Time Flies

This morning our second group of cabins returned from their Cabin Overnights around property, in time for breakfast and Morning Assembly. You can read about what overnights are and why we do them in yesterday’s blog.

Last night, after another fun day of activity rotations, it was time for Evening Program! This is the time where we gather after dinner for a final group event or game to cap off the day. For those cabins who already did their overnights on Tuesday, their Evening Program last night was a mix of fun games in their Cabin Lines.

Robinia and Betula, our two oldest groups, headed to the gym to play rounds of yoshi ball and dodgeball. Yoshi ball was played on the turf field, while dodgeball was in the “thunder dungeon,” or the indoor soccer field. If you’ve never played Yoshi before, this is a game where you try to get all your players to the other side’s safe zone, without getting your flag belt pulled by the other team! If you do, a teammate has to run over to save you. Halfway through the evening, the boys switched so that everyone could have a chance to play both games.

Meanwhile, our Sorrel and Tsuga cabins played on the landsports field. They enjoyed TacoCat, a fun mix of ultimate frisbee and capture the flag. The goal is to take the opponent’s flag back to your side, however if your flag belt gets pulled while trying to retrieve the flag, you go to jail. A full jailbreak happens when a frisbee gets thrown into the opponents’ goal. A frisbee caught by an individual in jail results in just that player’s release from jail.

After ending a busy day with these high-energy games, it was a welcome change of pace to move into a quieter time of Evening Embers together as cabin groups, whether in the cabin or out in an overnight shelter. The theme of the day yesterday was “respect,” and in our FCC Code, living with a Servant’s Heart means treating everyone with respect and following the Golden Rule. This also extends to self-respect, and valuing yourself as well as those around you. During this week, campers have been able to practice respect by living together as a group and forming new friendships with their cabin mates.

This is the final full day, and we hope that during this brief time at camp, the boys have done things they didn’t realize they were capable of doing, or enjoyed something new they didn’t know if they would like. Some of our counselors have been at camp for 10-12 weeks at this point, and today is also the final full day of camp for them. It’s a bittersweet time when summer comes to an end, but we hope they’ll be returning to school and work in the “world outside camp” with great memories and a greater perception of themselves.

Here’s to a terrific Thursday at camp, and ending a great summer on a high note!