First Full Day in Ely

So as the title suggests, today was our first full day here. With another early morning behind us, I can't help but feel disgust at the fact that every morning will consist of such an early waking hour. The girls in my cabin are all really nice - Sara, Millie, Erin and I have already done a bunch of bonding. There is also a veteran staffer here whose name is Meghan - she wasn't around much last night to spend the girl time with us... I'm pretty sure she's much older than we all are. Its okay though, at least the four of us get along really well. (Picture at right - Good Morning base :D). After breakfast today, there was some "this is scouting" sort of training (but probably not as good as yours dad), a talk by the chief of staff (or whatever his title may be) and some paddle game thing that I didn't play because I had no crew - instead, I helped John (my boss, remember?) finish working on our garden. Its pretty make shift - or at least the beanpoles are - but it'll work.

Then was lunch and a few more trainings ... one of which I'm still not really sure why I went but I'll get over it (something about safe food prep in the woods ... I'm not going in the woods so ... ?). Then I helped John more, we finalized the garden, watered it and then did a lot of walking around getting things together until he had to leave (he had errands to run or something?).

I'm not hating it here ... but it's not the best time I've ever had ... maybe I just need to give it some time.