Working at the B&G club is fun but also horrible. I enjoy becoming friends with the kids, I even enjoy catching kids breaking rules and disciplining them. There is something about making someone pay for wrong or stupid behavior. I wish I could do that with all people who have no morals or are just stupid, because I know plenty.

Every wednesday I get to accompany 13 kids to a high school swimming pool. I get to go swimming, and diving off the diving boards. I teach an art class every monday and friday, but it might be every day now…I’m not sure. Every day I catch kids using bad language, eating in places where they aren’t supposed to, fighting, arguing, cheating, making messes, and it is my job to discipline them for it. Usually i just use the “bench” i make them sit down and not talk for 5 or 10 minutes..that usually works. if the kids have attitude or are repeat offenders… I bring them to the managers office, she deals with them. I help hurt kids, scraped knees, once a kid who got hit in the chest with a baseball, and today a bloody nose. but all these things are not what make the job bad, it is all the activities that I have to organize, kickball, warball, scooter-soccer, hockey-soccer, ultimate frisbee, and whatever else I can think of, let alone planning and doing art projects every week at home (for an example to show them) and at the club. I am making a paper mache mask upstairs right now for an example. Today I changed my schedule so i dont have to do 2 hour-long gyms in a row

my day at work consists of:
Gameroom-1hr: walking around disciplining kids and playing pool/foosball/guesswho/or connect four
gym-1hr: organize a game
outside activity-1hr: soccer, kickball, ultimate frisbee
art-1hr: working on a project I make up
game room-2hrs: same as before
outside activity-1hr: same as before

Sometimes, I just dont play a game outside… just I walk around making sure kids aren’t breaking rules. Waking up at 8:30 every morning is not cool for summers, oh well it is work and it is cash..I’m happy

I bought a backpack 2 days ago, a real good one, the old one I had was given to me by an aunt, it wasn’t very good, this one is a Gregory Shasta..good stuff, I’m excited.

I get payed to go to a “sea life center” in Seward next tuesday, we leave at 7:30 in the morning and then get back at 6:30…the sucky thing is that they are taking time off of my normal schedule in the week to make up for the extra hours I will be getting. but hey, who am I to complain, I get to go see sea animals, learn stuff, travel, and play with stuff all on work time and while getting paid. I hope the van of kids aren’t annoying.

I have been looking at tents and stoves online on ebay and other places on the internet…it is hard to decide…

i’m gonna go finish painting my mask now…bye