by RENEE SLOAN

Created on: May 23, 2009

Reflections: How summer camp changed my life

I have never be to summer camp until I was about sixteen. Because every year I was expose to go to camp I wax sick with my Cerebral Palsy and I couldn't go. But, when I turn sixteen, I got to go to a summer camp for the handicap and it was so fun. I had never been to camp before, I learn how to swim fish for the first time. I got to me a lot of new friends. I when hiking and camping out in a tent with out kids. Sing around the camp firer. The camp had great food for us, when we weren't camping out under the stars we had only cabin. Which I was in the cabin with my best friend that I went to school with. She is the one who talk me into going to summer camp. But, two days, after she had got there she had gotten sick and had go home. I thought that I was going to be scare with out my best friend not being there, at first was then I got to know the other girls in our cabin. I remember time when our camp counselor took our cabin, out on a sleep out in the woods. We started a camp firer and ate food and sang songs and slept in sleeping bags. It was so peaceful to look up at the stars in the sky, I hand the best time of my life. Before the summer camp was over they games that you enter to, win ribbon, I won one for running it was so much fun to watch the kids play the game with their handicap. There was so many things that I did there, that I never did before. I got into a boat with my camp counselor and other camp friends. Our camp went to the amusement park for the day, that was fun always and I got to ride my first roller coaster. I was so, scared, because I never been on a a roller coaster before. I spent two weeks at summer camps, I enjoyed it a lot, at the end of the summer camp they had a big dance. You had to bring a date to the dance. At, first I was scare to ask anyone at camp, but the girls in my cabin, said go on and ask some one. I wasn't a very shy person around guys, but i managed to at very handsome counselor to final dance. It was the best dance I every been to, I think I dance with him more then I dance with anyone that night. When, last dance came we dance, then he walked me to my cabin. There I had my first kiss by a older guy, I had never been kissed by a older guy. Going to summer camp for the first time and change my life, I had met a lot of friends and my first kiss of older man. I didn't think that I was going to like summer camp, but loved it a lot and I went back one more time.

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