Updates from Camp

Hello! I’m Kiaya, a returning camper from the previous year. The first thing I noticed was that my comb was missing, so I had to spend awhile searching for it, but thanks to the lovely campers here it was in lost & found.   After checking in before morning meeting, we sung a short song […]

My name is Jane! This is my second year at camp, aka one of the best places on earth. So far I am loving it.   Today at camp I got up around 8:30, a very cold and wet awakening because I slept in the field with some friends. I had my morning time, washing […]

first proper day of camp! i welcomed the morning by waking up in the field, surrounded my friends, both old and new. the arrival day was a little rough, with my luggage being lost, but it was back by morning and i was ready to begin my day   i got dressed with some of […]

My family and I pulled into camp in our big Australian rental van, with colorful stripes down its side and the large, cheerful black letters greeting the circle of staffers in the grass with the German twang of AUTOBARN. I began laughing to myself in the front seat, thinking, well, that’s one way to arrive. […]

August 2015 was my first blog post for NBTSC, and it was my very first day as a camper. I remember being overwhelmed with nervousness. I had grown up unschooled but decided to go to school through 7th-10th grade. I read The Teenage Liberation Handbook Sophomore year and was completely enamored. I wrote a whole […]

Because it’s fun, and because it reminds me of a book I read when I was ten in which a character did an acrostic at school (a type of writing where each letter of a phrase or word placed horizontally across the page also spells something out vertically down the page), you will find below […]

Oh, Departure Day. Why does there have to be such a thing? And why does it have to be so busy that it seems impossible to have that last chat with everybody, get those last hugs and shenanigans in, and sign all the directories?   Of course we try to do all those things the […]

Hi i’m kyson I am blogging today and hope you don’t mind my ranting, ravey sort of writing style.   So today I spent the earlier parts of my day as any before it had gone. I woke up and ate breakfast, not a unique experience but one that would’ve been considerably more somber if […]

We tried to collectively answer the burning question at our advisee meeting. Who am I? “Who I am is different. All the animals are collectively a party. Once I became something at midnight, and I didn’t forgive the animals. How did I dead the bird with sharp fangs.  Unfortunately, I haven’t ever eaten me another […]

I woke up in the field to Bet singing & playing ukulele, cold but feeling good, and glad I gave sleeping in the field another chance this session. I got to breakfast earlier than normal, but they were out of everything aside from tofu scramble, which was surprisingly good!? All through check-in I worked on […]