America. Post Eight.

It has been a little while since I have been able to sit down and type a blog... we have had late nights working pretty much every night for the past two weeks. It has been pretty manic, but I love it. It is nice in the evenings when we work because it gives me a chance to get out of the office and chat to the kids, and meet the parents whom I have been talking with on the phone!
We are half way through our time at camp, and I am fll of mixed feelings! I am happy that we are halfway through, because it is very exhausting here, however I am sad because I do love it. And I love the people that I have met here, I don't think I have met anyone in America who I dislike with a great passion. Even though the days seem so long, the weeks have absolutely flown by.

After a long week last week, we celebrated our employer's birthday, (it was on Tuesday and Elise and I made a cake for him. YUM YUM) but on the Friday night we all went to Lory's for a drinking game. We had separate teams - a drink (regardless of what it was) was worth one point but if you threw up it subtracted five points. The game ended at midnight so whatever happened after that didn't count towards the points! The teams drew at ninety-one drinks for each team, which is pretty impressive . . . especially as I was downing glasses of wine, as I was on Ron's team (my boss) and he was taking it very seriously.
Needless to say, I do not remember much of the evening, and I came home and managed to bring my dinner and all the alcohol back up! woops.

One of the Visiting Nights for the parents was just fantastic, I was ridiculously hyperactive, managed to run around like a loon and take some great pictures of the parents and their kids! Afterwards some the Americans and I went to get Ice Cream... from this amazing place called Rita's. It was so amazingly delicious, and i forgot my camera to take a picture of the dam thing. But the man at the ice cream place also gave me sweedish fish sweets wish were pretty damn cool, but I am afraid that British sweets and chocolate is just so much better. This week having been particularly stressful one way or another led me to open up my  British Dairy Milk Caramel, kindly packed for me by Ella.

On the Saturday night I went to New York to meet Torrey who has been studying in London since January but lives in Chappequa (sp?), so she took me to a fantastic restaurant called Ruby Foo's which is like a chinese place in Times Square... or near abouts, I dunno I get confused. Anyway the food was immense, and their Red Velvet Cake nearly made me die from happiness. It was an intense mouth orgasm. We also then went to meet a couple of Torrey's friends in this beyond American Bar. it looked like it belonged in Coyote Ugly or something... it was just SO American. And I must admit all American guys that I have seen so far seem to be good looking. No complaints from anyone there. ANd the girls are all generally very pretty too... think New Jersey is a very "glossy magazine"/hot beach people look type place. That sentence may not have made any sense.
The Sunday of that weekend was really chilled out. I hung by the pool, napped on the sofa, ordered a dirty sandwich and was very happy and relaxed.

On the Tuesday we had the Internationals versus the Americans Soccer game. Admittedly we had four Americans on our team (though one of the is Zander and he is the international gypsy) and two of them were girls... however these girls were awesome at "soccer" they do play, Alyssa and Ariel! Awesome. I did have a play... I'm no good at football whatsoever, but it was fun to have a run around. I did also make Justin wear a dress for part of the second half, I'm not enturely sure why, but he seemed more than happy to do so. (hahahahaha... later on in the week he wore a leotard and was Beyonce for Lakeview Idol) However the final result was 6-all and the Internationals where not happy about it... and poor Alyssa ten minutes before the end of the game went down on her ankle and severely sprained it. I felt so bad that she was playing for the international team and that was the reason she was down!

ELLA INXS HAS JUST COME ON ITUNES. YUM YUM. ... so slide over here and give me a moment!

After the soccer we headed to Lory's... because that is what we do... I managed to get another load of free drinks from the manager because he is lovely! and we all had a giggle, Diego told me I was a cool chick, and this made me very happy. Not very often do I get a compliment like that so I was very happy about it. I genuinely love the guys, they make me laugh and I feel chilled. Diego just reminds me of my Godmother's kids, like they laugh the same and say similar things and in similar ways, so I feel very comfortable around him... like he is my "bro" as he would say... only pronounced "bra".

On Wednesday I was in a particularly foul mood... but sometime around lunch.. I got a phone call at the office from a member of staff, (this confused me as they should be a work right?) It turned out he was at work... and he was on his cell phone (a camp no no)... "this is very embarrassing, but I need some help. I am stuck in the toilet near the soccer field." I feel bad, but I just had to laugh... we sent someone to rescue them though. I don;t think they will be using the camp toilets again, they definitely will be coming up to the office.

The kitchen team were low on staff Thursday and Friday, so I helped them out for the middle part of the day. It was hot and sometimes demanding, but I really enjoyed myself. I love the guys is the kitchen. T, Alex and Charlie. They are so sound. They had me laughing all day, and we danced around to ACDC and generally just had a giggle. I came back back to the office, sweaty, tired and very smiley. Though I had to change my shirt, because I had made such a mess of my first one.. and I smelt of ovens and kitchens! However I was then madly hyper for the rest of day - potentially freaked some of the staff out for the camp shows and when we went out for SubWay afterwards... I know the fella who worked there was definitely frightened of me.

This Friday night we went out for dinner as a large group at a mexican grill called On The Border. THE FOOD WAS BRILLIANT. My camera had no battery so I made Diego take  picture of my dinner.. it was so good, and everyone was so full at the end and we wanted to just be rolled out of the restaurant.in fact I did have a lie down outside - think Justin thinks I am a nutter. Actually I think most of New Jersey is getting that impression - I am not that mad. just easily pleased and get excited about anything that is possibly amazing. I also foolishly ordered a pitcher of Sangria. IT WAS SO YUMMY - and just reminded me of my mum and dad in spain.
We then headed off to a party at Phil's house, and picked up some alcohol with the money that one of the division leaders had tipped the OT staff with. It was a bizarre party, with under-age drinking, which made my head confused, I felt like I was seventeen again at house parties... because house parties for me now are very different, the excitement of drinking has faded because of my legality (not that I don't enjoy getting wasted - just that it always seems more fun when you aren't supposed to be doing it!) It will be funny though on Monday morning when I see some of them though, it will make me giggle! Nether- the-less it was a good night. Alicia fell asleep on me, and so i ordered us a cab which cost us $45 to get home, and I think he charged us extra because of Alicia's snoring in the car! hahaha.
So all in all... I am still having a great time, Tonight I went to the cinema to see Salt, which I thoroughly enjoyed and it made me so happy. I miss films... I miss LOTR a lot.

I am so cool - ahem!

Missing people a lot this week though... could very much use cuddles and kisses. Miss you all - however I still am not ready to come home.

xxx