Worst Day At Camp

Wednesday was fine.  Thursday is different.  Today was horrible.  Completely horrible.  First off today was water/field day which should already be an indicator for how bad things are going to be.  Well camp starts at 9 just so you understand the time frame.  Okay so there is a girl named Shannon in my class, and she is autistic which clearly means I love her.  Anyways today at 9:03 one of my kids comes up to me and tells me that Shannon is crying.  So I go get Shannon and talk to her for a little bit.  I ask her why she is crying and then she tells me because "they are teasing me."  You have to understand that it took a lot for me to get that out of her too because she kept getting distracted and yelling because she was crying (hard to explain, I know).  So then I, of course, ask her who was teasing her and she tells me Maya, Danielle, and Layla.  I then go and get them and take them to a separate room to talk to them.  At this point I am furious, I'm pretty sure I'm about to break down in tears and not even be able to talk, and I want to punch each of them at least a good 10 times.  So I start talking to them, and Maya breaks down in tears and has to go sit down because she is crying so hard, Danielle is giving me her stupid "I'm so confused because I'm perfect" face, and Layla is crying telling me she didn't do anything in Christina man cry voice.  I had no sympathy for any of these kids, and they are just in the process of making me more mad.  I eventually break down in tears while yelling at them because they kept arguing with me, and I may have accidentally told them that I was about to punch all of them in the face, which I know was a bad thing to say, and I totally regretted it afterwards, but I was just so mad.  I told Krista about it later, and she just laughed that I had told them that so that made me feel better.  Maya also cried for 43 minutes straight over this.  I wanted to shove her in a closet to make her shut up. Ugh.  Okay so there is the 9 o'clock hour which is totally not the way anybody wants to start a day.  After that I had Danielle and Ali make fun of Shannon during Bible study, and yet again I wanted to punch them, but at least I didn't cry while getting on to them this time.  To add on top of all of that the kids were just super disrespectful today, and wouldn't listen to us, or be quiet when we ask.  Also, our MissionLab didn't tell us they didn't prepare anything for craft and afternoon bible story which was a shocker because we thought they did so we had to come up with stuff on the spot which was totally not fun.  Then after afternoon field day stuff Becca comes up to me and hands me a postcard from Scotland, from Bethany!  As soon as I got it I went to the bathroom, read the postcard, and just cried.  God knew exactly when I need that card, and I was so thankful for it because it was totally what I needed TODAY!  Today was horrible, but I still love camp just as much as ever, as well as my bff.

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