Friday 26 October 2012

The Best Summer Camps

By Jeff Lorenz


To me, Summer Camp is another home with another family. But camp isn't just any family or any home, Swift Nature Camp is a special home. Minnesota Summer Camps in the North woods is more than the pristine beauty of lakes, forests and eagles flying overhead.

This summer camp is filled with acceptance, love, encouragement, and true, down to earth friends. Your counselors are more like older siblings. They are fun, understanding and want you to make good decisions. You will want to look up to them. The campers are from all over and will be friends for life. Know one makes you feel uncomfortable because of who you are. Your uniqueness is celebrated. This is what makes Swift Nature Camp so important to me.

When you're not on canoe or backpack trips and just at camp, there is so much to do, you can never fit it all in. Other fun activities to do at camp are archery, swimming, fishing, boating, tubing, and riflery. I loved being active all day. What is real neat is rather you are a beginner or an expert in an area its ok. The counselors help you get better. All activities are noncompetitive and so we all support each other, rather than worry who is best.

As a cabin group we went International Wolf center in Ely Minnesota. It was an adventure unlike any other. We even got to sleep near the wolves! The Nature was spectacular, we saw hawks, bald eagles, deer, ospreys. This is why I wil always want to return to Overnight Summer Camp in Minnesota.

Cabin life is all about learning about others. We come from all over America and even other countries, to meet at a Minnesota Summer Camp. In each cabin there are 10 campers and 2 very kind counselors. Our goal is to become a team for the 3 or 6 weeks we are there. Sure, we had our fights, but always they are resolved and we grow closer because of them.

The Nature Center is a great place to learn about Nature and the beautiful environment of the North woods. We always have fun this is not school. The animals in the zoo are fun to take care of, especially since my mom, back home, will only let me have a cat. It is kinda like being at an animal camp.

I'm returning to Swift Nature Camp for all these reasons. I love camp and hope to be a Counselor in training when I'm sixteen and then a counselor when I'm eighteen. So, I'll see yawl in the North woods of Minnesota this summer!




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