They Should Make Summer Camp for Adults
Friends, I love camp. Not camping, though I do enjoy that as well, but Camp. Little wooden structures or tents out in the woods, with dining halls and activity buildings and lots of nature. And campfires, singing, games. Summer camp. Now, you may be saying, what does this have to do with anything, Kit? I recently finished up a leadership training course (well, the in-person instruction part of it) and a lot of it was, well, like Summer Camp. (Also, I went to scout camp with the bigger, mobile one earlier in the summer, and it was amazing.) My Girl Scout tenure as a child didn’t last terribly long. I did one year of Brownies and three years of Juniors, but when the time came to bridge into Cadettes, I couldn’t find a troop to join. (I was the only one my age in my Junior troop, so the rest of the troop was not ready to bridge). They have a “troop” for girls without troops, where you can work on badges by yourself, but, as you can imagine, there’s not a lot of motivation to finish things up. I don’t even know how many Cadette badges I started. I certainly never submitted the paperwork for a single one of them. The only real perk of this troop-less troop was that it allowed you to be eligible to go to Girl Scout camp. I went for the first time when I was 11, and it was, in a word, amazing.…