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haha that always works too...lol i just learned that i'm missing school for christmas camp (this rocks... )

Yes I too just noticed I get to miss one monday of school which will not make them happy but I will just say im on a college visit.

haha i can only imagine what my rocket team is going to say...they will probably tell me to spend the rest of the month there i just told some people from school and they said that it's fine (my music camp is at school...aah 3 more days left!!)

Well... here's a slight update on the 12-day camps... an excerpt from the letter that came from my DVD:

We are well into planning our new offerings for next summer, which will include a 12/nignt-13/day program for Advanced Space Academy. It will feature a mission that is at least 24 hours long, maybe as long as 36 to 48 hours.

Hopefully they'll go for 48! That'd be so awesome! But, anyways, the point of my message is that they are well into planning, which I think pretty much serves as a guarantee that they're really going to do this... I don't know about recently, but when I went there, it was still a big maybe leaning slowly toward probably.

At our graduation they told us that it was a definate that this was in fact going to happen next summer....this is just further confirmation.

So will these only be for people who did the 8 day sessions this year? I hope not because I would love to go and would've loved to go this year, except for this slight issue of being in a different country.

I dont think so. I mean its just an alumni session and that makes a smaller group of people that could sign up which wouldnt be smart on camps part.

Wait... will the 12-day camps be alumni-only? It'd be nice if they at least separated the alumni... it was absolutely great not being treated like a first-timer for once... usually they have to treat the whole team one way, so I would always feel like I was being treated like the first-timers, too. But if they at least had a first-timer team and an alumni team, that'd be amazing.

Well I would assume that 12 day would be just camp alumni just like 8 day because of the nature of the program.

that's what i thought it would be.....i don't know if new people would want to be at camp for 12 days without checking it out first..but you never know

both the 8-day and the 12-day are alum only camps. they even ask you when you went to camp last to make sure that you are, in fact, an alum. i really like it cause the first week (sara and i talked about this...a lot.) hated it there and hated us cause we liked it (weird, i know). the second week, EVERYONE wanted to be there. it made team time more fun, briefings more serious, and missions more real. it was awesome!

I suppose I will get the same effect at adult camp. Everyone will want to be there, which should make it more enjoyable than putting up with the odd trainee who would rather be doing something else.

22 sleeps... 3 weeks from tomorrow... 521 hours until scheduled take-off... 548 hours until 'official' registration begins...

meg wrote:both the 8-day and the 12-day are alum only camps. they even ask you when you went to camp last to make sure that you are, in fact, an alum. i really like it cause the first week (sara and i talked about this...a lot.) hated it there and hated us cause we liked it (weird, i know). the second week, EVERYONE wanted to be there. it made team time more fun, briefings more serious, and missions more real. it was awesome!

That's a good point because we won't have people like that quiet kid who was always reading (I think his name was Jesse, maybe?) and rarely participated.

it is. isn't it? lol.

He was weird. I don't think I heard him say two sentences the entire time. He came for the leactures and read through everything else. He wasn't thrilled with our antics and wouldn't even shake my hand when I was about to leave.

I remember Jesse! he was really smart....like in physics 7 or something rediculous like that. He just liked to read a lot. He was really vocal during our egg drop thing

Was he? I rarely heard him talk. I tried talking to him, he never seemed interested. I love the science/tech part of camp, but I have a good time, too. Jesse didn't even smile in the team photo.

i remember the egg drop. ian had a tendency to keep coming over to my table. lol, so i went after the mss on my team. krista had fun dressing up like an alien. ah, good times!

I thought she was dressing as a butterfly?

Did y'all just do an egg drop, or did y'all launch eggs?