Southern Easter Camp 07

My last sojourn with Timaru Corps was taking their youth - about a van full - down to Easter Camp in Waipiata. Waipi-where? Ah yes.... by Ranfurly. Which, if you are anything like me, still means nothing to you. It is literally in the hillbilly middle-of-nowhere country of the deep dark south. Held at what was a TB hospital, then a boys home, it is now a Christian camp.

After about a four hour drive south and inland from Timaru we finally made it!!

It was an interesting camp. Most camps I have been to in recent years were up north and with people I knew, and who knew me. Needless to say, I worked the crowd and got to know a fair few of them before camp was over.

I got pranked on by the Timaru girls, and I pranked the Christchurch City lot several times (because they are just so gosh darn easy!), which resulted in three of the boys - JJ, Madison and Tristan - trying to get me with water bombs. Apparently Si was in on it too, but he is currently denying any involvement. The funny thing is only the first bomb really got me, and since the crowd around me had dispersed rather quickly and I had stayed in the one spot, I was rather amazed at the three boys lack of ability in hitting their target. Not that I'm complaining!

Sue, Si and I ran one of the sessions, which I think went off well. I was stoked to have one guy come up to me afterwards and say he didn't realise I was a cadet, he thought I was one of the youth! So at least College and Out-training hasn't sapped my incredibly good and youthful looks yet!!

The other amazing thing about this camp was that I saw sooooo much chocolate that by Easter Sunday, I was quite content to not eat any of it! Can you believe it? But, don't stress, a few days later, I did manage to eat some Milky Bar, courtesy of the Collings. Phew! My chocolate senses are still there!

So all in all, a good time had. Only tinged with a weird feeling in knowing the end was nigh.