This past summer, five students from Deep Creek Middle School earned scholarships to camp in the U.S. Keniesha Pinder, grade 8, shares her favorite things from Camp Wavus in Maine:
1. 6 day canoe trip
2. Kayaking (I learned that when you are alone and tired you have to keep going)
3. The different theme days like Carnival Day
4. Bull riding!!!!
5. Going on the pottery wheel
6. Shooting rifles
7. Cooking classes
8. Hiking into the wilderness
9. Sailing
10. Ropes courses
Thank you to all the staff and Island School families who acted as homestays and chaperones on the kids’ journeys to and from Eleuthera: Christian Henry, Hannah Twombly (IS SP’11), Bronthe McGarrah (IS SP’11), Ashley Anderson and Odette Pretty.