Welcome to my travel blog! ...I know that my departure is still a few weeks away, but I wanted to get an early start. Exactly 3 weeks from today I will finally be departing from the states and the following day I will find my destination: Galway, Ireland. What's in Ireland ...Once I arrive in Galway, I will be attending the University of Ireland, Galway. I will be enrolled at the University for 2 semesters, where I will study Literature, Culture, History, and maybe a bit of Psychology. What I really want is to understand another perspective. I want to live [View Full Entry]

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OLYMPICS!!!!! This morning I woke up and found Munchkins by our door (donut holes) and the girls were up at 6:45, so we decided to let them get up early because of their excitement and because it is Mikaylas birthday!! She turns 9 today! Opening Ceremonies was crazy! Each side had cheers and we were going back and forth, then we lit the Olympic torch. Let the games begin! For junior camp we first had Boating, then Team Sport, Individual Sport, Tug of War, and Swimming. So the girls were in sports such as Canoeing, Kayaking, Soccer, Kickball, Tennis, Archery, 50 [View Full Entry]

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This morning we hiked Piermont Mountain, the girls were so pumped for it even though we have been prepping them that it would be difficult! No girls from bunk 12A cried or whined, but we had other cabins with us and they cried and whined and it was a difficult hike but they all did awesome! It took us about an hour and a half to get up and then we ate lunch and relaxed for 2 hours at the top; it was such a nice day, the sun was out and it was really warm. We then hiked down which [View Full Entry]

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Today has been great! When Reveille went off all my girls had their teeth brushed and were dressed for the day...on top of their game!! If only every morning was like this! We had breakfast, then our morning announcements, and then SIGS, I was the counselor in Nature and this week the topic is Mission Impossible, so we made air guns and decoder maps. The girls then had tennis and I was able to catch up on letter writing which I am behind on! The wind really picked up and it got really cold out, so instead of free swim we [View Full Entry]

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This morning the girls had softball, it was fun to see them play! BUT 2 girls got hurt, Mira caught a ball with her face instead of her glove and Mikayla dove for a ball and dove too far and it hit her knee instead. All of our girls are getting injured! They then had nature, lunch, swimming lessons, soccer and boating. After our picnic dinner we had hobby night, I was in charge of knitting and luckily the girls in my group, who were from middle camp, already knew how to knit, so I was able to sit back and [View Full Entry]

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We woke up this morning late and left for Montpelier. Montpelier was on the way to Burlington which was our destination for the day. We walked around the capital which was nice and then we went to the Ben and Jerry’s factory in Waterbury---where Ben and Jerry’s was first opened. We then drove to Burlington which was really cute and went to a couple of the stores before lunch. We went to a pizza parlor for lunch and then off to the beach. It was an awesome relaxing day! We then had a late dinner and stopped by a park to [View Full Entry]

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The girls had tennis this morning so I was able to go to the CK to catch up on internet and talk to Jessica, Wes and Torey about our plans for our day off. It is just the 4 of us, and this is our last day off! I can’t believe how fast this summer is going! We then had boating, and the weather was so nice out so I went to the middle of the lake and just sat there! We then had swimming after lunch, and again, on such a nice day it felt great! This evening was bunk [View Full Entry]

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The kids were us and making noise at 6:30…..YAH for sleeping in!  We heard screaming and Connor yelled “Girls, be quiet” I heard that and I walked out of the tent and rushed over to the girls and opened their tent and said “what is going on?” in a stern voice. I had 4 girls with “deer in headlight” looks at me, and one of them rose their hand and spoke up “that was not us, the boys sound like girls when they scream” it was a true story because when I went over to the boys tent they had [View Full Entry]

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Today started really early! It was Andres last day at camp because he was a counselor for the 4 week kids, so to commemorate him and for a great good bye, we hiked Piermont…..at 4:30am!!! It was Andree, Jessica, Wes, and Fred. Yes yes I know in my last entry I mentioned that Piermont is closed….and it was….but it was only because there was so much rain and there was a lot of debris in the path. (For those of you asking why Piermont Mountain….here is why, the only entrance to hike it is in camp, (camp owns the path) and [View Full Entry]

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Today is the first of August!!! I can’t believe that there are only 2 weeks left!! 13 days!!! The days do go by slowly but the weeks go by so fast!! This morning after breakfast we were supposed to hike Piermont but on Friday it rained ALL day so it was too muddy, so we hiked Canyon Mountain instead, it was an easier hike, the mountain is a ski resort in the winter. At the top we had our lunch and enjoyed the sun that we at camp rarely get! All of junior camp hiked the same mountain so we had [View Full Entry]

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