Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Senior Trip Photos
The senior trip continues. Yesterday, it sounded like fun and today, it actually looks like fun too. We'll keep posting the photos as fast as Christin can send them!
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
An Update from Senior Trip
Here's an update from Christin:
Hello from North Haven, Maine! I am writing this from the comfort of the Waterman's Community Center where a crew of students is stuffing envelopes for the Center's biannual mailing while it absolutely pours outside. The other crew is at the North Haven Community School preparing to transfer smelt from a tank where the students raised them to a nearby stream. Christie Hallowell (BMA alum '74) and her husband Barney who is the principal of the school, have been absolutely amazing in welcoming us to their island community, showing us around and setting up service opportunities.
Yesterday morning we attended the island's Memorial Day service, which was a somber occasion honoring all those who served. Then we got a tour of their school, which is an amazing campus with a greenhouse, wood working shop, taxidermy projects, hydroponics, fish tanks, and lots more! The seniors were very impressed!
We spent yesterday afternoon exploring around our campsite. Mariah Zanca gathered seven kayaks from family friends for our use so the seniors explored the Mullen's Head cove by paddle and foot, finding sea life abound: mussels, crabs, sea urchins, sea stars, harbor seals, doll porpoise, osprey, and more. I believe that a few brave souls even bathed in the cold Maine ocean when the sun was shining hot.
We created a cook group rotation so last night Jane, Jocelyn, Murphy and Sten served us a delicious meal of chicken pesto pasta. After dinner everyone roasted apples and marshmallows at a campfire on the beach.
The week is shaping up well in terms of service projects. Our lists includes: fixing up an old lobster trap shop; landscaping around a few community buildings; working with schoolchildren; working at the organic farm; trail building; painting the community center's stage; and more!
The weather was excellent yesterday, but is rainy today. We experienced some good thunderstorms in the middle of the night, but as far as I know only one person got wet (Jenna) and only one rain fly went flying - thus we were all woken up by Ronnie today at 4:50am trying to pound in his, and a girls' tent's stakes better.
This trip is a truly enlightening so far- the seniors are really coming to know what life is like on a Maine coast island - natural and human! Thanks for your support.
Best,
Christin
P.S. I will post a few photos on the BMA Facebook page, so take a look!
P.P.S. I am not sure if I will have a chance to send another update, but I will if I can.
Hello from North Haven, Maine! I am writing this from the comfort of the Waterman's Community Center where a crew of students is stuffing envelopes for the Center's biannual mailing while it absolutely pours outside. The other crew is at the North Haven Community School preparing to transfer smelt from a tank where the students raised them to a nearby stream. Christie Hallowell (BMA alum '74) and her husband Barney who is the principal of the school, have been absolutely amazing in welcoming us to their island community, showing us around and setting up service opportunities.
Yesterday morning we attended the island's Memorial Day service, which was a somber occasion honoring all those who served. Then we got a tour of their school, which is an amazing campus with a greenhouse, wood working shop, taxidermy projects, hydroponics, fish tanks, and lots more! The seniors were very impressed!
We spent yesterday afternoon exploring around our campsite. Mariah Zanca gathered seven kayaks from family friends for our use so the seniors explored the Mullen's Head cove by paddle and foot, finding sea life abound: mussels, crabs, sea urchins, sea stars, harbor seals, doll porpoise, osprey, and more. I believe that a few brave souls even bathed in the cold Maine ocean when the sun was shining hot.
We created a cook group rotation so last night Jane, Jocelyn, Murphy and Sten served us a delicious meal of chicken pesto pasta. After dinner everyone roasted apples and marshmallows at a campfire on the beach.
The week is shaping up well in terms of service projects. Our lists includes: fixing up an old lobster trap shop; landscaping around a few community buildings; working with schoolchildren; working at the organic farm; trail building; painting the community center's stage; and more!
The weather was excellent yesterday, but is rainy today. We experienced some good thunderstorms in the middle of the night, but as far as I know only one person got wet (Jenna) and only one rain fly went flying - thus we were all woken up by Ronnie today at 4:50am trying to pound in his, and a girls' tent's stakes better.
This trip is a truly enlightening so far- the seniors are really coming to know what life is like on a Maine coast island - natural and human! Thanks for your support.
Best,
Christin
P.S. I will post a few photos on the BMA Facebook page, so take a look!
P.P.S. I am not sure if I will have a chance to send another update, but I will if I can.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Burkies are right back into it!
After a few days to recover from a ton of skiing at high altitude in Loveland, the Bears were back working hard in the weight room and on the field.
On Friday morning, the boys went on a mountain bike ride and the girls ran track intervals. In the afternoon, the boys hit the weight room and the girls did speed and agility work on the field in the form of Giants, Wizards and Elves followed by a modified version of capture the flag.
On Friday morning, the boys went on a mountain bike ride and the girls ran track intervals. In the afternoon, the boys hit the weight room and the girls did speed and agility work on the field in the form of Giants, Wizards and Elves followed by a modified version of capture the flag.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Back on Campus
We returned to a beautiful day; the likes of which are famous in the NEK. Campus was busy again!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Day 9: Wrapping Up Belatedly with Trev and Raz
Greetings from Team Mattel/The Ducks
Today was the final day of our camp here in Loveland. It seems that all of us started and ended on the same positive note; we were psyched to be skiing in May. It’s a bummer to think that most of us won’t be on snow for another few months, but people are definitely excited for summer.
The day started off with our bumpy ride up the access road to lift 6. The snow was hard and the sky was blue… for a bit. The weather moved in with a vengeance. The snow came down hard but the Burkies stayed focused, working on drills like it was the first day. We may have even showed Lief Haugen a thing or two about skiing like pro. Towards the end of the day after 7 days on snow, dozens of runs and countless turns our energy wavered slightly, only to be topped up again by some of the boys who caught a second wind and hiked to the top of the mountain for the last run of the day.
After skiing we had the final all school dry land sesh headed up by the big man, Harlow. We had some intense games of ultimate tennis ball (ultimate Frisbee with tennis balls). Our six team round robin of intense 4 minute games started off strong but in the end there had to be a victor. The two teams with the most wins faced off in an epic showdown to end all showdowns. The spectators choose who they thought would be the victor and, to add to the intensity, those that chose the lesser of the two teams were put up against one another in one final relay. In the end, everyone, victors and the non-victors alike, stilll had to return to our humble abode and start trying to fit the explosion of our rooms into not-so-big duffel bags. I think we can safely say that everyone is happy to be heading home but it won’t be long before we’re yearning for snow once again.
Happy Trails,
Razz and Trevor ( a.k.a. Fulton Reed and Charlie Conway)
Today was the final day of our camp here in Loveland. It seems that all of us started and ended on the same positive note; we were psyched to be skiing in May. It’s a bummer to think that most of us won’t be on snow for another few months, but people are definitely excited for summer.
The day started off with our bumpy ride up the access road to lift 6. The snow was hard and the sky was blue… for a bit. The weather moved in with a vengeance. The snow came down hard but the Burkies stayed focused, working on drills like it was the first day. We may have even showed Lief Haugen a thing or two about skiing like pro. Towards the end of the day after 7 days on snow, dozens of runs and countless turns our energy wavered slightly, only to be topped up again by some of the boys who caught a second wind and hiked to the top of the mountain for the last run of the day.
After skiing we had the final all school dry land sesh headed up by the big man, Harlow. We had some intense games of ultimate tennis ball (ultimate Frisbee with tennis balls). Our six team round robin of intense 4 minute games started off strong but in the end there had to be a victor. The two teams with the most wins faced off in an epic showdown to end all showdowns. The spectators choose who they thought would be the victor and, to add to the intensity, those that chose the lesser of the two teams were put up against one another in one final relay. In the end, everyone, victors and the non-victors alike, stilll had to return to our humble abode and start trying to fit the explosion of our rooms into not-so-big duffel bags. I think we can safely say that everyone is happy to be heading home but it won’t be long before we’re yearning for snow once again.
Happy Trails,
Razz and Trevor ( a.k.a. Fulton Reed and Charlie Conway)
On the Bus and Headed to the NEK
We packed up and now we're on our way home.
Stay tuned for a camp wrap-up.
See everyone soon!
Stay tuned for a camp wrap-up.
See everyone soon!
On the Ground in Boston
An easy flight from Denver to Boston. All's well and we'll soon be on our way to East Burke.
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