My Most Impactful Experience At A Summer Camp

An experience that really changed my life was when my grandfather was on the verge of death in the hospital. I remember seeing my family crying and my heart ached. I visited him every day and came home to study for my exams. I would sleep late every night to study and cry. In that moment, I realized how precious life was and how much of an impact we as individuals have other people. Ever since, I have tried to enjoy every single moment of life, whether a simple walk to school or spending time with my family.

I am perfectly content at Camp DeSoto—a Christian camp that sits atop Lookout Mountain in Mentone, Alabama. Camp DeSoto teaches girls how to live in fellowship with one another. My summers there have truly been one-of-a-kind.

The most memorable part of my life was my first time volunteering at an animal shelter. I did not really know a lot of people. It was kind of difficult that first whole week, but I got the hang of things. The people there helped me along the way and welcomed me like a family. Getting to know those people and actually seeing that they enjoy their jobs was a very important experience.

No matter what happened during the school year I would always come back to camp and be able to spend time with the girls that went from friends to family over the nine years that I had known them. This last year was the last time I would ever get to do activities, earn merits or even swim a mile. During my last two weeks at CLH I knew this but it did not sink in until it was my last time to hike up to Church Mountain as a camper. On the way up my eyes started to sting and I reached over and grabbed my friend Riata’s hand. I looked over at her and saw that she was crying too. Once I realized she was I looked around and witnessed my entire cabin start to break down and come to understand, this was our last year, our last chance to do anything a camper could do. It was during this time that I truly came to appreciate everything camp has taught me and the great friends that I made along the way.

Camp Middle Moose was one of my best days ever! It's one week of awesomeness! I get to try new things next year, and then try other things in the next. One week you get to spend at Camp Middle Moose, it's so exciting! It might be a drag from doing a lot of things that you are not used to, but you can get over it in a day, just have fun.

When one thinks of the words “Church Camp,” the term is not always related to “fun.” That is, unless that person has been to Gull Lake Ministries. I will admit, before my first summer there I originally believed that the camp was going to be a boring place where biblical information was the focus all the time. I quickly learned that I was extremely wrong. Not only was my impression of the camp wrong, my outlook on what life at camp would be like was completely wrong as well. By providing me with experiences I would otherwise not have had the opportunity to enjoy, introducing my family and me to new people, and enhancing my relationship with God, the next two hours at Gull Lake was about to teach me more than I could have ever though that it

If there’s one event that has made a huge impact in my life it would have to be a roll over car accident that my parents, aunt, and I were when I was in sixth grade. This car accident has impacted me negatively by leaving me with PTSD and positively by figuring out what career I am pursuing.

During the last two weeks of my summer employment with the Salvation Army Pine Lake Camp, a team including myself was sent to The Salvation Army Berkshire Citadel to run a series of camps, but there was a few unforeseen complications. Our team lead had to be suddenly transferred to another team, leaving the Calgary team in a predicament. Before the issue had even been raised to the group, I was approached by the camp program director, she pulled me aside and asked if I would be willing to colead the team. I was shocked, and honored she acknowledged me, as the youngest person on the team, to be given so much responsibility. The role I had been given required myself and a college student to work together to coordinate, promote, budget, and

The camp was really nice and so were the people. They had a bell that went off when it was time to eat so you weren't late. In the morning you get to wake up and see the beautiful sunset on the beach. You learn about different fish and birds and a bunch of other things on the island, it is not all activities. They make the learning fun so you actually learn something and are not just sitting there bored and writing things down.

One experience that has been particularly meaningful to me is my experience playing varsity football. Not only has this experience been the highlight of my high school career, but it has also been one of the most worthwhile experiences I have had. While participating in football, I have not only built many relationships that will last a lifetime, but I have also learned many lessons that I may not have learned without football. I learned how to deal with great diversity, whether it be on a small scale, such as responding to an unfortunate play, or on a larger scale, such as bouncing back from a season ending defeat. I have also learned the importance of hard work, perseverance, and

The Event that has impacted me the most happened in late 2014,i was 15 at the time for me it was one of the most memorable events that has happened to me. I was in a Longboarding accident that caused me to go into a two week coma. It happened when i was still living in Oklahoma. After this happened, i’ve learned not to be so careless and i should be more aware of what my surroundings are. I remember that my friends and i were walking around a neighborhood looking for hills to ride down on,we usually did this for about an hour or so. It really was the perfect weather to go Longboarding it was a cool November winter day about 29 degrees. We were still walking until we found this hill in the neighborhood at the time i remember not being so big.

Well, both of these exciting camps, Earthshine and Camp Timberlake, were awesome in their own special way. Earthshine had deliciously amazing mouth-watering stomach filling food, and also had a heart racing Zipline course. Camp Timberlake had well sized cabins and two fun activities. Overall, hands up to Earthshine, I enjoyed it there, for where the camp was and for the

If someone were to ask me right now, what my greatest experience would be I would, without any hesitation, say History Day. In the eighth grade, my friends and I decided to join National History Day, a program where students gather and research topics pertaining to a certain historic theme. I joined mostly because I wanted to learn something new and have fun with it, though I had no idea what to expect. As we brainstormed topics, we decided to do a performance on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which we were all equally passionate about. As we dove headfirst into the research, I remember being overcome with emotion as I realized how similar we were to the girls who had perished in the fire. Many of them were our age and I immediately

I was a camper here at Mountain Lakes for seven years and each year I enjoyed it more and more. I really enjoyed the camps activities, the staff, other campers and everything about it.

Every time I have gone to Camp Geneva it has always been an amazing experience. I have been going to this camp since I was about 8 years old. The first time I went was for day camp and ever since that, I have been going for a week at a time. There are two sides to this camp, shores, and pines. Shores is for 5th graders and under and pines is for middle schoolers and high schoolers. Shores is nice because you are right on Lake Michigan. Pines is tucked back a little, only about a few blocks from shores, and it has a small lake with an island in the middle. The small lake has lots of fun stuff to do on it. For example, it has a climbing tower, a zip line, a blob, paddle boarding, and kayaking. This camp is during the summer and I always bring