daycamp!

last night, i spent the night at eric's house. he organized papers all evening, and i watched a weird movie on television. it was quite the evening. i LOVE that boy. a lot. this morning, we got all spruced up in our uniforms (aww!lol), and headed off to work. daycamp was...uh, daycamp. it felt just like last year. except that preschool had very few kids, i'm the only returning counselor there, and most of my favourite kids moved up to big daycamp.=( anyway, it wasn't that bad. i like working at the park; seriously, who can beat $5.30/hr for playing on a playground and swimming all afternoon. yay for daycamp! i actually got a fair amount of sun at the pool too, even though it was cloudy on and off all afternoon.
so, i already had my first gross moment of the summer...c'mon, it was only the first day, alec! anyway, there was this little boy named alec who had a 1/2 a pb&j sandwhich, some cheese balls, a few teddy grahams, and a capri sun for lunch. that's a reasonable preschool lunch. he was so excited to go swimming that he didn't want to eat, but i made him eat the sandwhich, some cheese balls, and his drink. (yea, go me.) then, we went to the pool. all was well. after about 30 minutes, alec choked on water. he was leaning out of the pool about 4 inches from where i was sitting on the side.
me: "alec, are you alright?"
alec: "yes" *cough, cough, cough*
me: "...are you sure?"
alec: *starts vomiting all over the sidewalk*
me: *yanks the boy out of the pool, and carries him to the grass (still puking)*
it was very gross. and, remember, alec ate cheese balls for lunch...in other words, he threw up orange. very orange. when he was done, he told me that he was fine and immediately jumped back into the water. i fished him out again, and made him sit for a few minutes. i finally let him back in the pool because he really was okay. i think he was just swallowing a lot of the pool water. there was no point in calling his mom, bc she was coming in like 20 minutes anyway. i kept an eye on him the rest of the time, and he was fine. other than that lovely incident, we had no more grossness today. (...still no blood yet, woohoo!)