sharp medal thing? Not me that's for sure! Needless to say add the fact that in France going to the doctors means setting a personal appointment and I was a little bit freaked. Luckily Lorraine went with me as she speaks pretty decent french. It was good I brought someone to translate for me because he spoke pretty good english, but not enough that I was able to explain to him how I felt. I think the constant sniffling and lack of breathing probably gave most of my symptoms away. Either way the long story shortened is he gave me drugs and although I don't feel any better yet they should start working soon...I hope!

As for around camp. DEFI kids have a project that they must do for this coming week. They have to read all of Romans and than have been assigned a short project on a certain portion for which they must give a brief presentation. Gosh I miss school. This project actually makes me want to do school work, how messed up is that one! You can tell you went to LCA when...

Either way today Kristin and Doris cleaned all of the dorms and cooked three meals. Pretty impressive from my point of view. Work is getting a lot tougher around here. We now begin at 7 AM for breakfast prep, eat breakfast with the group as we serve, clean up breakfast, clean around camp, make lunch, serve and eat lunch with group, clean around camp, prepare dinner, serve and eat dinner with students, clean up dinner, wash kitchen, wash floors. When all is said and done it's about 10 PM, and you've gotten not a single break since 7 AM!!! It's kind of crazy lately, thus why I appreciated sleeping and having time to do my full devotion today. I actually got to sit in the field down the hill with some of the students in the afternoon which was neat.

Also a cool "God moment" of the day: Lorraine is tudoring a village woman in english and in return is being tudored in french. This woman told Lorraine that she would come for the meeting to the camp, but she is worried because to her this place is a cult and she thinks that we are all members. Basically she was trusting Lorraine and hoping that she would get out of here alive today! So she shows up and is having gouter on the patio with Lorraine, and the students (who don't know her or anything about her) come out to join them and ended up talking about their classes and the camp and such with her the rest of the afternoon. They made her feel sooo welcome and she left completly relieved and actually liked Champfleuri. You can bet she's going to tell everyone she knows that we're actually a nice group of people and not at all the crazy freaks she thought we where :)

I just got back from dinner with the students. I like dinner on my day's off because I am free to listen as they speak french while not having to worry about serving. It's nice to listen to them speaking because as they are mostly non native speakers who have just begun to study more french they speak nice and slowly and with different, but recognizable accents making it much much easier for me to understand. Tonight's conversation ranged from the different styles of money in each of our different countries to a broken shower head that the girls room broke by accident and the story of them explaining to Blain en francais how exactly this happened!!! It was very funny to listen.

Although I love the conversations at dinner with the students I missing those days when meals were our breaks as now even meals are a time when we are working! Basically all we do right now is work, from the moment we get up at 6 to 10 PM when we finally get a moment off to write emails home, watch a quick numa or one tree hill as a a group, quickly take showers and maybe (depending on the time) have a tea party in the chalet before we fall asleep. I like the days here and the students, but it's easy to understand that this type of day clocking this many hours can get old real fast. If this day looks bad add for Kristin the fact that she is creating meals for a bunch of people. All I have to do is aid the kitchen, not make the menu and come up with ways to make the food! Basically life is kinda crazy here right now and every moment off is valuable time. HAHA I just heard a huge crash from downstairs and now it's completly silent in the kitchen. Probably a good time to go and make sure everything is going okay down there. To leave off check out 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, really great passage!