"dunzo"

Week One of Camp is offically over. Yesterday Robert and I were preparing dinner for the teen center and he asked me "on a scale of 1-10, 10 being you love this place and could work here for the rest of your life, and 1 being you hate it and want to go home, how would you rate your experience so far?" I told him a 9. :)

Clearly I love it. I mean, its the joy of working at Camp Mundo Vista, only you get to tell the kids to go home at 3:00 every afternoon:) Which is nice. But, this is very different from CMV. You may have heard tail of one of my responsibilites this summer. Its summed up in 2 words...

CHEF STEPH

Yes, i am the cook here this summer. I know, many of you are laughing at the sight of me in a hair net, but just so you know, i get to wear a baseball hat instead! Cooking for 65 everyday is not easy and i now have so much compassion for all my fellow cafeteria workers out there. Mad props to ya. Every day we [by we, i mean the amazing people who help me on the mission teams...couldn't do it without them!] start cooking lunch around 11 and serve lunch a little after 12. I have no clue how it happens, but we are pretty much on time. So far it has been scary, because honestly i didn't wanna be the dumb dumb who was in charge of a junky lunch or the person who accidentally poisoned camp. Yea, a lot of pressure, huh? But its been great. so from now on you can refer to me as "chef steph"

So here i am, sitting at 8:30 typing a blog. Many are thinking "why aren't you out experiencing the city?" Well, let me just tell you, # 1, im tired. But also, i ahve realized that after being here for 3 weeks, the whole New York City hoopla kinda gets old and you just realize that people live here and experience it everyday...and i am slowly becoming one of those people. Do i plan on doing lots of fun stuff, sure, but i also plan on doing fun stuff anywhere i go. so yea.

Well, i think i am going to head upstairs and do a little strightening up of the room and maybe some reading. Tomorrow is my day off and i have bookoos of plans, so gotta get bored tonight so tomorrow will be awesome.

much love
-chef steph