first proper day of camp! i welcomed the morning by waking up in the field, surrounded my friends, both old and new. the arrival day was a little rough, with my luggage being lost, but it was back by morning and i was ready to begin my day i got dressed with some of […]
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Maya Rose: Arrival Day, Camp Myrtlewood (Day 0)
My family and I pulled into camp in our big Australian rental van, with colorful stripes down its side and the large, cheerful black letters greeting the circle of staffers in the grass with the German twang of AUTOBARN. I began laughing to myself in the front seat, thinking, well, that’s one way to arrive. […]
Sierra: : Staff Orientation, Camp Myrtlewood (Day -1)
August 2015 was my first blog post for NBTSC, and it was my very first day as a camper. I remember being overwhelmed with nervousness. I had grown up unschooled but decided to go to school through 7th-10th grade. I read The Teenage Liberation Handbook Sophomore year and was completely enamored. I wrote a whole […]
Bet: Staff Arrival Day, Camp Myrtlewood (Day -2)
Because it’s fun, and because it reminds me of a book I read when I was ten in which a character did an acrostic at school (a type of writing where each letter of a phrase or word placed horizontally across the page also spells something out vertically down the page), you will find below […]
Valentina: my favorite place to BE is NBTSC Vermont. Could it become yours?
If I am asked where my favorite place in the world is, I say Not Back To School Camp. Specifically, Not Back To School Camp in Vermont. Unfortunately, I don’t often get the chance to say that, because people are usually asking me what place I’ve lived that I like the most, because […]