July 6th:

One more day until Camp Mohawk! Yeeee-ha! This will be my second year at camp, last year I was a CIT with Kristy. I really like Camp Mohawk. It has this old-fashioned wilderness feel to it, like the camp in The Parent Trap. You sleep in log cabins, eat in a giant mess hall and swim in the lake (Camp Mohawk does not have a pool!) Best of all, they have soccer fields and softball fields, so you can play a game anytime you feel like it! (Well, almost any time).

The one part of Camp Mohawk I don't like is the horse stables. It's not that I don't like riding, I do, but I am BADLY allergic to horses, as I learned last year. This year I remembered to pack extra allergy medicine and my inhalers, just in case I come into contact with a horse. The horse stables are Mallory's favorite, though. I'm sure that when she gets to be a counselor, she'll request that as her job.

Yes, all of us counselors have jobs. We don't get paid for them, our pay is free admission and meals at camp, but they are part of jobs as counselor. My job is something I asked for specially- I am charge of organizing soccer games! That's because I love soccer. I'm on the Varsity soccer team at SHS, and I've been playing as long as I can remember. I don't know what cabin I'm going to be assigned to, but whichever one it is, I'm going to try and recruit all of my campers to play soccer! This won't be easy, especially if I have campers like MaryAnne or Mal, who'd rather do arts and crafts, but I feel that is my job as a counselor to expand their horizons. Then again, it my twin sister Anna were going to camp, she probably wouldn't want to play soccer either. But Anna isn't going to camp. At least, not Camp Mohawk. Anna is already at camp, a special music camp, called Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. There, she can brush up one her music skills and play her violin all day long.

Well, I better get finished packing if the bus leaves tomorrow at 11 am! I will write more when I have more to say!

~Abby