Refugee camp

year I even became one of her respite providers. The other organization that provides respite for Rachel’s family is Camp Courageous. Camp Courageous, in Monticello Iowa, creates a place where individuals with exceptionalities can go and experience what typical individuals do at a camp in a year round setting. In 1972 forty acres of land near Monticello were donated to create a camp…

your group. Suddenly, you’re surrounded by grounders. They are dressed in their head-to-toe covering battle gear, carrying bows, arrows, and spears. Instead of killing you, however, they cover your heads with fabric bags and drag you away from your camp. You make a lengthy trek with the grounders before you are forcefully stopped and the bags are removed. You blink your eyes open to find yourself in a lavender room. Before you sits a young woman in a chair of twigs that poke out in every…

I had no prior experience with any camp nor had I any experience with 5th and 6th graders. I looked up pictures from the year prior and in my mind I thought that this was not going to be hard. I had the expectation that all I was going to be doing was watching kids play with robots and helping…

0921604 1. Searching for a college was incredibly stressful for me. I wanted a school where I could happily live, learn, and thrive. None of the campuses I toured felt like they could be a home, until I visited Emmanuel. The campus was beautiful and the food was actually good. But, what really sold me was talking with the student ambassadors. Their knowledge and honesty helped relieve the anxiety I felt about my college search and they allowed me see the possibility of a wonderful future…

home, getting ready to leave my house for my final day as a camp counselor and for the final day in Willow Grove Day camp’s sixty-two year history. I threw on my staff shirt and mesh shorts, grabbed a quick chocolate chip granola bar for the road, lathered up my SPF 30 lotion, compiled my backpack and waited for my ride. The drive to camp was an emotional one for me. I had spent fifteen of my eighteen summers at this camp, the same camp, that has thrived for over six decades. Just like my time…

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

Evan still doesn’t know who she is, and neither does anyone she works with. Tomorrow, she leaves for basketball camp. She decides to tell Evan that she doesn’t think that they will workout, but she still has a feeling inside of her that he’s the one. Then again, she thinks Braden could be the one too. The next morning she goes to camp, after saying all of her goodbyes. It was camp that helped her through everything. Running up and down the court, running on the beach before dinner, and late…

As the prized #3 recruit in the country, Cliff Alexander seemed poised for a great season in college and a bright future ahead of him in the NBA. Alexander committed to Kansas , wanting to be apart of a college basketball blueblood. During his season he battled injuries and eventually went undrafted in the NBA Draft. Alexander was a kid from Chicago, who had dreamt his whole life that he would attend University of Illinois. Looking back at the decisions he made, he realized he should've attended…

My “personal odyssey” occurred relatively recently, this past summer while I was at a sleepaway camp in New Hampshire. The last year you are eligible to come, the summer before your sophomore year, you stay in a cabin off the main camp called Cabin 12, which holds great significance due to the fact that you’re the oldest on campus, and closer to a counselor then a camper. Being engaged, on time to activities, and having extreme enthusiasm to an almost unbearable point. I was exposed to a concept…

Through the use of Shane it is made apparent that the collapse of even one person’s hierarchy can lead to the downfall of the camp and it can even cause a ripple effect which can damage others hierarchies. It is also apparent that Shane’s want of remaining as leader aided in the downfall of the camp. If Maslow’s hierarchy were tracked through the whole series the times where things go wrong would most of the time be when someone’s hierarchy is either collapsed…