June 16, 2015


The day began with an Einstein's coffee run with Kyle, Illy, Piper, Avery, Grace, and Rei.  Also, after breakfast we had a morning meeting where we played a game of mafia. 

My morning classes included morning ballet and jazz with Kim (who is a phenomenal teacher) which was really rough. Her bar exercises and overall teaching skills are pretty hard core, like Piper and I were sweating while doing bar work.

After lunch we had rehearsal with Laquimah for two hours (which was so intense and frankly exhausting). Next was Interdisciplinary where we did "Hour of Tower", basically having nothing really to do with our previous project but the idea was that we were put into teams (I was with Grace, my roommate) and we had to build the strongest structure/tower out of paper and tape in an hour. It was relatively fun. Basically we tried our best haha. 

For dinner we ate in the Terrace of course, but since there are only 11 campers it's nice that we can all sit at one table, together. This year, we were a lot less clique-y which I highly enjoyed<3. Anyway, after dinner we had a movie night where we watched 'Mulan' since one of the campers, Sofia, had never seen it. To make the movie a bit more uh "exciting" we had movie bingo which was hilarious since we all had very different interpretations of it. 



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