Greetings from HoneyRock, Wheaton's camp in the northwoods of Wisconsin! I've been here for almost a week (got in last Saturday afternoon) but I've adjusted quickly and feel like I fit right in :) This post is just a general update of what I've been up to since I got here a week ago.
The first weekend was super chill. It was just a lot of hanging out and getting to know the other SLSers (SLS is the program I'm doing-stands for Summer Leadership School). We're divided up into units. Mine is the Loon Gaggle, which consists of 5 of us and our unit leader, Elizabeth. I'm the only rising senior in my group (other than my unit leader... we were RAs together, lulz) which makes for an interesting dynamic, but most of the time I don't really think about it. Anyways. Sunday, it was pouring, so we played games inside (after getting thoroughly drenched walking through the rain) and then just chilled.
Monday afternoon we left for our 5 day, 4 night wilderness trip with our units, so that's what I've been up to the past several days. The trip was so much fun, but much harder than I was expecting. The first day was easy, it was a short canoe ride to our campsite. It was raining, so we had to build a wet wood fire, but otherwise day one was easy. The second day I think was the hardest for me. We had to canoe up river quite a ways. For a good part of it, we were wading in knee deep water (sometimes deeper), dragging our canoe behind us. I was feeling pretty discouraged by the time we finished, but the second half of the canoe ride was much easier, and our campsite that night was gorgeous. The third day we met our "brother" unit for lunch, gave them our canoes, and they gave us their backpacks. That was great as my brother floor RA from this past year was their unit leader, so I got to see him again. Then we took off on a hot, bug filled, 3 hour hike. We ended up stopping at the campsite the other girl unit was at and they invited us to stay there with them, which was really fun being all together again. The fourth day, we stayed at the same campsite, but went on a day hike a nearby campsite. Once we got back, we just relaxed and I ended up taking a 3 hour nap :) Then today, the fifth day. We left our campsite after breakfast and hiked back to HoneyRock, stopping for lunch on the way. I was so tired and ready to be back by the end of the trip, but it was so much fun, I really bonded with my unit, and I am so excited to continue to get to know them and to take campers out in the wilderness!
I feel like this blog post is plenty long and just a lot of rambling, so I'm gonna call it quits.
I just have 2 more weeks of training, and then campers start coming!
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