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| That's right! Leadership Weekend! |
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| It's that one time of the year... |
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| That all of our recently aged-out-"graduated"-former-Counselors-in-Training-no-longer-campers... |
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| Get together... |
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| For some mid-February Summer Camp fun! |
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| For some Junior Counselor Training! |
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| For some classic Camp... |
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| New people meeting! |
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| And of course, |
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| To enjoy 4-H Camp in the beautiful and scenic... |
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| Winter Weather! |
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| Wait a second. I said "beautiful and scenic... |
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| Winter Weather! |
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| Oh yeah. That's right. I forgot. |
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| Winter Weather is not just... |
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| Fluffy snowflakes... |
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| And frozen lakes. |
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| Nope, Winter Weather... |
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| Is also... |
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| Constant 38 degree rain... |
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| And... |
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| Soaking wet leaves. |
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| Oh, well. At least it didn't rain the whole weekend. |
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| Wait, what!? |
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| It did!? |
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| It rained... |
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| Virtually the whole Weekend!? |
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| Well, if so, the next question is... |
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| Did that stop us!? |
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| Did that stop the Junior Counselors, |
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| Of L.G. Cook 4-H Camp! |
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| Of course it didn't! |
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| We got right out in the rain! |
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| And we loved it! |
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| We hiked... |
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| In the rain! |
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| We played... |
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| In the rain! |
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| Sometimes we played under some cover too. |
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| Cause that's only sensible. |
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| I mean, c'mon. It's raining out. |
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| But then we'd get right back out in the rain! |
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| We even tried to sled down the bowl in the rain! |
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| Until we realized that didn't work at all and wisely gave up immediately. |
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| But what does work in the rain!? |
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| Hide and Seek! |
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| Hide and Seek works great in the rain! |
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| Well. |
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| Kind of it does. |
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| Do you know what works even better? |
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| Getting OUT of that cold, cold rain... |
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| And going back inside to warm up! |
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| With some warm food! |
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| Warm food makes us happy. |
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| Yes, our Junior Counselors cooked together as a team... |
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| And then we'd certainly... |
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| Eat together... |
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| As a team as well. |
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| But Leadership Weekend was not just... |
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| Cold fun and warm food! |
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| Our 2nd Year, |
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| Returning Junior Counselors... |
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| Designed... |
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| And prepared... |
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| A Scenarios Training Game... |
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| To share their experience with our brand-new Junior Counselors, |
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| And, |
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| When there was... |
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| Finally... |
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| A break in the rain... |
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| How did we celebrate? |
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| By going to work! That's how! |
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| How do we fuel all our good campfires? |
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| (Sure, Camp Spirit, yes, good point.) |
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| But also... |
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| Firewood! |
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| And that firewood... |
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| Sometimes needs... |
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| Moving around! |
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| And we've got just the Junior Counselors to do it. |
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| Usually the goal is... |
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| NOT to make any holes in our Camp canoes. |
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| However, when we're trying to create some drainage in ol' leaky decommissioned canoes for our brand-new CANOE-NITY GARDEN... |
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| Punching holes in canoes is encouraged. |
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| Do you know what everyone's favorite part of 4-H Camp is? |
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| The thorn bushes! |
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| Oh wait. |
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| No, never mind. |
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| NO ONE likes the thorn bushes. |
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| So the Junior Counselors thought... |
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| "Hey, let's get rid of some thorn bushes." |
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| And in the midst of all the work... |
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| And all the-brief-moments-of-no-rain... |
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| And firewood moving... |
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| There were also... |
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| Junior Counselor Interviews! |
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| Very serious, somber... |
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| No laughing matter... |
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| Intimidating Junior Counselor interviews. |
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| As you can surely tell. |
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| Then! |
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| For one more sampling... |
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| Of a little Summer Camp... |
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| In the winter time... |
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| We warmed up the Dining Hall... |
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| (With some of that very firewood we had moved around...) |
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| For the 2nd Year JCs... |
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| To administer... |
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| Their Scenerios Training Exercise... |
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| And finally... |
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| We then huddled around... |
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| Another fire... |
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| At the other end of the Dining Hall... |
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| For our traditional, Leadership Weekend... |
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| Saturday Night Storytelling Campfire. |
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| Then! Sunday morning! |
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| A little more food (who doesn't love breakfast pasta...) |
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| A little Camp Clean-Up... |
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| (Who doesn't love Camp Clean-Up...) |
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| And a little... |
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| Of our patented... |
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| Group test style... |
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| Goldfish point fueled... |
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| Write those answers down... |
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| Then shout... |
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| Those answers out... |
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| Leadership Weekend Final Exam: |
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| The Romanchuk. |
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| It's even more fun than it looks! |
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| And it looks like a lot of fun. |
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| And of course we end, with a Thank You Circle. |
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| Why in the Dining Hall, you ask? Funny enough, because it happens to be raining out. |
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| And ending with a Thank You Circle makes sense, because full circle is what Leadership Weekend is all about! |
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| A group of campers who love 4-H Camp... |
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| Who become CITs... |
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| Who become Junior Counselors... |
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| Who help create a Camp for a whole new generation of campers to love. |
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| Full Circle! Back to the beginning! |
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| Just like this blog post- bringing us right back to where we started: |
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| With a group photo of the wonderful Junior Counselors at Leadership Weekend 2018. |
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