countdown to summer: 3 days!

job jar

(sorry for not blogging for almost a week. Rebekah was sick then I was sick then I had a bazillion end-of-school-year meetings and parties. I was exhausted over the weekend. The next three days I will be at work, not teaching, but cleaning and organizing my office. All the students must clean their desks and classrooms, hand in books and clean the school grounds.)

As part of the Camp Coyan "experience" campers are required to use their own money when buying snacks at the pool. The Counselor is getting highly aggravated to have to whip out her already depleted wallet to buy the campers more popsicles. So a new mandate has been decreed, "Earn your own money for the pool snack shack!". The Counselor will gladly pay 45 crowns for the mystery meat hotdogs in a bread sleeve thing as a part of the somewhat nutritionally suspect food program at Camp Coyan, but she is no longer willing to fork out 39 crowns for the super deluxe all new-improved caramel-like coated calorie infested Magnum GOLD bar.

The Counselors had a meeting and came up with an intoxicating scheme for camp participant money earning. After deliberating for what seemed like hours the scheme was christened "Job Jar". Catchy, huh? Job Jar works like this: a simple glass jar is filled with slips of paper on which a job and an amount of money is written. When the campers are low on "Snack Shack Funds" they may pull a job from the job jar, accomplish it and receive their compensation. For instance, cleaning out the refrigerator would be worth 15 crowns and watering the vegetable garden 10 crowns. Both of these jobs together would buy a decent popsicle at the pool. The Counselors reserve the right to veto a job that has been recently performed or done too many times.  


(Stay tuned for a summertime blog overhaul)