camp hazen changed my life. im talking about this past summer. not the summer before that. the first year was crap.

like, you know how the first night they always do the pillar walk and everyone moans and groans and complains? its those 5 pillars that made me a better person.

maya made me a better person too. i saw her struggles. i saw what she had gone through. she showed me the really important stuff in life. like there's life beyond materialistic posessions. that was a concept i never grasped before.

mikel, i think his name was, the russian guy who rapped =P showed me something beautiful too. he had this amazing "everything is beautiful" outlook on life that i never saw before. i only talked to him for like, 5 minutes (he brought me to the nurse) but it was just enough time for me to learn something important.

i also learned that snake river sucks. i hated snake river. i thought it was gunna be exciting. God forbid.

and the one thing that always gets me is the candle-lighting ceremony. i cry every time. its one of those secret rituals that you just have to see to believe. and the year it was on the beach was better, just for the record. the chapel is creepy.

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