Why Go to Camp?

I've recently been asked to write an article on "why go to camp?". I could write up all the reasons I go to our church camps, but it would be much better to hear reasons from you. Why do you go to camp? Please comment! Thanks.

Convention 08 - Day 3

by Nina

Day 3: On the third day of Convention we did our worship service in front of everyone! I think it went very well. I’d say the best parts were Cassie’s depressing scripture reading, Molly, Kate, and Nemo’s skit, Janice, Cody, and MB’s amazing performance of Janice’s original song, and of course Marybeth’s incredible solo. I’ll admit I got a little teary eyed during that part. Oh and of course when Cody got everyone to chant “LIVE YOUR LOVE! LIVE YOUR LOVE!” and we all fell down! I think we pretty much exceeded everyone’s expectations. Go us! It was also the Fourth of July so after the worship service us patriotic ones changed into our red, white, and blue outfits/ fireworks shorts. After lunch some of us went to the movies and others went to Plymouth Rock. I went with the movie group to go see Wall-E. It was surprisingly deep for a computer-animated Disney movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Upon returning we had a barbeque, tossed around the Frisbee, and a bunch of us learned some crazy conta-dancing moves! That was a definite highlight for me. Then we sat on top of the hill and watched fireworks that were partially obstructed by trees and buildings but were still super-exciting! And wayyyy later that night at like 2:00am Holly and I decided to give Cody a makeover! So we French braided his hair and did his makeup and painted his nails and made him wear my pink dress and furry purple flip flops! It was quite the sight so we paraded him around the campus only to find that everyone had gone to bed! It was very upsetting. But then we did it again the next day when everyone was still awake and Matt let us give him a makeover too so.. it all worked out pretty well.

Convention 08 - Day 2

by Nina

Day 2:

The second day of Convention was pretty much a planning day. It was also the day me and Janice decided to wear our super-exciting matching outfits! So.. we spent most of the day planning what we were going to do for our worship service. I thought this was a lot funner than lectures and classes because we got to do the talking and we could be creative and inventive and we didn’t just have to sit there and listen to other people talk the whole time. And besides that we played a lot of pool and ping pong and foozeball and Cody and Holly taught me how to play Set which turned out to be an amazingly fun game. Oh! We also played a really intense game of Ultimate Frisbee. We lost even though we had Kurt on our team (who is amazing at Ultimate Frisbee) but it was really close and reallyyyy fun.

Convention 08 - Day 1

by Nina

Day 1:

The first day of Convention happened to fall on my sixteenth birthday which made it even more exciting! It was a good birthday. I got to meet new people and see friends I hadn’t seen since memorial day! And there was a pool table! Holly and I played against Cody and Jake (who I actually thought was Sam at the time) and we lost but it was a fun time. We also learned about the theme (Shout!) and started brainstorming for our worship service.

Convention 2008 Through the Eyes of Nina

Nina was kind enough to write up a day to day summary of her experience at Convention 2008. Her story will be posted one day every week or so. Here's the introduction...

Convention '08
by Nina

I had an AMAZING time at this year’s Convention. Soooo many memories and were created and lots of friendships were formed and I learned how to contra-dance! I’ve been to a lot of retreats but this was my very first Convention. I’d say it was even better than the retreats which is saying a lot since retreats are also insanely fun. I guess I liked Convention better because it was less structured and we were pretty much free to do whatever we wanted. We didn’t even have a bedtime! And we didn’t have to wash any dishes.

Tote Bags

As part of our SCYL fundraising efforts, the teens sold 100% recycled cotton tote bags printed with the "Love, Wisdom, Action" spiral at convention this year. Nancy was kind enough to send me this picture. Her tote bag visited Wahconah Falls State Park in Windsor, MA. Where has yours been?

Convention 2008 Rocked!

Now that it's over, let's be perfectly clear. The teens rocked at Convention 2008!

Those who attended know this and need to visit and contribute to this blog to share the love and good times.

Those who did not attend, need to visit this blog and enjoy seeing how much fun Convention is.

Either way, we've probably got a month's worth of material to talk about and share. As we enter into the summer camp season, we'll be posting lots of Convention articles, reports and pictures. Hope you all come back to visit this blog often, to comment and enjoy the memories!