Team Bonding

 Every year, us shoregals pack up our tees, shorts, and tennis shoes and travel to our Team Bonding camp. I look forward to this every summer. During late August we take off a weekend and go to a camp sight called Pilgrim Hills. We do fun activities while talking and bonding with our new teammates. It's the one time during the summer where we aren't competing against each other and can just have fun. I've made some pretty good memories from these camps.



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 Before we leave we get a schedule of events that will take place at the camp. The first day we usually arrive around 4 in the afternoon and the leaders tell us our cabin numbers and our roommates. Then we go out into this big open grass area and play a few ice breaker games. These are pretty fun because you can just mess around. Next we go and have a late snack in the cafeteria and play a few board games. After our first day of being there we hang out with each other in the cabins and go to bed.

The "Lets Get Weird" Gang.



 You think we get to sleep in the next morning? Yeah I wish. Wake up call is at 7 where we have to be at breakfast by 7:45. It's pretty rough if I must say myself. There's no time to sleep in when we have a full day of activities planned. We usually hang around in the main hall for a while just playing games and talking about our goals as a team before we head out to canoeing. It literally takes 3 hours to canoe down the river. Lets just say all we wanted to do was sleep when we got back. After that we hang around until dinner. Right after dinner we play a game called predator vs. pray. It's probably one of the funnest games ever. It's pretty much a huge game of man hunt. Before the bonfire, we have a talent show for anyone to do anything. This year, a group of girls including myself made up a dance to a mash up of different songs. It made everyone laugh...and of course someone took a video of it. Then  when it gets dark out we go down to a little lake and start the bonfire. This is my favorite part because we play a game called Mafia. Then we head back to our cabins just to hang out and have "girl" talk before we finally call it a night.



More of the LGW gang.

 On the last day there we have to get up, eat breakfast, and head out. Before we go the whole team stops at the entrance sign and takes pictures. I'm going to miss going there every summer even though it's just for a weekend. When we get home everyone seems so much closer since before we left. We become closer with new people and our team becomes stronger because of it. I just recently found out that this year we aren't going back there for my senior year:( Instead we're just going to some church and doing who knows what. I'm kind of super upset because it will be my last year and now we don't have an official team bonding. Karen Krause and I had an idea of doing a ropes course or going to Kalahari instead. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens! Overall, I think that team bonding retreats are great for every team. I know I love them just cause we're pretty much go crazy!!



Got to love us dysfunctional juniors.