Calling the next generation of leaders: Heads Up! Hartford wants young people
Summer is my favorite season. I have a couple of reasons for that. First, I'm a summer baby. I love warm weather. The hotter the better. Secondly, summer meant no school. I was free to play and be me, but I had to stay out of trouble. In reflection, I can look back at my elementary school years and say summer was a period of time in my life when I was carefree, making friends, and also learning some basic life skills that still serve me today. As I got older, how I spent my summers changed. I was still having fun but I was introduced to more structure in the form of summer camp. I went to day camps, but after I saw the original Parent Trap , I kept asking my mom to send me away to a sleep away camp. Due to family finances sleep away camp didn't become a reality. Lucky for me when I was jonesing for sleep away camp I could just watch the Parent Trap. At 13 I got my first job as a summer camp counselor with The Waterbury Girls Club (now, Girls Inc. of Southwes