“The longest days/ the shortest weeks/ the greatest friends that you’ll ever meet.”
Every time I hear the words to “I Would Not Be Me,” I can’t help but sing this line. These words rang especially true for me this summer.
No day on Earth feels as long as a camp day. Our campers write and perform a creative grace, attend swimming lessons or other waterfront activities, work on a craft project, grow as a team in our Adventure activities, play on the ballfield and grow spiritually. And that is all before lunch! Even during down times, campers and counselors are growing as a community and experiencing life outside of computers and TV. While we all would like to sleep just a bit longer each morning, looking back, it is more than worth it.
With the days being so long, it’s amazing how fast a week can go by. I feel like it was yesterday that we were putting in docks, excited for the GaGa pit to arrive on the truck and welcoming our A week campers. I have to slow down every day and think about how much was accomplished during the summer of 2010. I saw campers push themselves as individuals on the ropes course, ear to ear smiles during the first time getting up on water skis, nervousness turn into excitement on the faces of first time campers, people dancing like maniacs during
Thank you to our campers, parents, friends, donors and anyone else who helped make camp a success this summer. I hope to see you around CSM at a weekend camp or other event. Finally, THANK YOU to the talented, energetic, mature and selfless members of our 2010 summer staff. You have truly changed the world for the better and made a tremendous impact on my life and our campers’ lives. There is only one chance at a first summer as
There is no place like camp, and especially no place like Camp Stella Maris. Kids (and Counselors) are free to be themselves. When everyone is being true to who they are, it is only then that we can find “the greatest friends that you’ll ever meet.”
-Adam
