Jan 2 - Ashes

I spent a summer working at an LDS girls camp called Oakcrest. Each week a number of stakes in the Salt Lake Valley would send their 12-14 year old girls up to this camp for a week of fun and spiritual learning at the hands of 20-something girls with an overabundance of youthful exuberance for their age.

I learned a lot that summer, including

1) That I was probably unfit for my job, having only the exact amount of youthful exuberance appropriate for a 20 year old.
2) That I learned lesson #1 about a week too late into the summer.
3) That 10 teenage girls are not my ideal company for a week, let alone 12 weeks in a row.
4) How to make Ash Cakes, which involved throwing perfectly good bread dough into the ashes of the fire, waiting a few minutes for them to "cook", pulling them out again, brushing off the big chunks of charcoal, taking a bite, and lying about how good it was.