A whirldwind tour of the summer months

Two weeks before I start medical school and I am wrapping up my life in NY. Still need to find an apartment, and will do that on Thursday after I drive home (13 hours!) on Wednesday with my brother, Peter. This summer has been absolutely incredible. 6 weeks in the Arctic followed by a couple weeks in Ontario visiting friends and relaxing at my aunt's cottage - cue waterskiing, bbq and swimming in pristine lake images.

Back to the US of A mid-July to teach Ultimate at a summer camp. Awesome, the camp was 100% devoted to Ultimate and coached by a woman who played on Lady Godiva for 12 years. She impressed me so much with her dedication to Ultimate and the next generation as she organises the camp every year during her vacation and brings in great players to help her teach kids in middle and high school not just the basics but even advanced skills. 

Then on to NY... two weeks in the city divided by attending Wildwood Ultimate Beach tournament before I headed off to yet another summer camp :) Yep, from President of a global organisation to becoming (as one mother of a camper put it, who only saw me driving the van) "oh, are you the camp driver?" yep. 

The World Youth Alliance Summer Camp was our third camp held in Rhode Island overlooking a bay with incredible grounds. It's like spending two weeks in heaven. The cafeteria even has good food with super friendly staff! This year we had kids from Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, USA, Belgium, Canada and Mexico.

On top of great talks on all sorts of issues related to dignity we played lots of sports, went kayaking, rock climbing, swimming and even had a "fashion show" where the kids came up with genuinely fashion inspired outfits from newspaper, garbage bags and duct tape. By the end of the camp we succeeded in exhausting the kids who went to bed much more willingly, of course at the cost of exhausting ourselves also. Sleeping in this morning was beautiful!

Having a few hours of free time, I renewed my quest for housing in St. John which I'll need to settle by the end of this week and also discovered a great blog. 5Ultimate posted a few months ago about a conference WYA organised last year in which I taught Ultimate to the kids as part of understanding Good Governance through Spirit of the Game. 
http://fiveultimate.com/blog/?p=65

Enjoy!