First Day Counselors

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Do you remember the dreaded first day of starting a new thing, the first day of school or summer camp? The impending fear of what the situation will be like or whether or not it will be something you enjoy. Being a day counselor I learned a multitude things, including the type of fear seeded from a new circumstance. It seemed to be an everyday occurrence, the ear piercing wales escaping the mouth of the heavily sunscreened toddlers. Despite being a reasonable fear, leaving their families to spend the day with strange people they have never met, the tear soaked faces seem unnecessary after the fourth previously successful day. But you suck it up anyways and rub their backs while your eardrums continuously explode, and, after they cant possibly

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