Summer Camp!

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Has anyone ever been to a summer camp (overnight or day)? I have been to several. If you have been to camp, what are your experiences?

MINE ARE..........

By the way, these are not the really camp names.

YEAR 1:

Name: High-Yellow
Year: 1999
My age: 4
Time of day: Morning
Favourite activity: The pool
Worst activity: Forgot
Best thing about it: It was autism friendly
Worst thing about it: Forgot
Best memory: Going to the pool
Worst memory: None

YEAR 2:

Name: High-Yellow
Year: 2000
My age: 5
Time of day: Afternoon?
Favourite activity: Going to the park
Least favourite activity: The library (We did plays and I was the only one who didn't get a part)
Best thing about it: Lots of variety
Worst thing about it: Not very good leaders
Best memory: Crafts blowing away (It was FUNNY!)
Worst memory: A. getting the red pipecleaner when I wanted it

YEAR 3:

Name: Brownwood
Year: 2001
My age: 6
Time of day: Morning
Favourite activity: Plays
Least favourite activity: Rough soccer (football in some parts of the world)
Best thing about it: Not much...........
Worst thing about it: It was really crazy
Best memory: Watching some of the plays
Worst memory: Having to play sports with older boys

YEAR 4:

Name: Bunny Camp
Year: 2002?
My age: 7?
Time of day: Afternoon
Favourite activity: Writing bios about the bunnies
Worst activity: None
Best thing about it: Bunnies were cute
Worst thing about it: It was too short
Best memory: Taking the bunny home for a night
Worst memory: Being pawed by the bunny

SAME YEAR:

Name: Elbowsweep
Year: 2002
My age: 7
Time of day: All day (6 hours)
Favourite activity: Exploring
Worst activity: Wading pool
Best thing about it: No boys
Worst thing about it: Too many competitive games
Best memory: Walking across the rocks
Worst memory: Being forced to go for a walk on the street

YEAR 5:

Name: Kitcamp
Year: 2003
My age: 8
Time of day: Morning (for me anyway)
Favourite activity: None
Worst activity: Walking on the balance beam
Best thing about it: Nothing........Well, OK, it was really close to my house!
Worst thing about it: Everything
Best memory: None
Worst memory: Being told to move out of the way (I had meltdowns when I was in the way and told that I that time, and I got kicked out of the camp because of it)

YEAR 6:

Name: Elbowsweep
Year: 2004
My age: 9
Time of the day: All day (6 hours)
Best activity: Exploring
Worst activity: Princess Bird Bee (game)
Best thing about it: No boys
Worst thing about it: Too many competitive games
Best memory: Doing things with B.
Worst memory: Playing Princess Bird Bee

YEAR 7:

Name: Elbowsweep
Year: 2005
My age: 10
Time of the day: All day (6 hours)
Best activity: Exploring
Worst activity: Grounders
Best thing about: "L" was there
Worst thing about it: Leader called the camp that I am autistic (I think)
Best memory: Playing card with "L"
Worst memory: Being scored in Ringette (sp?)

YEAR 8

Name: Shinigin
Year: 2006
My age: 11
Time of day: Overnight
Best activity: Painting the staff
Worst activity: The lake (I had to inch in)
Best thing about it: It was lots of fun!
Worst thing about it: Lake was freezing
Best memory: The wild thing party
Worst memory: Boys being noisy at 4:00 AM

SAME YEAR:

Name: Shinigan
Year: 2006
My age: 11
Time of day: Overnight
Best activity: Painting the car (until kids painted over my pictures)
Worst activity: The carnival
Best thing about it: Good theme that year (Planets)
Worst thing about it: Too many boys (There was 33 boys and 3 girls)
Best memory: The camp-out
Worst memory: The mean tunnel boy incident

YEAR 9

Name: Shinigin
Year: 2007
May age: 12
Time of day: Overnight
Favourite activity: The "giant swing"
Favourite activity: The gym
Best thing about it: Lots of drama
Worst thing about it: C. (Girl in my buddy group) was really mean
Best memory: Making pizzas with B. (Another girl in my buddy group)
Worst memory: Lice checks

YEAR 10

Name: Shinigin
Year: 2008
My age: 13
Time of day: Overnight
Favourite activity: "Expo 67!"
Least favourite activity: The banquet
Best thing about it: Small buddy group
Worst thing about it: Everyone wanted to touch me
Best memory: Going on a walk with the leaders dressed up in silly clothes and with their faces painted like pigs and cats
Worst memory: Melissa being rude

YEAR 11

Name: Shinigin
Year: 2009
My age: 14
Time of day: Overnight
Favourite activity: Sneak-Out dance party
Least favourite activity: First talent show
Best thing about it: The fact that I had a personal support worker
Worst thing about: Didn't get along with the person the person running the camp very well
Best memory: Going on the giant swing
Worst memory: L. telling me to wait

Anyone else ever been to camp?

Been to camp once. It was possibly the best experience of my life.

Once when I was 15. I was suppose to stay for 2 weens but cried the whole time and went home only 3 days after I got there!

Mine is called Olive Grove. It's in Antalya, and it's a Christian camp. I'm gonna miss it so much!
The first year I went there was 2007, the summer before my freshman year. And I've gone every year since. This year was my last. I went as a HS graduate. I think I might be a counselor next year.
It's a two week camp. My favourite activity was probably snorkeling, going on day-cruises, kayaking, knee boarding, rock climbing, and the fact that I made a lot of my friends there.

Oh, by the way, "Shinigan" was a camp for people with disabilities. The first year I went (the second time) the camp was only for people with autism.

I went to girls camp for 6 years.

It was a church camp that we went to with all the girls in our stake for anywhere from 3 -5 days.

We stayed in cabins (aside from 4th year) and everyone was broken up into "years" and we mostly traveled up there with our ward.