I'M CURRENTLY WAITING AT THE AIRPORT TO LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS.
HOLY CRAP.
IT HAS FLOWN BY SO FAST.
10 weeks ago I stepped foot into LA about to embark on this amazing adventure. And here I am, closing the chapter on Camp T, the end of an era. It has been an experience to say the least.
I've decided to spend the weekend in Chicago before I head up to Ottawa, Canada to apply for my next J1 visa to study at UF. I am so excited to explore the city!
I will miss everybody that I've met so much. We have become like a family. Honestly, the people are the saving grace of my job. I know that I have definitely met some friends for life that I will undoubtedly see again in the future. I am so blessed to have been able to partake in this extraordinary experience. As much as I bitched about camp to no end about the early mornings and late nights and the food and the showers and the weather and the insert-other-complaint, I know that no matter what, I will miss that place. I'll miss seeing the same faces everyday, getting ready together in the bathrooms, having laughs over the most mundane things, the campfires, the kids, the random nights out. All of it will be a fond memory which I'll always look back upon and smile.
To wrap up things from the last time I've updated:
- Party bus for Chico's birthday which was immense. Finding myself late in the night playing poker in a secret upstairs room of a club with these random gangstas with white ditzy girlfriends. What the actual fack
- Spent a weekend with another host family, however minus the famly, with Jiff dawg. We stayed with a girl named Kelly and her muso boyfriend Donny who are about our age. They spent the weekend taking us around town, both downtown and uptown, showing us how real 21+ year olds from Minneapolis spend their weekends.
Started off Friday night with drinks at her place, then ate amaaaazing juicy lucy burgers at this cool little dig, then went to go see a jazz band play called Sexy Delicious (whatta lol)
HOLY CRAP.
IT HAS FLOWN BY SO FAST.
10 weeks ago I stepped foot into LA about to embark on this amazing adventure. And here I am, closing the chapter on Camp T, the end of an era. It has been an experience to say the least.
I've decided to spend the weekend in Chicago before I head up to Ottawa, Canada to apply for my next J1 visa to study at UF. I am so excited to explore the city!
I will miss everybody that I've met so much. We have become like a family. Honestly, the people are the saving grace of my job. I know that I have definitely met some friends for life that I will undoubtedly see again in the future. I am so blessed to have been able to partake in this extraordinary experience. As much as I bitched about camp to no end about the early mornings and late nights and the food and the showers and the weather and the insert-other-complaint, I know that no matter what, I will miss that place. I'll miss seeing the same faces everyday, getting ready together in the bathrooms, having laughs over the most mundane things, the campfires, the kids, the random nights out. All of it will be a fond memory which I'll always look back upon and smile.
To wrap up things from the last time I've updated:
- Party bus for Chico's birthday which was immense. Finding myself late in the night playing poker in a secret upstairs room of a club with these random gangstas with white ditzy girlfriends. What the actual fack
- Spent a weekend with another host family, however minus the famly, with Jiff dawg. We stayed with a girl named Kelly and her muso boyfriend Donny who are about our age. They spent the weekend taking us around town, both downtown and uptown, showing us how real 21+ year olds from Minneapolis spend their weekends.
Started off Friday night with drinks at her place, then ate amaaaazing juicy lucy burgers at this cool little dig, then went to go see a jazz band play called Sexy Delicious (whatta lol)
Saturday we woke up late, enjoyed some Bloody Mary's along with breakfast, became tipsy again, spent the entire day walking the city, shopping and barhopping around uptown, then finally headed home in the night, ordered pizza and wings and attempted to create a fort in the living room so we could comfortably watch Mean Girls. Could it have been anymore amazing? I think not.
- Had my last ever Friday night out with the gang, so we made a decision to have a quick dinner then come back to camp and kick on there. Well. The restaurant we turned up at, Lord Fletchers, ended up throwing a DJ into the room we were in at about 9pm randomly. Everyone was like whaaaaatthefuck. Many many drinks were had and a boogie not forgotten. It ended up being such a fun and crazy night. I love spontaneous nights like that! I barely remember getting back to camp but we all crashed in the same place and woke up nice and late. Perrrrrfect.
Saturday was spent lazing around camp, sunbaking on the water tramp, having a bbq, and eating and drinking on the beach with all my favourites. I loved how my weekend consisted of both wild and chill - it's exactly what I needed.
- Had my last ever Friday night out with the gang, so we made a decision to have a quick dinner then come back to camp and kick on there. Well. The restaurant we turned up at, Lord Fletchers, ended up throwing a DJ into the room we were in at about 9pm randomly. Everyone was like whaaaaatthefuck. Many many drinks were had and a boogie not forgotten. It ended up being such a fun and crazy night. I love spontaneous nights like that! I barely remember getting back to camp but we all crashed in the same place and woke up nice and late. Perrrrrfect.
Saturday was spent lazing around camp, sunbaking on the water tramp, having a bbq, and eating and drinking on the beach with all my favourites. I loved how my weekend consisted of both wild and chill - it's exactly what I needed.
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Yesterday was my last day ever. It just felt so surreal - it wouldn't sink in that this was it. The day was nice and chill, then at night once all the campers went to bed, all the counsellors sat around the fire with me and talked shit until nearly 1 in the morning, sharing funny memories, talking about the characters of camp, what we'll miss, hilarious moments... I think that's when it started to finally hit me a bit that I wasn't going to see this beautiful bunch of people, who have become my family, for a very long time.
Tears were had this morning as I made my way to the office with my bags ready to go. I never thought I'd say this but I honestly just did not want to leave. We've made promises to see each other again and I know undoubtedly it will be fulfilled.
As I drove up the long gravel driveway for the last time, I looked back and saw my favourite people looking back at me from the field and waving. I tried to capture this moment in my mind so much. It's crazy, living in this one place for 10 weeks, and then suddenly, I will never ever see it again. It will always be that fond memory of the time I spent one crazy summer in America working at a camp with a bunch of people I had never met before.
For sure, this was a summer to remember.
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So right now, as I finish my coffee, I am about to board my flight to Chicago - another adventure waiting to begin. Florida is indeed calling. And instead of the sick, anxious feeling I've had for the past day, I am incredibly excited. More friends to meet, places to see, experiences to be had.
Lets do this.
Lets do this.
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