Reporting from Camp

hey everybody out there. im at camp right now in case my title didnt make that point obvious. i have decided that being an adult volunteer is one of the funnest things ever. i was up til 12:30 last night because i have no curfew, while the rest of the staff does. then jake-a-roo (larsh) woke me up at 4:20 to help with the sysco order. so instead of doing something worthwile, like sleeping, jake and i decided to work for the rest of the morning to get all our stuff done. we finished up breakfast pretty fast, paper plates i love you. afterward Jake and i both discovered the other loved tea. we made 2 pots during the morning and went over to clean the comfort station while taking our own karaft (insulated pitcher) (also my new word of the day) filled with over sugarfied tea. i love tea. we cleaned bathrooms swept floors etc. rocked out. then when we were done and everything was clean we took showers while the whole comfort station was locked. jake wouldt even let ian in. then we realized we missed lunch so we drove back over to the dining hall and found some left over lazanga that was like week old and illeagle to serve campers. naturally we took it to the abbey and found it delicious. we watched family guy for about an hour and then played jakes 100 dollar board game, star wars epic duels. whats even funnier is that he got the game the site, gameboardgeeks.com of which he is now a member. awesome. i love that game. you get your little star wars figurines role your dice and pick up/play cards that u can use to attack or defend. good stuff. definetly a worthy investment for people that can spare 100 dollars. people not like me. the mike showed up and hes already addicted so we played 3 at once for a while and its even more fun. amazing. then i was still really tired and we skipped the staff meeting. oh well. i wasnt all that concerned, i had my lazagna, my entertainment, and my tea. the game today was fun. we chased campers if we wore black and some people i think the junior staff wore red and were caught by the campers. i started out black and chased campers. then me and nick sell (josies little bro) traded t shirts and i got caught mainly because staffwas dominating and they needed some help. plus when you got caught you had to leave and go hang out by the dining hall. something i can live with. then i for some reason had more energy and i was fine. campfire was pretty good. evan and carissa were in it. those 2 plus me were all in yesterdays. i was ron the toad and got to lead the song. plus carissa had this little red wagon evan and i totally destroyed. granted it was cardboard but we still destroyed it. we also sang you cant ride in my little red wagon. tonight im still at the abbey. its a few staff's night off. staff night off is nowhere near as fun as jr staff night off. and its 11 43 i got up 4 20 after3 some hours of sleep then sometime after midnight im gonna help elliot and karen fix crafts cuz the crafts lady volunteer messed up. why am i doing this. because karen gave mea jolly good cola. also because im an incredibly nice guy but mainly cuz of the cola. ive really gotten to know the staff better since ive been up here. alot of cool people but you also see the not so cool sides of them. their people andfor people they are incredible. i still want to be one. a staff member. not just a person. so far ive been up at camp for every single week since trainning except for a half week that borck was at. im gonnamiss the next 2 weeks. that sucks i wanna quit the kettle musical to just chill in the kitchen for the rest of the summer. the musical is gonna rock but i dont wanna go home even if its just for 2 weeks and then i come up for jesus cares. i love camp. this is when the post gets all sappy cuz its 11 50 and imvery very tired. that means im done.
i love you all, God's blessings.
jason schleef

Something other than camp

I havent written many posts and of those the grand majority have had a common theme of "camp posts." considering ive been there practically the entire summer i suppose that would pretty much be all i have to write about. But something else has been in the back of my mind, behind thoughts of "opium for the soul" and salt staff applications. (for those of you wondering i will record a sumarry of my adventures in wautoma later) here goes.........

Next school year ill be a senior. This year will hopefully be the best and maybe, just maybe ill be a little more loveable and a little bit less of a loser but either way ill still be me. though i think im gonna wear more plaid this year. My schedule looks exactly like this:

Semester 1
1. Government
2. Concert Choir
3. Religion 12 (Bartelt)
4. Pre-Calc
5. Foods 1
6. Symphonic Band
7. Earth Science
8. Study Hall

Semester 2 (This is where it starts to suck)
1. Cold War
2. Concert Choir
3. Religion 12
4. Pre-Calc
5. Speach
6. Band
7. Creative Writing (hafferman)
8. World Lit.

Yeah, three lit classes in one semester. i have time to tackle those later though. What im really excited about right now though is having religion with mr. bartelt. he seems like such a different kind of guy compared with pastor moldenhauer and ive heard alot of good stuff about him. other than classes though and also more important are the morning bible studies that the amazing Ali German has pushed. Im blown away with how much she wants this to succede and im definetly more confident of its success than at any point when i heard the idea. Despite my confidence i really have no idea of how its gonna work out. will we go about it like a church bible study and if so what materials will we be using. i think has to be allowing the study to be very open and allow those who want to lead a chance to do so. Other than the actual carrying out we also have to consider the location. I know the cafeteria is perfect except for the fact that teachers walk through there all the time to enter the school. not only would that be distracting but how would we handle a teacher if they tried to join us or tell us off. i dont see the latter as a problem but teachers for better or for worse will definetly be very interested. to be honest the teachers make me the most nervous. The people who want to come to bible study will come and hopefully they'll be there for the right reasons, no matter what though if anyone wants to come they will most definetly be welcome. however what if teachers try to either monitor, control, participate or simply watch. any of these could cause problems and theirs so much now that i dont know about. ill post on this later because success could do alot for those seeking spiritual growth and also make open christianity more prevelent throughout the school. despite my worries about classes or bible study i know God will turn everything out for the best

keep me in your prayers. ill be in west allis for day came this week and somehow next week im goin back up to camp to work in the kitchen. if someone out there could give me a ride id give you a hug and write you mail. (if you think this is bribary your absolutely right)
God Bless you All