TSLOK Summer Camp

Posted on 05.20.08 in Blogging and there are 10 comments.

Next week is TSLOK Summer Camp. I’ll provide all the details later this week, but I assure you it’s going to be loads o’ fun.

To get you feelin’ the camp vibe, here’s a fun question for you”

Where did you go to summer camp and what did you like or not like about it?

Ready. Set. Go.

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I’ll start things off:

1. What was the name of your summer camp?
3D Camp in Corpus Christi, Texas (it was a church camp)

2. What was your favorite part of summer camp?
I adored camp = every single bit of it. A favorite would have to be the assemblies - They were always really fun and then there was always one night when everyone got super emotional and we all cried and prayed for each other.

3. What were the best games you played at your summer camp?
Chubby Bunny, Capture the flag

4. Tell us your best summer camp story.
We dared two of our friends to have a no hands jello eating contest and whoever lost had to walk around the entire cafeteria walking and quacking like a duck.
(maybe not my best camp story - but it’s the first one that comes to mind.

5. What did you hate about camp?
I have issues with throwing up - I’m kinda paranoid about it. It was always super hot at camp and every year someone (or more) threw up. Freaked me out. I was also paranoid that - that someone would be me…

1 fav - Baylor Baseball Camp

2 fav part - riding horses

3 games - afternoon scrimmages

4 story - one day I got drilled in the back of the head with a ball and (close your ears Kat) threw up all over the place, nice concussion

5 hated - being away from my dad.  We were very close

I hated summer camp.

But I did go a few times.

1) Echo Valley Bible Camp
2) Float trips!
3) I always hated the games.  I’m not particularly coordinated so I really hated any of those crazy youth group ones we had to do.
4) On one of the float trips, one of the campers got baptized in the river.  It was pretty cool.
5) ha, I hated the showers, the games, the cliques, the bugs, the way everything seemed ten times more emotional that what is normal.  You know now that I think about it, there was actually a lot that I liked.  chapel, singing at the campfire, we had great cooks, the atmosophere (it was an old show barn--so very unique and out of the city)…

Will there be s’mores?  If so, I’m there!

1a) White River Youth Camp (church camp outside Lubbock)
1b) San Angelo band camp

2a) The rustic environment - tent sleeping and everything.
2b) Totally being a band geek.

3a) Don’t remember.  I played more mind games than anything else - never used my real name at the camp.  It really prepared me for on-line life!
3b) No games, just practice.  Perfect!

4a) Well, there was the time our guy’s tent serenaded a girls tent, and walking back I tripped and made a total fool of myself . . .
4b) The last time I went, I was second chair percussion in the top band and also drummer for the jazz band.  Played some pretty cool music that year . . .

5a) Crafts
5b) I almost got kicked out one year - firecrackers in the dorms we were staying in.  They ended up making me and the others pay for repairing carpet burns they said we caused but were really cigarette burns.

1. What was the name of your summer camp?
Camp Crestridge.  It’s a traditional girls’ sleepaway camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.  The boys’ camp is on the other side of interstate 40.  You’d think that would be a more effective deterrent than it actually was…

2. What was your favorite part of summer camp?
I loved camp and still miss it.  The best part was the relationships - camp was constant no matter what else had changed, your camp friends are friends for life, and some of my camp friends are still good friends.  It was one place where you could be yourself and be loved unconditionally.  Being a counselor there as a college student was a great privilege as I got to pass on that love to a new generation of girls - who are now counselors themselves!

3. What were the best games you played at your summer camp?
We played a variation of Capture the Flag called sock wars.  It’s much more elaborate with theme stories and characters and involves socks filled with flour.  The highlight of every session.

4. Tell us your best summer camp story.
My best cabin was the summer I was 16 - we had all grown up at camp, nobody was a whiner, and we all knew how to game the system and get what we wanted done.  Our junior counselor was 17, so she had basically no authority.  On one of her nights off, we took the mattress from her bed, put it in the rafters, and made her bed back up sans mattress.  You should’ve heard her scream when she tried to sneak back in without waking anyone up.  Of course, we were all waiting for her anyway. 

5. What did you hate about camp?
The food was often terrible.  I actually became a vegetarian the summer I was 16 because I just couldn’t stand it anymore.

Oooh - Camp Kachina on Lake Belton. A girl scout camp that I continued going to even after I quit girl scouts. The counselors all had nick names and we tried to figure out their real names all session.

I LOVED ALL OF IT!

Well, not the poison ivy that swelled me up to Pure Luck size and got me sent to S&W;in Temple!

Let’s go, Chubby Bunny!

1.  Hume Lake Christian Camp(southern CA)
2.  Favorite: Being outside all day long...swimming, hiking etc.  and then getting all cleaned up to go eat in the AC cafe. 
3.  Best games: I was not a game girl.  I despised the whole idea of team spirit and would always be the last participant in whatever it was we were doing(I’m sure many of you would have been very annoyed at me).  I’m not really sure why I hated it so much.  And I hated it even more after a game of kajabi can can ended in me giving my friend a concussion(by accident of course, that game is pure violence). 
4.  Best story for sure:  I started my period for the first time at camp when I was 15.  Yes ma’am, it was the stuff that coming-of-age-novels are made of.  It was really quite horrifying at first but almost all of my friends were already...well...experienced, so it ended up being ok.
5.  Hated:  Like I said, the games and the screaming and cheering and competitive nature of the whole week....and, also game related: watching the guy that had just won the “vienna sausage eating contest” throw them all back up. Repugnatious.

If anybody is wondering what kajabi can can is you ca check out a video of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DR6hA0litM
It’s craziness!

I didn’t attend many camps when I was little. I went to one weeklong camp somewhere in Kentucky in my preteens. But my favorite camp experiences were Berachah (hebrew for blessing) Camp with my youth group and other groups from around Australia in the middle of winter for a long weekend. I loved the worship, the fun, and the bonding. I thought, why can’t everyday be like camp!  Then I went to college and we had chapel 3x a week...oh...then I realized why.

I worked at two summer camps as a counselor, first at Pine Valley Bible Camp with junior camp (9-12 yrs old) and teen camp (13-18) and three years later at Forest Home, in Jr and Sr. High. I loved it!

Every time, my favorite part about camp was the worship and growing part as well as developing relationships and spiritual conversations. As a counselor I loved one on one’s with my girls, just to get to know them better I’d ask them what they wanted me to pray for, and what God was teaching them. I had really good answers and learned alot about them that way.

Does that answer your question?

OOOOOooooh.
And and and.
I just came back from a weekend camping trip with our college group. It was chill, laid back and fun.
That’s all. (and I fixed my url)

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