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School Essay by Amanda on: Why Hidden Valley Camp is the Best!
Campers enjoy Cabin Night with a campfire and s'mores.
| Hidden Valley Camp is the best camp in the world for many reasons.
These reasons are activities: arts, sports, horseback riding, people,
food, cabins, special events, and just plain camp. Hidden Valley Camp
is a very different camp from other camps. Hidden Valley gives you more
freedom than other camps give you. It is more fun and has a wider range
of things to do. Every day brings you more and more pleasure... |
Hidden Valley Camp is a boy and girl camp consisting of about two hundred eighty campers. The owners and directors are very outgoing and love kids. A regular day of Hidden Valley Camp is wake up and eat breakfast. Then listen to morning meeting. After morning meeting off to three classes of your choice. Then lunch time. After lunch is rest period for resting and relaxing. Then fourth class is after rest period. Interest groups are after fourth class. Then evening meeting and dinner. After dinner is evening program and bedtime.
Hidden Valley Camp is a great camp for eight to thirteen year olds. All
with different interests and still find a way to be themselves and get
along with everybody. Hidden Valley Camp consists of campers from all
over the world who learn something new everyday. It brings out the joy
in everyone. Hidden Valley is the best camp in the world. Just ask
anyone!
The arts and crafts are glass fusing, stained glass,
glass beads, sock puppets, blue sky sculptures, collage, jewelry,
mosaics, pottery, wheel pottery, screen printing, drawing, instrument
making, wood working, photography, theater arts, and giant plant
making. Glass classes work with glass. Sock puppets put on a show
during Sharing Night. Blue-sky sculptures makes sculptures out of
blue-sky soda cans. Jewelry is made with embroidery string. Pottery
classes work with clay. Instrument making classes make dulcimers and
ukuleles. Woodworking makes objects out of wood. The photography class
takes and develops pictures for the yearbook. Screen-printing is for
making shirts. Drawing and painting are for simple pleasure. Giant
plant making makes the giant plant for the musical "Little Shop of
Horrors". Theater arts have three plays. Each play is done by a
different group of people. The three plays are rewritten Shakespeare,
musical, and a regular play. Even though theater arts is one thing,
each play is a different class. Arts is the activity that appears most
at camp however, arts are not the only activity at camp. | 
Campers dress up their counselors in preparation for the Newspaper Fashion Show
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The Rock Band performs at our camper talent show- Valleyfest
| The sports are basketball, mountain biking, skateboarding, swimming,
gymnastics, soccer fun, soccer team, all sports, mountain boarding, and
tennis. There are two soccer classes because one class is for fun and
one class is for competitive games. All sports is a class that does a
different sport everyday. The special games are the big soccer game and
the camper verses counselor basketball game.
A popular sport is
horseback riding. There is a stable housing twenty-three horses. All
different breeds, sizes, and skill levels. Hidden valley has two-week
or four-week English riding lessons. The riders are split up into three
different groups. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Every day two
groups ride in one of the two arenas and the other group rides on a
trail ride. Riding is one of the two horse programs.
Brumby is a
cabin for horse crazy girls. Each girl "owns" her own horse for the
summer. Brumby wakes up earlier than the rest of the camp to bring the
horses in from the pasture and feed the horses. Then brumby resumes a
regular day until fourth class period. Fourth class period is when
Brumby rides. Then Brumby has a regular day for the rest of the day.
Brumby also can choose to skip evening program and spend time with the
horses. |
The Half Moon Jug Band puts on a performance for the camp
| There are many trained counselors that are always friendly. Also there
are AWAKs (Awaiting Work As Counselor) who stay in a cabin with other
kids. Awacs are usually former campers and assist the counselors. Meg
and Peter are the owners and directors of Hidden Valley Camp. They are
always friendly and open to anyone. There is also other staff to do
odds and ends around camp.
The food at Hidden Valley Camp is
always healthy and delicious. There are a wide variety of foods for
breakfast lunch and dinner. For breakfast there is fruit, cereal, eggs,
the main part of breakfast, and sides. For lunch there is sandwiches,
side, fruit, salad, the main part of breakfast, and cookies. Dinner
includes the main part of dinner, sides, and dessert. All meals are
made by the fantastic chefs.
There are a total of twenty four
cabins. They are Atlantis, Avalon, Blue Moon, Brumby, Camelot, Chateau Fiasco, Deer Meadows, Down Under, Fiddlers Green, Forbidden Planet,
French Quarter, Lower Carriage House, Loons, Paquatahnee, Ritz Up, Ritz Down, Shangri-La, Taj Mahal, Treasure Island, Utopia, Valhalla,
Wabanaki, and Wombles. All the cabins house plenty of campers and
counselors. |
There are many special events. Some are awfully special and other a little special. The evening programs, taking place every evening are not as special as some of the other events. Evening programs include Wheel of Misfortune, Gold Rush, Performers, and Sharing Night. Some of the really special events are Fair Day, Lobster Banquet, and Departure Day. Every part of camp is special in one way or another.
HIDDEN VALLEY CAMP ROCKS MY SOCKS! J
Amanda/Horse/Pony/Star rider/Horse crazy/HVCer
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The Wheel of Misfortune... A camper and counselor favorite!
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