Personal Narrative: Liberty Lake Day Camp

The trip to a camping site in the middle of a Pennsylvania forest- a trip I would never forget- lead me to the discovery of myself and my transition into adulthood. This trip was through the summer camp I have attended for now eleven years; Liberty Lake Day Camp located in Columbus, New Jersey, is my second home. I grew up in this camp, and when I finally reached the age to become a L.I.T, a leader in training, I was eager to undergo the program with my friends I always attended camp with. This trip was a reward to all the hard work we do as L.I.Ts. Little did I know the annual L.I.T trip to the camping site would be life changing. Beginning with a two hour bus ride, I was clueless of what was in store for my fellow L.I.Ts and I. When we finally arrived, we set up the tents we would be sleeping in for two nights and we took a tour of the …show more content…
We were all laughing and joking, and we saw in a pile long walking sticks, about three feet long each. None of us had any idea what was going on, and then our counselors, with stoic facial expressions, divided us into four groups. In my group I had three close friends and three other L.I.Ts whom I was not as close with. We each received a stick and a sharpie marker. We were asked to write down how we felt, things we would like to improve about ourselves, or anything we felt we needed to speak up about. Some wrote phrases or a great deal of words; I wrote one word on my stick. We were each asked to explain what we wrote on our sticks, and a boy who I never spoke to very much explained how he would get bullied in school because he was interested in robotics. He would be called names, and pushed around in the hallways. He felt so small in such a large school; he felt worthless. We explained how we all accept him for who he is, and always be there for him. With each story shared, we all shed tears, uniting us together as a