Since being home and thinking about camp, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone who worked so hard to make camp a success. Being the sudo teen chaperone, I have been very lucky to experience and develop my relationships with all of the YA/teen kids. Every year, I look forward to the new teens who will be joining us and the reunion with the teens already in the program. I want to compliment the parents and especially the...
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I’ve had such a great time at camp this year! I always have a great time, but as I get older, the time spent together seems to have so much more of an impact on my life. I don’t think sir John could have put it any better. It’s fun to see how much and how little the kids have changed each year as well as everyone else. I can now leave tomorrow with a smile on my face, a wrist full of silly bands, and a head full of...
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Every year we attend festival night and I can’t help but to feel some deep emotional connection to camp. I always wonder.. What am I feeling? Why is this such a rare state to come upon in our everyday whirling lives? What have we done to create this environment. The wondering stops every time a child is lifted onto a teen’s shoulder, when a grandparent relives the memories of the origins of camp, when aunties and uncles...
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The after-dinner activities this year have been held in the Geranium room (aka the Gardenia room, as I have repeatedly called it) at the hotel. This has been working out pretty well this year, acting as the central meeting place for all Campers in the evening. There is an intense Trivial Pursuit game going on at this moment. A lot of old-time Campers arrived in the past two days and they are going strong on the game. Also happening...
Read MoreLast time I wrote this blog it was couple days ago – well tomorrow is the last day. I went shopping for field day with some of the teens then just rested the rest of the day. The dance was tonight, the same DJ was here this year. All the little kids were dancing and having a great time it was fun to watch them dance. I remember when I went to my first Chinese Family Camp dance. They reminded of me of me when I was a younger....
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