The friends that become family

“Camp is a place where strangers become friends and friendships last forever”

Camp friends are literally unexplainable to someone who hasn’t done camp, you just don’t understand. You’re all in the exact same situation, you’ve flown across the world, have no idea where you are or what you’re doing, questioning every decision you’ve ever made and probably missing your pet. 

During staff training, you’ll bond over the stupidest things (like Ailidh telling us how she tried to toilet train her cat...), excessive amounts of name games and big group walks to the lake. Then it’s time to take a trip to Walmart and find out who the shopaholics are.

There will be nights that you cry in the rain over your uni course and job at home, wondering whether it’s right for you when you’re loving helping people at camp so much, but at this moment your camp mom turns up and you realise your camp family is incredible, other people are going through the same feelings and you’re all there to support each other.

On the contrary there will be nights where you laugh until your stomach hurts and the next day you won’t even remember why. Not to throw Ailidh the limelight again but my funniest ever moment from two summers at camp is her trying to teach about 20 people how to play the grass.

A point will come during summer where you realise that some of these guys aren’t just camp friends, but they’re best friends for life. You’ll spend so much time on Facetime and end up missing out on plans at home since you’re saving up for a trip but it’s so worth it because when you’re back together it feels like you’ve never been apart and it’s the best feeling in the world.

I could talk about how amazing my camp friends are all day long but I’ll probably end up crying because I miss them so here’s a few pictures instead.

In camp spirit,

Tasha xo