Entry #4

Date: 7/10-7/14
Activities: Jellybeans
Technical Info: Boss system on iPad
Reflection: The internship is both meeting and not meeting my expectations.  I knew what to expect going into it since I had the job last year and things were basically the same although our original supervisor found a teaching job and a new supervisor came in.  It was stressful because I as a counselor know more about the camp than he does and he is supposed to be the one in charge but he's new to the job so I can't blame him.  I don't have any control over this obviously because he's one of the people in charge of me. It does meet my expectations though since I'm more experienced than the others and I'm given more responsibility which is good because I like to stay busy. Every afternoon when parent pickup is happening it becomes very hectic.  It is the end of the day, the kids are getting their last bits of energy out and the counselors are exhausted.  We usually have a counsel on door duty to make sure non of the runners leave without us knowing. But Thursday an incident happened where a kid heard his name called and somehow left the gym and walked all the way to the back parking lot to his own car.  These kind of things are unacceptable at our camp and my boss was not happy when he heard about it.  I was one of the counselors in the gym at the time but I had known nothing about it so it was scary when Nick came in questioning everything but mistakes happen and whoever fault it was hopefully learned from it.  

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