spring staff: the team!

We're finishing up spring staff training as I write this and I think it's been a pretty good week! Okay, so a couple of brains nearly exploded with all the information we try to cram into them, but in the end, everyone survived. Everyone is ready to roll with outdoor education. We're super excited to use our hosting skills. We're anxious to start arching. Our newly trained and certified Challenge Course facilitators are looking forward to challenge-by-choice adventures on the Balance Beam, Leap of Faith and zipline. We're all experts in the dishpit. We can mop with the best of them. Yes, it's been a good week!

They don't all look it in the picture above, but everyone is loving Courtney's explanation of the Program Team (aka, Courtney, Becca, Becca and Evan). Reilly looks worried, actually. Hmm. That's probably because I'm taking pictures. But you can see the smiles on Sarah (blue sweater) and Stephanie's (tan sweatshirt, on the far right) faces, right?

When I wrote the "spring staff are about to arrive" post a week and a bit ago, we were still a little short - especially in the kitchen. But then, miracle of miracles, we got last-post-second applications from Joel and Evan. Such a blessing! We were able to process their applications, references and record checks over the weekend and during training. That's Joel with the dashing hairnet. For May and June, he and Luke will be working in the kitchen with Ken. Does that make this Camp Evergreen's first all-male kitchen team? Evan's going to be joining Courtney and the Beccas on the Program Team.

Abby, Becca, Becca, Chelsea, Cody, Colter, Emily, Erin, Evan, Jasper, Joel, Julia, Kathrin, Luke, Reilly, Sarah, Stephanie and Taylor are ready to go: we're super excited for our Guest Groups to start pulling in!