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I took swimming lessons when I was a toddler.
I went to Sunday School when I was 5.
For part of the summers when I was 6, 7 and 8 I went to Camp Amy Molson, where we just had usual little kid things-- swimming, evening program, singing before every meal, "Halloween", "Christmas", "backwards day" (where we wore our clothes backwards, ate supper in the morning and breakfast in the evening), Lion King Day once, a "carnival" once where we were given fake money and went and spent it on things like cookies, "bug juice", lollipops, lipstick kisses from counselors and chances to guess at how many jelly beans were in the jars (winners got the jelly beans). We also had pottery (the first day we just played with it, the second day planned what we were to make and the third day made it and then were given it baked at the end of the camp session). We also had arts and crafts, where we made gimp bracelets and paper lanterns, "music" where we made shaker things with rice in them, made with two paper plates stapled together or a toilet paper roll with circular pieces of paper sealing it at the ends), baking (where each cabin made something-- the same thing), and we were supposed to have gardening but didn't. It was a camp for poor families to send their kids. We went out in a canoe with counselors sometimes.
I also went to Kamp Kanawana when I was 7-- this was a rich-kids sort of camp. We each chose two interest groups at the beginning of the session: rick climbing, canoeing, arts and crafts, music, dance, swimming or something else. If you failed the swimming test at the beginning of the session you had to take swimming as one of your interest groups. I took music and dance but had to change it to music and swimming. We also had "cabaret" every week where each tent would put on a performance. We had evening shows sometimes, we watched a movie in this activity room once, we had visiting day for parents, we had canoeing once where groups of kids went out in canoes on their own, we went on the "party barge" once and drifted away on it and once we had an "overnight" where we slept in a teepee-like tent and cooked our food outside, washed our dishes with mud and water, etc.
Then there was day camp when I was 9... every Friday we would go on a field trip. Once we went to see George of the Jungle, once we went to this wall-climbing place, once we went to this show type thing, once this woman came and started explaining to us how the human ear worked and how to care for it (wierd, lol), once we had a barbecue, once we went to this place where we had time to play in the playground after we were given fake money to buy stuff they had there, like those purple mechanical pencils that smelled like grape or whatever, and other stuff, then we watched groups of kids perform, sing and dance. We played games outside, sometimes soccer, sometimes we had free time in the shallow pool (a wading pool but we could still swim in it), the playground or on the fields or in the chalet. We made fake boats and floated them in the sink (why not in the pool?), we made stuff out of clay, we made something with paper too, we sang songs, we went to beaches, we went to the botanical gardens, we went to two other pools at two other parks, we went to some other places too I think. EDIT: oh yeah, we also went to this place where we went on inflatable rafts in the rapids... it was scary but I was glad I'd done it!
When I was 10 I had this drama thing called Pegasus Theatre or something. I was signed up for the first 4 weeks-- Animal Week, Mystery Week, something else and Back in Time Week, but the latter two were cancelled due to lack of interest. It was fun; we had a play at the end of each week. We made plaster masks in Animal Week, in Mystery Week we made TVs each with the setting of the play (a living room in a mansion) made out of clay and paint and stuff inside a box made to look like a TV, with fake clay people and that. I also took swimming lessons that year.
When I was 11 I was on the swim team and took swimming lessons besides to get up to date on the levels.
When I was 11 and 12 I went to some Sunday School and confirmation classes, was confirmed when I was 12. Also that same year (grade 6), I went to the church's After School Kids' Activities, with my best friend, some people from my class at school, and other kids who lived around the area.
When I was 13, 14 and 15 I went to sailing camp where I learned how to sail Optimist sailboats, Laser IIs, JYs and 420s. Also when I was 13 I took swimming lessons to get me up to date on the level certificates, and diving lessons too.
I went to Quebec Lodge Camp when I was 12... they did creative, funny introductory skits explaining the rules, "road time" in the evening where we just sat or stood around and talked to each other in the dark, with lanterns or whatever... we had a specialty for the second week; mine was the camp newspaper. We played sports sometimes, went swimming or boating or played games in the water, ordered pizzas once and ate them on the beach, had "evening program" where we played funny creative games, etc. We had two dances as well. Each day we signed up for a different interest activity (if you didn't sign up they put you in something random). I did world religions, environmentalism, Amnesty International, other stuff I don't remember. Near the end of the session we went to the water slides at Bromont.
I went to a social skills group in grade 9 when I was 14 and 15, and went to some parties they threw afterward.
I may have forgotten some things.
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