Dear Mr. Gore,
I would like to thank you for paying our way to the leadership camp. We did many fun things there that I am happy to bring back to our school. All five of us who went have so many great ideas to get every one more involved with each other and with the school.
The first day of the camp, they put us in to our cabin groups and we had to run around and do an amazing race activity. I got along with all the girls and everyone was very nice. That was fun and as we moved on our team ended up almost winning! Throughout the whole trip we had LD sessions which taught us how to get people involved and make people feel welcome. That was really fun. I enjoyed everyone in that group.
We also had, throughout the whole trip, many workshops. We did three at different times. My first one was student council. There they taught us how to get more people involved in joining. The next one was building community. They blind folded us and made everyone follow a rope to get to our destination. We ended up doing that for about half an hour and when we took off our blind folds we realized that we were walking around in circles the whole time! That was funny. The last one I did was about justice. This workshop taught me how to destroy the cliques in the school and to make everyone one big family. I feel the workshops helped me a lot to learn how to build up our school community.
We got extracurricular time and in that time we could do many things such as yoga, football, crafts, work out, etc.That was fun, and the girls always invited me to join them in their games!
Bed time was at 11:00 pm, but my cabin always stayed up an extra half hour to chat about our schools.
My favorite thing about the trip was the talent show. All the cabins had to do an act and perform it in front of all 200 people. It was so funny and I laughed very hard. My group ended up doing the bachelorette show and everyone thought that was very funny.
I had so much fun, and again I would like to thank you so much for giving me the opportunity
to go to the camp. I feel it is going to be a great way to build our school community in the future and a great way to plan out other events for our school to join in. I am very fortunate to go to a school like Scholars’ Hall where we already are very close with everyone. I realized how lucky we are when I talked to kids from other schools. They have so much daily drama and they lack a sense of community. Our school has confidence and we are pretty much one big family.
I not only came back with new leadership skills but I left my stage fright behind. That was the toughest thing about the camp – beating my fear of performing in front of large groups. Again, thank you so much for the awesome trip, you truly are the best!
