Personal Narrative Experience: My First Summer Attending Summer Camp

447 Words2 Pages
Melanie Williams Dr. Robert Watson English 111 9 September 2014 My first summer attending summer Camp: Life lessons learned For me, summer camp was a huge part of my childhood, especially the two weeks spent away from home at sleep away camp. I learned independence, survival skills, I also learned some very useful lessons that I apply to my career and overall life. As a young teenager, sleep away camp gave me my first sense of independence, I was never one of those kids who was dying to get away from my parents, but before I became a high school senior, I decided I needed to practice so college wouldn’t be such a difficult transition. I definitely missed my parents and the comforts of home, but I also realized that living without your parents is pretty awesome. No one tells me what to eat, make my bed (well at least at my camp, which was more of a survival camp). My camp counselors taught me the basic survival techniques the ability to rough it which included how to build a fire by rubbing two wood sticks together and blowing slightly once ignited adding small sticks to build up the flame, and building rocks around to keep fire safely contained. I was sent out on trails using a compass and the sun to find my way back to camp, I was shown which fruits and vegetable were safe to…show more content…
If I didn’t, I wouldn’t survive (look at those kids in the movie Friday the 13th). I love it! Summer camp prepared me for a lot of things. There were bullies and girls who saw everything as a competition, but there were also people who just wanted to do things together and have fun. Perhaps most importantly, my two friends Amy and Kayla we looked forward to meeting up and enjoying the fun and activities, I kept up with them by mail and now by email. The kid-dominated environment of summer camp taught me that if you see a better way to do something, I can lead and like-minded people will follow. Huge life

More about Personal Narrative Experience: My First Summer Attending Summer Camp

Open Document