Boys Camp

Lindsay: So we're talking about camp today. Did you ever go to camp when you were a kid?

Warren: I did. I usually went to Cub camp, you know like Boy Scouts.

Lindsay: OK. Was it during the summer?

Warren: Yes, it would always be in the summer.

Lindsay: And was it for a week or a month?

Warren: I can't recall, it probably was about a week.

Lindsay: About a week. What did you do at Cub camp?

Warren: We'd do different things. One thing I remember is archery.

Lindsay: Archery?

Warren: Yeah, like bows and arrows. So we would have a target and we would practice trying to hit the target and I was really bad at it. I remember always, it's quite difficult and I would hurt my arm with the bow. But then after we were trying to get the target I remember we did distance as well and I was actually pretty good at that. I figured out how to get a long shot away and I think, I might be lying, but I think I maybe got the longest shot than anyone else.

Lindsay: Wow. Congratulations. OK, besides archery were there other games you played or sports you did?

Warren: Yeah, we would learn how to canoe and we'd swim and we'd go on hikes. We learned how to navigate through the forest with a compass.

Lindsay: OK. Did you learn how to start fire without matches?

Warren: We did, yeah. We'd use two sticks, rub them together and start a fire.

Lindsay: Wow. What would you guys do at night? Would you play games or have campfires?

Warren: Yes, we'd always have a campfire at night. We'd sing some songs, Kumbaya, and put on some skits and tell ghost stories but my favorite thing to do at the campfire was roast marshmallows.

Lindsay: That's the best.

Warren: I'd spend hours trying to find the perfect stick to carve and roast marshmallows on. Sometimes we'd even make the chocolate smores for the marshmallows.

Lindsay: Yummy. So that food was good, how was the other food?

Warren: I don't have any memories of it being good so I don't think it was very good. We would eat together in a mess hall much like yourself and actually I remember getting really sick one time and my parents had to come and pick me up and I think I got a bit of food poisoning.

Lindsay: Oh wow, from the food?

Warren: Yeah.

Lindsay: In scout camp, wow. OK. Final question, so you were away from your family right?

Warren: Yeah.

Lindsay: Was that hard or easy?

Warren: It was easy. I remember feeling a little freer and more independent away from my parents, less rules, less regulations.

Lindsay: You weren't homesick at all?

Warren: No, I never did get homesick. Even when my parents came to pick me up that time when I was sick, I really didn't want to go home.

Lindsay: It's too bad you got food poisoning.

Warren: Yeah.

Lindsay: OK, thanks Warren.