k-town summer

0Josh • 21st Jul 2004 • blog entries

I’m sitting here in Kent, enjoying the last few hours of our day off. The weird thing about having a day off from camp is that I feel like I could just stay here and everything would be fine. Its not like I’m visiting from a summer at camp, or like I am out of place. When we come back, I feel like this is where I belong. Its definitely home here. As much as we love working at camp this summer, there is something about being in Kent during July. Its the slurpees, the sun, lake Morton, freedom, and the feel of ‘nothing’. Summer can be addicting. Last year was the first time in a few years that we actually had a “free” summer, and it was amazing. I would work from 6am to 3, then go golfing, fish all night, watch crappy summer reality shows, and just enjoy myself. When we come home for a day off, I feel like we get one day of summer and one day to do ‘nothing’. As I sit here in the Sommerman’s air-conditioned office, with the voices of Sarah, Evan, and others playing outside in the lake…I’m preparing to go back to camp, where despite the sun, the fun and the friends, its not a Kent summer.