A for the Day

The Sunday campfire and songs

Day one of session two was a success for the Seneca Sheepdogs. From the looks of it, we will be getting much more sleep than last week. Unfortunately, it seems like the girl cabins have it much harder this time.

It is Harry Potter week and the Seneca was sorted into Hufflepuff along with the girl cabin Huron.

Our cabin has 7 campers once again. We have three campers with manual chairs including Josh, whom I have had in my cabin twice already. He has CP and is nonverbal but can  raise his eyes for "yes" and puts them sideways for "no." My favorite thing about Josh is his sense of humor. He loves to laugh, usually at other's small misfortunes. Today he laughed when I realized that the bed he was in did not have bed rails. I can not wait to see what else he finds funny throughout the week.

We also have Jim, Bill, Scott, Steve, and Ed in our cabin. I recognized most of them from past summers and I look forward to getting to know them. Ed is a little difficult to understand, but we got through it today. He also has a great sense of humor. After we got him into bed, he told us we get an A+ for the day, so we were clearly doing something right with him even though it took awhile to figure out what he wanted.

I found another camper who knows sign language, Jim, and he is going to teach me a word every day. Today he taught me the the sign "mom" and "dog," an essential word to know because we are the Seneca Sheepdogs after all.