BLOG POST #1 - What I did this summer

     This summer for the first time in my life I worked as a ski instructor at a jewish summer camp called Camp George. While this was my first time as staff I had been going to Camp George for 5 years as a camper and as a CIT (counselour in training). My favourite activity at camp was always waterskiing and I always wanted to be an instuctor not only so I could get my own fix of skiing but so I could teach and inspire kids to ski like my counselours did for me. I have to say it was my best year at camp so far. Working all day on the dock, skiing, driving boats, getting in the water to help kids was an incredible experience and I loved every minute of it. In addition to camp my summer involved going to a cottage with my family and seeing friends. What I did this summer relates very concretely to the recent massacre of campers at a youth camp in Norway for set up by the Labour Party. In this horrific event a man dressed in a police uniform (believed to be named Anders Behring Breivik) came to this camp and started shooting campers on the spot. This event hits extrememly close to home for me because the way I see it it very well could have been my camp with my friends being killed. This is almost unthinkable and I can't even begin to imagine the sadness and trauma this event has cause everyone involved, especially the campers who lost friends in front of their eyes. I can't even begin to comprehend how someone could do something as cowardly and unforgivable as this and I hope with every fiber of my being that something like this will never happen again. Upon saying this however I'm not naive enough to truly believe that there aren't still people in this world who are deluded and sick enough to continue to commit atrocities of this magnitude.