this past week was a fun experience camp or no camp we made it work. With a full week of working on merit badges including, first aid, Environmental science, camping, leather work, archery, and many others.
to begin the week off, everyone showed up ready to learn about different things all the scouts got their schedules and headed off to their classes. in the classes I attended (first aid, environmental science, leather work, and basketry) I learned many different things and I had so much fun. I got to make my own lanyard using a box stitch, I carved my Initials into a wooden block I learned about the environment and wrote an article about polar bears and how they are becoming extinct , and lastly I got to learn how to save someone when they are choking and how to tie certain knots to keep the person from bleeding. we attended these classes in the church parking lot, of course we wore masks and were social distanced and we had to check in everyday to get our temperature.
To finish the week off on Friday, august 7th we finished up our merit badge classes and we ended up getting peach Nee hi which is a thing if you go down to camp (orange soda and ice cream)
Saturday, August 8th which was the last day, we arrived at a farm around 9:15am we checked in and we all split up into two teams the green and blue team, We had to choose our team names, we called ourselves “the shirts” our cheer was “we are the shirts we wear our scout shirts” the other team called themselves “the green goblins” their cheer was “ARG we will get you spider man!!” of course we wore bandannas to show what team we were and we had our team flag.
Each team went to different stations including, the monkey bridge, burning a string, rescuing someone using a rope, bury a treasure which is using a compass to get to the buried treasure, and a log sawing
by noon time all our parents came and we had a picnic, after the picnic we all earned our merit badges and awards
so this was pretty much what camp was like for us this year because of corona we couldn’t go but i’m still glad we made it work I know the scouts had so much fun and i did too. being a first year camper the experience may have different but in the end I had so much fun.