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| Some of my favorite folks at Sloan sporting the Camp Counselor shirts |
Another highlight from the spring semester was Camp Sloan. 100 Sloanies went over two weekends to
cabins in New Hampshire. I volunteered to be a camp counselor and had a blast!
The cabins were deep in the woods not near car-accessible roads so we hiked all
our gear up the mountain. ‘Campers’ were selected to create a good mix of 1st
and 2nd years, and other Sloan programs (SDM, LGO, MFin, etc).
The
outdoors environment seemed to break down walls that seem to exist normally on
campus. We had a late-night dance party, some of the more daring counselors set off fireworks,
and some even more daring others actually got in the freezing cold lake! The
next day we took a 3 or 4 hour hike up to the top of a mountain that had great
views of the surrounding area.
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| Killer hike ('killer' literally, I was pretty scared at this point when we were climbing this ladder!!) |
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| We made it to the top! |
The best part of the trip though had to be seeing Sunish
Gupta, a (now graduated) SDM student, hike up to the cabins. Sunish started
losing his vision about 10 years ago and is now legally blind. The hike was not
easy for many of the campers with sight so you can imagine what a daunting task
this was for Sunish. Chengran Chai and I had the opportunity to help him
step-by-step up that mountain. Chengran held his hand to steady him and we
warned him of each rock/tree/root along the way. I talked or sang in front as
it helped for him to follow my voice. I ran out of songs by the end of our
three-hour journey! Sunish is so incredibly brave. I had the honor of getting
to have dinner with his family several months afterward and got to meet his
three daughters (13, 2, and a newborn) and his wife (who is also blind). They
are SO inspiring!!!
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| Sunish and Chengran Check out his story HERE |
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