Hey, Storytellers!
We love hearing your stories from camp in our annual ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest at Everything Summer Camp. Your stories were fantastic and it’s such a fun time reading through them! Get a look at each submission as I post them one-by-one right here on the Blog!
Today’s post comes from Josh B. who wrote in to tell us about his second year at Beber Camp, located in the home state of Everything Summer Camp, Wisconsin. Take a look at his submission about this year’s experience:
“Hi, my name is Josh. I’m 9 years old and it was my 2nd summer at Beber Camp. I loved it so much I stayed for 8 weeks! Beber Camp is the best place on earth! It is the best because of all the friendships you can make. It also has great activities. At camp, friendships won may never die! My favorite things to do at camp this summer was making all these new friends and hanging with them. My favorite waterfront activity was waterskiing. I also loved the flying squirrel. These activities are great because you can’t do them at home! This past summer I loved being in the musical - I got to work backstage. I also had a great time with my cabin. I loved the sneak outs to star gaze, s’mores in the gazebo and all the jokes we told. The saddest part of camp was having to go home. I can’t wait to go back to 3BC!”
Josh! It’s great to hear how much you love your second year at Beber. It’s great that you’ve embraced camp life so much. Sounds like Beber Camp is hard not to love! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with us! As for anybody else interested in Beber Camp, give it a closer look for yourself some time and, as always, thanks for reading!
- John
“I am 8 years old and this was my second year at Camp Fern! Last year I only stayed for two weeks, but this year I got to stay for a whole month and I had the best time ever in my life. I had old friends in my cabin and also new friends. My favorite activities were riding and skiing. I even got a ribbons at banquet for being the most improved in skiing and the best overall in skiing. I've never gotten awards like that before. It made me feel really good. Camp Fern is the best place in the world. They teach me so many things. They teach me about nature and how to take care of it. They teach me how to do new things. They teach me that I can do things I never thought I could. And we have lots of fun! Before I went to camp, I had never spent the night away from home. I'm so glad my mom and dad let me go to camp because now I know that I can do anything and learn anything. My counselors keep me safe and are so nice and are kind of like my mom when I get a little homesick. Camp Fern is so amazing. On the last night of camp we write our wishes down on paper and then make them into sails for little paper boats. We light candles and send our wish boats out across the lake. It is so special and beautiful when the lighted boats are out on the water. My boat made it all the way across the lake, so I know that my wishes will come true thanks to Camp Fern! When I grow up, I want to be a teacher. That way I can still come to Camp Fern as a counselor in the summer. I love Camp Fern!!!”
am, my strengths and how those are really cool, about God and how much He loves us! I also love that we are having so much fun that it doesn't matter if we wear the same thing over and over. As a matter of fact, it became a whole big thing that I wore the exact same pair of shorts every single day for the entire week that I was at camp. Pine Cove posts pictures each day while we are at camp so our parents can see us. My mom would post them on Facebook and she began to notice that I was wearing the same blue shorts every day. All her friends began to watch her posts every day waiting to see if she would post another picture of me in my infamous blue shorts. One of her friends ended up making a collage of the week's pictures of me in my blue shorts and they became known as "The Blue Infinity Shorts". The local Christian radio station featured my pictures and the infinity shorts on the radio station's Facebook page, discussed me on the air and Pine Cove asked my dad for permission to use the pictures for training. I became famous while I was gone and my mom is getting all kinds of suggestions about what to do with the infamous blue infinity shorts after I outgrow them. Some people want us to give them to a younger kid. Some think I should be a model for Land's End swimwear (that's where we got the shorts). Some think my mom should frame the shorts and display them in our house. It has been really funny and I kind of like being famous with my blue shorts.”
make Seneca Lake sound like a pretty special place! Roof Ball sounds like fun and cheese quesadillas sound great! Glad you like our Packing Cubes—thanks, Grandma! And thanks to you for sharing, Sam! As for anybody else interested in Camp Seneca Lake, give it a closer look for yourself some time and, as always, thanks for reading!