As I said in a previous post, we've had 63 Camp America counselors join us over the past 14 summers. This means many things, and one is that we have Camp Family members scattered all over the globe. And what's better than getting together with long lost family? Not nothing.
So today will be a tale of two staff members, recent and not.
First let us go back to ancient history. (Well, ancient history according to Camp time, at least. And as we know, Camp time goes very, very fast.)
Back to the distant past! Of a land called...2005. Yes, 2005! When the our main fire-ring was still deep in the forest, the canoes departed from the close side of the lake, several of our current Senior Staff members were our youngest campers and our current youngest campers had yet to be born. Back in this strange time there was a bizarre and mythical creature. It went by the unorthodox name of Vlad Buxton.
There's even photographic evidence of this creature on camp, captured with a rudimentary device called a "digital camera." It worked on Double-A batteries. It was a simple age.
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| Vlad caught feeding at Viking Dinner. |
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| Vlad practicing his traditional homeland sport of "welly-wanging." |
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| Vlad conquering America. |
A now flash forward to 2015. A decade after he was at Camp, we manage to track down and capture the elusive Vlad in his natural habitat.
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| 10 years have passed and we both look exactly the same! (Is the story we're sticking to.) |
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| Counselor and Director meet again! |
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| On the Tube. A classic London picture, as I'm told. |
But Vlad's not all! Back to the time machine, off to the not-distant-relatively recent past of a land called...2014. Well, that was only 29 days ago. Further back than that. A land called Summer 2014. And a man who lived there named Roshan.
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| Roshan as a...pirate? I think that is. |
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| Roshan in the middle of a heated debate. |
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| Roshan shivering and soaking wet on a hot summer day, cause that's what happens at Camp. |
I bet you can figure out where this is going.
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| Roshan in civilization! |
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| A civilization where no one ever, ever needs a watch. |
Yes, catching up and spending some quality time with these two fine gentlemen was a highlight of our trip.
Once again it's the magic of Camp: whether we haven't seen each other in five months or ten years, we fall right back into the same ol' rhythms of retelling all that happened beside the fire, along the lake, and in the woods some summer long ago and close at heart.
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Next Post: We move on from the counselors of the past to the counselors of the future and the Camp America Job Fair!
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