Updates from Camp

I spent most of the day doing dishes. I’m a worktrader so I need to do an hour and a half of kitchen work every day, plus I was covering for another camper’s hour, plus I like being in the kitchen anyway, so I stuck around just for fun.   I cut so many potatoes […]

this morning i woke up on the porch of the lodge, surrounded by my friends, and woken up by the jr staffer ruben playing their guitar.   i had the pleasure of taking a hot shower after a long cold night in the field. then doing my superhero of checking everyone in for morning meeting. […]

Hi! I’m Avery, a lot of people here call me Ava. It’s my first time here in Vermont but I’ve been to the Oregon session twice before! On arrival day I was super excited to see the friends I had already met, I slept in the middle of the field with my best friends from […]

What a great session we had for 2023 NBTSC. Camp Myrtlewood was its usual dreamy paradise self. The weather was great. The smoke stayed away for the most part. The creek was full and refreshing. The staff seemed like a dream team and the campers were delightful. So many workshops and panels and conversations and […]

after a long night of being half awake on the couch, it was finally time to welcome the final day of nbtsc. i had spent most of my night chatting with friends, and signing directories. which are the yearbooks of nbtsc.   it took me a while to stuff my sleeping bag in my suitcase, […]

Hello! My name is Zoe JDP, I Unschool in New York City, and this has been my second year of NBTSC.   Today is the last day of camp. It was quite a slow and emotional day.    By the end of morning meeting, I was already crying. So many wonderful people and such a […]

Hello! I’m Alastar, I’m a second year camper, and this is my blog for the day – it will be mostly about the tree.     Today, I woke up telling myself I wanted to climb the tree a lot. So far, I’d climbed it 20 times this session. My goal was to climb it […]

Hi there! My name is Andrias, i’m here to recount how I experienced a day at camp. Day 11, Prom Night! I woke up relatively early, around 7 am, and I just stayed in bed for a couple hours before getting dressed and heading off to the lodge for breakfast. The day was relatively relaxing […]

Today was, in my opinion, one of the best days of camp. It started off with morning meeting as always, and it happened to be a special day for someone, something we are all very familiar with at this point. It was someone’s birthday (we’ve had at least four others by this point). For each […]

I woke up at 8am for my morning work trade. its always so much fun, they treat us so well. They had me cut up mushrooms, and serve breakfast. I sat next to Alastar and Marley during check in, and we sang a nice song. They announced the second talent show, and prom for the […]