Saturday was a fast-paced day with a dozen games with Camp Pemi.  Even though not every camper participated in the contests, the Leisure Tsar pulled a prank on those who signed up for croquet and other non-energy consuming events.  It ended up being more like the Leisure Olympics and I witnessed boys gleefully doing push-ups between strokes of the mallet, etc.  Only at Kingswood.

Yesterday, then, we had every reason to call for an easy day.  Sunday morning — as you read about in an email post — is time to clean, reorganize and ponder such consequential issues as beating the homesick bug and developing good strategies for making and keeping new friends.  I am always amazed — thrilled, really — that kids of all ages can be most articulate in expressing thoughts on these topics.  Said one seven year old, “On the first day, I stayed in my cabin and cried, but after that I just stayed outside and did lots of activities and it was much better.”

There were a few action games during the A-Block period (3-4:30) period in the afternoon.  But, I was attracted to the Euro soccer final contest between Spain and Italy during B-Block.  All seven of our Spanish boys, along with maybe 30 more US boys, were rooting hard for Spain to win and I found the gathering to be most social and amicable.  Television does have a place at camp, so long as its use is kept in the proper perspective.

The boys had plenty of recharged energy by evening time.  The Guides put on a very funny skit at dinner to promote our favorite capture-the-flag model, which we call Stealth.  The rules are complicated, but no one needs to run pell-mell through the woods in this game, but rather gets points for sneaking up on the flag, supposedly well concealed somewhere in the deep woods.  I don’t remember the end of Stealth, as I most likely fell fast asleep before it ended.  Hey, as camp director, I need my “A” game early each morning!