Title
Document Type
Freshman Essay
Publication Date
2002
Excerpt
As the wheels slowly round the corner, entering the towering white iron gates, the excitement and enthusiasm is bursting through our bodies. I look around and see Ashly crazily running around in circles, Brett and Eric together screaming as girly and giddily as they possibly can, and Anne Grace in her own world behind those Nike shades and visor but nonetheless expressing such joy. I feel my own face hurting from smiling so much, my throat beginning to feel sore from too much screaming, and my body jumping up and down repeatedly. And all this for a charter bus driving up towards us??? This bus, and the many more to follow, is what Ashly, Brett, Eric, Anne Grace and the rest of our group of thirty-some yellow t-shirt clad high schoolers has been anxiously awaiting for months. Cheering and jumping up and down, I was part of a group called the "Work Crew" at a Young Life camp, named Castaway, in northern Minnesota. We were all volunteering our month of July in the summer of 2001 to staff the camp.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Megan, ""Camp Castaway" (2002)" (2002). The Valpo Core Reader. 133.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/133