...and bring us home safe and sound but not after a little fun. We started the day with packing and breakfast, (a breakfast sandwich to fill our stomachs) before we hit the road. After packing up, cleaning cabins, and making sure we had all our stuff, we took everything to our county designated place and went to the Rec. Hall for our awards ceremony.
Each camper received an award from their counselors based on their work during the week. There were the ever popular super camper awards, triple A (all around awesome), most polite, thousand questions in a minute, and super trooper awards as well as some that were more personalized to the camper's personality. Everyone walked away with some designation from the people they spent the last week with. Who looked up to them and cared for them as we had a blast.
After the awards it was time to sit back and enjoy memories of the week at camp. Thanks to the help of the camp staff and contributions from the four 4-H agents we had quite a slide show. After the hugs, tears, and exchanging of addresses, cell phone numbers, and face book names it was time to load up the buses and head home.
After the most wonderfully uneventful ride home we pulled in to anxious parents and grandparents. There were hugs, tears, and sniffing of wet clothes that had been packed up (and amusing faces that followed) to take home. Everyone got a t-shirt and went home to tell their parents what a wonderful time they had.
Two to three hours later, facebook posts, and even reports from parents said although their child is exhausted, that they had not stopped talking since they got home. They were sure that they had gotten a narrative of the entire week in two hours. I assured them that was just a blow by blow of the first day and to wait for it....but they would be talking about this experience for a long long time, and would remember it for a lifetime.
Stay posted to our Twitter page and we will give updates as we add the final photos to the days from other agents and even campers.
We must say thank you to many organizations. First of all to our camping counties and agents this year of Richmond (Ms. Michelle), Chatham (Ms. Lauren), and Watauga (Mrs. Karee). Without you this experience would not be nearly as fun. To our volunteer Missy McLean who went, experienced, enjoyed and napped thank you for your fun and supervision. To Chatham County's volunteers Julia Austin and Chris Raisig. You have the calm cool approaches and don't mind tackling any subject from homesickness to financial management (got to earn those dollar bills). To the BJP staff thank you for an incredible year and your care and supervision of our youth. You are the front liners in this experience and you made it incredible. Also I would be neglectful if I did not say thank you to our financial supporters, United Way of Robeson County and Indian Education. Without their help the majority of our youth could not have this life building experience, so we must say thank you!
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