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Another Week Closes at Camp Magic MacGuffin: Bunkhouses, New Campers, and Sunsets

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| June 4, 2012

Hello Beloved Family,

I’m writing at the close of the second week of Camp Magic MacGuffin. It’s been a whirlwind of a week—I’m not even really sure where to start…

The week started out strong. We divided our campers into bunkhouses and assigned counselors. Some of the bunks started to quickly get organized. Others were a little slow on the uptake. Perhaps they’ve never been to camp before and are a little shy? Hopefully, we can come up with some good ice-breaking activities to make them more comfortable.

Bunkhouse 4, in particular, got off to a strong start this week. Ol’ Hatchet Jack and Zazzy are obviously taking their counseling responsibilities seriously. Perhaps a bit too seriously: 

I certainly want to encourage healthy competition at Camp MM, but, obviously, given my own past history, I’m a bit anxious when counselors begin to threaten each other with violence. I know too well that something wicked lies…well, thataway.

Zazzy seems to have some issues of her own, what with encouraging unsuspecting campers to partake of the food she is hoarding in her trunk. Hasn’t she ever heard of rats?!

One of the other bunkhouses, the DigiSqueegies, are already experiencing some internal strife. You won’t be surprised when I tell you which camper has been the one causing trouble!

In other news, my co-director, Alan, returned from his trip to headquarters with a very strange, suspicious package in tow. He had directions to deliver it to Marco in building #4. That is, by far, the scariest building in the campgrounds. I can’t even find a door!!

We did get to spend sometime getting campers oriented to the campgrounds and they started to make some art, damnit!! I followed along as best I could (what with all of the crazy administrative tasks involved in running a virtual/real summer camp/online course in digital storytelling/art making). I think I’m most proud of my “I <3 DS106” video.

Although, color me befuddled when, after uploading the video, I couldn’t find it anywhere in my YouTube account the next day!! I don’t want to suggest that something evil is afoot, but I’m wondering if some questionable camper hacked my account and tried to silence me. There is this one, unsavory camper who showed up out of nowhere this week. I don’t want to judge him before I get to know him, but check out his first tweet! :

I’ve been searching everywhere for the crate he mentioned it, hoping it might provide a clue to his origin, but I haven’t found it …yet…

Oh! I forgot to mention the awesome campfire session we had on Wednesday. The one-and-only Dr. Nemo joined us for a great conversation about the origins and underpinnings of Digital Storytelling. It was great to have so many people pop in and out for the conversation. The only thing missing was s’mores and a rousing round of Kumbaya! I did snap a picture as we all gathered around the fire.

There’s so much more I could tell you about, but I think I should probably turn in. The doctor told me when I asked for advice about teaching this summer that the very best thing I could do this summer to avoid a repeat of last summer is to get my beauty sleep! I’ll leave you with one last photo of the campgrounds that I caught as the sun was setting a few days ago.

Hope things are well back home!

Love,

Martha

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