A Daily Poem

So I felt to express my inner feelings towards the day with a little poem.
It's all improv so hear goes nothing.

At nine in the morn the day began
The doorbell rang and there Mike stood,
We are in a hurry that was understood.
We were about to become part of the villages clan.

We all ran to hop into his Jeep
Unfortunately there's no good seats in the back,
Debs needed Shotgun, her coccyx (tailbone) is out of whack.
On the drive there no one made a peep.

Up to Ten Thousand we had finally arrived
"Cheers to ya mates" Stan said with a grin,
We took a look around and said where to begin.
It seemed that we had not been deprived.

The rugs all across the floor the were laid
We folded them up into the small boxes,
We worked so hard: School of hard Knox's.
There was only one way for us to be paid.

That way was you unique if you may ask,
The chocolates that were given were way past their date.
The date that is said was smudged and unclear.
Oh March 9 2008 it says over here.

We made our way home, office staff are disgruntled,
their anger towards us it was funneled.
We missed weekly cleaning that is what happened,
I understand we clean with much passion.

Eventually we made our way to camp,
The weather outside was anything but damp.
Although the weather was lovely we did not have a clue,
Just the type of day we were about to pursue.

The children arrived in a mad jimble jamble,
everything just looking like an organized mad scramble.
Skipping, Piano and running around,
basically we just all act like clowns.

Standing in line for the skipping rope,
Budging's a problem causing kids to mope.
Today was the same just like any other,
Kids kept budging one after another.

One boy decided to take matters into his own hands,
and the other boys throat he reached out and grabbed.
"Stop that right now!" I yelled from afar
So loud he thought it came from a star.

To the TimeOut chair I sent him to sit,
"Think about what you have done for a bit."
Soon he returned, Apology was accepted,
This was very good and so unexpected.

The day would continue to an uneventful closing,
Supper was calling the table proposing.
Sweet n' Sour Chicken on the table it laid,
A pineapple enclosed to the chickens aid.

Off for the evening which would be a thrill,
AquaFit my calling, a nice workout drill.
We whooped and screamed to show our emotion,
We ended up causing quite the commotion.

It was time for the day to come to close,
time to go bed everyone knows.
And luckily Kristin is home from Honduras,
Just in time for the houses unsettling aromas.

That is my poem, kinda lame but hopefully it intrigued some of you to read this.

Weather

So I don't know lots about weather patterns, or what causes it all. But listen to this, some of you who read this probably already lived through this, but I am telling you anyways.

Anyways last week flowers start blooming up all over the place. Pretty cool for March.
Thursday it snows. And stays on the ground. Weird. It all melts by the afternoon.
Friday.. rains most of the day kinda... but still is kinda sunny.. it was weird.
Saturday... really nice weather... let's go play volleybal... HAIL! Really!?
Sunday. really Sunny all day beautiful weather. Ryan goes for a nice walk. Starts pouring Rain.

I just don't get it.
I think predicting the weather would be a cool job, you can always be wrong, and.. no big deal it's expected.
Also weather is cool because everyone can talk about it, we all experience it, and at any given time we all love it or hate it. I think weather brings all people together.

Limbo

Today at camp we had some time to kill so we decided to do the limbo, and I just want everyone to know that I actually owned it. The kids may be two feet shorter then me, but my balance is like that of a... animal with really good balance. So I actually did really good.

Also today I had to get some kids to write about why they like interns, so I asked Griffin to do so, I told him yesterday and today we came up to me after school and told me he had it all figured out.
He writes:
I like Ryan because he plays hockey with me.

Ryan: Is there anything else you can add to that?
Griffin: Ya, but that is just the best part.

Thanks Griffin. That is my favorite part too.

Quotes

So here are some of the quotes from the day today.
We had a group of volunteers helping out, and the kids are allowed to ask each person a couple questions. Here they are.

1. Do you have a boyfriend? (4 times)
2. Do you have a girlfriend? (2 times)
3. Do you like swimming?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Do you have a room mate?

And the last two are the best

6. Are you a superhero? Because you look like Spiderman.
7. Do you have a crush on any of the boys in your group?

Number seven definitely made that girl go beat red.
Wow kids are great.

J-Pod

So here is a short section from the book J-Pod that I have been reading lately.

Why buying lottery tickets is simply wrong:

1. Would you ever go into a lottery booth and buy a 6/49 ticket with the following numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and a bonus of 7? Of course you wouldn't. But that number has just as ludicrously small a chance of winning as do some idiotic numbers you pulled out of the air.

Interesting...

Really good book, I would recommend it to people, as long as you don't care about the bad language on occasion it's a really good laugh, and very well written.

Monopoly

Park Place
Boardwalk

I thought I had it in the bag.
But after 4 Hours and 15 Minutes.
I fell to the bottom.
Bankruptcy was the only answer.

Hairy Man

So this is the conversation I had with Jacky a little boy in grade one. He isn't in my camp usually but for Spring Break Camp, all camps are together, and I decided I am going to take him to my camp.
Let me set the scene.

We are sitting watching a movie, Jacky wants to sit on my lap, and he grabs my hand to hold my hand, and at this point I had rolled my my sleeves a little bit.
He grabs my arm

Jacky: You hairy man.
Ryan: That's what happens when you get old.

Then he proceeds to pull the hair on my arms.
I roll my sleeves back down.
He rolls them up continuing to pull my arm hair.

Ryan: Jacky stop pulling my arm hair please. (While I let out a little laugh)
Jacky: Fine. Just shave for tomorrow.

Spring Break Camp

First day of Spring Break Camp was off the hizzle. Went really smoothly surprisingly for a first day. Can't wait for the rest of the week, the kids were so fun, all of them. For real. No major problems, injuries or incidents to report of.
What a great team to work with.

Team Cheer that I just made up
Rickerracker Firecrack ZIM BOOM BAH
Spring Break Camp!
RAH RAH RAH!

Horton Hears A Who

I meant what I said
And I said what I meant
An Elephants Faithful
One Hundred Percent.

-Horton

Surprise

Day starts off as normal, I get to Camp and through the doors comes Mike, with big balloons and a birthday cake.
I thought that was all.
I get home there on the table is Pizza a note is attached...
-Happy Birthday! Mom

Alright that must be all.. Nope.

There comes a card, not addressed, and no postage. Thanks sister. Thats confusing.

Although no one forgot my birthday so I could live my day just like The Office

It was still a pretty good day.

Birthday

Well it is now time for my birthday to arrive. Entering into the 19'th year of my life...
The 18'th Year ended with a bang, Laser Tag and Pizza at Uncle Fatih's. (Which is causing me to
turn into Uncle Fatty)
Not a bad way to end the year. Let's see what new things arise.

Oh Snap

So today we did an art project at Camp, and Jordan comes over to show hers to me, I look at it, she wrote her name and two of her other friends names on the paper really big. Then I realize that she forgot the D in her name.

"I think you missed a letter"

"I don't think so"

"Isn't there a D in your name?"

"Oh Snap!"

Shred the Knar

Ya just did that, for all those who don't know, it's a snowboarding term... well it might not be, I'm actually not really sure what it means. But that's what I mean when I use the term.
Pretty much owned it. Made it all the way down, switched to goofy foot then back again.
Awwww ya boyeee.

Props

So I am making an international symbol for props, you know like when you give props to someone.
So this is what you will do when you give props to someone.

1. Lift your hands up so they are right next to your ears.
2. Swing forward in direction of prop receiver while snapping your fingers.
- if you can not snap your fingers, make a click sound in your mouth
- also it is a normal snap not the snapping chewing tobacco thing, just normal snapping your fingers
3. After the snap you will point your fingers like a little pop gun towards the person receiving
4. You will tell them that Ryan Malech thought of this whole idea
5. After you will all give props to my idea, by going through steps 1-3 but point in the air to symbolize thinking of me.

While giving props nothing needs to be said as everyone should understand what is going on. To get this spread feel free to explain the procedure to everyone countdown and give props all together, eventually everyone will understand and this will not be necessary.

Please be open to this new idea. Although may seem ridiculous this gesture will catch on for that exact reason.

Crap

So the other day I was hanging out at the school I volunteer at, and some of the kids were reading. And the word the boy came across was skyscraper. And the kid looks at me and says

What is a sky crapper?

Irresistable Revolution

"Listen, Jesus never talked to a prostitute because he didn't see a prostitute.
He just saw a child of God he was madly in love with."

Untitled

So the other day I went to a commissioning service for two good friends of mine that were going to Japan with the TREK program, and it was really good. Like a church service I suppose, really good worship including someone who was amazing at the Drums, like bongos, but not called that I think Djembe but I am not sure how to spell that.

Anyways later on we prayed for the groups that were heading out, makes sense, I am down for praying for people that are going out to Spread the good news. So everyone is taking a turn praying then one guy prays for the people of Japan that their hearts would be touched by the girls heading out. That is all cool, but then he goes on to say things like the whole nation is lost, and it is such a dark place, and other things along the same line. Things like that really confuse me, now I don't know a lot about Japan, or Christianity in Japan. But it really confuses me when people pray about a full nation, or a whole city of lost people. I just don't get it, I am sure there are some people that are very much in the dark, but the whole country? Really?

Maybe I am way off on that and people completely disagree, but I just don't understand people praying for the completely in the dark cities, or completely lost nations, I am pretty sure that there must be some people that don't fit in that category. Again I could be way off. It just sounds a little bit weird to me sometimes.