Jaimee's Blog: July 2009

helloo everyone...its jaimee...I'm soooooo sorry that its been awhile since i have updated this with my mom...anyways...i had the greatest time at camp! At first i was nervous because i was going to MONTANA and i had no idea what to expect because you never here about anything in Montana. I was also nervous because i kept on having dreams about going there and not getting along with the people. Usually the dream was that my sister and I went there and I got stuck with weird people and tay got stuck with all of the fun outgoing people...haha...i guess shouldn't have worried at all because I'm a big weirdo so it shouldn't have mattered :D when i got to the Missula airport in Montana it was a tiny little thing! I saw a bunch of people around my age sitting on the ground and was too scared to just go up to them so i walked around for a little and found a counselor wearing a camp-mak-a dream shirt and i went up and introduced myself and she told me that i was going to be in her cabin and then we walked to where all of the other people were sitting. Everyone was sectioned off into groups and that made me worried because I didn't want it to be like that at camp. My cabin leader, Jen, introduced me to some people and then left me alone all by myself in the middle of all of the groups! haha i was kind of panicking on the inside because I am not the kind of person who would just go up to random people and make friends with them but it was time for me to break out of my little mold and go talk to some people...so there was this other girl sitting by herself and i decided to go talk to her...it helped alot that she was wearing a cute knee length skirt with leg warmers and flats...i have never seen anyone dress like that and it totally worked for her (its so much easier for me to talk to people if i can find something to complement them about haha) we ended up sitting on the bus together for the one hour ride to camp. Her name is Jolene Pollard and she is from Canada and she wants to become a singer. When she told me that i thought it was cool but didn't think anything about it but then she played a few of her songs for us at one of the camp fires and at the talent show and she was AMAZING!!!! if you like folk/pop music you should check her out on myspace http://www.myspace.com/jolenepollard

my cabin. beartooth.

the camp is BEAUTIFUL!! It looks like a resort, not a camp. To keep the place nice they don't allow anyone to walk on the grass so you have to go WAY out of the way to get to any place that you want...it was really annoying but at least I got extra exercise.

There were a lot of things to do at the camp. There was the art barn where they had pottery, painting, beads, and basically any supplies for whatever artsy thing you want to do. There was a climbing wall, archery, a small mini golf course, a volleyball court on sand, a basketball court, a pool and jacuzzi, a rec room (pool table, Foosball table, ping pong table, and a two player basketball game)

Tener, he is training for the special olypics to do archery!!! he is amazing!!

art barn

tie dye and screen printing in the art barn

Jordy and Me Climbing the wall...hes on the difficult side. He climbed that wall sooo many times and fast too

the high ropes course

wet, freezing, and dirdy after the high ropes. When my group went up on the course it was raining really hard and it was also really windy. It was misrable but soooooo fun!

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When we didn't have free time there were scheduled workshops or field trips. How to start up a non-profit organization was one of the workshops and Christine baze was the guest speaker who started up the yellow umbrella organization. She plays concerts all around the country and donates all of the money to cervical cancer awareness. A local theater group came by and they taught us some improv games. There were a lot of workshops where you do icebreakers and get to know everyone. there were a lot more but i cant remember them all. Oh and all of the workshops were optional. We went on two field trips. One was to Missula and the other was to philipsburg. In Missula we went to farmers and peoples markets and it was really cool because missula is a little hippy town in the middle of the conservative Montana. It was really neat how there were a whole lot of booths where people sell crafts that they hand made. Philispburg is an extremely small town and we got to mine for sapphires there. There were also cute shops there.

some of the people at camp, in Missula

Philipsburg

One night there was a carnival where we would play games for tickets and exchange them for prizes. At the carnival they had a mini shooting range with pellet guns and that was fun. Another night we had a karaoke dance party which was really fun...the camp lent out costumes for everyone to wear if you wanted. The last night there was a talent show. I didn't do anything but it was really fun watching everyone haha
One thing that was really weird was how much of a California accent I have!! Most of the people that went to the camp were from the South or the East Coast and from being around all of those different accents I sounded like an idiot with a valleyish accent!! I'm not even from the valley!! haha anyways, I had sooooooooo much fun at this camp. I met amazing people and I cant wait to go back!!