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Overnight canoe trip electrifying highlight
Many 12-year-olds would be terrified to find themselves on a deserted island under rolling thunder, zaps of lightning and heavy rainfall.
Hadas Kempner is not one of them.
"It was horrible... but it was really fun," the now 13-year-old says, recalling a canoe trip at B'nai Brith Camp (BB Camp) last summer.
"We were on our overnight, and we were paddling -- it was the second day -- and we were going in a canoe to our second site, 'cause we switch sites every day," Hadas says. "And then there was a really bad storm, so we had to stay on a deserted island."
She calls the adventure her favourite memory of camp, but that could change after she heads back to BB Camp, located 200 kilometres east of Winnipeg on Lake of the Woods, later this month.
The camp provides programming for Manitoba Jewish youth. Hadas says while she has been to other camps, BB Camp will always be her favourite.
"Swimming, canoeing, and sports" are the activities she enjoys the most. "Those activities, and the summer, give me a break from school and school is a lot of work."
Karin Kempner, Hadas's mother, is thankful for the break she gets financially by sending her daughter to camp through the Winnipeg Free Press Sunshine Fund.
"I wouldn't be able to send her without that help," Karin says. "My daughter and I are both so thankful for the opportunity for her to go."
Throughout the year, Hadas attends Gray Academy, and many of her friends from school also go to BB Camp,.
"It's fun to see my friends from school during the summer... we always have a good time."
And it's with these friends that she can be found playing ultimate Frisbee, basketball, volleyball and going to hip- hop and jazz dance classes in the fall.
In the meantime, she is looking forward to another adventure-filled summer. "I just can't wait to go on the overnight again."
kristy.hoffman@freepress.mb.ca
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 14, 2012 B2
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