the last day you're a camper

This morning I talked with some Pac/Windsong 15-year-olds - on their last full day here as campers. They were part of the Creative Writing specialty run by the amazing Erica Kimmel. She led them in a discussion of long-term and short-term goals, and someone mentioned wanting to be a CIT next summer. I recorded what came next. Here is your link to the audio.

A little later, this same group wrote down condensed poetic one-phrase versions of their goals. And then they got chalk and presented them on the walkway so that everyone would read them on their way into lunch. Here are three. I was quite taken by these. Jerry Huncosky walked to see these sayings with me and said: "It takes some bravery to be a teenager and to be this sincere in front of everyone." He's right.