Day 17:
Cleaning
After my adventurous days, this day felt very slow in comparison. After morning meeting, all of the summer vollies were assigned to do Guest Services for the morning. This means....cleaning! I cleaned some bathrooms and did vacuuming in Main Chalet. With all of us working, we finished cleaning early. The spring vollies' last working day is tomorrow (day 18) before they all separately depart Our Chalet. Since they have been so welcoming and awesome (especially for throwing a surprise tea party for us!), we wanted to do something special for them.

We made all of the spring vollies a special card. On one side, we put a group picture of them in the middle and different decorations around the picture depending on their personal flair. On the back we each wrote them special notes! We were not certain how we were going to pull off giving the cards to them in an awesome way but we worked on making the cards until lunchtime.

The afternoon was not too eventful. I was on kitchen duty and I got to wear an awesome apron and hat. I took control of Wendy, the sanitizing machine, during part of my work in the kitchen.

Fun Fact: The grass at Our Chalet is really long. Why is it not cut? The farmers have to agree about the time to cut the grass; anyone who cuts the grass before the decision is made is looked down upon in the valley.

We had guests from Oklahoma staying with us so for their last night we had a campfire after dinner at 8pm. I went to the campfire and it was fun. Again, I learned many new songs. My favorite from the night is the Swedish Sailor Song which is mostly made-up words. I also learned a song about a donkey and a goosing song from the Oakies. The group from Oklahoma presented the Chalet with a few gifts: the state rock which is the colour of the dirt there and shaped like a rose, a neckerchief in honor of one woman's husband who was unable to visit Our Chalet with the group and a red scarf in the shape of Oklahoma. They also gave each staff in attendance a dream catcher. I traded so I got a purple dream catcher....I love them and I'm happy to have a dream catcher for my room in Switzerland!

After the campfire, I trekked to camp house. Camp house is very small and starting to get messier and messier the longer we stayed in it haha. Then, it was time to hit the hay before another long day :)