maine. chewonki. sone. what more can you ask for?

[hannahfox]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. once again, chewonki has given me an amazing world to fall in love with. but we can start with the beginning i suppose. saturday morning jon and i headed out early with my parents (the whole planning thing got fucked up and somehow ended with them coming, i dont understand but it ended up better because i would have gotten so hopelessly lost...). At around 9:30 we got to Bowdoin and sorta hung around outside the admissions office until it was gunna open at 10. the campus is gorgeous and maine-like and almost perfection. Such a comfortable feel about the place. I could see myself there so clearly. We did the info session, done by a completely incompetent woman with the help of a luckily very helpful student. Then got a tour by a really good tour guide who just basically spent the entire hour confirming that bowdoin would be perfect hannah school in every sense of the phrase. god it was incredible. but i think i'm gunna have way too much college this week so i'm gunna skip over that. So we went out to lunch, then went to drop jon off at his camp, got totally lost on the way so i just tried to sleep pathetically... then headed back to chewonki, which of course was where the magic began. and i'm not even exagerating. i walk up from the CEE, and i'm liek passing the barn and there's all these little 12 year old boys running amuck and tons of counselors and i'm like whoaaa overdose lots of people i don't know, but as soon as i'm by the adirondack chairs, i hear my name being yelled, and turn to see nellie and bea running towards me. SO WELCOMING and cute and nice and just ahhhhhhh perfection. So within the next like 10 minutes cara and corinne both show up and WOW was it fucking good to see both of them, honestly i can't even explain how much once i had these people around me i just knew i was HOME. Chewonki by far has proven to me that it feels SO much more like home than anywhere else ever has. More than milton, more than falmouth, more than anywhere. As soon as I was on the neck, I was set. I got the tour of they're rooms (cara sleeps out in a yurt and it was sooo cute where she lives too)and of course they were a beautiful mess... tommy came out, as incredible as always... we hung out for a bit, went to dinner (leftovers - hahaha what more would i have expected?) and then corinne and cara took me to cara's home and basically filled me in on everything that had happened and just gave me the whole run down of the summer so far. It was just so good to hear everything from them and just their honesty and excitement about what they had been doing... it was awesome. i owe them so much for just being the greatest hosts ever... i know it must be really hard ot have visitors, and they sorta said that, but they just made me so happy. there was a campfire - the final one for the session of camp - and it was SO cute to watch all the skits and hear the songs and sooo chewonki-ish and ahhh. don't campfires just make everything better? after the campfire, they all had to go be cabin mommys/daddies and read to their cabins, so i helped out with a bunch of the staff/crew there (many EE staff who i knew, plus others i had met since i'd been there)... putting together the Chronicle, which is kinda the camp yearbook. it was SUCH a chewonki thing hahahaha. all the pages were in piles by number and u had to walk around like 4 tables completely, picking up page by page as you went around, and it seriously turned into like a social event everyone was so energetic and trying to be as fast as possible and hahaha it was just so cute. but eventually they all showed up, and we snacked and everything sorta settled down. we spent a lot of time in corinne's room later, listening to all the talented people who happen to get together at chewonki - elsie white was there (milton grad - former epic member) and she sang such BEAUTIFUL songs with this kid who was unbelievable at guitar.... i love stuff like that, you know me, suchhhh a sucker for the sit around and listen to acoustic guitars with beautiful voices singing familiar folk songs. wow. finally though we all needed some fresh air (and to get away) so corinne and i went and found tommy and alex (kid from paris/new york/chicago/concord academy - really interesting and nice and i'm glad i met him and spent a bunch of time with him) and hung out for a while until we decided it was the proper time to go swimming (about 12:30 am by then). We walked down in the pitch black to the point, alex and tommy went and chilled, and corinne and i jumped right in... ahhhhhh. the mist had settled down and everything was foggy and blurry and u couldn't tell what was water or what was rock and everything was so quiet and subdued and so seemingly unreal and creepy and perfect. corinne and i went swimming, and that's all the details you need to know. hahaha. we sat on the rocks then there, the four of us, until probably 2 in the morning, just listening to the ocean and the tide and the birds in the distance. finally we walked back up and went and the four of us spent the night on the two beds in corinnes room, a late night (probably didn't even think about sleep until 3:30 or so) but so full of energy and amazingness that none of us realized it. the next morning another familiar breakfast (homemade cinnabuns) and off to the camp's sunday service, which was SO cute and sorta a combination of pretty camp songs mixed with people standing up an saying anything they want, sorta final-reflection style, on the session. that camp seems to do everything right. all the kids were SO smart and so comfortable getting up in front of everyone to either say thank you for something or tell a story or whatever. i had to leave sorta abrubtly in the middle, which sucked, but it gave me a good half hour to run all over the neck just to see some places i'd missed (blueberry hill, my observation spot, the places i used to run to...)... i didn't have time to get to my solo spot, but i guess that just means i'll have to go back. :o) hehe.

this is getting long. i need to get off anyway but lets see. parents picked me up, drove to jon's camp, got dropped off... camp agawam - i'm a fan!! so many cool camp traditions (i really want to be a camper again, by the way, god i'm jealous of all those kids i saw)... and just a really nice group of counselors who i met. i even helped them paint. hehe. but yea jon's camp was really nice and i had 3 offers to work there hahaha so who knows! lol. as if i'm not already guaranteed to work at chewonki next summer after this weekend...

my parents showed up several hours later, with my brother, and we all headed home. and here i am. surprisingly abbreviated even though i'm sure no one actually got THROUGH that cause its just me rambling about everything i love. i'm SO glad i went to chewonki - it freaked me out so much, i thought seeing gillies would be AWFUL and WEIRD and FREAKY but it turned out to be totally normal, and i was just soo excited to see our plaque and shit it was just cool. even the classrooms were exciting!!! hahaha. okay i'm gunna get off and hopefully go get some rest cause i have a craaazzzzyyyy week of college touring ahead. amy's home and i really wanna see her but i feel liek, as always, just as she gets home, i head out for the frist time, even though i've been home the wholeeee time she's been gone. ah well, life is life.

if you made it through this... congrats.
peace.