J Davis

Although it was a rest day, and wake up call wasn’t until 10am, i woke up at 7:30. The unit of body heat keeping me warm while we were sleeping in the field was leaving for breakfast meal prep, and i didn’t see a point in going back to sleep when i was shivering that […]

Today was bonding night and it was really fun! I was really nervous about it earlier in the day because it’s my first year. So I’ve never been to Bonding Night before and I heard that there is a lot of hugging. I’m not really a person who likes hugging people other than close friends. […]

I woke up right before the rickrolling started. I appreciate the tradition but, I’m still glad to already be awake when it starts. I got on the swings as the rickrollers were about to reach the field. Breakfast was very calm (once I got outside of the dining hall). It’s always nice to see my […]

This morning I woke up bright and early (and quite cold) in my tent. While campers and staff slept in and enjoyed their first morning all together at camp over breakfast, meetings, and advisee groups, I dug an energy drink out of the snack bag in Orion’s car and drove the two hours to Eugene. […]

It is the first full day after my early arrival to camp and I wake up a couple hours before a full nights rest. Its slightly chilly and I enjoy the vacant cabin to myself before all the other campers arrive tomorrow. I clean and organize while listening to my favourite band Dance Gavin Dance, […]

  Ahhhhh…that first cup of tea overlooking the creek at Camp Myrtlewood. Like so many firsts when one arrives to Not Back to School Camp, they register in your psyche like gifts that you have waited for all year. For me there are so many of them: the first sight of the exit for Coos […]

Departure Day is a whirlwind of emotion, joy, tears, and activity. For those of us who have to drive or function safely on Departure Day morning, getting a good amount of sleep is important but seems in hindsight to leave little time for those last goodbyes. Even those campers who choose to stay up all […]

Today was the last day of camp.   For some, it was the last day of their first year. For others, it was the last day of their final year. I’m in the latter category. I don’t really know how to feel about it yet.   The day started slow, with breakfast of camp potatoes […]

A couple years back I was really obsessed with the Japanese street fashion style, and I stumbled across a Japanese fashion magazine called Fruits somewhere on the web. In the late 90’s and early aughts they released the photo book Fresh Fruits that catalogued the fashion of the current era. The book had pictures of […]

My day started off earlier then I wanted it to. I had decided to sleep in the field with my friends last night. but it started raining around 5am, we were one of the first groups to wake up, so when we moved to the covered porch we got to watch all of the other […]