I am 27 years old and spent the day as a kid. I woke up, laced up my sneakers, ate in a dining hall with indulgent foods my diet doesn\u2019t typically allow, played basketball, gaga, tennis, and swam in the lake. I spent rest hour lying on the quad with friends, having long conversations with friends whom have known me almost my entire life. We met when I was nine and spent more than a decade coming back to Camp Robin Hood for two months. In the face of break ups, make ups, engagements, marriages, love, loss, and similar changes and events most individuals in their 20s endure, it\u2019s camp that\u2019s remained a constant in not just mine, but my core group of friends\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t spent my summers in Freedom, New Hampshire since 2008. I reside in New York City, have a consuming job that I enjoy, and spend my summer weekends wrought with plans. Yet for one weekend, my fellow Scribes of 2005 and I leave everything behind and devote a weekend to each other and the place that brought us together. Campers we watched after have mostly moved on or are leading groups themselves; the people who I mainly associated with the location for my tenure there are all consumed with their own plans and careers; yet it\u2019s the pine needles, the waterfront, fresh air, and \u2014 what campers and alumni call the magic in the trees \u2014 that draw me, and the women who I\u2019ve known since girlhood, back every single year.<\/p>\n
As Tumblers, Squires, Lancers, Bards, and more have approached my four friends and I throughout the weekend, I hope that when they\u2019re office drones too, they\u2019ll have two days of escape from \u201creal life\u201d to revisit Robin Hood, where they\u2019ll be able to leave iPhones, social media, and troubles behind, to remember what\u2019s really important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am 27 years old and spent the day as a kid. I woke up, laced up my sneakers, ate in a dining hall with indulgent foods my diet doesn\u2019t typically allow, played basketball, gaga, tennis, and swam in the lake. I spent rest hour lying on the quad with friends, having long conversations with friends whom have known me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2016"],"yoast_head":"\n