In grade 6 in Kitimat
students had to go to a camp called Camp Caledonia. It wasn’t a favourite experience of mine and
probably turned me off summer camps. But I go recall various memories. In
random order here’s a few:
The first night
everyone got up really early (around 4 or 5 am) and started playing
outside. I joined them briefly but it
didn’t feel right so I returned to my tent.
The ones who stayed out soon after had to go on a long walk courtesy the
counsellors.
Everyone got to do
horseback riding. Happily my group did so near the end so it saved one of the more
fun experiences for last. The only thing
was, the horses walked together in a single line, so the horses kept farting in
the faces of the horse right behind them.
My sleeping bag got
some permanent stains due to the tent absorbing the water from the rain (neither
my tent mate nor myself were that great at setting up the tent properly.
I recall my group got
nearly a perfect score in chores activities and won an award at the end (shower
privileges I think; otherwise you weren’t supposed to use the showers there due
to some water issues with whoever owned the nearby land). We only lost points for something at the
beginning where something else delayed us). More points were nearly lost
because one day I needed to do chores and some of the “counsellors” were higher
grade students serving ice cream or some treat like that; they actually made a
point of serving me last to delay my getting to the chores. Luckily we didn’t
lose points (the teacher probably figured out what happened).
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