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Essay About Summer Camp

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Summer camp should not be miserable. Best friends should not turn on you. Holding yourself back is not worth missed opportunities. Summer camp of 2014 was not only quite frankly miserable, but taught me an important life lesson; you should not hold yourself back to let others thrive. The golden July sun peeked through the clouds on an early Monday morning. We piled bags, full and overpacked, into the trunk of our car. As preposterous as it sounds, a weeklong overnight stay at a summer camp was a declaration of my independence. I was eleven, almost twelve years old, and about to enter middle school. Like most of kids my age, I was eager to be mature and independent, and this trip with my two closet dance friends seemed like a perfect way to begin the rest of my summer. After what seemed like a lifetime, we finally …show more content…

The girls ignored and beat me down. Anything I did didn’t seem good enough to them, and I didn’t know why. I soon found out. I had just walked out of the cabins and scanned around the campus for them. Though they were treating me horribly, I still wanted to try to be okay with them. Eventually I found them. They were at the park, sitting at the top of a play house. I went over to them and began to climb up the ladder as something caught my attention. They were saying my name. I froze. I heard each word they said. “She is such a bad dancer.” “The only reason she has good roles is because she is the favorite.” “She is annoying.” “Why does she think she is so good?” “The group would be better without her.” My stomach sinking, I felt a wave of embarrassment. Suddenly they looked over and their eyes locked with mine, filled with the beginnings of tears. I turned away quickly, running away as fast as I could. I face burned with anger and my throat stung with sadness. Why would the people who meant the most to me turn on me? Why would they say those things? What did I do? And most of all, is what they said about me

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