I had, in my day group, a funny kid named Mike. He sang this song called Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, and when Margaret asked us for song suggestions around the campfire he started singing it. At arts and crafts he told us that he had once made an origami frog and that it had gotten lost in his hair and even though he washed it many times since then he hadn't found it. The thing was, he had a crew cut.
At first the girls in our day group hated the boys in our day group and vice-versa. We couldn't even decide on a group name until a kid named Cord suggested 'What's it to ya?' so when Dean Peter asked what our name was the kids could real cocky like say, "What's it to ya?"
Cord was another funny kid. He jumped out his cabin window once, but the screen was still on it and it ripped. He also climbed walls, literally. He dug his fingers into the supports outside the new Grace Hall and climbed.
The most important thing at elementary camps is to win the clean cabin award. It helps a lot to suck up by leaving candy and little notes. Well, my day group co-counselor Ken had a great idea. He wrote an anti-bribe note and attached a blank check to the back. Anti-bribe, hua? Then later in the week one cabin gave Nurse Lori a note that said "We always pray for you." When she read it aloud at lunch time a kid from the group yelled out, "No we don't!"
There was a kid in my day group who thought he was Tiger Woods. He made us call him that and wrote 'Tiger Woods' on his nametag. I thought at first that it was just a little bit of hero worship, but at dinner one day he said (out of the blue), "The other day I was at the green and I wasn't doing too well. Then I ate my Wheaties and got a hole in one."
