The Amazingly Amazing Camp Stix!

   Hey peeps! Oh my goodness, Camp Stix was seriously worth getting diabetes! I felt so normal there when everyone checked their blood sugar and counted carbs and things like that. I made two really good friends: Page and Brenda. But I became friends with everyone in my cabin. Paige has a lovebird, and her mom brought it to camp when she picked Paige up. She was so adorable! Her name was Kiwi, and she was sea green with a peach-colored face. She was so sweet and cuddly that it made me really, really want a lovebird xD. Anyway, it was AMAZING. Every day we would wake up, say grace (actually it was a song about how the Lord blesses us), eat an awesome breakfast, then we'd do a group activity like A-Wall (super intense hide-and-seek), say grace and eat lunch, then we had low-key cabin time for thirty minutes. During that time I would usually write letters or write in my journal. After that, we had two sessions of open activity. You could choose between swimming in a pool, paint-balling, zip-lining, arts and crafts, archery, riverfront swim, humongous slide, and canoeing. I zip-lined on the first day. You zip-lined with a group of four people, and my group consisted of a 9-year old boy, a fourteen year old girl, Alaina (a girl from my cabin), and me. We were the only group that screamed on the zip-line xD. The fourteen year old was hilarious. She was this super outgoing Star Wars fan. We became friends afterwards; it was so much fun! I mostly swam in the pool, went on the slide, and did arts and crafts. In arts and crafts they had temporary tattoo artists. I got a wolf on my forearm, a dream-catcher on my left lower shoulder, a Camp Stix song quote on my calf, and a Sheikah (a tribe from Zelda) symbol on my right shoulder xD. So yeah! After open activity, we would say grace and eat dinner, and then we went to campfire. At campfire, the counselors would put on a skit. They were always super funny and weird, and they always had at least one thing about diabetes. In between the skit, the counselors would have everyone get up and sing a few camp songs. They were so much like girls camp songs. They were amazing! After the skit was over, we would all sing one more song called "Friends With You." We would all hold hands and sing it. It was super touching and emotional, especially on the last day. Oh my goodness, on the last day I was so emotional. We had what's called a Stixeremony. Everyone would grab a stick, walk down to the fire, and if they wanted they could say something about camp or diabetes, and then throw the stick into the campfire.  Some people had really emotionally inspiring things to say. My friends and I were crybabies the whole time xD. It was seriously the coolest camp EVER!! I'm so glad I went.