Today’s Business: 2009-07-28
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In preps for DJing the dinner dance tonight, I spent much of today napping and hauling my equipment down to the K pavilion at camp.
[Emmy] was my dinner date for the evening.
We had cheese-stuffed shells at the dinner.
I began playing music after dinner at 6:30, and we went until 11:00 PM. Approximately 50 songs were played.
I danced several times with [Emmy] and [Krista]. I like how [Emmy]‘s always there to support me on these gigs. She’s my best cheer leader.
After the dance, [Ron] and I were packing up the equipment for transport back up the hill to H2, when we heard a loud and doleful shouting, coming from the children’s village. We thought nothing of it, dismissing it as some animal or bird or something. Plus, we weren’t keen on going down there to investigate the noise, as it was quite dark. It went, “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh,” starting off high and loud, and then dying off in a lowering of its pitch as well as its volume. Since nobody was currently staying in the village at the time, we never considered that it might be someone requiring help. So we finished packing over the next half-hour, and heard the noise several more times. It didn’t seem to be getting any closer. So we kept working, ignoring it.
However, once we finished moving everything, [Ron] went back down to K to see if we’d left anything behind, when he discovered rather startingly, what that noise was. One of the new and totally blind campers that had come to the dance got confused about which way to go to get back up the hill to his cabin, and instead went down into the children’s village. He quickly became lost, as he had never visited the village before, and so began screaming to get attention. If only he had yelled the word HELP instead of screaming, we’d have gotten to him sooner. So the moral here is: When you need help, yell the word HELP if you’re able, and don’t just scream. Otherwise people might confuse you with a monster and avoid coming to your aid. 
We finished the equipment move back up the hill at around midnight, and then it was time for bed.
Tom Hesley