Sophie Dixon, age 10
Cabin: Falling Star
Counselor: Trelawney Buley

Beautiful sunsets at night
Loud when there are white caps
Unforgettable view
Fun waves are Huge
Friendly Forever

Christine Shonnard, age 10
Cabin: Falling Star
Counselor: Trelawney Buley

Why do I come to camp?

I’ve come to camp for three years now, and I love it!  Camp Kohahna has a perfect location.  Lots of cabins are located on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.  There the view is so beautiful especially when sunsets are going on.  When you swim in the lake it’s also really clean.  In the morning people choose if they want to take a dip on the lake, or exercise and it feels really good, plus it’s a nice way to wake up and start the day.

After dips we go to our cabin and change for breakfast.  Speaking of food, meals here are delicious.  Once a week the cooks make pizza and smoothies, and Sunday cookouts are awesome.  I am looking so forward to camp this year!

Karlie Shields, age 16
Cabin: Shorewood
Counselors: Kate Domash and Alice Stanley

Because I attend a high school of nearly 3,000, it’s hard to feel at home.  Although there is a lot of kindness and joy spread within my group of friends, none of them are Christian Scientists, which makes it harder to explain a lot of things that I think about, or explain where I disappear to every summer. 

I never feel like I can sufficiently describe all the love expressed in camp or the opportunity you get to grow and be yourself.  As I got in my car after taking my last final, something in my wipers caught my attention.  The object was a note- a hurtful letter that upset me.  However, the episode was bitter-sweet.  Although it hurt my feelings, it makes me realize that I needed to discover myself more. 

Camp, which promotes sisterhood and spiritual feminism, is the perfect place for me to value myself more and develop more of a spiritual defense against those that choose to take advantage of others’ innocence.  Something that really comforts me in times like this is from the Bible.  “Glory be to God and peace be to the struggling hearts!”  If God is worthy of glory then I am certainly worthy of peace.

Jonah Bettman, age 12
Cabin: Iroquois
Counselors: Fred Morrison and Ben Mason

Phat Tuesday is awesome.  Your cabin does cool things on that day.  Our cabin went to the rock wall for our first activity.  Most everybody made it to the top.  Some people went blindfolded.  Our next activity was to go to the pole barn.  There we build a bridge out of legos that could hold 2.5 lbs. Our instructor was a counselor named Kurt.  He is 1 of 50 lego master builders in the world.  He gave us a tour of a castle that he built.  It was about 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide. 

Next we went to the woods and played a game called Survival.  It’s a game where you have to get a certain amount of lives, food and water.  Then after that the whole senior section went to the shallows (a shallow part of Glen Lake) and played water polo.  Then we ate dinner right by the lake.  Fat Tuesday is fun.

Cooper Stock, age 15
Cabin: Cherokee
Counselor: Mike Holland

Our cabin day was a lot of fun and was a bonding experience for my cabin.  We went to find a rock in the lake that was up to our knees big.  We found the perfect one and went to get a shovel to pry out the rock and a wheelbarrow to carry it back up out of the water.  When one shovel wasn’t enough, I ran to the changing cabin to get two more shovels and three people pried the rock up with the shovels while the other two campers lifted with their hands.

After a half an hour- maybe a little more- we finally moved the rock over once.  All we could feel in the cold wind, the rain, the upcoming storm was triumph that we could use such teamwork to move such a heavy rock.  Even just that one move was triumph enough for us.  As we looked happily at the rock, we saw a face, and decided it was the face of God smiling at us.

We decided that we had very little time left, so we used those same skills to move a slightly smaller rock.  One of our shovels broke in the process, but with serious teamwork we got the rock into the wheelbarrow.
Getting that rock 200 yards back to our beach wasn’t even close to easy.  Multiple times, the rock almost fell out and the wheelbarrow might be broken.  The spiritual teamwork and the support we gave each other made a cabin day that was just as perfect as it could’ve been.