Flash Back: first time Girls camp

Camp started with a lot of firsts:
This year was my first year at girls camp,
my first year as yw president,
our first year for Pagedale to have 8 girls going(in a long time)
our first year being at the very back of the camp( I told the girls this was BC we are black. They looked at me and laughed. They said i was pretty close to being black :) )
My first year of being deathly afraid of ticks and other creepy crawlies(i am still twitchy)
my first camping experience with Kate.
my first camping experience with 7 hormonal teenage girls living in one tent for 4 days.
first time showering outside (aside from the daddy long legs showering next to me, this was a good one. it was also a good opp to check for ticks)
first time was drawn into an almost physical altercation in the mud between 3 very angry girls
first time camping outside during a stage3 thunderstorm
first time shooting a gun with the girls(lucky for them it was at targets, not them!)
first time sleeping on an air mattress (that deflated the first night)
first time removing a freckle like tick from one of our girls
first time being away from Taylor, Brody and Brynden
first time going on an arduous 5 mile hike in the sweltering Missouri summer
first time taking and passing a 100yard swim test
first time doing above said 100 yard swim test twice because i lost my swim tag
first time crawling over a moving log without using my feet