Camp Blog

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 I woke up on the floor  Snuggled under a fuzzy blanket To the sound of Valentina playing ukelele  Saying goood morning campers, the time is currently 7:29 am. Please wake up your friends and bring your bags and mattress down to the lodge.  While campers chattered lightly and signed directories Some of them […]

Hello, it’s me Stella, coming to you live from the airplane home! Day 8 was our last full day of camp  🙁 and also cleanup day! With a lot of people coming off the late-night high of prom/the presidential debate, it was a great day to sleep in. And when we got up there were […]

      Overall camp was pretty normal today. In the beginning of the day, Benevieve (Ben + Genevieve, former campers who are making a film about camp) sadly left us, but that just means we’re even closer to their camp documentary video being done. There were a couple memorable workshops, the ones i remember […]