Hello readers!
As the title of this post reads...sorry that I missed a day! I have been so busy! It has just been crazy around Ballibay as we bid farewell to the Rock and Dance Intensive campers -- a lot of tearful, but happy goodbyes within my cabin. Right before my last Dance Intensive camper, Sara G., left, she slipped a note into my hand and asked me to read it to all the girls left in the cabin after she was gone. It was addressed to me, as well, so I took a quick peek at it (sorry, Sara!) and found myself in happy tears within moments. The gist of the note was Sara thanking her cabinmates and counselors for making her feel so welcome. She'd never been to sleep away camp before, she explained in the note, and she had been scared to live in a cabin with girls she didn't know. But as soon as she got to Ballibay, she realized that there was nothing to be scared of -- she felt welcomed with open arms. She ended the note with a promise to return next summer.
There's a good message in that note. The way that Sara G. felt upon leaving Ballibay is the same way I felt my first summer...that "I can't believe this incredible experience I just had, and how fast it went, and how much I want to go back already." I continue to feel that way, ten years later.
More soon!
Elizabeth C.
Ballibay Blogger
No comments:
Post a Comment