Prep.

Hard to believe I've already been in Key West for 4 weeks now. Time sure does fly. Although we've been here 4 weeks and have been full time with the children for 3 weeks, we're just getting started on Monday. For the past few weeks the counselors working with the school-age program have been spending their mornings at the child development center (CDC) and their afternoons with the after-school program. Starting Monday the full day summer camp will start. We've got the programming done and field trips ready, but it's going to be one rocky week. The CDC is up for their accreditation visit any day now, and the youth center is way understaffed. Technically there's only 4 people (including my staff) assigned to the 60 school-age summer camp kids. That's fine for ratios, until someone needs a break during their 8 hour shift. It looks like I'm going to be spending a lot more time in the classrooms than I did last year, but thankfully they have 1 additional MWR staff hired that will start later this week.So far things have been going well, here in Key West and at the 3 additional sites I'm supervising. As I said in the last post, it's a lot of work & keeping me on my toes, but time sure is flying, just 9 more weeks!

This past weekend (Memorial Day) we took a group trip up to Bahia Honda state park, it's about 40 minutes north of here on Big Pine Key. It was a nice relaxing trip, and also got a little work done as I did a risk management check of the site as the day camp will be heading there in July.

This weekend I didn't do much. Friday night I went out with a few of the girls at work, we went to this amazing sushi restaurant called Ambrosia. It was a little pricey, but soo good. I'll eat sushi every now & then, but I'm not too brave when it comes to trying new types. This group, though, were regulars at this restaurant. So I decided to have blind faith in their ordering, and ate what their favorites were. None of the sushi I tried on Friday were any I'd had before, but I loved them all. Now if I only knew what we ordered! Here's a picture of one of the platters (there were 7 of us), so good!!

I felt a little under the weather on Saturday so I stayed in and caught up on my sleep, Sunday was spent going to Church in the morning and wandering around the island. I'm definitely keeping my weekends low key, but it's necessary as the work days are long and the weeks even longer. I'm continuing the job search for August, as I find the time/energy but there doesn't seem to be much out there right now. Hopefully within the next month more jobs will be posted with August starting dates. Only time will tell :)

I'm going to end this post with another Dr Seuss quote. This is one that I cut out to decorate the 2nd classroom at the youth center (the picture is kind of hard to see, but it's below) I think it's a fun one & great for the kids!

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you!" -Dr. Seuss