終わり

今日はさいごのキャンプの日。インタービュウーをやりました。キャンプでなにが一番よかった。。。とかさ。悲しい気持ちでした。

我々の部屋。さいごにみました。全員のスタッフの名が張ってある。ぼくの名はどこでしょ？

悲しい。。。もうみんなに会えない。これでもう楽しく完了しました。これからもよろしく。

Today was the last day of camp for me. In the end, I had to be interviewed by three people. Lemme tell ya it went pretty smooth. Some questions were like, "what was your overall experience here in this program?" and like "what is your expectations as a CIT?".

But thinking about the camp as a whole, it's really a sad feeling. My group's unit leader was literally side-hugging me every minute because she misses me. The picture is my group's room/front door. All the staff's names are posted up. Bet y'all can't find where my name is!

I feel like I have accomplished leadership and the role of an ideal youth CIT. Thank y'all for everything!

悲しい気分だな。

明日でもうキャンプが終わります。早いかんじです。すこいずつ悲しい気分になります。キャンパーたちも悲しそう。

一人のキャンパーがこれを作ってくれた。

ブレスレット。。。すごいだろう？
あと一日だ。キャンプはまだつずいてるけどおれにはもう明日で終わり。
りゅうせいくんも楽しく遊んでるみたいだし。でもオレがぜんぶトランスレートをしてるからか？
昼ごはんはおにぎりをもってきたしな。おれも食べたかった。おれはパスタだった。

Ryusei's translator

Today there was a camper who just came from Japan yesterday. He doesn't speak any English, nor can he read it. So I had to help him out and translate whatever the counselors are trying to tell him. So I was his personal translator!!! His name is Ryusei.

今日は新しいキャンパーが日本からきました。りゅうせいくんです。ぜんぜん英語は話せない。。。読めない。だが、オレはりゅうせいくんのパーソナルトランスレーターになったんだ！！！キャウンセラーたちがりゅうせいくんに言いたいことはおれが日本語にりゅうせいくんにトランスレートをする。だいたいできたよ。りゅうせいくんも”うらやましい”って言うったからな。

オレはいっぱい質問をきいたが、ひとつは”このキャンプで一番やりたいことはなんですか？”
りゅうせいくんの答え：
”なんでも　（笑）”

”好きなスポーツは？
”サッカー”

”なにねんせい？”
”小学四年生”

そんなかんじ。

かみ

ぼくの髪です。前は長い。後ろは右かい。
ポーズ

Hana

Back to regular camp. No more chaos. Thank god.

I went to my group as usual (9-12 year olds), and it was some of the camper's last day today since it's the end of the week. A couple of them were close with me, and it's sad to see them leave. But that's camp and the real counselor's job; let them go and start off again.

The campers who left today were actually my closest. Jeremy from Barbados; Sean, a camper who kinda looks like me; and his younger sister, Hana. Hana was the camper who always stood near me wherever I go.

Her name, to me, feels like it has a significant meaning. This is the one question I forgot to ask her. Because in Japanese, 花　(hana) means flower. In Korean 하나 (hana), I'm guessing it means "one" or "first child". Both those meanings in different languages make sense.

Hana; also shy. Whenever she wants to ask a random question to me, she always asks another camper to do it for her. But there's this one question that she can ask by herself. You see, I told her that my name was "Seany" from the day we met, but she realizes that it's not, so she always asks me throughout the weeks: "what's your real name?". Every time, I always go: "I told you!" haha. She always then gives up and smiles. But sooner or later when she blooms, she'll realize that my name is her brother's :)

CIT Chaos day 3 (and the last)

Frustrating. Our supervisor does EVERYTHING at the last minute. We had the clues, but she had to put them in the right order, find out where we have to stand, yada yada. She does all of that in the last freakin' minute which is why we didn't start until 3 PM when it was suppose to start at 10:30 AM. Now she messed up everything and I, because I'm the CIT leader, had to walk across the entire park to pick the other CIT's up and walk them back to the starting location. This was such a pain.

Furthermore, out of the five groups that were suppose to consult us for the scavenger hunt, only one of them came because the others were too lost that they dropped out of the game. Nobody told me that when the game started!!! This whole thing was just completely unorganized and it was just a complete disaster.

Our supervisor, before the game, was too out of her mind that she said "I give up"...
however, she eventually came up with a solution (kinda)... no, not really. No, not AT ALL. Even the counselors were frustrated. Our facilitation has failed; and it wasn't our faults. Cuz we already had our locations and clues finished. It was just the process and organization that failed. And that was the supervisor's job.

CIT Chaos day 2

She just keeps on destroying it. Our supervisor keeps on sayin' "no!!" on all of our ideas. Thus, it took us the whole entire day to plan it out. We barely even planned it out today. All we basically did was decide on the four locations and write out clues.

Oh lemme tell you what we did after camp. We four went to the park again to VISUALIZE our plan; however, we basically went around in a circle and never really accomplished our objective because one member had to argue about this whole scavenger hunt. We ended at nearly 8 PM without having a clear understanding of where us four will be. Everyone is really out of it. They never listen to my plans. A bunch of hopeless fools.

Now, the scavenger hunt is tomorrow morning. We, in a nutshell, are screwed. Others say they're going to be alright, but technically, NO... we're not going to okay. We don't even have a clue where we are suppose to be tomorrow. We assigned our locations, but the problem is that THEY don't know how to get back! (i do) BUT THEY DON'T. That'll utterly destroy the scavenger hunt program if they don't know how to get back.

One member has a problem. He keeps whining that he wants to go home, he litters, and he talks about girls all day errr day, looking behind whenever there's a voluptuous chick that passes by every SECOND. I mean I don't mind staring/glimpsing at girls, but not EVERY SECOND! It's ridiculous. It's stupid... and just freaking embarrassing. He's being unnecessarily perverse. We're suppose to be representing the YMCA and the way we behaved today at the park was just terrible.

But regardless of the way we behaved, I think the reason why we're all pissed and lost our minds is because this whole scavenger hunt is way too hard and would take so much time to complete and organize successfully. We struggled for the past two days. Two weeks worth of work all crammed up into two days. The supervisor should've at least notified us.... They don't understand how hard this is for us. We're just enhanced teenage campers; not head counselors who need to create a freakin' scavenger hunt in an 843 acre park! Screw this. It's all tomorrow. If we literally screw this up, the entire YMCA will get mad at us and all of us will be ******

CIT Chaos

In the CIT program today, our supervisor told us that we (four of us) are going to organize a scavenger hunt throughout the entire Central Park...


Sounds fun, right? But we have to organize the entire thing, which includes making up activities, essential questions, lesson plans, clues, where we are going to place them throughout the entire park, etc... All for the entire YMCA which is a lot of people. And us four have to create this thing BY TOMORROW. How are only four people going to do all this in less than a day?????

Our supervisor supposedly told us like three weeks ago that we were going to have a scavenger hunt, but she didn't specify WHEN and she just briefly told us about it. I realize that we as CIT's have to remember and be responsible, but at least she could've reminded us about it throughout the week! I mean she just told us about it TODAY and told us that we have to be perfectly ready by tomorrow. First of all, we don't even have anything done. I think it's the right time to say, "we're screwed".

We've come up with mediocre ideas and possibilities, but our supervisor told us "no, no, no", yada yada. She ain't really suppose to help us. No counselors help us.

After camp, the three of us decided to aimlessly walk around the park to search for acceptable places that can be part of the scavenger hunt. We almost walked for nothing. We walked uptown, the downtown. Then we realized that the young campers will not be able to walk this far especially with this intense heat wave flowing around the city. So we eventually gave up, since we had no ideas at the moment and we were tired as crap.Plus, it was already 7 PM the time we decided to end this. So basically we have nothing done in our scavenger hunt.

Boy, tomorrow's going to be intense and harsh.

HMMMM

Today I went shoppin' around. Ate some grub at McDonald's. The new Mac Snack Wrap. It was pretty oishiiiii.

つかれすぎ

つかれ。。。た。今日はずーっと外で遊んだ俺。ヒニヤケタ。やばい。顔と腕と首がぜんぶ赤にちょっとなっちゃったよ！サンブロックをやるべきだった。

あああ

今日はなんとなくすごくつかれてるよ。ぼーっとしてる。だが、今日本からきたミニファンと涼しくぼーっとしてます。

Thank y'all!!!!

Thank you everyone for the kind and touching birthday wishes!
Sweet 16... whew. I can get my driver's education now! hahaha
Lemme tell y'all what coincidentally happened this morning. I first got out of my apartment and I saw my friend with his bike. After that I met my other friend at the Subway station. After that I saw my CIT friend!!! JEEZZZ!! Is it because of my birthday?!?!?!?!


Camp was fun. After, I spent the night with my dad and we had sushi. Then he bought me some japanese merchandise and goods. I be checkin' them girls out yo.




今日はオレの誕生日だ！！！！！！１６さい！！！！！
夜は父と寿司を食べにいってきました。ケンカって言うとこもかなりおいしいみたいです。
みんなのメール。。。どうもありがとうございます！！！！これからもよろしく！
ケーキのビデオです。

New York Philharmonic

今日はみんなで公園にゴロゴロやりながら音楽をききました。お母さんの仲間たちと。
はやいケーキをみんなで食いました。いちご！！！


YMCAがおわったまま行ったからオレはユニフォームのままです。
花火をやる予定だったが、くもってたからキャンセルしちゃったよ。。。
ざんねん。やれやれ


P.S- R.I.P George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard. You will always be remembered.

fifteen

yoooo

I came back with my friends. Enjoying the last day I am 15 years old.

今仲間たちと散歩してます。１５才の最後の日。

韓国？

今日はダウンタウンに行きました。ちょっとコリアンタウンもよって。それとSNSDって言うバンドがいるんだね。韓国に人気がかなりあるから。


そういえば今日は前田の誕生日じゃん。

trip week 2

今日は金曜日だからまたみんなでトリップに行きました。その途中。。。電車で。。。アミインとマルカムが寝ちゃったよ！
まるで同じポーズだね。はは

そのあとタイムズスクエアにちょっとよって。吉野家を夜ご飯。



今日はだれかのお誕生日で。。。おめでとう。元気でいてください。

Lebron?

It already has been decided that Wade and Bosh signed the contract for the Miami Heat. Where will Lebron go? Knicks? Will he join the Heat to make the big three? Find out tomorrow at 9pm!
So excited!

花火

I was lucky enough to catch the fireworks from my house!
Neighbors had some fireworks too
今日は花火を見ました。隣のお家もしました。自分で買った花火みたいだな。とにかくOKだった。
去年は友達の家で花火を見たんだけどごちゃごちゃずーっとしゃべってたからはっきりエンジョイできなかったけど今年はよかった。

先日めっちゃ暑いや。今日は９５Ｆで明日は１０２Ｆ！！！！ありぇん。水をいっぱい飲まなきゃ！今日の夜もまだ８７Ｆです。

Yankees (again) and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!
ABOUT TO ENJOY THE FIREWORKS STARTS AT 9:30!!!

I went to the Yankee game again against the Blue Jays. The Yankees, of course, won 6-7 at the bottom of the 10th, walk off hit by Thames. Philly Cheesesteak for lunch this time. haha.

サウスストリートシーポート

今日はみんなでサウスストリートシーポートに行きました。楽しかったです。みんながストリートにばらばら歩いていたから手をつないだんだよ。恥ずかしっ！

キャウンセラーが写真をとっちゃったじゃねーか！！！
それと、歩いてる途中。。。東京の歩行者の歩くサインがおもしろい。

本当ですか？
それと、
キャンパーたちのなかで一人ジャステンビーバーににてる子がいます。

どう？にてるか？？？１１さいのリアムです。ま、それはそれで
ビデオもとりました。
まずはキャウンセラーたちと歌った。

次はジャステンビーバキャンパーと歩きました。

それで最後はアシスタントキャウンセラーとジャステンビーバキャンパーと個人空間の勉強をして。。。なんとかおかしくなっちゃいました。

電車めっちゃ

Today the CIT decided to tag along with the Teen Career Connection group, which is basically a group where teenagers experience how the college life is like. To do so, we visited a few colleges. Yesterday we visited Mercy College and today, Hofstra College.
It's completely different from high school. Everything. No more high school cliques, no more of that mutual, extremely-close bonds... you're all on your own! But the good thing is, it's a whole lot bigger. Which means more sports, major studies, and more!!!

Getting there was a pain. Take the subway, transfer to the Long Island train, transfer to another long island train, and get on a shuttle to the college. All together about 2 hours. When I got there, I was already tired. haha

今日は大学校に訪問しました。ホフストラ大学校。すっごいでかいです。高校学校と全く違うです。行くのは大変だっとよ。着く前につかれましたや。電車を乗って、また電車を乗って、それでトランスファーしてまた電車を乗りました。全部で。。。２hoursぐらい。。。かな。それで帰る時間はまた電車をのって。電車ばかりです。やれやれ