Ok I will tell a little more about a teenage girls life.
Well I have been going to this camp in Maine for about 6 summers now. The camp is for 2 months and I LOVE IT DEARLY.
Thats were most of my sailing is done. This summer at camp was probably the best for me. I made new friends and had a GREAT time. Are camp is on the shores of Lake Sebago which is a beautiful lake. It is mostly a watersports camp. We sail, caneo, swim the works. One of the biggest events at our camp is called Watersports Day and it's the last week of camp, which is the topic of my story. On a normal day at camp you choose your activities at the beginning and go to them everyday, in some ways its like having a class.
Our camp has 4 units and the units have colors (its like color wars) the colors are blue, yellow, green and red. I would tell you the names of the units but you would not really care cause they are indian names and you probably would not even be able to prounonce them.
So all the units compete against each other on Watersports day. By the way its A HUGE DEAL watersports day is VERY VERY competitive. There is at least 25 campers in each unit, and each unit has a there own giant green caneo that can fit 8 campers. Well those really long green caneos are called war caneos and they are soooo old, they go back to about 30 years ago, so we have to be extremely careful with them. Well anyway those war caneos play a huge role in watersports day.
I am sure you have heard of the sport "crew". That is what are camp does in those war canoes "crew" but we do it a little more different then the actual sport. Are crew is where we do different movements with our paddles, syncronized movements. We also race with the war caneos against the other units. Well just like a normal crew team you have a captain and in our camp we also have a bow. Every morning until like two or three weeks before watersports day you get up early in the morning and pick a crew for yourself and then you try out being captain and calling for your crew team. What I mean by calling is like calling numbers. Each number you call is a different movement with your paddle. Just because you are captain one day does not mean you are captain for watersports day. You get chosen by your unit to be captain of your caneo for watersports day and in the morning you try out to show your crew that you could be captain. Anyone can try out.
Finally normally on a sunday morning and normally after the try out list is done, they vote on who they want to be your leaders for watersports day. (you vote for three of the people out of the whole try out list that you thought should be your leaders) Once you are voted to be one of those three from your unit, the three of you then get your own crew and start to decide which ones you want on your actual crew for watersports day, you also rotate between the three for who will call and who will steer the caneo in the bow and the other person sits on the dock and decides which crew they like and which they don't. Finally after you have done at least 3 rotations between the three of you and after you have seen everyone in the unit on crew, the unit votes again. But this time they vote on who they want to be there captian for watersports day out of the three. Every unit votes for there own captain. Now if you are the captain, then you are the OFFICIAL leader of your unit. The point of this is to pick a captian that the unit thinks will lead them to victory. Well I got voted to be one of the three and then I got voted the captain of my unit ( which was the BLUE unit ). Getting voted captian was probably the greatest joy so far in my life. You see it's a huge deal in our camp. So I was captain and called for the actual watersports day while the other two girls, which one was bow of the "exibition crew" (the syncronized paddleing) while the other one was the bow of "racing crew", I was the captian of both. You also have to realize that we had to pick different crew for both racing and exibition. Well watersports day came and our unit got 2end place which I was really proud of. The green unit got first but its ok. I was sooooo proud of my unit for being 2 and I will never forget that summer. I was 15 last summer and this summer when i go back I will be junior councler and I can't wait, I am so excited.
When I was calling out for my unit during watersports day it was such a great feeling everyone was watching you as you stood up tall in the back of your caneo. Parents are everywhere on the rocks. They wanted each unit to come up with a new stroke that they could po
ssibly replace the one that they had been using for years well they chose our stroke to replace it and we were so happy.
So there you go that is my horrific long story about my summer, there are a lot of more exciting things that happen during watersports day but I think I have bored you enough already.
Here are some pictures so you can get the idea.
Well I have been going to this camp in Maine for about 6 summers now. The camp is for 2 months and I LOVE IT DEARLY.
Thats were most of my sailing is done. This summer at camp was probably the best for me. I made new friends and had a GREAT time. Are camp is on the shores of Lake Sebago which is a beautiful lake. It is mostly a watersports camp. We sail, caneo, swim the works. One of the biggest events at our camp is called Watersports Day and it's the last week of camp, which is the topic of my story. On a normal day at camp you choose your activities at the beginning and go to them everyday, in some ways its like having a class.
Our camp has 4 units and the units have colors (its like color wars) the colors are blue, yellow, green and red. I would tell you the names of the units but you would not really care cause they are indian names and you probably would not even be able to prounonce them.
So all the units compete against each other on Watersports day. By the way its A HUGE DEAL watersports day is VERY VERY competitive. There is at least 25 campers in each unit, and each unit has a there own giant green caneo that can fit 8 campers. Well those really long green caneos are called war caneos and they are soooo old, they go back to about 30 years ago, so we have to be extremely careful with them. Well anyway those war caneos play a huge role in watersports day.
I am sure you have heard of the sport "crew". That is what are camp does in those war canoes "crew" but we do it a little more different then the actual sport. Are crew is where we do different movements with our paddles, syncronized movements. We also race with the war caneos against the other units. Well just like a normal crew team you have a captain and in our camp we also have a bow. Every morning until like two or three weeks before watersports day you get up early in the morning and pick a crew for yourself and then you try out being captain and calling for your crew team. What I mean by calling is like calling numbers. Each number you call is a different movement with your paddle. Just because you are captain one day does not mean you are captain for watersports day. You get chosen by your unit to be captain of your caneo for watersports day and in the morning you try out to show your crew that you could be captain. Anyone can try out.
Finally normally on a sunday morning and normally after the try out list is done, they vote on who they want to be your leaders for watersports day. (you vote for three of the people out of the whole try out list that you thought should be your leaders) Once you are voted to be one of those three from your unit, the three of you then get your own crew and start to decide which ones you want on your actual crew for watersports day, you also rotate between the three for who will call and who will steer the caneo in the bow and the other person sits on the dock and decides which crew they like and which they don't. Finally after you have done at least 3 rotations between the three of you and after you have seen everyone in the unit on crew, the unit votes again. But this time they vote on who they want to be there captian for watersports day out of the three. Every unit votes for there own captain. Now if you are the captain, then you are the OFFICIAL leader of your unit. The point of this is to pick a captian that the unit thinks will lead them to victory. Well I got voted to be one of the three and then I got voted the captain of my unit ( which was the BLUE unit ). Getting voted captian was probably the greatest joy so far in my life. You see it's a huge deal in our camp. So I was captain and called for the actual watersports day while the other two girls, which one was bow of the "exibition crew" (the syncronized paddleing) while the other one was the bow of "racing crew", I was the captian of both. You also have to realize that we had to pick different crew for both racing and exibition. Well watersports day came and our unit got 2end place which I was really proud of. The green unit got first but its ok. I was sooooo proud of my unit for being 2 and I will never forget that summer. I was 15 last summer and this summer when i go back I will be junior councler and I can't wait, I am so excited.
When I was calling out for my unit during watersports day it was such a great feeling everyone was watching you as you stood up tall in the back of your caneo. Parents are everywhere on the rocks. They wanted each unit to come up with a new stroke that they could po
ssibly replace the one that they had been using for years well they chose our stroke to replace it and we were so happy.So there you go that is my horrific long story about my summer, there are a lot of more exciting things that happen during watersports day but I think I have bored you enough already.
Here are some pictures so you can get the idea.
Thats little old me in the back of the war caneo. Understand now how it's so big. So people are sitting on rocks everywhere watching this.
Ok so the girl in the front is the bow and thats me again in the back calling. Also before the competitions in the morning the captains and bows get all dressed up and then we walk out in front of our unit, and the unit makes this throne and we sit on it and everyone cheers and we sing our unit songs.
Ok so this is the picture of us walking in. The girl to your right of me is one of my very good friends Taylor she was in my cabin and she was the bow of racing crew and Ania the girl on the left was for exibition.
This is a picture of us in our thrones with the unit cheering and going crazy. YAY
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