Last week of camp. Westlock is a pretty small town so the churches combined for one camp. We drove in and went inside the church and the first thing we noticed on sunday night was the lack of a coordinator. We were waiting for one, but there were only 3 volunteers. Turns out the coordinator was a farmer and that harvest had arrived early, so he was pretty much busy the whole week and would not be able to help. This proved to be a problem as the coordinator is in charge of all the volunteers and has all the registration sheets and all the information about the campers. We found ourselves with 3 volunteers who had no idea what they were doing, but they were all willing to do whatever needed to be done. (by the way this group of volunteers were even older than the last camps)
Day 1, we had about 15 kids at this camp which was really small, about the size of the fushion camp as well. I was presented with head coach duties by Bev for the first 3 days this week. I really did not want to do it, I didn't really feel like head coach was my kind of thing. However I decided to give it a shot since it was a small camp and it was the last week anyways. Luckily for me my head coach responsibilities remained in camp and not outside. So all I had to really do was run the camp by keeping everything moving and keeping track of time. First day went well except that none of the kids in the camp were skilled in soccer except for one boy. You might be wondering why that's a problem. Well first day world cup we knew he was more skilled than every other player, so we put him on a team with 2 younger kids. Each team played 3 games, and the skilled player (Patrick) scored over 10 goals a game while the others scored 0. So obviously that was not enjoyable for all the other campers, not enjoyable for me to ref, and I doubt it was very enjoyable to Patrick either.
Day 2 , we get more volunteers for the week which was awesome. This meant that we could have coaches play during world cup just like in fushion. This ended up working out great so thank goodness we got more volunteers to balance out the games. Small group was good too, since we had so little kids we just did 2 small groups with 2 coaches in each. We had some good discussion about sin and the kids asked some good questions about the ten commandments and the adam and eve story. We had a boy named Jaxon who would tell us everyday how many pages he had read on his bible which was great. I was so glad to hear him talk about the stories that he read in the Bible as opposed to the tv shows he watched or the video games that he played last night. He's 9-10 years old and he's watching a lot of stuff that he should not be watching, but that stuff doesn't really surprise me anymore.
Day 3- We only had Brittany for the morning as she had to go in for some tests and surgery on her legs. It had been a problem for a long time and its continually gotten worse, and the doctor says that she will need surgery if she ever wants to play competetive soccer again. I'm not too sure about the specifics but something about relieving the pressure in her legs by draining the fluid. From what I hear it's quite the painful process, they stick giant needles into her legs and have her run for 30-40 minutes to measure muscle contractions or something like that. We all prayed for her before she left, and camp still went pretty smooth for the rest of the day. Brittany was out of the hospital later that afternoon and she joined us for dinner.
Day 4- It was Kaitlyn's last day with our team. She had decided that she would go back to Calgary later on the afternoon to join her soccer team's preseason games. It was pretty sad and emotional when she left, only for Brittany though. Just kidding, Lane and I said our goodbyes too, and we missed her too.
Day 5- Last day of camp for the summer, and to be honest Lane and I couldn't have been happier. I knew I would miss it later but at that time it was a huge relief. The week had dragged on so long, and it felt like the week was taking forever to finish. But it was a good camp, and I'm happy to say our team finished strong. except for Kaitlyn, she ditched us.
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