Anyway it's been nearly a week since my last update... last Saturday was Scott's party at his uni house over in Ann Arbour, which is a large town about forty-five minutes' drive away. On our way, Jacob, Amy, Justin and I stopped off at Champps for a meal and then carried on our journey. The party was quite cool, and I made my spectacularly poor debut at Beer Pong... I wasn't much up for going far in the tournament because Leanne was keeping me thoroughly supplied with this raspberry vodka stuff, so beer from Beer Pong would have made it a bit of a bad mix! But yeah a good mix of people there, including the usual collective of British counsellors, plus a load of Americans including Sam (pic below), who is fast becoming one of the most fun Americans I have met out here - she's always laughing about something! Picture - clockwise from top Dean, me, Leanne, Aaron, Allison and Nicole in the middle.
Minor headache on Sunday morning but then when I was sitting here happily having a post-shower Facebook binge in a towel I had a call from Amy asking if I was up for going to the mall in five minutes, and then in actual fact about three minutes later they rolled up on the drive! I did manage to throw some clothes on in that three minutes though so I was quite proud of myself. We went back to Somerset, where we'd been before, and this week I bought a few T-shirts, more trainer socks... stuff along those lines. I bought this one T-shirt that was like $40 marked down from $60, and I was thinking "woah big purchase!" and then "Wait a sec, at home this would be a steal!"From the mall we (we being Amy, Justin, Leanne and Aaron) went on to Detroit, for the hell of it, which is actually quite a scary city, purely because it's so lifeless. The streets are bare and there are hardly any people on them. There's no obvious city centre or commercial streets or anything like that. Although, there is this one cool bit where you get to a river the size of the Thames, maybe a bit wider, and on the other side of the river is Canada.
Justin went to meet some other people that evening but he dropped the rest of us off at the movies on his way and we saw Get Smart (Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway) after taking more pictures in the photobooths! The film was quite funny, several laugh out loud moments, although the first half was probably better than the second. Taking those pictures, the four of us cramming into a photobooth, it felt like we'd been friends for years, not just four and a bit weeks. It was really funny anyway.
Business as usual at camp on Monday. I was doing Paddleboats on the big camp pond during the Campers' Choice hour all this week, with Leanne and Joe. It's quite relaxing actually although you do risk getting quite wet! Monday night it got a bit stormy so the Monday night staff football was called off but Champps was on as usual, and just before that Sarah had a bit of a wander over for a quick tea!! Now Leanne and Amy have moved, our car in the mornings and afternoons is slightly different in that we now pick up Luke and Oli and another car picks up the girls. Luke and Oli literally live about three minutes' walk away and none of us realised until we went to pick them up!!
Tuesday was a night of tiredness all round and the majority of us had nights in. I ended up watching a film on my iPod... was in a bit of an Anne Hathaway mood following Get Smart on Sunday so I gave The Devil Wears Prada a shot and thought it was really good... strange to see a film typically classed as a "chick flick" having the central leading lady facing a storyline in her career as opposed to romantic life. Really good anyway, thought Meryl Streep was really good too.
Wednesday was babysitting as usual, and at camp word was quickly spreading that two English counsellors had been let go. One wasn't really surprising but the other was a bit of a surprise and it'll be a shame to see him go because he's a funny guy and our bus journeys won't be the same without him!
The Thursday overnight was quite good, the theme was Indiana Jones and me, Holly and Michael Jordan were stationed at this obstacle course thing which was a laugh. Although, while setting up our tent I did quite four quite big spiders that would be joining us for the evening and that was unnerving! This morning I was ready to go home because I was in need of a shower and a sleep, then I started wanting to go HOME home, and then the day got going and everything was fine.
Tonight I haven't done alot really, it's been really quiet for a Friday night. Jacob was saying he was going to a supermarket so I tagged along and picked up some tea and Dairy Milk ($8!!) from their International Aisle. Don't know what's happening this weekend but sure word will spread in due course. And iTunes actually works on my laptop here, whereas at home my phone internet thing won't support it, and since discovering that it has about every song in the history of the universe on it I have bought about 60 songs, some in albums some in indidual tracks, plus a whole series of Catherine Tate. Am now banning myself from it for fear of going bankrupt thanks to iTunes.
Sure there's more to tell but I'm exhausted and ready to sleep, so more soon!
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