camp x2!

so camp continues to go well. it's raining. a lot. like way too much. it feels like it never stops raining. ever. it's cold and wet and i keep asking myself... where is summer? when will it come. we've had approximately 6 days of sun since campers have gotten here. that's almost 5 weeks people. craziness, obnoxiousness.

i just bought rainboots though. and they're coming in by mail so hopefully.... hopefully... by the time they get here the rain will have stopped. fingers crossed.

other than that, jewelry is going great i love teaching it (most days) and i love doing it and getting to hang out all day and doing crafts is just like christmas. this is honestly the best job i have ever had in my whole life. i love it. yesterday i got paid to go bowling. eat ice cream and play board games. you can't beat that, you just can't.

other than that. not much is new. i feel like i might be getting sick with blows. but i'm pretending it's not happening bc i don't want to be sick. so i will not be sick.

i miss everyone from home and school and etc. and the only thing that does suck about camp is that it's really hard for me to find/make time to call people. it's a little annoying because i want to. but it just keeps getting pushed aside. and it's not good.

anyways. im going to go back out and experience this lovely rainy cold maine day. hope everyone is doing well.

camp #1

hey all. im trying to update more. camp is going well. it's been a week since the campers have gotten here, and it's been going really well. it rained for a while and was pretty miserably cold which had the campers pretty down and made doing anything much besides putting on 8 layers and curling up under all of my/our blankets.
teaching jewelry has gone well. it's intimidating but i've actually been really enjoying teaching. it's frustrating sometimes because there's a point that no matter how many times or ways i explain something they still don't get it. but at the same time, when they do get it and are interested it's 10x's better and totally worth it.
i also got an awesome new north face vest for 50 bucks yesterday at the north face outlet im pumped i guess it retails at around 82-120. woot woot! there's also a really sick store around here called mexacali blues that has the coolest clothes in the world. it's all awesome hippy clothes and sick awesome nastiness. in love. i will probably spend almost all of my money there. that and being really close to ll bean and all the cool outlets and two awesome bead shops. let's see how much money i keep from my paycheck. hahaha.
i have a job in september. woot woot. call/email me if you want to know what it is. but it's nice to know i have employment when the summer's over. especially in this economy (etc etc blah blah blah) so hoorah.
so other than that, not much is new. food here is great. the kids are great. my campers in my cabin are great. things are all around pretty freakin awesome. we're watching pirates of the carribean in the staff lounge right now, it feels like i ahve so much time off. it's great, a total change from theatre work. woot woot. alright off i go. call me/write me/email me.

camp address

hey all!
so hopefully I won't be so lax as I was on tour. We'll see. I'm at Camp Kingsley Pines this summer as a camp counselor and jewelry making instructor, should be wicked fun. Maine is beautiful, and it's fun being at camp, even though it's just staff training this week. the summer looks promising.
send me letters and packages!
my address is:
my name (michelle obvi)
51 Coughlan Cove Road
Raymond Me 04071

I don't know how many pictures I'll be posting and as with before any opinions expressed on this blog are explicitly my own and not in any way that of Kingsley Pines.
bell goes. off i go

back in new england

wow i suck at updating this i'm sorry.

so things have been up and down. we've been all over the place and it's been awesome i'm finaly in new england again. i've missed it. it's ncie to be back.

i got to go up to burlington for a little over 48 hours. it was awesome i got to see both hello dolly at the flynn and professor wellwrights library at smc. it was awesome. being back in vt made me really happy.

i'm in ithaca ny now. got to drive past my exit on rte 90. it was aweome, but also sad bc i didn't get to stop.

anyways i was planning on writing more. but i lost my motivation.

2nd hawaii post

hey all. so i figured i'd post my second post about hawaii, even though i'm already back on the mainland.

so yes. load in took forever, i helped hang the lights and the strand lbx board is officially the worst board ever created and I hope to never see it again. I know that doesn't mean a lot to you all, but it does to me and I had to put it out there.

After load in we went to an amazing place and I had some of the best sea food ever. It was a nice end to a relaxing day.

The shows went well and after the shows on monday I rented a paddle board for 2 hours. A paddle board is a surf board that you stand on and suprise suprise have a paddle and row yourself around. a lot harder than it looks. i fell off alot, alot alot. i was too scared at first to try and catch waves, but after the 1st hour i was feeling better about it and stayed in for another hour. in my second hour i caught 2 waves, it was AWESOME and so worth every minute of falling off. some day I will paddle board again, and actually catch waves. yay.

problem with paddle boarding was that the next day my uppper legs were in so much pain ! omg, my muscles were KILLING me. it was a little ridiculous. like sore to the touch, could barely bend over or sit down and stand up. took 2 whole days to go away even with stretching for at least an hour every day. craziness.

after that we went to maui. maui was pretty cool, but i didn't get to do much, went to a movie with one of the actors (fired up, hilarious) as well as on the last day checked out this town calle paia, where i will officially move someday. I will move to paia, get a little dog, a surfboard/paddle board, a motorcycle and sleep either in a hammoch or a mattress on the floor or a tent somewhere. so if anyone wants to join, let me know. oh i also would love to open a coffeehouse/bakery/bead shop while i'm there if i can't work in theatre. sounds like a plan right?

so at the end of the day Hawaii=awesome. i loved the warm weather, the ocean everywhere, the breeze, the laid back attitude of island living. i'd love it there. so that's it. now i'm in west virginia, huntington. staying at a best western for a few days shaking off this jet lag, well i think. so that's it. i'll update again when anything exciting happens.

aloha!

so i am currently in hawaii, in the city of honolulu on waikiki beach!

it's beautiful here. the flight here was long. we left charleston wv at 4:15 am plane flew out at 6:15 and we left for hawaii from houston. it was an 8 hour flight, and i tried to sleep most of the way because of the 5 hour time difference. im suprised at how well my body has adjusted, we'll see for real tomorrow though. hahahah.

hawaii really is a paradise. even though it's "chilly" by island standards right now (high of 79 today) it's still beautiful out. with a nice warm breeze that is around almost constantly. we're stayin right near wikiki beach so i can just walk to the beach.

i am in heaven! if you don't already know i collect pineapples, and hawaii is the land of pineapples. i've had to show some serious restraint. but i do have a long term plan to have a kitchen more or less focused on pineapples, pineapples and ceramics. might be an awkward mix. i finally manged to buy pineapple shaped salt and pepper shakers, amazing kitsch pineapple coaster set, a pineapple bowl, pineapple post its, pineapple reusable wine cork, pineapple post card, and a pineapple keychain. i founda pitcher that i will definitely be buying when i get my 1st apt. actually i plan on coming ot hawaii to furnish my 1st apts kitchen. gives me an excuse to come back.

i'm already spending way too much money here. (first see above with my pineapple obsessions)
but really today i splurged hardcore and gave myself a spa treatment, i got a detox and metabolism boosting wrap, which was incredibly pleasant, something new i had never done, and i also got myself a hand massage. it was WONDERFUL. but expensive. but worth it. if i had more money i woudl go back and get a massage too. but i can't afford it lol.

after that i walked along the beach and bummed around. i was outside for like an hour and got wicked sunburn i couldn't even believe it earlier tonight when i looked down and realized i was all kinds of red. it's weird to have a sun burn in february, but i'm not complaining at all! hahaha.

after that i shopped most of the day but only after going out for AMAZNING sushi to this restaurant we went to last night. i think i've decided that sushi is one of my favorite foods. though really, the best sushi i've had was with kyla in burlington vt, not what you'd expect right. when i get back to btown i want to try bizen again.

tomorrow i'm going to rent a surfboard with a paddle to give surfing a go without having to go from laying down to standing, though i think i could do it. we'll see. i'm excited. the ocean here is beautiful and clear and turquoise. i love it. the waves crash pretty far out too so i can be out of ppls way. if it's wicked crowded tomorrow i don' t know what i'm going to do. b/c i don't know how fun it'll be if things are paaaaaackkeeeeed. but tomorrow i will def put my new sunscreen on.

anyways. that's about it now. i'll update more as we go on. hopefully some pics soon.

i keep forgetting to do this

hey all. so now i'm in texas. since i've last left you i've been to vegas where i got to see some family, which was cool. i also saw 2 cirque du soleil shows. O and Ka. i splurged on myself and spent waaaay to much money but got myself 3rd and 5th row seats in the center section. totally worth it. O was my favorite. it has a giant pool in it. i spent as much time watching the mechanics of the show as i did the acrobatics. it was so much fun for me. Ka was mechanically astounding. but i still liked O better. Vegas was fun. i made a little bit of money on slot machines, but not much to be too excited about. After Vegas we went to washington state. which was cool. Washington reminded me home a little, with the mountains and the trees. though it was much much warmer. We were outside of seattle but I didn't get a chance to go into the city b/c i spent all my money in bellevue WA on a new portable gaming system and delicious delicious tea from this place called teavana. I'm going to buy myself more from them online soon. I have never had such good tea in my life.
After washington it was off to california. I 5 was closed bc of blizzard like conditions, which in one way was cool because we got to drive through the redwood forest and see the pacific but it made our day so much longer and we ended up off our normal course. Still pretty cool though. After california we repeated our drive through new mexico arizona and texas. Texas was, once again, booooooooriiiiinggggg. I swear I 10 is one of the most boring roads ever made. It's like someone went. I have an idea, let's put a road in texas that goes through nothing, has nothing on it and gets you almost nowhere. yeah that sounds like a plan. oh man. we go to hawaii soon. which is going to be rough.
things continue well. i'm loving being on the road still.
here's some pictures i took out of order b/c im too lazy to fix it.


from the amazing restaurant we went to in boise idaho. amazing salad, amazing pizza and amazing beer. what more could you ask for?



a picture i took in bellevue washington


got to watch a master glass blower work in tacoma washington. it was so cool.

on the road in washington

falcon ridge!!!!

bellagio fountains in vegas


hahahah

obviously i went to paris.


the hoover dam!