Sleepaway Camp

It was three days into his stay at sleepaway camp that it happened. He had been going to Camp B’nei Torah, a Jewish sleepaway camp in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He loved everything about that camp. The campers, the counselors, the activities, the meals, and much more. But despite all this, absolutely nothing could prepare Peter Vent for the day he was about to have. It was the summer before ninth grade, and when he returned home, he would go to high school. He would go through tougher courses, and be faced with the fact that every little grade matters. But this did not frighten him, for his memory was pretty much eidetic. He had no idea that he would enter high school for the first time as a hero. At home, Vent has some great friends.…

rely on aren 't going to always be there for you and parents unfortunately don 't live forever. It is the ideal dream to one day branch off and be on your own, instead of being dependent on someone else. Growing and going to college or starting your own family is perfect of examples of how majority of our society learns how to be independent. This ideal is one of the most critical and one I value the most in my life. When I was ten my mom and dad decided to send me to basketball camp in Lansing,…

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…

This novel takes place deep inside Nazi Germany at the time when things were at its worst. 1942 was one of the darkest years our world has come to see. Not only was it looking as if the axis powers were bound to win the war but also the first horrific details came to life from survivors from the terrible prison camps. Many of the people the reader encounters in this novel are living terrible day to day lives and are too scared to put up a fight. The people with any sort of significant powers are…

table where I knew not a single face and end up leaving knowing them all. We exchanged many conversations like what city we came from, how many siblings we endured, our favorite ice creams, careers we were suggesting, our favorite brands of clothing, and then came what we were running for. I told each girl who the Commissioner of Agriculture for Mississippi was first. Cindy Hyde-Smith, our Commissioner, is an outstanding woman who lived less than an hour away from me. I told them how she helped…

Nevertheless, due primarily to budget constraints and the growing urges of political correctness, it currently compares to an old summer camp or nursing home facility. Still, however, he genuinely couldn’t complain seeing that where the once Olympic-sized swimming pool once stood was now added tennis courts and the nine-hole golf course still revealing its tee boxes and greens made perfect soccer and Frisbee fields even if overgrown. Through his time at camp, Lance picked up various nicknames,…

During the Mt. Everest team simulation, we learned quite a bit about what it means to be on a team. When climbing Mt. Everest in both a simulation and in real life you really depend on your team to do what is necessary to reach a goal. This could be a simple personal goal (such as the photographer to stay at camp 1 and 2 an extra night) or a larger goal that is shared by multiple people on the team (the leader and marathoner’s goal of reaching the summit). Our team had achievements and failures,…

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…

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 direction. She is…

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 them figure out solution to their program when they were stuck, but boy was I wrong. I went about it all wrong. I was more interested in getting through the class than actually learning something. I wanted…