Camp Harkness 2010! In five weeks, I will be singing campfire songs, eating marshmellows, sleeping in a cabin with all my favorite camp friends, eating gross cafeteria food (think tuna casserole mass produced), swimming in the ocean, walking around the mansion, going to dunkin donuts and walmarts on nights off, recounting favorite camper memories, being with favorite campers, and doing 14 days. Such bliss.

I started with Camp Harkness 2007 and I was placed in cabin 5: special needs. For the past three summers I have worked with individuals with severe developmental disabilities and loved it. All the mid-night craziness, all the day-time craziness. Think well-organized chaos. Its beautiful. This summer I have a new role: administrative assistant. I've been promoted along with three of my friends and this means new adventures. Instead of working in a cabin, I will be over-seeing two cabins and making sure that the counselors in those cabins have the support they need. Along with that I'll have the task of helping to run camp itself during the week. I'm really excited to see a different angle on camp and get to work with some of my dear friends.

This will be my last summer at camp and I"m already sad thinking about it. I have so many wonderful summer time memories in that place: what will be four summers of memories. Its hard to imagine a summer without Camp Harkness, but I know its just around the bend. So this summer is all about making the most of the two months I have there, and storing up memories and friendships that will last a lifetime.

p.s. If anyone wants a summer job working with people with developmental disabilities....let me know!