Personal Narrative: My Experience At An Athletic Camp

I had signed up for this camp 3 months before it had actually started. As the days began to loom closer, I became more and more unsure about it. The camp was a 5 day basketball and leadership camp in Greeley, CO, and it was the first time I had ever been I had ever stayed overnight for a camp of any kind by myself. The camp was going to be with new people I had never met and who came from all sorts of different places. Coming from a small community, the idea of leaving and having to fend for myself scared me beyond belief. As my mom and I headed up to the University of Northern Colorado, she kept asking me if I was nervous and I of course answered with a no. Inside, I was getting extremely nervous but I wasn’t going to show or admit it. As …show more content…
I saw a few kids joking and messing around, but for the most part, everyone was silent. I sat down in in seat and acknowledged the two girls on my left and right. The instructor of the camp began his lecture and he asked us to talk with the people around us and get to know them. This surprised me, as I hadn’t been to an athletic camp which emphasised talking like this. The more I began to talk with the two girls beside me, I realized that they were all in the same situation as me. They didn’t know anybody and were just as nervous. Throughout the course of the day, I began meeting more and more people as this was stressed by the instructor. When the day was finally over, I realized that everyone was in the same situation as me. By the end of the 5 days, I had met around 60 of the fellow campers and had gotten to know 30 of them pretty well. Over those 5 days, I had been taught many things such as getting out of one's comfort zone, how to be comfortable meeting new people, that there is no reason to give less than your best effort in anything, and it taught me not to let anyone get in the way of your goals, dreams, or