While the days are focused primarily on Adventure and Environmental
based classes, the cabins are a time to open up the boundaries that
normally exist within an elementary school social system and work on the
community aspects of life. We will teach them games, tell them stories,
and even work on their line dance steps with them. We'll help them get
ready to take showers, talk them through being homesick, and wake up
with them in the middle of the night when they don't feel well. We'll
help them come up with a skit for campfire, and then watch as they step
in front of the entire camp, overcome with stage fright. We will sit
with them in the evenings and facilitate discussions that allow them to
open up, to trust, and to believe in one another. Every bit of their
time in the Cabin is packed full of things to do; Nocturnal Nation,
Astronomy, Line Dancing, Snake Class, Campfire and Skits, Tribes, New
Games...and more.
Our Instructors generally begin their work shift at dinner and take
leave of students when they switch over to the field at 10am. From here
our instructors have meetings and clean restrooms, and then have the
remainder of the day off to enjoy the weather, relax, take care of
errands, and get some exercise. They are back on duty at dinnertime,
refreshed and ready to once again take on the job of parent, teacher,
older sibling, and most importantly, friend.
