Last week was my first week of camp at OSV. It was certainly different from what I'm used to but it was good to be working with kids again. For this first week we only had two camps running, so there were only 14 kids, also, I was assigned to be a floater helping out both camps. That pretty much meant that since OSV isn't really set up as a camp it was my job to make sure supplies arrived where they needed to be for programs and were put away afterward. One day I was waiting for a group to exchange items in the general store and one of the girls asked me, "Why do you keep following us around?" I said I was making all the magic happen for camp. And then that's what I did. As soon as the kids left, I collected their trade items from the interpreter to return to the museum ed building: functioning general store open for trade one minute; historic building just for show the next! It was pretty cute/funny.
I know all the work I did as a floater was really appreciated and necessary but I'm really looking forward to getting to work with a group of campers next time. The best parts of my week were times when I got to interact with the kids, either playing with them at lunch, or just sitting to talk during snack/project time at the end of the day when my work was finished.
