Thinking back on my summer I realize that, everything I expected this summer didn’t happen. Getting a dog is not so simple. It’s not just feeding him and taking him for a walk and petting him. There is so much more to it! You have to make sure he doesn’t rip the house to pieces and and destroy your shoes (something my dog Moxie has already done several times). Also, lots and lots of praise and love. You always have to be there for them. Plus, puppies are crazy! Super, Super crazy! So you have to tone down their excitement (Which is not easy). I didn’t expect all of that at all, it’s so much harder but it is much better that just feeding them and taking them for walks!

Going to an island without electricity or running water is not as easy as it sounds. You have to take at least 3 gallons of water with you in heavy jugs every time you take the boat out there and to shower you have you take some rainwater and put it in a special bag that helps the sun warm it up. Then there is your lukewarm shower! You have to cook all your food on a grill and use lanterns at night. You can’t have milk or anything that will spoil without refrigeration. Fire for warmth, tending to the forest the list goes on and on. I knew some of that already when we got to the island (Thanks to my grandma) but at some points it was scary to be far away from the mainland especially during big thunder storms that made tall trees fall down and huge waves crash against the shores. But feeling isolated is the coolest feeling in the world. You can stay in your pajamas for 3 days straight and nobody even cares. You can sleep until 11 and nobody gets mad!

Being at sleep away camp especially for me, a person who has anxiety can be a half traumatizing and half great experience. But if you get homesick easily camp is not all fun and games. People always talk about how when you go to camp you have so much fun doing activities with the counselors and making all these great friends that apparently you will stay friends your friends for the rest of your life. But again as I have said several times before, it is not as simple as that. Even though I did make some awesome friends at the end (One of my friend’s mom was one of the producers of Hamilton) it was still so very hard at the beginning. It felt like it would never end. But once I made some friends, it was just like everybody said camp would be, with the little bit of homesickness hanging out in the back of my mind. So even though I expected to be the worst 3 and a half of my life I was wrong. Really wrong. I never thought that I would say this (Type this) but I want to go back next year!

Over all my whole summer was nothing like I expected it to be.