You’re counting down the time left in the school year in days, not weeks or months.
You start almost every sentence with, ‘When I get to camp…’
An area in your room has been designated as the gathering place for things you intend to take to camp—and the collection is starting to grow rather large.
You find yourself imagining that moment on arrival day when you step off the bus and your camp friends come running toward you
You’ve pulled your camp trunk out of its winter storage location.
You’ve already started your visiting day treat list.
You and your camp friends have started speculating about the names of this year’s Olympic teams…and whether this year you will be wearing blue or white during Olympic week.
Your stomach jumps every time a “camp song” from last year comes on the radio.
You and your camp friends have already started wagering about what this year’s camp songs will be.
You’ve started a mental “to do” list for the summer.
Staff has already started arriving at camp for the summer.
You chant Dining Room cheers at the kitchen table.
While reading this, you mentally tried to calculate how many more days there are until camp starts (24) because you can’t wait.
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