Every year I work at a summer camp for home- and unschooled teenagers, Not Back to School Camp. This will be my twelfth year–thirty some sessions. It is usually the highlight of my year. An NBTSC alumni, Allen Ellis, made this video about it in 2009. Maya posted it on her blog a couple of months ago, and I’m copying her. In moments like this I really wonder who it is that reads my blog. I suspect you are 97% my family and NBTSC friends, who have already seen this. Oh well. This is for the other 3%, whose names are mostly David, Ceri, and Emily.
The guy in the still shot that heads the video is my friend Blake Boles. Every time I see this shot I wonder if Allen asked his permission to use it like that. It’s a funny one.
Nathen's Miraculous Escape 
May 9, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Nope, no permission. It’s a bit funny. But I’m okay with it! If a high schooler & college student can get on the splash screen of an unschool camp video, then anything is possible! Surely we’re living in the best of all possible worlds.
May 10, 2010 at 10:35 am
I remember the last time you posted about this I was curious enough about it to look it up on my own. It would have been interesting to attend this camp as a youth and compare it to the very structured (yet still very fun) summer camp I attended from age 7 to 16. It’s good to know that such a camp exists, and I can’t help but admit that watching the kids greet each other choked me up.