Phantom Lake Reflection
Phantom Lake is something indescribable. Everyone has a moment where they come to realize why they love something so much, mine happened to be a week after my first week of camp. Only one week after leaving the place that I now call home I saw that every day things like seeing my friends or singing to a song on the radio would bring me back to my fantastic first week. Phantom has impacted me in a way that no other program or person has. Looking back to my LIT, no pun intended, weeks I have learned massive amount about my strengths and weaknesses.
For one, I am a great leader, during my second week of the LIT program there was many complication when it came to the staff member that would be running my tent, there were many times in which I …show more content…
Every year, some of my friends and myself organize and set up a charity haunted house that we all participate in. Everything is funded mostly by our fundraising as well as teachers putting down donations. Phantom has helped me immensely with this. I am able to become a leader when it comes to door to door fundraising, like walking up to homes in which I don’t know who lives there and speak with the confidence I normally would have at camp. Camp also helps me organize the interior of the house, setting up a maze and designating people to sections, and things like that. I also volunteer for a equine hippotherapy center in Lake Forest called Equestrian connection. My camp experience has helped me develop critical bonds with children in a very short and limited amount of time. I often use conversation starters that I would at camp or before the lesson, some variation of camp games with some of the kids.
Some goals I have set up for myself for the upcoming SDP weeks are to bring up my energy as a whole throughout my entire weeks. Another goal I have for myself is to be more creative when it comes to taps talks and games. The last goal I have for myself I believe is by far the most important, I want to assert myself as an authority figure later on in each week. I feel as if later in the week, when I have become used to being around my campers, I become more of a friend than I do a counselor. I would really like to work on keeping
For one, I am a great leader, during my second week of the LIT program there was many complication when it came to the staff member that would be running my tent, there were many times in which I …show more content…
Every year, some of my friends and myself organize and set up a charity haunted house that we all participate in. Everything is funded mostly by our fundraising as well as teachers putting down donations. Phantom has helped me immensely with this. I am able to become a leader when it comes to door to door fundraising, like walking up to homes in which I don’t know who lives there and speak with the confidence I normally would have at camp. Camp also helps me organize the interior of the house, setting up a maze and designating people to sections, and things like that. I also volunteer for a equine hippotherapy center in Lake Forest called Equestrian connection. My camp experience has helped me develop critical bonds with children in a very short and limited amount of time. I often use conversation starters that I would at camp or before the lesson, some variation of camp games with some of the kids.
Some goals I have set up for myself for the upcoming SDP weeks are to bring up my energy as a whole throughout my entire weeks. Another goal I have for myself is to be more creative when it comes to taps talks and games. The last goal I have for myself I believe is by far the most important, I want to assert myself as an authority figure later on in each week. I feel as if later in the week, when I have become used to being around my campers, I become more of a friend than I do a counselor. I would really like to work on keeping