November 23rd, 2010
Guess again at who the above adventure camper is and send your guesses to summerprograms@mercersburg.edu. Guess the right answer and you will be eligible for a special prize from your friends at Mercersburg Summer! Make sure you check out the new photo release HERE.
November 10th, 2010
Hi everybody! When I’m not at Adventure Camp, I’m usually in Montreal, the city where I go to school. You’d think it would be easy for me to forget about Mercersburg’s peaceful pastures and all the summer fun of Adventure Camp up here in the north, but I’m constantly reminiscing about these past summers! Whenever I find myself up high somewhere and my fear of heights kicks in (which happens pretty often), I always think back to the high ropes course we did with Teen Adventures at Cedar Ridge – I saw a lot of fearless campers that day, and I’ll never forget the way they inspired me to conquer my fears! That memory has definitely helped me to feel a little less weak in the knees when I’m more than two stories up.
October 30th, 2010
Ding Ding Ding! This year’s Mercersburg Adventure Camp Prize for the most clever costume goes to Celia Konowe with her phenomenal interpretation of Poison Ivy. I bet it wasn’t hard getting candy in this sweet get up. Thank you Celia for sending us your picture, we can’t wait to have such awesome creativity back in adventure camp this summer!
October 29th, 2010
Hey, everybody! It’s good to see you again! Right now, I’m at the school library hitting the books. Or, maybe I actually just caught a book!
Anyway, this time of year is always cool. World Series baseball is here, and football is in full swing. But most of all, I love Halloween. It is one of my favorite holidays, because it reminds me so much of camp. However, even though I get to dress up at Halloween, it is still not the same as dressing up for cabin inspection. Remember those? I’m sure you all are practicing cleaning your rooms at home, so you can hit a home run during cabin inspection this upcoming summer.
August 25th, 2010
Even though Mercersburg Summer Central typically stays summery no matter what the outside world may say, we do acknowledge that the time for all of our favorite campers to return to the academic realm is fast approaching. We wish everyone a fantastic start to the new school year and have one piece of advice, go into your classes with style! Mercersburg Summer veterans are well prepared for the first day of school given their experience with breaking the ice, meeting new people and making everyone feel welcome! Stay tuned to our media page for photo, video releases and updates if you’re in need of a Summer boost!
August 18th, 2010
This past Friday, English as a Second Language Camp concluded their five week journey in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Students from all over the world hopefully had a rewarding, American, English speaking experience and we know that we enjoyed having each and every one of them. Every student was able to experience a practice TOEFL test thanks to nearby Dickinson College where participants and teachers alike were able to assess their progress! Final grades have been sent out and our wish is that every student is able to take what they learned and expand upon it until we see them again next year! It looks like we have sent off 72 international students who have a better understanding of American boarding school culture and can speak, listen and write English more confidently than before.
August 9th, 2010
Summer 2010 was a ton of fun. I have met so many new friends as a result of three amazing sessions of Adventure Camp. Every day my ears still perk up thinking I hear the sound of the MAC camp song in the distance or the pounding of tables in the dining hall, but it’s only my imagination. I keep thinking that I smell a s’more cookout in the distance, but my nose is just playing tricks on me again. I suppose if I’m going to have a particular batch of smells caught in my sniffer, it might as well be those of adventure camp. The countdown is already on for Summer 2011, can’t wait to see you here again. If anyone wants to visit, you can expect this face to be welcoming you with open arms.
July 27th, 2010
Young Writers Camp went on a field trip yesterday to HBP printing where they got to see how a work goes from an idea to a book! The great staff there gave the students, what had to be, an inspiring and eye opening tour of the print process.
July 23rd, 2010
A quick update on camp! Todays sunshine provided the perfect weather for our MACsters to head for the Great Outdoors. This time they got to spend a whole day with their activities- rock climbing, canoeing, horseback riding, wilderness skills and others. One of our camera crew was able to tag along with the geocaching group as they searched for buried treasures with handheld GPS units. The JACsters also had an event filled day with many activities including a slip n’ slide and obstacle course!
July 21st, 2010
I’ll be honest, when I was just a pup, I was the most soft spoken pooch in the pound. Singing songs at a campfire, performing a skit, introducing myself to a group of 60 some kids would have been terrifying to me.
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