Hey, Camp Fans!
The ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest is in full swing for this year. We’ve been announcing our lucky winners and sharing their stories right here on the Blog throughout September. And today, I’m announcing our first of the three $50 gift certificate winners! Today’s winner is….
Anne M.!
Congratulations, Anne! You’re our first $50 prize winner! Anne had a great time at Camp Nakanawa. Read about it in his Contest entry right here:
“My name is Anne M. I am 11 years old. I have been going to Camp Nakanawa 
for the month of July for the last four years. Nakanawa is in Eastern Tennessee and has been around for 100 years! This summer was its 100th summer. My Mom, Aunt, Great Aunt, and Great Grandmother all went to Nakanawa. I had a lot of fun this year. One of my favorite activities is horseback riding. The counselor who runs the barn, Wyeth, is one of my favorite people at camp. I really enjoy being at the barn and doing activities with the horses. This year I got to do something very special. I was in the horse show! It was a lot of fun. Thankfully I got to ride Skipper, not Cola. Everybody knows that Cola is a slowpoke! We walked and trotted on the horses. In the end I got 3rd place. I had a lot of fun at camp this summer and the horse show was just one of the many fun adventures!”
Nice work on placing 3rd in the horse show, Anne and thanks for sharing with us how your time at camp went! Sounds like you and Skipper have a special bond! Congratulations to Camp Nakanawa as well for its 100th summer! If Nakanawa sounds like the right camp experience for you, give it a closer look by clicking here. Tune in tomorrow when I reveal who our next winner is. And, as always, thanks for reading!
- John
“One day, I was hanging out in another bunk and my friend started talking about how many caterpillars he had killed that day (11, which seemed like a lot at the time.) At first, I was against it, because I believe in animal rights, but then a LOT more caterpillars came. That afternoon, I looked up and the ceiling was COVERED with caterpillars! There were at least 500! People's beds were crawling with caterpillars. There was a caterpillar infestation--and it spread to my bunk! Whenever I was in the bunk, caterpillars would rain down from the ceiling. When it got really bad, and other bunks started getting caterpillars, too, the counselors started noticing it. Two counselors were put in charge of caterpillar-killing.
got there, I just knew that I was going to have fun because I had been waiting since Christmas to go. I was in Cabin 9, and my counselors were Audrey, Joyce, and Laura. Joyce came all the way from Africa. There were 6 girls in cabin 9 and we got to wear purple scarves for our cabin. Since we were at Mini Camp, we got to try a lot of different things. Some of the things we did were canoeing, gymnastics, swimming fun, and games, fishing, and more canoeing :). I found out at camp that I really like to go canoeing. When I went canoeing Laura, our counselor, sat in the middle while my friend Izzy and I were paddling. At night time we played marshmallow paint wars, we zip lined and we had ceremony by the waterfront. If you go to Camp Newaygo you will have SO MUCH FUN. I hope I can go next year.
last weeks of summer at a camp would be the most dreadful thing EVER! I would be away from my friends and away from my computer. But, Camp Huawni wasn’t what I was expecting. I’m Elliott Harper - artist, 5th grader, and aspiring writer (or engineer...or artist - to heck with it, mom said I can be what I want). Although, maybe I should start from the beginning. This is my story of Camp Huawni, the surprisingly fun place I never thought I’d end up. 
Adventure (my age group is named the Bears.) We stopped for s’mores and a counselor named TQOE (The Queen of Everything) told us a story: Once there was a king who loved his garden. He got too old so he couldn’t take care of his garden anymore. So all the children in town lined up in front of his palace. A kid named Tom was also growing a garden. He was the first kid in line. He could see the garden. It was nice and big. The king came out with a huge bag of seeds. He announced, ”You all have to come back in a year with this flower, watered, given sunlight and then I will see who has done the best so they can take care of my garden.’’ So Tom went back to his house and found the perfect spot in his garden. The next day nothing happened. He did the same thing, but moved the pot. The next few days the same thing happened so he stopped caring for it. It never grew. A year was gone. He was so nervous so he got in the back of the line. Every child’s seed was full grown. The king was frowning until he got to Tom’s. He held it up and said, ’’I gave all of you non-growing seeds and Tom’s was the only one that didn’t grow. So he will be the next emperor of my garden.’’ All of the other kid’s lied and didn’t bring the real seed in the pot like Tom did. The king wants an honest and brave person to rule the garden. I thought the story was a great story. TQOE was an amazing storyteller and she told stories every night, which made Bears’ Adventure really fun! My experience of Bears’ Adventure at Gold Arrow Camp was very fun!"