Day camp

lengthy application for a counsellor job at the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Dubois, Wyoming. My stomach had that sinking feeling that I would be leaving my comfortable, close-knit home to work at a ranch camp 2,610 miles away. My friends were close by, and my daily routines were very comfortable. Surely there had to safer jobs nearby, and I was a little nervous already about heading out to college…

In “On the Fence” by Kasie West, Charlie is a girl who is being raised by a single dad, and has three other brothers. Her brothers, neighbor boy, Braden, and Charlie are best friends. Every day they play a different sport, and most of the time Charlie’s team wins. Charlie’s not the kind of girl who knows about fashion, makeup, or even dresses or skirts. She’s the girl who has all guy friends. Everyone that knows Charlie knows that her mom died when she was younger, but for the ones that don’t,…

faces, but mostly for good looking fellows. This is the life changing experience I’ve been waiting for, I think to myself. This is Freedom Academy. Kids throughout the entire state gather together for a week ran by the National Guard at a real army camp. My shaking leg bounces up and down from not only the excitement, but the nervous feelings in my stomach. I made sure to come extra early to guarantee I did not become one of the last kids filtering in at the final seconds. My fellow…

take off their cloths. They all got shaved heads,were sprayed with a weird liquid,showered and then had to find a piece of clothing. After two days the doors we opened and her and the other kids got ‘some sort of soup.’ That night in the train car Lida started singing a lullaby she had learned from her mother and a guy named Luka joined in singing. A few days later they got of the train and had to take off their cloths. They all got…

this society. This spring camp was put together last year and I did not grasp the concept…

If making friends was surviving, I sure as hell wasn’t a survivor. When I first signed up for the camp, it was to get my parents off my back. “Do something with hockey, Sophie, you don’t want to fall behind.” The instant my parents didn’t believe in me was the second I thought I was up for the challenge. I was wrong. By the time summer rolled around, I forgot about the camp completely. When my parents told me to pack my bags because it was time for purgatory, I was terrified. Once upon a time, I…

His father, Ralf, is a Nazi Soldier and his new job requires him to run a prison camp. Once the family arrives at…

time we left camp was when we needed to replenish our marshmallow stock for s’mores. While at the store, my friend’s Mom called my parents from the pay phone to coordinate a time to drop me off (we had two days left.) After playing games and laughing with us for days, my friend’s Mom was reserved and quiet on the way back to camp. Upon returning to camp, being carefree and 12 years old, we went outside to build the campfire and soon forgot about her odd behavior. On the final day, we quickly…

and her family. The book begins right after the pearl harbor bombing once this happens all Asian American people are forced to go to interment camps. Jeanne goes on to talking about her life with her family in the camp. She touches on points like her dad becoming an alcoholic and feeling left out because she didn’t speak Chinese. Once released from the camp she talks about how her family is trying to live a normal life like they once did before everything was taken away from them. She than ends…

to Coleman Country Day Camp. To those who were not fortunate enough to have grown up at summer camp, this might not seem like such a big decision to make. But Coleman was my outlet, my second home for ten consecutive summers and spending those two months anywhere else seemed inconceivable to me. Like most people, I always sought familiarity, which made it especially difficult to let go of childhood memories.…