Just got into a discussion on discord about all the missed opportunities where the writers could’ve put cool farm stuff into the show. And then the topic of 4H came up.
Anyway I present one of the worst pictures I’ve ever drawn
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So... y'all wanna hear about the creepy boys or the horrible adult first?
(Fear not there are good things that happened too! But if you want drama... go to the horrible adults part bro)
We'll start with the creepy boys :D
Sooooo, first of all, there was this kid who I'll call Dan. I'm gonna preface this by saying I don't think he meant to be creepy? But he definitely was
He met me by striking up a convo with me at the pool while we were in line for the diving board (super fun btw!). We got onto the topic about Star Wars and I was really excited because I'm really getting into Star Wars! But as we're talking, he keeps getting closer and closer and closer until I'm literally up against the fence of the pool area because I kept backing up. So I casually bring up my boyfriend just so he knows that I'm not interested, just in case.
Well... He starts getting REALLY questioning about Brian, which is weird (and for all the times after when I mentioned him, because yeah I mentioned him a lot, Dan got very dismissive like he didn't want to hear about it). He also mentioned that he had a girlfriend, which only adds to the weirdness
Anyway, the next day, he found me in the line again. I was looking at my shadow, and I laughed and said "Wow I look like a man." Because my hair was slicked back from being in a wet ponytail. And word for word, he says "Nah, you've got slim hips." ...As if that wasn't weird enough, why are you commenting on another girl's body when you have a girlfriend?
He kept trying to get my socials and I kept saying "Oh, I forgot my phone at the cabin" "Sorry my phone's dead" "Ah I can't remember my phone number" Thankfully he's in another county as me and I don't think he got my last name, so whew! ...Just gotta hope he's not there next year... Gulp.
Anyway, that's all about Dan. Now onto the thirteen year old! You read that correctly folks, a thirteen year old tried to hit on me.
First of all, I know this guy from swim, and he's a brat. But anyway, he comes up to me and does the thing where he yawns and stretches to put his arm around me. I said "Nope" and gently pushed his arm off. He starts talking to me, asking me about my classes around camp, asks me to Sally (A nightly thing were two people hold hands and skip in a court while music plays - sounds weird but it's pretty fun). I thought this was all a joke so I said sure, why not. No harm.
We get shaved ice later, and one of the flavors was Bahama something. This kid comes up to me and says "I got Bahama. What 'bout you, mama?" Okay beautiful I'm gonna jump off a cliff now. He finally finds out I'm 16, says he thought I was 14 (bruh.) and cancels our Sally. Like okay T.T
Anyway... onto the main thing that pissed me off and I wanna rant about it.
So for some context, I went into this thing with a very JCLC mindset. I'm gonna plan, we're gonna be on time, I'm gonna tell you when and where we need to do something, and if you don't do it, I'm gonna get mean. My kids (ages 10-14) were having a hard time listening to me. We were consistently late to things because they would not get out the door on time, and these same three kids were walking WAY too slow, so we had to wait for them. It was bad.
We had two adult counselors in our cabin. One was 18, the other was a mom, much older and was supposed to help us out. We'll call the mom CM (camp mom). CM had a kid in our cabin, who I'll call Zee. Zee was consistently favorited by CM. She was driven around in a golf cart when the rest of us had to walk, she never had to go with our group or wait for anything because she could just go to her mom, CM always took Zee's side... Yeah
Zee was THE girl who was always, no matter what, at the very back of the group, falling behind so much to the point where it was unsafe for her to be that far back. Her excuse was chaffing. I get it, chaffing hurts, but half of our girls had chaffing and they stayed with the group. I was continuously asking Zee to please catch up for her safety and so we could hopefully be on time, and she completely shut down on me, being dismissive and not even trying to walk just a little faster.
She's not listening. So naturally, I go to CM. I tell her "Hey, so I've noticed that Zee's been having a hard time with keeping up with the group. She's been falling behind so much that it's not safe for her. I was wondering if you could talk to her, because she-" and she cuts me off. "Okay, Zee's the kind of person who doesn't like to be bossed around. She'll shut down, she won't listen. You just need to encourage her."
...What?? So CM didn't even attempt to discipline or even talk to her kid. Here's the thing, I believe in encouragement, of course. But that doesn't always work. So I need to put my foot down. And when the kid isn't listening to me, cause, yknow, I don't have any real authority as a teen counselor, I need people like CM to do that. And she won't.
Anyway, this happened yesterday: We meet up at the flagpole every morning and night before breakfast and dinner to raise/lower the flags. We get there two minutes late, because the kids weren't listening to me, again, when I was telling them that we had to go and when those three kids, Zee included, were trailing behind with zero pep in their step.
There's this thing called the Spirit Stick awarded to each cabin every day. It's a big deal to get it. This is important.
The Spirit Stick wasn't awarded to us - sucks, but oh well. And then came the activities. To entertain the kids while they wait for the lunch line to calm down, we play games to determine which cabin goes next. Well we're doing these, and we're getting completely ignored for each game. And when we did win, we still couldn't go inside. My kids are confused, so am I. By the end of it, it's between us and another cabin. We do the 'you can't ride in my little red wagon' thing, which is a screaming match, one that we definitely won. And yet the other cabin gets to go in.
The staff turns to us and says "Do you know why you were last?" And I answered "Because we were late to the flagpole." I get it. We were late. Actions have consequences. But I hated that they made my kids do all that when they didn't even have a chance in the first place. Make us go last, by all means. But don't set my kids up to fail like that. Worse? They tell us that if we hadn't been late, we'd have gotten the Spirit Stick. Why would you ever say that?
Worse, after this, CM pulled us all aside and scolded us, saying "This is what happens when we boss people around." Like no, this is what happens when people like you refuse to put your foot down, not only on other kids, but on your own kid as well who is the biggest problem. Zee then points at me and says "Ren's been bossing us around the entire time!" ...bro. Are we serious. I wouldn't be 'bossy' if you listened when I asked you nicely the first time. CM then calls me, the other teen counselor, and the other adult counselor failures.
By now, all camp spirit in my kids, and honestly in me, is DEAD. It was horrible. We had glow Sally that night (where the regular lights would be off and the blacklights would be on) and everyone was all dressed up and so excited... but because of how the staff and CM treated us, it was dead. Everyone went from super excited to wanting to go home.
One girl started crying after it. Most of us were on the verge of it. CM told her to come here to 'comfort' her. This poor girl looks at me while crying, and is pleading with me "Please don't make me go to her, I don't want to go over there, Ren please" And I'm about to cry because oh Lord I don't want to make her go over there, but there's nothing I can do. Spoiler alert! CM made it worse and sent the girl back over.
At this point, this girl is crying and about to hyperventilate. She's overwhelmed so I try to give her my earbuds. CM stops me and says she doesn't need them. The girl waves me over and says she needs out of her because she's super overwhelmed. I get it, and this girl is about to hyperventilate, so I go over to CM. "Hey, so she's really struggling and overwhelmed, could I take her down to the med center real quick? It's right down there and we won't-" she cuts me off again. "She's fine."
Finally, finally, I snap. I say "No, she's not! She's about to hyperventilate! She is not okay!" Because okay, you can disrespect me, you can not put your foot down, but I am NOT going to sit back and let one of my girls go into a panic attack just because you think 'she's fine'. Hell no. CM finally compromises and says that she can sit in the golf cart. Not great, but better I guess
After all this, and after Glow Sally (thankfully a lot of my campers got some of their spirit back and participated a bit!) we had a bonfire where the staff gave speeches. Very emotional night. And if the staff and adults are gonna treat us like this... I was considering not going to camp next year, when I've got for 3 years straight. But one of my girls, who's already crying, looks at me and says "Promise you'll come back next year?" ...What am I supposed to say to that? I promised, then promptly hid my face and ugly sobbed lmao. That girl and a lot of the kids are the only reason I'm going back next year
But let me tell you... this morning, I was close to breaking that promise
CM decided that since we 'couldn't handle it' she was gonna 'take charge'. ...Fine. Alright. Sure. So that morning, the morning were we are supposed to pack up and clean the entire cabin, I let CM handle it. And do you wanna know what happened because she didn't put her foot down? We were late to the flagpole again. And practically none of the cabin got cleaned. Me, the other teen counselor, and the other adult counselor were called back later by the staff to clean it up. It was so bad. If I get assigned to a cabin with CM again, I will be requesting a cabin change
Also, addition, but after CM called us failures, I had a bunch of my kids comes up to me and say stuff like "don't listen to her, she's wrong, I think you're a great leader" like okay so you want me to cry got it
I think that's all about CM. Now onto good/funny things!
So high ropes was my class! And most of the time I was cheering kids on as they went up the wall. And there were so many kids who looked back at me on the rock wall, scared, telling me "I can't do it!' only for me to say that they can... and so many of them did!! I was so proud!
I was later moved to the bottom of the zipline to help get kids down from it. Y'all... I messed up so bad lmao. The first time, the kid lost their grip on the ladder we had up and zipped back to the middle of the zipline. I threw a rope up and they grabbed it, so I pulled them back. They then let go of the rope before they grabbed the ladder so they went back! T.T I did get them back tho
THEN for the next kid, I accidentally clipped the rope (the one used to bring the thing they use for the zipline back) onto the kids instead of the actual zip thing, if that makes sense. So it got stuck in the middle... yeah I was like "I'm getting fired bro"
There was this thing called Messy Games, where, well, it's a bunch of games where you get super messy. It was a lot less crazy than last year, but anyway... there was a teen event, that involved a teen counselor and two campers from each cabin. I lay down in the grass, cover the sun with my hand... and look up to see my two campers grinning down at me, each holding either a bottle of chocolate or strawberry sauce, along with whipped cream. ...Yeah, they turned me into an ice cream sundae. They covered me in the stuff, and then a bunch of sprinkles. They had so much fun and OUGH it was so sticky and bleugh but so worth it
So I run on a 'leaders eat last' mentality. Lunch line? Campers go first. Getting in line? Campers go first. Doing an activity? Campers go first. This includes showers. Every single night I'd showered last. But after Messy Games I said "I love you guys but I'm gonna have to request first shower tonight" and like four of the kids screamed "REN GETS SHOWER FIRST! SHE NEEDS IT! SHE DESERVES IT!!" Like aw y'all care about me??? They were so sweet bro
Oh! I also got a text from Brian!! but it was when I had ZERO service out there and I wasn't able to call him, I was SO mad and upset. But oh well, it's really good to at least hear something from him!
Uh... also, I got stuck in the floor lmao. I was sitting on the porch reading, and I get up, and something yanks me back. My fucking jean chain got caught in the floorboards. I can't make ts up
I was really stressed out and tired a lot of the time... But I'm going back. Because I laughed. I had fun. It's good leadership experience. And most of all, I promised the kids
The 4-H Fiber Project is well into its second year! This year we got fleeces from Finnegan, Lily, and Belinda to process and turn into fundraising items for the 4-H. Maybe it'll help them one day get a barn instead of being stuck in a TENT all week.
Also, I'm in love with wool combs and have made it through nearly half of Lily's lovely fiber. It's been a month. How is it going this quickly?
Agility competition last week was so, so rough. Pumpkin did not perform well. This 4-H project though—these people are incredible! The person in charge sat down with E this week and provided some practical suggestions on what to do differently to help both she and Pumpkin move forward.
Today they competed in showmanship and obedience. Our dog, who last week ate an entire bag of hot dog buns off the counter, placed second in obedience. Last year, they didn’t place at all in showmanship. This year, they took first. Woot! Then they got to compete for grand champion. E didn’t win, but again, the judge was so helpful and kind in taking time to explain to E what she needed to do differently.
E came home happy. Pumpkin came home tired. It’s a win for both.
I woke up at 5 this morning because I was feeling anxious about all of it. I’m now home prepping for a 7:30am virtual meeting followed by a 45 minute commute for a full day of in-person meetings.
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I have lambs for 4-H. I have been showing lambs in 4-H for several years. Every year I read out loud to my lambs to build a bond, and it works really well. BUT. Tonight I forgot to grab a children’s book (what I normally read to them), and all I had was my phone. The only thing for reading on my phone is AO3. I just read a fucking fanfic to my lambs. I am honestly surprised I took this long to happen.
