Summer Camp Strewing

One way we strew during the summer is attending summer camps.  I love that there are so many opportunities in my area.  My kids get a taste of school, that is getting up each morning and having to show up at a certain place at a certain time to do some focused activity.

Throughout the years we've done:

• Vacation Bible School (as attendees and when the kids get older, as helpers or leaders)
• Workcamps - our parish has a week long away workcamp for high schoolers and a local shorter camp for junior high kids.  Fabulous, hands on learning experience and opportunity to serve the less fortunate.
• Art camps (we've done various ones over the years.  Always a good time!)
• Horse riding camps (only once.  One kid liked it, the other didn't)
• Sports camps (every sport camp has been a failure.  My kids learn that they are not jocks!)
• Drama camps (mixed reviews)
• Computer camps (mixed reviews)
• Music camps (my youngest loves her music camp;  This is her 4th summer attending the same 3 week long music camp.  It is pricey, but well worth it.)
• Dance camps - (fun!)
• Gymnastics camps - (my kids seemed to like these but they never asked to return to them, so maybe not)
• Latin camp - I actually hosted a beginning Latin camp last year.  It was fun, but I didn't have the ambition or energy to repeat it again this year!

And right now my 16 yo is at a week long engineering camp at a local university where he will live in a dorm room and learn about the different types of engineering jobs:  mechanical, biomedical, civil, electrical, etc.  It looks like a great program where he'll learn a ton.  I felt kind of bad leaving him there.  He doesn't know a soul, and he is the quiet type and doesn't usually initiate conversations, so of course this will be a learning experience on the socialization front as well as the engineering one!  Everybody seemed to be really friendly and wonderful.  So hopefully, he'll get over feeling awkward and have a great time.