Camps galore!

All this talk about camps, show choir, Allstate, and music in general has really gotten me to think about all that I have been through in this category, per say. This weekend I was looking through my junk drawer to clean everything out, when I found this mask. It wasn't a scary one but it was a dog face, white with rainbow spots, and made out of paper machete; it was molded to fit my face perfectly. I looked at it, and instantly remembered my week at the famous Dorian camp.

When I was younger, I only went to one particular camp every summer, which was camp Iodiseca. It is a church camp, that you get to stay at for five week days OR a whole week where you get to stay the night in the lodges/cabins. It was so much fun! Whenever I think about it, I remember all the new people I met, the activities we did, and those fun fires we had each night where we sang songs and enjoyed each other. Now that I am older, I have stopped going, but I still miss those old days. The summer that I stopped going was the summer that I went to Dorian, and it was quite an experience.

It was a musical camp where you got to play an instrument in the band, sing in the choir, take dance classes, or do art classes. At the time, I was in band and I played the flute, so I played in the band there. Also, I joined the choir because I love to sing! For the extra classes, I took art and this dance class that was sort of different from those such as jazz and ballet.
The band was really unique. We were split into two bands because of the tremendous size, but the one I was in was the best (in my opinion). We played pretty cool songs from movies and what not, and I actually enjoyed it. I didn't really wanna play the flute there, but I ended up doing it and I loved it. The art class and dance class were really interesting, too, and I think I had twice as much fun there. I made the mask, along with drawings and other things that I still have today, in the one specific art class that I took. It was really interesting to do something that you usually wouldn't be able to do at your own home, so that was an experience in itself; along with the dance class. It was really, really.. weird. We did these exercises where you "moved the mood" of the song. If it was scary, you moved scary. If it was sad, you moved sad. It taught me a lot, though, like how to feel the music and to interpret the song. I still use that today when I am performing for shows; you don't want a sad face and body language on a song that is suppose to lift your spirits! Lastly, choir, which was my all time favorite. Singing in a choir as big as I did was a big thing that taught me a lot. We learned really cool songs, which I have on my i pod and still listen to today and I met basically all my friends from camp in it. Some I still talk to today!

From all the people I met through this camp, and the memories I have will most likely never fade. Maybe next summer I could go there again, if I am not too busy. I bet it would be five times more fun than before! Well, we'd have to see.