Lunch today was noodle soup. I should clarify, I am pretty sure it was noodles that were left in water all night, and called soup. It was beyond bland - the air was giving it flavor, in fact, it was kind of cool how little flavor they were able to put into it. Second plate was some sort of hamburger, except pork, of course, and very thin. Equally tasteless.
After lunch it was a sealed deal, and the RA's, and staff took off for the supermarket which is a few minutes walk. Ahh. Bliss. No sooner had I arrived back in my room than I opened up my can of Nutella, and dove in. What is unfortunate is that it is probably the healthiest thing I have had to eat all week - in fact, I am almost sure it is.
I am assisting in running the basketball activity today which should be interesting. The Rubik's cubes arrived for my decathlon, which is very exciting (pause for another nutella and cracker snack) and I have come up with some additional categories. I was thinking of a staff trivia section, who is from where, what school, etc.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Planning for post CTY
I think there is way to much on here. I feel like I want to see a lot, and then come back and get to know different areas that interest me next trip.
Here it goes:
Portugal (2 days)
Sevilla (1)
Valencia (2)
Barcelona (4)
Andorra (1)
Marseille / Nice (1/2)
Venice (2)
Florence (2)
Rome (3)
Eastern Italy (1) just to catch boat
Tirane (2) or surrounding area
Bitola (1) or surrounding area
Athens (2)
Greek Isles (4)
South Turkey (1-2)
Istanbul (2)
Which gives me two extra days, assuming all night travel (saves on hotels / hostals)
I have approximately 33 days.
I just feel like it is a bit rushed, but am not sure where to cut it back.
There are 16 potential trips, including some ferries, so it seems like a railpass is the way to go.
thoughts anyone?
Here it goes:
Portugal (2 days)
Sevilla (1)
Valencia (2)
Barcelona (4)
Andorra (1)
Marseille / Nice (1/2)
Venice (2)
Florence (2)
Rome (3)
Eastern Italy (1) just to catch boat
Tirane (2) or surrounding area
Bitola (1) or surrounding area
Athens (2)
Greek Isles (4)
South Turkey (1-2)
Istanbul (2)
Which gives me two extra days, assuming all night travel (saves on hotels / hostals)
I have approximately 33 days.
I just feel like it is a bit rushed, but am not sure where to cut it back.
There are 16 potential trips, including some ferries, so it seems like a railpass is the way to go.
thoughts anyone?
Mail Delivery
Morning mail arrived. I know Jenn, the site director, went to bed before I did, she stopped at the lab and said good night to the remaining RA´s before midnight. I was up until around 2AM last night which means the note arrived sometime after:
Jonathan -
Please make sure _____ _____ is awake.
(Long story - I´ll explain later.)
-Jenn
it seems that his mother was freaking out after he didn´t pick up this morning for his wake up call, called the front desk at 6 AM, and then they called Jenn. She was not pleased.
In other news, Nick took off for the States. Unfortunate, he was growing on me. I think we found something to both put our efforts into changing (food) as opposed to arguing with each other regarding staffing policies for lunch.
With the students at class, I have the rest of the day to figure out now. I do want to start the LSAT book, and finish my other book I brought with me.
That´s all the news from Camp CTY!
Jonathan -
Please make sure _____ _____ is awake.
(Long story - I´ll explain later.)
-Jenn
it seems that his mother was freaking out after he didn´t pick up this morning for his wake up call, called the front desk at 6 AM, and then they called Jenn. She was not pleased.
In other news, Nick took off for the States. Unfortunate, he was growing on me. I think we found something to both put our efforts into changing (food) as opposed to arguing with each other regarding staffing policies for lunch.
With the students at class, I have the rest of the day to figure out now. I do want to start the LSAT book, and finish my other book I brought with me.
That´s all the news from Camp CTY!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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Breakfast, RA meeting and Activity planning
Breakfast went smoothly - bad churros, and coffee. I found a banana and mixed it up with some yogurt for my own breakfast. They forgot to give the kids cereal bowls, but put out cereal, which I found to be very entertaining. It was off to the RA meeting afterwards where we learned what we are doing. I asked to do Salsa dancing taught by a fellow RA in the hopes of learning some basic steps.
I decided that I would try to plan an activity along the lines of a team based academic decathlon next week.
The ten events I am thinking at the moment would be:
1. Rubik's Cube. Team based, one member who doesn´t solve them, is blindfolded and the rest of the team (hyopefully containing a member who can solve them) directs them how to move it without touching it. There might a speed round as well. Points to the first team or two that solves the cube.
2. Trivia Round - History, Sports, etc.
3. Math Problems. A series of questions in increasing difficulty.
4. Riddles
5. Mensa warm up test. see mensa.org for an example.
6. Name that Painting / sculpture (verbal description for 5 art works, show them painting for 5 art works using projector)
7. What´s bigger, smaller, rounder, flatter, true, false
8. Music ID: play pieces, identify song for one point, composer/artist for another point
9. Translation
10. Zen Counting
Of course, I welcome suggestions. Any of these I would be up for replacing, adding to, or modifying.
Can´t wait to see everyone´s thoughts.
I decided that I would try to plan an activity along the lines of a team based academic decathlon next week.
The ten events I am thinking at the moment would be:
1. Rubik's Cube. Team based, one member who doesn´t solve them, is blindfolded and the rest of the team (hyopefully containing a member who can solve them) directs them how to move it without touching it. There might a speed round as well. Points to the first team or two that solves the cube.
2. Trivia Round - History, Sports, etc.
3. Math Problems. A series of questions in increasing difficulty.
4. Riddles
5. Mensa warm up test. see mensa.org for an example.
6. Name that Painting / sculpture (verbal description for 5 art works, show them painting for 5 art works using projector)
7. What´s bigger, smaller, rounder, flatter, true, false
8. Music ID: play pieces, identify song for one point, composer/artist for another point
9. Translation
10. Zen Counting
Of course, I welcome suggestions. Any of these I would be up for replacing, adding to, or modifying.
Can´t wait to see everyone´s thoughts.
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