We are the Vollies that... were a little weird.

The 12 of us who make up the Summer Vollies of Our Chalet are not your average vollies.
This became obvious to the Long Term Staff on the first day of training.
We showed up with full backpacks and hiking gear on.
They told us we were the first group to ever do that.
That was the day we played a get to know you game and made posters...
We are the Vollies that were prepared to hike a mountain on our first day.

Not long afterwards we were given photos of all the Long Term Staff
and were asked to put them in order of who is the boss of who.
We put Skippy Storrow, the Chalet cat, as the head of this joint.
And it's true, she does run this place.
We are the Vollies that think Skippy runs the Chalet.

Katie Scales is the program manager here at Our Chalet,
(she was mentioned in my previous post)
and well the Summer Vollies basically idolize her.
It's bordering creepy.
According to Katie, previous vollie seasons have looked up to her, but not like us.
We often ask "What would Katie do?"
If Katie does something, we are more likely to think it's a great idea, and also do it.
The fact that we so openly (and loudly) idolize Katie kind of weirds her out...
(only on the outside though, she admitted to me the other night it actually flatters her)
She's British--compliments are tough.
I learned this when she told me my previous blog post almost made her tear up...
not my intention.
We are the Vollies that idolize Katie Scales.

This week we have been doing our program training.
The weather has been wet... and wet... and a little bit wet.
While hiking up Bunderspitz yesterday (approx. 8353 feet)
we encountered rain--which we were used to at this point.
sun--which prompted us to sing every song we could sing with 'sun' or 'sunshine' in it.
hail.
SNOW.
A few seconds before the hail hit we asked Katie if this was the worst training weather she's ever seen.
She replied with "no it isn't, now if it hails on us on this hike it will be"
not even two minutes later the hail began.
We are the Vollies with the worst program training weather.

If this is any indication of how the summer will go...
God bless the Long Term Staff.

Official Our Chalet staff now!