Comments on: That’s Turkish Delight?!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:33:00 +0000

I miss Calvin Crest, too. Camping ministry has somehow worked itself into my being. I don't think I'll ever completely cut my ties with it.
Roger, that is an informative story. We appear to be polar opposites on the detail oriented personality scale.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:59:00 +0000

Well, Roger, I don't know about the turkey meal, but THIS certainly says something about you!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:04:00 +0000

I'm the opposite. I was too detailed in my cleaning. I'd notice grime building inside the knob on the sink and then go get a srewdriver so I could take it apart and clean it. For a couple of weeks I got to “deep clean” showers. I'd get suited up in a gas mask and gloves and spray toxic liquid all over the place. It took about 45 minutes a shower. Good times. After that they had to give me a few days off since the fumes got to me a bit. I miss Hume

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:09:00 +0000

We called that team Accomodations at Calvin Crest, and I several of the folks I named were on that team at one point or another. I was a cook in the kitchen my first years when I might have been doing that. Better fit for me. Cooking comes to me intuitively. Cleaning… I don't notice things are dirty. Doesn't make me particularly well suited to cleaning well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:24:00 +0000

I worked at Hume for about 5 months in 2001 (July-November) and a few weeks of the summer of 2003. I worked Guest Services, which is a nice way to say I did janitorial stuff. I was on night crew, which IMHO, is the best job there. It doesn't get much better than cleaning toilets at night.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:14:00 +0000

… it seems the comment I intended to post didn't come up. Roger, how long were you at Hume, and what did you do there? You've heard the camp connection between Amy, Tim, Micah, Tyler and me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:54:00 +0000

We actually ordered ten boxes of the real stuff this year. It is rose or lemon flavored gelatin-like. Not terrible, but not what I had imagine. As a kid I thought it was be more fudge and chocolately, and but not necessarily pure chocolate, maybe like a butterscotch something-or-other. The real thing was quite a surprise.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:40:00 +0000

Hmmm… perhaps this needs some clarification. I took your question to mean what in our lives was like Turkish Delight. But it looks like it could also mean have we understood Turkish Delight to be. If it's the former, then when I was little I thought Turkish referred to turkey, so it was some kind of sweet turkey meal.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:46:00 +0000

I actually have a recipe for Turkish Delight from Doug Gresham. My guess is it's the same as the movie. Mine would likely be Wild Berry Skittles. When I was working at Hume I'd always buy a bag for the road, whether I was going home or just to Fresno. I'm not sure if that says anything about me. Maybe that I haven't had any since last time I went (several years ago) does.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:29:00 +0000

Mine was a candy. I can't remember what exactly. It was certainly NOTHING like the real turkish delight. I'm thinking maybe some amazing creamy nougat thing, if not also chocolate covered.