Hello 5SK!
Sorry it has been a while since we last spoke…I have had many adventures at camp that I am quite excited to tell you about!
So in my last email I was heading to camp the next day, but now I’m back from my 6 weeks. I really don’t know how to describe camp to you! It was so strange…and fun. As I mentioned last time, it was an arts camp so all the morning majors were arts related. I got to participate in musical theatre dance and photography which were both really fun.
Our days pretty much ran like this:
7:15 wake up and a jump in the lake (polar bear dip), breakfast, majors from 9-11:30, lunch, rest hour ( we always napped), 2 one hour electives (hikes, football, soccer, painting, friendship bracelets, canoeing etc), free swim from 4-5:30, dinner at 6, camp wide game (themed capture the flag and others) followed by a campfire to end the night from 8:30-9:30pm.
It was a really busy day every day. The best part of camp was the dress up days. Every night had a different theme that we had to dress to for dinner and the camp wide game usually related to the theme. Some of my favourite ones included day at the zoo, old folks supper, 80’s night, twin dinner and identity swap. On Friday nights we had a talent show and a barn dance which is just a disco in an old barn. Campers came on a Sunday and left on Saturday afternoon after the concert showing parents what they learnt that week.
I spent a lot of time dressed as either a panda, unicorn or ice cream sundae. Haha. We ate really well and everyone got on famously. The camp was in the country on a huge lake with heaps of wildlife around. There were deers and chipmunks and evidence of a black bear but we never actually saw him. I will add some photos of the lake and one of my favourite dress up pictures.
I almost forgot to tell you about my wicked toe injury. I sliced the bottom half of my big toe off. It was nasty. I couldn’t walk on it for over a week! I’m not going to add a picture because it was so nasty but I think Mrs Scharf can tell you!
So now that camp is over I have headed back down to the United States for around 2 weeks. I don’t really have any questions for you this time, but tell me about you guys! How’s life back home? What are you leaning about?!
Oh one more thing! Holy cow! The temperature here is nuts! So we are in summer right…well it was warmer in Brisbane in the middle of Winter than it was in Summer in Canada! One day I saw that it was 2-25 in Brisbane and on the same day in a Canadian Summer it was 12-20! I totally thought that it would be warm here for all of Summer…turns out it isn’t warm everyday.
Say hello to Mrs Franklin and Mr Insch for me! 🙂
Chat soon! Miss A.