Kamaji’s 98th Summer of Firsts Kamaji’s is one old camp. As a matter of fact, we’ll be celebrating our 100th season in 2013. Given that history, you might assume that not much changes from year to year. Well, you’d be wrong — really wrong. You might even say that 2011 was the year of Kamaji [...]
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Reflections by the Lake Fifteen minutes into 4th period I wandered down to the lake to see if I could make myself useful. As I walked down the waterfront steps, the first thing I noticed was how absolutely beautiful everything looked. The blue of the water was matched by the blue of the sky. I [...]
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Play is the Thing So, here’s another example of why camp is pretty darn wonderful. Monday’s evening program was Wild West Night. All the campers dressed up in their best western garb (that meant a lot of plaid, jeans, bandanas and funny hats) and headed for the Lodge where different games and booths were set [...]
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The Great Spirit certainly is smiling on Camp Kamaji. While much of the midwest has been struggling with heat, humidity and severe storms, the weather here the past week has been almost perfect. Even when the forecast isn’t great, things have a way of working out. Kamaji’s Tribe Day was scheduled for Saturday. That’s a [...]
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Just Another Wednesday at Camp Kamaji Today is Adventure Day. If you are a new Kamaji parent, you might be wondering, “What is Adventure Day?” Let us explain. Most days of the week, your daughter spends a good part of the day participating in four different instructional activities. Because campers are programmed into activities individually, [...]
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A Personal Observation I don’t want to brag, but since many of you have been suffering through terrible heat, humidity and violent storms, I thought I’d start with a weather report. Kamaji weather has been pretty great the past few days. Thursday and Friday were glorious. Bright blue skies, high temperatures around 80 degrees and [...]
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KAMAJI NEWS (and WEATHER REPORT, TOO) Hello from the shores of Wolf Lake. What a difference a month makes. At the beginning of first session we struggled because of cool and damp weather. Well, second session we’re living with the same heat wave that many of you are experiencing. We’ve had it better than most. [...]
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A Look Back and Full Speed Ahead So our old friends, Gene and Anne Keller spent the past week with us. (Gene was the camp doctor.) This was the sixth time the Kellers have spent part of their summer at Kamaji, however, the last time they were here was 1994! Since then we have remained [...]
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As Mike wrote in an earlier blog posted on July 21st “Most days at Kamaji, the campers attend four different instructional activity periods — two in the morning and two in the afternoon — and have a free period at the end of the afternoon. They don’t necessarily go to instructional activities with campers from [...]
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Way back in 1986 a genius movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick was released. Many of you might fondly remember this movie, but just in case . . . . . . Ferris fakes sick in order to skip out of school for a day. But he doesn’t fake sick just to [...]
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