If you are from anywhere but America and haven’t been to camp in the USA before it is hard to imagine what those two words ‘summer camp’ really mean.
My decision to spend my summer of 2016 in the United States was arguably one of the best I have made so far. Before I left I was unsure what to expect, feeling nervous and anxious about the months ahead in a new country with no familiar faces. These feelings now come as a huge contrast to the feelings of sorrow and quite frankly, despair when this experience came to an end in what felt like the blink of an eye.
America is huge, with its rolling plains in the midwest, it’s mountains in the east coast, and vast amount of different cultures you can run into just crossing the street. I’ve seen movies about America, I read a book about going to summer camp, caught up on some blogs I found, so I felt prepared. […]