As the title suggests, I must admit that THIS summer has definately been one for the records. As some of you know, I spent 11 years as a camper at Sunshine. LAST year, since I graduated, I returned and volunteered as a L.I.T. for Sunshine's junior week. THIS year, however, I took a leap of faith and decided to give Camp Twin Lakes a shot. I applied and was interviewed back in February. The MINUTE I stepped onto the camp grounds, I got chills. I KNEW that this is what I wanted to do as my summer job.

Classes at Mercer ended at the start of May, and I had exactly a week and a half at home with my family before I moved up to Rutledge. The 4.5 hour drive seemed to take 45 hours, as i couldn't wait to get here. I was also a little scared of how it would feel to have all the OTHER summer camps here, not just Sunshine.

This turned out fine as I fell in love with each camp who's been here thus far. We're just about to start the second week of Sunshine's stay (junior week), so there have been about 5 camps here since orientation week. I miss all the campers of each one, and I miss the various songs and chants that made each unique (C-B-E, most of all).

Anyways, I'm OD ("on-duty") for the weekend, and the counselors are just starting to arrive. I should probably go be useful somewhere. I'll be sure to post at some other point though.

Forever let the sun shine on...

~Steph