Luke is just awesome. He is outgoing and caring and will make a wonderful counselor or teacher or actor someday. He’s just one of those people that’s guaranteed to succeed in whatever he puts his mind to. At camp, he learned the names of most of the campers each week. There are over one hundred campers every week, and somehow he recognized and knew all their names by the end of each week. It was impressive how hard he worked when he wanted to accomplish something. When we had to serve meals to campers, he’d be saying hello to campers left and right, joking and guessing at their names and asking them how their day was going like he’d known them his whole life. He made everything a bit more fun than it seemed possible. During meals when we were serving tables, the two of us competed to get more dishes and pitchers of water out to tables. We’d walk past each other and point at which tables needed more bacon, extra butter, another platter of pancakes. It was some pretty creative teamwork.
In addition to being a super hard-working person, Luke has a sort of magnetic personality that seemed to draw all the campers to him. He was loud and spoke his mind, and he can play a plethora of instruments and sing very well. That served him well at camp, where someone is always singing or performing something. Camp is a place to explore new skills and showcase your talents without the pressure of a critical audience. And Luke really believed in that. He helped an older camper learn to sing a pop song, and played the chords behind her on guitar, and he also spent tedious time helping a group of young campers learn the Cup Song rhythm, and helped them sing along to it. Another way he seemed to attract clusters of campers was with his attitude. Aside from being talented himself, he is outgoing and always willing to talk. One week, he met this really chatty little camper very early on in the week, and the two of them bonded and spent their mornings together talking about all the things they thought about but never said. They spent so much time together, and still months later, Luke talks about how much fun he had with just one camper. He had a huge impact on a kid that was self-conscious and normally wouldn’t have made many friends. Luke chatted with him a lot, and found a small, quieter group of boys that included him. It was a win-win, and Luke was a super bomb counselor for setting up a group of friends like that. Slightly off-topic, but he can also really sing. Actually, I said that earlier. He can sing. Besides the point. Luke is pretty awesome and I think he’ll be an amazing counselor someday. He leads by example and he’s competitive and determined. He’s versatile, but he could do so much good in the world, and I hope he follows a path where he can really make an impact.
In addition to being a super hard-working person, Luke has a sort of magnetic personality that seemed to draw all the campers to him. He was loud and spoke his mind, and he can play a plethora of instruments and sing very well. That served him well at camp, where someone is always singing or performing something. Camp is a place to explore new skills and showcase your talents without the pressure of a critical audience. And Luke really believed in that. He helped an older camper learn to sing a pop song, and played the chords behind her on guitar, and he also spent tedious time helping a group of young campers learn the Cup Song rhythm, and helped them sing along to it. Another way he seemed to attract clusters of campers was with his attitude. Aside from being talented himself, he is outgoing and always willing to talk. One week, he met this really chatty little camper very early on in the week, and the two of them bonded and spent their mornings together talking about all the things they thought about but never said. They spent so much time together, and still months later, Luke talks about how much fun he had with just one camper. He had a huge impact on a kid that was self-conscious and normally wouldn’t have made many friends. Luke chatted with him a lot, and found a small, quieter group of boys that included him. It was a win-win, and Luke was a super bomb counselor for setting up a group of friends like that. Slightly off-topic, but he can also really sing. Actually, I said that earlier. He can sing. Besides the point. Luke is pretty awesome and I think he’ll be an amazing counselor someday. He leads by example and he’s competitive and determined. He’s versatile, but he could do so much good in the world, and I hope he follows a path where he can really make an impact.
Stay awesome, Luke.
Claire
P.S. My next post isn’t going to be about another LIT, I’m probably going to veer off and talk about small scale and large scale impacts. It’s important. I’ll come back to the other LITs later, though.
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