My head feels very well rested and kind of hazy. I also feel timid and kind of bored.

I've got Wizards of Waverly Place plaining on a second tab and Chris Brown's Forever playing as well. I don't know why everything is playing at the same time. Oh well. If you're wondering why I'm watching Wizards of Waverly place and the answer to that is because I've been watching Demi & Serena youtube channel and I kind of like Serena. She's cute and so I decided to watch the show since I don't have anything better to do.

Oh god. Lollipop by Lil' Wayne is playing in the background in my iTunes. The song has such a good beat but the lyrics are horrible. They're so offensive, disgusting and just obcensly inappropriate. I'm the type of person that usually listens to a song but never hears the words, everything meshes together for me and creates the sound. During the first camp, I was in a school bus with the kids and we were heading down to the coast.While on the bus Lollipop came on and my co-worker (another RA/TA) told me to listen to the lyrics and I did.

Awkward.

Yes, that's the word that came to my mind as I listened to it surrounded by 30 hormonal teenagers. The line that I dont' understand is the 'lick the wrapper...' I just don't get it. Why would you lick wrapper? I get the reference to the Lollipop but not the wrapper. Maybe I'm being to analytical.

back to watching wizards...

The second Camp ended on Friday. It wasn't really as sad as I thought it was going to be, I don't know why. The first camp was a lot more sad and I felt somewhat empty when it ended. Maybe it was because the kids in the first camp were a bit older than the ones in the Second camp. First camp had 10 & 11th graders and the Second Camp had 8th, 9th and 12 graders.

The 8th graders are so cute, they're all small and shy. The 9th graders are alright. They're a bit boring and their hormones are starting to shoot up so of course there were a lot of us RA/TAs saying 'no touching!,' especially since the Seniors were there. The Seniors...the Seniors...what can I say about them. They're fucking annoying, frustrating and we had more work with them there at the camp than when they weren't.

We have the Seniors attend the camp with the 8th and 9th graders because they're old and we want them to serve as role models to the younger kids. Some of the seniors do a great job but the majority were a circus, I was disappointed at the lack of restrain and discipline they showed in front of the younger kids.

So on Friday we had a banquet and a gallery featuring all the kid's work. The banquet is supposed to be formal and so we're all dressed up and everything, a bit too much if I may say so. The girls....oh my god. It's like they're going to their wedding or prom. I don't understand why they have to be so dressy. They had their high heels, their dresses, their hair done, they're makeup. It was a show to see. Some of the dresses were a bit too skanky for my taste. Hot pink as a dress color is totally not in right now, stay away from it.

The banquet ended at like 8:30 or 9 pm so after everyone left, the Staff (us RA/TAs) had to stay and clean up. They're so much cleaning up to do. I think we finished at like 11:30 pm or something...that probably was it. The office looked like a tornado hit it.

Overall I really loved working at these summer camps. I was really happy with work that I did. Volleyball was super fun (we played it everyday). I'm thinking of joining an intramural volleyball team. I'm definetely getting better at hitting the ball. I might also volunteer at the program during the year. The program is basically a college access program for youth of underrepresented minorities. I don't know if I'll have time though to volunteer, I'll see what about that later when I start school and look at my schedule.

I've got like another 2 weeks until I have to really pack up and go back to college. Classes don't start until September 2nd however, I going to be a Residence Assistance for one of the dorms and the training for that starts on August 13th. I'm going on August 11th though just so that I can get situated and ready for when training starts. Training is supposed to be intense, nothing like the RA/TA training I did for the two camps. Unfortunately, there won't be vollyball. Just lots of listening and team work.

The dorm floor that I'll be living in will be all girls so I think it'll be a bit easier. I feel bad for the RAs that have to live in the other dorms, the ones with the upper classmen and such. Those have so much work in them just beause people like to party and drink in there. I'm pretty sure that 99% of my hall will be freshman girls so I don't think I'll have that much work to do however, that might change. This year, the girls in that hall were into baking. I don't know what my hall will be like, the girls might be into drinking rather than banking. I'm going to stay positive though, hopefully they're not like that.

I'm a bit tired, actually a lot. I slept so much yesterday, randomly throughout the day. I still feel tired. My ankles are also swollen by the way, probably from all the standing that I had to do and volleyball that I played. Oh well. I wouldn't take anything back, I had a blast during work. The kids were that amazing. They really changed by perspective on a lot of things.

I feel like writing about Breaking Dawn and Twilight but I think I'll save that for another time. Writing about that book will probably take one to two thousand words and I need to get breakfast.

I'm sitting in a dorm room right now listening to the stupid train going by. Everytime it comes by it blows it's horns. It has to. Apparently, someone got killed on the tracks a couple of years ago so from then and onward everyone on campus has to be hassled by it's stupid, annoying noise.

The train tracks are about 25 meters from the college campus. The only the thing our University can do is pay the city a couple of million dollars a year to not have Amtrak blow it's horns. Oh and they'll only NOT blow the horn for 1 block. God only knows how many millions it would take to stop us from hearing the train altogether.

My dad drove me to my college today to get me to my job. I don't own a car. Why should do I? I mean, yeah it's freedom and all but gas is around $4 a gallon and you gotta pay insurance around a $100 every month. If I had a $100 to spare every month, I would get myself one of those cool phones. Seeing as how life turned out (thanks papa bush! you're A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. We just can't seem to stop our trees from sprouting dough because of you)...so yeah, I can't afford a car. Besides, I have to save up my money for something (not a car), probably all those medical school applications and not to mention countless other things.

Man oh man do I digress. AS I was saying, my dad drove me. We got up at 7 am, we got into the car at 8 and we started driving towards my college. It usually takes 45 minutes between my home and my college except this morning some idiots decided that they just needed some extra sleep behind the wheel. WTF?!? GET SOME 'EFFING SLEEP or don't drive. Because of those morons, I was 30 minutes late to my job. I hate being late. I was almost was going to have an anxiety attack. I can't help myself. I'm one of those people that need to be at an appointment 10 minutes early or on time- just never late.

There were also dozens of trucks. I don't know where they came from, but it seemed like they all wanted to reign on my parade. It's Tuesday, for God's sake. We're not supposed to have horrible traffic on a Tuesday. That part of my day was finally over.

The only thing that probably got me through it was the hot pink shirt I was wearing and the 30 minute volleyball game I played with my fellow Staff members.

Tomorrow is officially the first day of camp II. Today was training. I'm really excited to meet all the new kids and the older ones as well. Last camp was really good and I felt like I really helped a lot of students by being a good mentor. They all look up to us (the RA/TAs) and it's pretty cool.

We're pretty strict with them though, like no touching, no hugging, no high-fives, no food besides what give them, no money, no cell phones, no chit chatting after lights out, etc...etc...Sometimes, they really hate the RATAs- not literally but you can tell that they don't like being woken up at 7 am and told every 10 minutes that it's almost time to go to breakfast at 7:40..blah blah blah. If you've ever been to a camp and have had counselors, that's basically what I do. Except we also live with them, eat with them, play the games with them, go to classes with them (function as TAs) etc...

Ok, I think I need to go to sleep now. It's almost 11 PM and I have to get up at 7 am tomorrow. 9 am and they'll be at the college which means that's the time when I'll need to start acting like a goof ball and be the weirdest person I can think of- it makes them feel comfortable about who they are and make them more keen to speak and get comfortable with their peers. If I'm the weirdest thing on the planet, then there's no way they can top me .

OMG- the train is here AGAIN. There's seriously no escape.

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