Highlights from Camp Timberwolf:

Playing Fear Factor

In round 1, I made kids hold their hands in ice water for as long as they could. I capped the time limit at 3.5 minutes because I realized they just kept their hands in there when they went numb. Sticking their heads in ice water would have been more challenging.
Round 2 involved drinking a random combination of root beer, milk, and mustard. 4 people drew the mustard and root beer, but one girl drew the triple threat. She drank it all.
The last round with the super dangerous stunt was human bowling, using their head (with a helmet) while lying on a skateboard to knock over soda bottles.


Special Edition Jesus Heals Skit

Each team had to do a skit about the transforming power of Jesus. Our group was assigned the passage out of Matthew 12 where Jesus heals a man's paralyzed hand on the Sabbath. We went through our skit and it took like 90 seconds. It was funny becasue the guy in need of healing acted very ghetto and his paralyzed hand was stuck flashing hid gang sign. However, during one of our rehearsals, Daniel, who was laying the part of Jesus, was supposed to say 'What is it, my children?' accidentally said 'What is it, my ugly children?' So I decided that we should present the Special Edition DVD version of the skit with outtakes. Outtake one was the ugly children line. OUttake 2 had Jesus sneezing on the guy's hand and getting snot all over it (this was hilarous because Daniel actually got snot on Kenneth's hand during the real skit). Outtake 3 had Jesus performing the healing, but it didn't work. We won first place for our efforts.

Lowlights from Camp Timberwolf:

Bringing Down the Tents

For the second year in a row, a few kids damaged a brand new tent that had been loaned to us by a church. Our camp was almost cut a day short because of this, but the last day wasn't very much fun for a few of the guys anyways. The staff, including me, were very disapointed at how little common sense and respect for property these teens had.

Messy Situations

Camp is a time for pranks and jokes, but there should be limits to how far these jokes go. (For the record, I think a few of my co-workers are partly responsible for encouraging some of the girls' actions.) Water balloons, shaving cream, other practical jokes are cool. But I don't think girls should be able to raid guys' cabins and vice versa, simply for privacy reasons. Since some of these teens are already lacking in common sense, a few girls used a combination of lotion, shampoo, and paper mache glue and filled up guy's shoes with it. Some of the guys had paid close to 100 bucks for their shoes and were steaming mad, so they steal and hide the girls shoes, which made the girls cry. It wasn't even about the pranks being fun anymore, because people were just getting seriously angry. We had to stop all pranks. That meant I couldn't unleash my plan to tie one of my co-workers to a tree, pelt her with whipped cream balloons, then wash her off with water balloons.

Other Camp Notes

Cal vs. Mosquitos:

Mosquito bites: 3
Mosquitos killed with my bare hands: 7