"Hiya!" he responds. "I'm Anthony."

"So what do we do here? Someone pointed at you when I asked and I was told you'd teach me stuff and they were very vague."

"We look after kids? – I guess you mean, like, particulars?"

"Yeah. I was told you were gonna show me around, give me the schedule, tell me about activities, meal times, what to do in a medical emergency..."

"Schedules are – in the main hut, I'll show you there first?"

"Sure!"

He starts walking towards it. "Met many of the other people yet?" He looks around. "There are a few people missing still, I think, but those that are here?"

"Just a couple, and they told me to talk to you," she shrugs.

"They're mostly pretty nice," he comments. "So, a lot of the information you'll need is in a starter pack thing – it's with the schedules – and you'll want to read at least the introductory bit of that when you can. Most things are listed somewhere obvious – there are fire protocol signs, that sort of thing, and usually counselors look after groups in pairs or more, so you should be fine for most situations."

They're just walking past some picnic benches where a few of the other counselors have congregated, in a large open area near some of the cabins.

"Oh okay cool. And what kinds of activities are there? I haven't actually ever been to one of these things when I was a kid."

"Oh – it's a lot of outdoor sports? Hiking, canoeing, swimming in the lake. There's also, um, arts and crafts type things, Kate runs a woodshop thing, and we usually have a sort of dance thing on Saturdays."

"Most of those don't happen in the main hut, I expect."

"Right, I – yeah. It's, um, we'll have bits of food and drink and try to encourage them to, y'know, meet and talk to each other? Sit in a circle, go around it and have everyone introduce themselves, explain some of the ground rules and make sure they all know the sorts of things they'll be doing, fire safety stuff, that stuff, then split them off into smaller groups and, like, some will go do ball games and stuff outside, others it'll be cards or, uh, smaller activities like that?"

"Makes sense. And nothing like that for us to meet each other?"

"Well, people are just sort of hanging around at the moment, so you can meet them now anyway – oh, but there's an informal thing a bit later, after dinner."

"Oh cool that sounds like fun."

"It is! So – how'd you choose to come here? Friends go here when you were a kid, or know someone from here before…?"

"My father thinks it's a good character-building exercise."

"– Well, it at least gets you outside in the summer, if you're not really that type otherwise? And it could help with your CV, in the future."

"Yeah, I mean, it's not bad or anything, I'm going to have fun even if only to spite him."

Pause. "Well it should be a good place to do that. I think."

"Yeah, it sounds it, I'm excited."

And then: they at the main hut!

It's a reasonably large building, near a couple other reasonably large buildings and a couple of smaller huts in a small semicircle. Inside are a couple of counselors.

One gives Anthony a timetable and smiles at Kaede – "Hey! I'm Dave."

"Hi! I'm Kaede. Nice to meet you!"

"Did you just get here? – Oh, you probably want the whole folder, just a sec…"

Dave hands Anthony a folder, who takes it and then hands both it and the timetable to Kaede.