Hockey Camp
The day was finally here, my friend Ben Steuve and I had been waiting a month for the Colin Chalk Hockey Camp to start. We knew that the camp leader, Colin Chalk, had played pro so the camp had to be top of the line. Ben and I are best friends who played hockey together and it seemed like it was meant to be that we played together. We have been playing hockey ever since I can remember. The way we found out about Colin was through our other friend who used to play with us and his dad played with Colin Chalk. Now all I can think about is getting on the ice.
The camp was from Monday to Friday for nine hours. We had to bring lunch and a snack. The schedule each day was to arrive at 8:30 AM, go on at 9:00 …show more content…
Ben and I loved the camp, because we both knew it was making us so much better. What we really were looking forward to was the last day. We were told that it was going to be the best day of the camp. At the beginning of the last day we began with a skills competition. The different games were passing, shooting, and speed skating. That allowed us to show what we learned and if you won one of the competitions then you got a prize. The second ice time was even better. We had a skill shootout where you could dress up and do any type of shot or trick play. I dressed up in a bunch of different red wing things and a red morph suit. After that we had a big scrimmage and the winner got a big prize and bragging rights. What meant a lot to me was the hard hat prize.
The hard hat prize is a yellow hard hat that is given out two times a day. There were two hats, one for the little kids and one for the older kids. At the end of the camp the last winner gets to keep it and it has all of the signatures of the people who won it. It’s given out to the hardest worker that day and both Ben and I got it on the second day. That meant a lot and I was so glad that I got the chance to go to this camp, especially with my best