While you are in the campfire bowl with Moses, the counselors will be carefully unloading your luggage and meeting your teachers. PLEASE be sure to label all of your luggage prior to camp so that it will be easy for you to find.

We have a lot of fun singing in camp. You will start learning camp songs when you meet with Moses. He will also review some of the camp guidelines so that you'll know exactly what's allowed and what is expected of you. It's very important that you are very polite and kind to others in your own class, other students from other classes, and to anyone else in camp. The only way we can have a great time in camp is if each one of us really works at being kind, encouraging, and sensitive to other's needs.

Each of us needs to work hard at making others feel special and cared for. We all try very hard to never give put-downs. It's a fact of life that a person who likes himself or herself doesn't put down other people. A person who gives put-downs is really trying to tell people that s/he doesn't like something about himself or herself. Let's work hard to encourage and cheer on others!

At the end of the meeting with Moses, you will be introduced to your counselor and cabin mates and will go on a lower camp tour with them. Your counselor will also show you the new dining hall including which of the dining hall doors you will enter for meals and which table you will sit at for each meal since each student is assigned a certain table.

Your counselor will work with you to help you work as a team with the other members of your cabin, you'll eat lunch, and then . . . you will gather your belongings and head up the hill to your cabin.

It takes between 5 and 10 minutes to walk to most of the cabin areas. Don't bring a lot of extra things that you don't need at camp, because you carry it all to your cabin.