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yeah, i don't think I could handle the adult program. adults, although they seem to bring out their inner child at camp, are less fun than being on a team with people at least close to your age.

Well there are some adults who attend camp who arent much older then you would be when you attend. But i can see why you'd want to attend the youth program instead i know i did.

According the couselors (and this makes sense) kids are much better because they don't try to think too deeply into things. There was a survey that was given to young children and Harvard grads and the kids did better. You've probably seen it, but here is a link: http://www.sdwow.org/pastnewsletters/ne ... ml#funnies

I definately think the adults overthink a lot of the anomalies.

They'd probably go nuts with a Christmas Tree. It is so simple, but they see lights and go off the wall. I wish Brent had thrown some harder stuff at us. I had my MOCR crew (at least the ones that listened) keeping an eye on things such as temp and pressure.

Yeah they really do. Oh no trust me, when you have a Smiley/Tony EDM god help you if you survive it. That was the two people that were in the orbiter during Christmas Camp. We couldn't do one thing before someone would have serious intestinal issues or something. I was holding a LiOH canister and Smiley said I had no control over it and it hit me in the head, causing me to go crazy. We then forgot to purge our fuel cells and Smiley and Tony got helmets and attached lights to them while we were sitting in the dark and starting singing about Mexican Wednesday. ahh, good times.

LOL ive never had either counselro obviously but sounds like they make for a fun EDM.

They were singing about how long it takes to have immunity against Mexican Wednesday. Man, that really will do a number on your system especially if you have the MAT right after it which happened to me. Luckily, I unlike others on my team, knew not to eat the meat.

Lucky for me, I'm not a big meat person. Especially at camp.

Benji wrote:They'd probably go nuts with a Christmas Tree. It is so simple, but they see lights and go off the wall. I wish Brent had thrown some harder stuff at us. I had my MOCR crew (at least the ones that listened) keeping an eye on things such as temp and pressure.

What's this about a Christmas tree?

When every c/w light activates, it is called a Christmas Tree. To fix it, you only have to clear the c/w memory. Very simple, it is one switch in the center panel.

That makes sense. I'd just never heard it refered to like that.

That happened to us once. Yay. Actually the worst mistake an EVA officer ever made was trying to make us fix EVERYthing on the satellite. If everything is showing no go, you just need to replace the bus cables or check and see which one is broken. She actually had us fixing everything (against my advice) until the space ghost felt really sorry for me and just told her what to do.

Didn't she know to listen to the veteran?

No, somehow I think she missed that multiple times. I am really not supposed to tell people how to fix the problem because that is really EVA's job. I couldn't help myself. I didn't want to swing over there and exchange EVERY single piece.

Well the one time i got a christmas tree it wasnt so simple to fix. Unfortunately every light but oine wa lit up and that was the light that told you all you had to do was flip that reset switch so i actually had to fix them all and i was the only one on the flight deck at the time. I think it was more a counselor mistake then intentional but im sure he was laughing hard when he watche me try to fix it.

Brent and another counselor were pilot and commander on one of our missions and it was soooo funny. He asked to talk to me on the headset and we started dissing each other. I think the second funniest thing was Arlisa telling me that mocr wasn't on headsets the last 30 minutes or so because they were watching me run around being pyscho on the monitor and laughing. Meanwhile a bunch of lights lit up and they did nothing about it.

Counselors can fill open posistions?

I've heard about that. The camps right after 9/11 I heard counsellors filled positions.

Well it is interesting considering that they aren't supposed to mess up on purpose, but Brent was really going all out. He did a good job of course, but it was still funny.