Day 25-KUMBAYA

Howdy!

         Soooo big news in my world! Drum roll please.....(Thank you to those who did so) I'm going to camp this summer! I got a call yesterday from Camp Cho-Yeh in Livingston, Texas and they offered me a position! Ah! I'm really anxious and nervous and excited (This is just a sample of what's going on in my mind...and stomach...) but really really above all I'm so very pumped! It's just crazy though, if you had ask me in High School if I was going to be a counselor; I probably would've said no. I suppose I wouldn't have guessed though that I'd be a youth counselor or that my best friend would plant the 'camp seed' in my head and that I'd meet someone else who basically just push me (Nicely but forcefully) into a camp interview. It's really crazy how things like this happen. Lately I've been telling people that I've never been to camp. Which I just realized is kind of untrue.

          When I was in Girl Scouts we went to a kind of camp and did random sort of camp things...more like making friendship bracelets and singing songs...about friendship. Yup things got pretty crazy on the girl scout front. I remember enjoying the cabins though and feeling like you were away from everything. I like the quiet mornings and nights. I remember the other girls HATING camp though. All of them. After that one camp experience my troop never went to a camp ever again. Which was really unfortunate. So instead we did the lamest mock camp thing ever.

Memory #25

                    So since all of my troop detested camping with every fiber in their body our troop leaders, which included my mom, decided on a mock camp. Which was basically a sleepover...at one of the girl's super fancy smancy house and hanging out outside until like it got dark...because who even does that? (Totally just kidding but I have to set the mood). We did this a couple of years in a row. While it was fun it was definitely not camp. We swam all day in their fancy pool and came in inside when we were hungry. The only thing 'outdoorsy' thing we accomplished was going on this long but beautiful hike behind this girl's house.

            I remember on one particular 'camp sleep over' I was really mad at my best friend in the troop and we were not on speaking terms for most of the night. I have no recollection on why I was mad I just remember I was infuriated with her very presence and did not want to be around her. Which is really unfortunate because then everyone else kind of just hangs out with that person anyways and you're stuck looking incredibly childish and alone. This is going to sound so lame (And I don't care) but as long as my mom was there I was never really alone. My mom was my best friend. Period. So when we started going on our annual nature hike, we drifted towards the back of the pack and leisurely strolled taking in our surroundings. Like usual we were goofy and happy, she would make me forget about how angsty and mad I was at my friend so by the time we had made it to the lake she had somehow magically made me let go of the bitterness so that I would go and join my friends. I wish I had the picture of my girl scout troop here when we finally made it to the lake. (I look AWESOME in it...yikes) I don't remember a lot about that night but I remember it ending fun and enjoyable. All thanks to my mom. 

Love Always,

Erin