Primative Pursuits Pinecone

I forgot to tell you...

Back in July Wuggie went to a camp called Primative Pursuits, to learn how to make camp and be a scout in the woods. When he and his dad picked me up from work after the first day, Wuggie was silent and slumped in the back seat.

"How was it?" I asked with trepidation

"Awesome" he said without opening his eyes.

I am so glad he got a chance to be out in the "wilderness" with such a cool program. It could be a UU program; it is very value-centered, and the values are so deeply in line with my own! (Except I don't know anything cool about wilderness survival). Wuggie's been to nature camps before, but apparently what he needed was a chance to learn something real, to take it seriously and be taken seriously.

The rest of the summer has been spent at Coddington, a traditional day-camp experience with great counselors where campers mostly choose how they will spend their day (like summer used to be). This is his first year, and he likes it very much; he asked if he could go back next year. We were worried that he would be outside all day long (which is not where he usually spends his time I must confess), but it doesn't seem to bother him at all. He comes home covered in dirt most days, as a young camper should, but also seems to spend plenty of time trading Pokemon cards (I know he didn't learn that at Primative Pursuits...)