Camp Glow 2014

Tie Dyeing

  

This will have been my second year being a concealer at camp GLOW! This year was way better than last year although I am still not a camp person! This year we had real beds and the councilors slept in their own rooms away from the campers! So I got much much more sleep so I was in a much better mood every day! The campers we're still watched every night by the staff that we had assigned to them! 

Each day we had something different things for the girls to do! It was planed out for a mixture of fun and education. We had an HIV/AIDS day, a condemn race, a fashion show on how to dress and not dress for interviews, body image, yoga, hiking, beach day, tie dieing and so much more. The girls loved it!

Condem Race 

This year I got a lot closer to my campers, and learned their stories. Its very hard sometimes to here how their personal life is outside of camp. Some of them are starved, left alone, abused, raped and the list goes on. Its interesting because when they first come to camp they want to run back home to what they are used to. When the realize that they are in a safe place, healthy space, making friends, and realizing that we are their for them they grow so attached to us and the people around them. 

Last year we had I think five men counselors and that shows that girls that not every man is going to harass them. It also shows them what a healthy friendship between a man and a woman is like. This year we only had two men at camp but the girls loved them just the same. 

Yoga

I think one of my favorite moments was when we had a bonfire on the beach and made smores, laying in the sand watching for shooting stars and listening to the girls laugh and talk. 

It was a good year, and i think it will be interesting watching the last years campers who were selected to become JR. counselors. its a grate opportunity for them to grow as young leaders and provide support for campers next year.  

Cake decorating