Last few days at camp.....

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Howdy everyone,

What a strange thought that my 10 weeks here at camp are over as of tomorrow!!! It's been a great summer again, we've had great weather, great campers, and after all the sicknesses at the barn we were left with 7 great horses too!

For the last week I was a counselor in Cabin Z. With a few counselors having to leave early for college they were short so I volunteered. It was a big change from the last time, when I had Cabin S (some of the youngest campers) to move into the Senior division, with some of the oldest campers. It was a great experience and I had a lot of fun getting to know this other side of camp and meeting the girls. I think it was tough on them to change counselors but hopefully they enjoyed having me in their cabin too :)

One of my favourite days this summer included Olympic Day, like in 2003, a fun-filled day with 9 teams each representing a country. I, of course, represented the Netherlands and had some great counselors on my team, Aly and Ali (this summer there were a lot of Ali's!!!) We didn't win in the end but we had so much fun competing in the land, water and trivia events, which were slightly affected by the thunder that showed up in the afternoon (but did nothing to change the scorching weather!) Another fun-filled day was the Water Carnival, where the waterfront and smallcrafts staff acted out the musical Grease in the water and on the floats, while us Program Staff read out the lines. I played one of the guys, and me pretending to be a guy was one of the most ridiculous-sounding things ever, let me tell you! Hilarious.

Today is the last day of Family Camp, a lot more relaxed than regular girl's camp, no instructional periods- the families do whatever they like all day and each department has special activities organised. Instead of the 370 girls we have to watch there are approximately 25-30 families (who can watch their own kids of course). A great atmosphere!

Tomorrow Jenny, Katie Briggs, Katie Davison (Davo)and I will be driving up to Montreal, Canada, while there will be 4 boys taking the bus from Concord and another car arriving on Monday and another arriving on Tuesday. Altogether we'll spend a week over there, basically enjoying our free time! After that we'll drive back to Boston and on the 5th I will be going to LA, California with Davo (Aussie) and Remy (Welsh dance & drama chick!). We will be living it up in Hollywood!!

On the 13th I will finally be returning home (The Netherlands....after all this time I wonder where home is sometimes....) after over 6 months of being away. I've definitely missed it so I'll be glad to be back again.

Ciao and there will be a travel update soon!

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