At this very moment, the sun is shining. First time since the kids arrived for session 1, which is now 3 1/2 days old. Tons of clouds and hard rain on and off. Amazing there aren't more homesick kids at the moment. I know of three, maybe - no more. A miracle. A testament to good counseling and good administrative back-up. Anyway, yes: rain, rain and more rain. Another effect of rain, usually: kids flocking into the Wellness Center with one ache or another. I checked in there today after lunch, and there too it's quiet and relatively easy. A CIT had spilled something on another CIT (what it was I didn't find out) and the latter was being checked out. The grand-daughter of one of the nurses had stopped in to get a hug from grandma. A twisted ankle was being examined. Nothing much else. Aaron Wallman, long-time Frost Valley guy (VC of Pac, CIT Coordinator, etc.) who is also a pediatric resident at CHOP in Philadelphia, is here as a volunteer, and in this photo, below, you see him relaxing in the Joy White Nurse's Station, in the (momentary?) quiet.
Over at the dialysis unit, a camper named Malaysia is hanging out with her "team"; they call themselves Team Malaysia. She's in Tacoma, and doing well. I told her group some stories at the Castle this morning, and she loved it (as she told me just now). Maya Doyle, newly minted NYU PhD and long-time director of the social work side of our kidney program, is here volunteering for a week (amazingly), and there's Aaron again (having come over from the other side of the Center to find a little action), and Alex J., Malaysia's counselor-buddy. They were working out which activities she can and wants to do this afternoon, and what options she has from the dinner menu tonight.
