So it’s Eric Forti here again and I should tell you that my personal assistant Jcal posted these photos below for all of you to see. You will know that I didn’t post these pics, because there is a picture of a dog. While I have nothing against animals, I would prefer to post pictures of our wonderful staff, oh, and of course the one and only Will Armon.  In any event, enjoy the pictures below and know that I say hello to all of you in Blogland and can’t wait to see many of you at Open House, our camp alumni at the Alumni Reunion, and OPENING DAY OF CAMP!

Before you begin reading this blog entry, you should know that Jcal actually wrote it (with my permission of course) in front of me as I dictated to him. See, I am very busy and Jcal has nothing to do these days, so he offered to help! The point I need to make is that I am NOT responsible for the lack of proper grammar and don’t even get me started on the spelling. In any case, hello to all of you from the REAL ERIC FORTI and enjoy my dictated and mutilated flog (fake blog) below!

-The real Eric Forti

Hey Canadensis,

Been a while since my last blog so I figured i’d take some time to update you all on whats been happening up at camp over the past few weeks! We have been busy busy busy with final preparations before the summer begins. With have also been really busy with our pre camp groups coming and going. Our entire pre camp staff has officially arrived bringing our total to 24 staff members already here. Already here are: John Tatana, Eddie Lewis, Shawn Bolton, Mathew Lyons, Alex Dean, Lauren “L-Mac” McGuire, Justin Winch, Lauren Berry, Luke Holten, Pheobe Gurr, Alex Steele, Cale Darrell, Austin Cromartie, Elana Sharir, Chris Poag, James Richardson, Geo, Nora Tkac, Levi Smathers, Chris Kemp, Maddy Tate, Peter Linde, Allie Hassenger, Chris Parno.

Everyone has been doing such a great time! Camp looks great and things are coming along very well. Our maintenance staff has been very busy as well preparing camp for the upcoming summer. This week they have been working on our new water slide and other projects around camp.

Next weekend we are looking forward to our annual OPEN HOUSE on Sunday. Details below:

CAMP CANADENSIS ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE!

SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH 2010 FROM 1-4PM

NEW FAMILES ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

Please join us at camp for a day that will include:

The opportunity to meet other Canadensis campers
The chance to meet some of our outstanding staff
A barbecue lunch
Swimming and Lake Activities
Tennis
Basketball
Soccer
The Climbing Wall
Art Projects
“The Corn Man

To RSVP: log in to “My Account” lin in the upper right hand corner of our web-site and click on the “forms and documents” link.

We hope your family will join us for this wonderful event!

Camp is so busy with final preparations and we can’t wait for all of the campers to get here in just a few short weeks.

Finally, Special Congratulations are in order for WILL ARMON, Lower Boys Camp Head Counselor who recently got engaged! Congratulation Will! Welcome to the “Engaged Club” bro.

Also be on the look out for a new Canadensis Today in the next few days from camp!

See you all soon!

-Eric

Hi Camp Family! I’ve spent the last 11 days moving in and enjoying all that is the Camp summer office!

We’ve been hard at work:

…and doing our best to keep dry…

… more soon!

While JCal was having Chinese for dinner tonight he got this on the back of his fortune….

Well, today was the last full day in the winter office! Tomorrow we’ll come in, finish up as much computer work as possibly, and then start getting all of our office boxes ready to be picked up by Eric Forti and the PreCamp Staff. Once the computers are off and the files are packed, we won’t see them again until Monday morning, when we OFFICIALLY OPEN THE CAMP CANADENSIS SUMMER OFFICE!!! Yes, you all know what this means… next month counselors will begin driving down the camp road, followed a week later by ALL OF YOU!!! I honestly can’t believe this day has finally arrived… I should probably start packing, right?

Today I got to have lunch with Rebecca Waxman, and we chatted about her community study project and how excited she is to go off to Syracuse next year! This blog is going to be VERY different without Rebecca around to be featured in most of my dinner blogs, but I’m looking forward to getting to spend the summer with her, and with ALL of my favorite camp friends who will be going off (or back) to school in the fall.

Well, it’s the end of the day here in the winter office, and I’ve got TONS of work to do around my house before I can leave for camp this weekend. As always, I’ll get it all done in time, but I know you all know the craziness that is preparing to leave for camp. Just imagine packing for May – September at camp! CRAZY! I promise to take lots of pictures and keep you updated on all the silly precamp happenings.

Well, that’s all for now. Next time I’ll be blogging from Canadensis!

Hi to all and sorry for the delay in blog postings. I am up to camp (well sorta) as the past week and coming week I am going back and forth between camp and Philadelphia. I have been busy moving out of my Philadelphia home and putting stuff into storage so that my renters can move in.

This past weekend I celebrated Mother’s Day with my entire family (my new niece who is adorable!) as well as Robin and her family. We all had a great time and in true Forti spirit, my mom put on a nice brunch this morning for our extended family. Of course I offered my help, but my mom did most of the work as usual and we all had a really fun time. I hope that everyone remembered Mother’s Day and said thank you to their moms for all they do for us “kids”. My mom is an amazing mom and although I know I don’t always show my appreciation to her, she truly is a very caring and loving person. So, make sure you say something nice to yours!

In camp news, it’s freezing. Actually, it literally is freezing up at camp! Unger reported seeing snow flurries this morning and our poor Australian/Kiwi staff are shivering all day. Wasn’t it nice of Justin Winch and Unger to postpone the cleaning roof gutters job around camp due to the high winds on the roofs! Last night camp lost power for about 6 hours also due to the high winds. Fortunately, no trees down to report around camp, but many fell out on the public roads and so our power company had to come out last night and fix the down lines. We hosted our semi-annual Special Olympics weekend (if you recall we donate camp to them twice a year) and so their talent show was moved from the Rec Hall to the dining hall due to the power outage. Our dining hall has a backup generator powering all of our refrigerators, freezers, lights, ovens, etc. ensuring we can keep our food and be able to cook it!

Reminds me of my freshman year at camp (Summer 1993 I believe?). The power went out on the last day of camp and our slideshow/video presentation, which we still do on the last night, had to be shown in the Rec Hall using a portable generator! Craziness. One other time that we lost power, we drove around on pickup trucks with ice cream around camp because our canteen ice cream freezers are not hooked up to a generator! So, the reward for us campers was free ice cream. Ah, the small things in life, but see how I remember that from almost 20 years ago.

Well I better get going and finish up my work as it’s Sunday night and I think I am entitled to some TV catch up?! Hope everyone is doing well and don’t forget, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there!

Also, if you haven’t heard we have extended the ANCHOR FOR TODAY deadline to May 19th. For more information about Anchor for Today please click here.

Have a great day!

Blog posting coming soon, but in the meantime HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all of the mothers out there! I figured I would post this video, because I am sure it makes my mom oh so proud of me each and every day:)