Amped Camp
Every
year, my church hosts a middle-school camp, called Amped Camp. We go to a youth camp, have fun, and learn
about God, all at the same time! For the
two years that I have gone to Amped, it has been my favorite part of
summer. This year, it was held at a camp
called Monadnock Bible Conference. This
camp is about 5 minutes away from Mt. Monadnock, as you’d expect from the
name. The ride to get to camp was about
one hour, and compared to the year before (that was a five to six hour drive),
it felt like nothing. Funnily enough,
the ride to camp was only my 7th time on a school bus.
We got to have a lot of fun at
Amped! Swimming, tubing, a mud pit, climbing Mt. Monadnock, and even sliding
down the longest slip and slide you’ve ever seen were all things that we got to
do. The first step that we took when we
got there, though, was to unpack all of our luggage into our cabins. After we had arranged beds, set up our
sleeping bags, and put our suitcases next to our beds, we headed out to meet
everyone at the camp flagpole. There,
our leaders, Mr. Calvin and Mr. Andy, made sure that we knew where everything
in the camp was. Once we knew where
everything was located, it was dinner time.
Dinner was tasty. After dinner
and a group activity, it was time for our evening chapel session by the
campfire, then bedtime. The next day was
when the real fun began.
I can’t
quite remember which days all of these events happened, but I tell you about
some of the best parts of Amped. Since I
play in the band at our youth group, I got to play at Amped, too. For every chapel session (except the first
one), I got to play the keys (get it?) with the rest of the band, for
worship! I had such a great time just
doing that, that it was one of my favorite parts of Amped! Another extremely fun activity that we did
was tubing. I went on the tube not once,
but two times with one of my friends.
Once going forwards, and once going backwards. Something else that I played was
paintball. I had a fun time with that,
even though only 7 people showed up to do it.
We had uneven teams, but yet we still had a good time. We all also did the mud pit, which many of
the girls had been dreading. The mud pit
was when we jumped into the biggest and nastiest mud pit you’ve ever seen, and
played lots of fun mud games. We played
games like Tug-of-War and Crawl on all Fours, through the mud, and got
ourselves covered with mud! The slip and
slide was also fun, but many kids got hurt from flying over the end and hitting
the hard gravel ground. That part of
Amped ended quickly… Luckily a day
later, they added another slip and slide session, but this time with the bottom
filled with water, so nobody flew out of it.
Now that was a lot of fun!
Now, for
my very favorite part of Amped! In my
opinion, the best part of Amped was the “Counselor Hunt.” We all went out at about 9:00 at night and
got to search for all of the counselors!
I wanted to find (not the Andy who I mentioned before, but a different
one who leads the band I played in) Mr. Andy, but he was a great hider. In fact, nobody ended up finding him! At the end of the hunt, he came out of an
unused sewer tank! He was the last one
to be found! The good thing though, was
that my partner and I found Mr. Calvin, which is the one other person I really
wanted to get. The reason why? Well, he actually runs the entire
Middle-School Elevate! (Plus, he’s
awesome…) We found him laying down by
the Gaga Ball pit. In daylight, that
would have been a bad hiding spot. But
in the dark, it was extremely hard to see him!
I really loved the Counselor Hunt!
Best game of hide and seek ever!
By far,
Amped Camp was easily the best part of my summer. I liked Amped more the all of the camping
trips, lake days, stay at home days, and even amusement park trips this
summer! Overall, I had a blast at Amped,
and I really can’t wait for next year’s camp already!
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