Last week was Kids Club again. We had the biggest numbers that we've had in a long time - 76 over the entire week, and about 50 per day. With numbers like that it was always bound to be fairly chaotic, but we also had a lack of leaders. So, we were pretty much flat out all week. There were kids everywhere and always more jobs to be done! Every morning, more and more people turned up to register (inconsiderate and arrogant, but good nonetheless).
We spend most of the week playing games, cooking and doing crafts. The older kids went off to Archery, and we did treasure hunts all over the neighborhood. We had a rodeo carnival one afternoon, with the dunking machine, put put golf, sideshow games and a big bouncy castle - an awesome afternoon! On friday half of us took the older kids to Greenhills Adventure Park, which they loved - but it was absolutely freezing and all us leaders were practically turning blue! Thank goodness we had pancakes to cook, woo!
The week went really well overall. The kids had a blast and the parents had rave reviews. The leaders thought it went well, and we had no huge disasters. We didn't even have any big injuries! Apart from the fact that one of the leaders and i had major clashes that made me feel pretty shit. But we were over it by the end of the week.
Friday night after the cleaning up and leaders pizza party, we had a movie night with the youth group. I barely made it through Fifty First Dates, and then Benchwarmers started skipping halfway through... and i fell asleep in the middle of Handcock. Oopsie. Didn't get home til 1.30am. 17hours at work. I think that's a few too many.
I'm absolutely exhausted. I've been flat out for two weeks, after a full on term. The holidays have been a total waste!! Now, i have a 3000word essay due tomorrow afternoon that i've barely started. I had big plans to get up early today and start, but boyfriend stayed over and we didn't get up until lunch. I've found a bunch of articles online, and now have to slot them into my assignment. It's worth 50%, so i had planned to do a good job of it, but it's just not going to happen. I can tell that i'm going to end up padding it all out with crap, just to meet the word limit. I suck sometimes. In my defence, i offer the exhaustion, complete lack of downtime and the sickness that i picked up from a kid last week that has me coughing and sniffing like crazy.
I'd better get back to the grindstone, but i figured i should let you all know that i've not died and i still love my blog! Wish me luck... i'm really going to need it.
We spend most of the week playing games, cooking and doing crafts. The older kids went off to Archery, and we did treasure hunts all over the neighborhood. We had a rodeo carnival one afternoon, with the dunking machine, put put golf, sideshow games and a big bouncy castle - an awesome afternoon! On friday half of us took the older kids to Greenhills Adventure Park, which they loved - but it was absolutely freezing and all us leaders were practically turning blue! Thank goodness we had pancakes to cook, woo!
The week went really well overall. The kids had a blast and the parents had rave reviews. The leaders thought it went well, and we had no huge disasters. We didn't even have any big injuries! Apart from the fact that one of the leaders and i had major clashes that made me feel pretty shit. But we were over it by the end of the week.
Friday night after the cleaning up and leaders pizza party, we had a movie night with the youth group. I barely made it through Fifty First Dates, and then Benchwarmers started skipping halfway through... and i fell asleep in the middle of Handcock. Oopsie. Didn't get home til 1.30am. 17hours at work. I think that's a few too many.
I'm absolutely exhausted. I've been flat out for two weeks, after a full on term. The holidays have been a total waste!! Now, i have a 3000word essay due tomorrow afternoon that i've barely started. I had big plans to get up early today and start, but boyfriend stayed over and we didn't get up until lunch. I've found a bunch of articles online, and now have to slot them into my assignment. It's worth 50%, so i had planned to do a good job of it, but it's just not going to happen. I can tell that i'm going to end up padding it all out with crap, just to meet the word limit. I suck sometimes. In my defence, i offer the exhaustion, complete lack of downtime and the sickness that i picked up from a kid last week that has me coughing and sniffing like crazy.
I'd better get back to the grindstone, but i figured i should let you all know that i've not died and i still love my blog! Wish me luck... i'm really going to need it.
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