Family Camp

The last FOTO FRIDAY pics for Febraury are now posted - please enjoy!   Both photos are from our 2011 WeHaKee Family Camp. Shawna H's is from the deck of their cabin while Katie D's is a view from their cabin.   Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos!

Now it's your turn to select the FOTO FRIDAY 'Photo-of-the-Month'!   Go to our WeHaKee Facebook page and find our FOTO FRIDAY post.   Then open up the photos and 'Like' your favorites.   Is one of the FOTO FRIDAY pics from you?   Well then, get your family, friends and anyone else to visit our Facebook page and 'Like' your photo!   The winner of the 'Photo-of-the-Month' wins a gift card!!   Voting ('Liking') will continue through March 1st, with the winner being announced in our first March FOTO FRIDAY post on March 2nd.

Enjoy this week's FOTO FRIDAY selections!

Here are the pics for this FOTO FRDAY!   Congratulations to the O'Shea family and Ana Gaby R.   The O'Shea's photo is from our Family Camp this past summer - it's when we let the boys in!   Ana Gaby's photo is truly international, with girls from France, Mexico, Korea as well as from around the United States!   Thanks to both for sharing with us!

JUST A REMINDER!

You and your friends get to choose which photo will be selected as the 'Photo-of-the-Month' with the winner receiving a gift card from Best Buy, Target or Lands' End.   It's simple - the January FOTO FRIDAY photos will be also be posted on our WeHaKee Facebook page.   All you and your friends need to do is go there and 'Like' your favorite photos.   You can 'Like' as many as you want, but you can only 'Like' a photo once!   AND... make sure you 'Like' the photos, not just the FOTO FRIDAY post.   If your photo has been selected for FOTO FRIDAY, make sure you tell all your friends to go and vote for yours - you could be our monthly winner!

Now is your chance to be featured on our WeHaKee World blog!   Starting later this month, each Friday we will post photos from WeHaKee campers, parents, families, staff, friends, alumni and anyone else with a connection to the WeHaKee community!   We need your help to make this happen!

Yes, yes, we're a day late, but we were out enjoying our last weekend of the summer and didn't want to spend it in front of the computer!   So, we  hope you will please forgive us.   Here are our thoughts for this week:

FAILURE.   It is not a word many of us like to hear when describing our performance or that of our children.   Failure is often equated with being a loser or with someone who has nothing to offer.   The thought of failing will often conjure up enormous dread, sometimes to the point of making us physically sick.   It is such a grossly misunderstood term and that is such a shame, because without experiencing failure few experience success!

We're back after taking a couple of weeks to relax and relocate back to our administrative offices.   We're settled in now and ready to continue preparations for Summer 2012 ~ only 287 days to go!!

This morning we said our good-byes to our Mother/Daughter/Auntie campers as well as, with great sadness, to the remarkable WeHaKee staff of 2011.   It was bittersweet as we revealed in the wonderful community we had created, yet wallowed in it's heartbreaking and inevitable conclusion.   Although the summer camp season may now be behind us for 2011, we plan to continue our Sunday conversations about camp life and the community that is WeHaKee!

While our weeks of girls camp have come to an end, the Sunday Snippet continues as does camp with an eventful week ahead. Below, the directors discuss the excitement of the week (and rest of the year) to come!

It was a bitter sweet day last Friday as we said good-bye to our last group of wonderful girls and young women and wrapped up girls camp at WeHaKee for 2011. The fun, the excitement, the welcoming nature and the pure joy these campers shared was remarkable, so it was sad to see them depart. No doubt the bungee cords have begun to tug away at their hearts, reminding  them of their wonderful experiences! We also said good-bye to a number of our staff who are making their way home to attend school or return to their home countries.

It's that time again– take a few minutes this sunny Sunday afternoon to hear what camp's Directors have to say about the great camp community already forming this session!

Session 3 has settled in nicely and the girls are flowing through camp enjoying Day 2 of their activities. It is always amazing to see how quickly the WeHaKee community comes together at the beginning of each session. And it's heartening to see the returning girls live the concept of 'All Are Welcome' by helping the new campers adjust and feel a strong sense of belonging right away. This welcoming nature is truly the core of WeHaKee's culture!