Student Testimonials
Under the supervision of Ms. Carley Henze, the camp participants completed "A Memory Book". Here are some excerpts from their work:
Three 6 word stories about my month at camp:
- Fun, happy, entertaining, knowledge, friends, food
- Jokes, cool, awesome, music, subway, pizza
- Chemistry, math, English, science, Sheryl, Dr. J
- Educational academically, creatively, culturally, and vocally
- The chemistry and robotics workshops ROCKED!
- I'm definitely applying again next year
- Pretty good, learning new stuff's fun
- Learnt lots more about forensic entimology
- Too short, wish it was longer
- I had lots of fun today.
- Hope to see you next year.
- Wow, I actually made some friends.
- The camp site is really nice
- I made a lot of friends
- Nervous at first, confidence gains on.
- Experience made, will never forget
- Learned a lot, made new friends.
- 1. All I feel is pure anxiety; 2. Maybe I will actually make friends; 3. Suddenly I don't want to leave.
- Fun, joyful, learning, challenge, discovering
- Thought, deep, thinking, wisdom, acquiring, feeling.
- Expressing, anger, happiness, sights, conflict, determined
- I'm going to miss everyone so much
- I learned a ton this month
- Sadly, time went by so fast
- Made new friends, memories and experiences
- Had a blast meeting new people.
- I had so much fun here.
- Making new friends and having fun.
- Learning things I didn't know before.
- Arriving at camp with breakfast ready.
- I had the best experience here.
- I made some new friends here.
- Improving my English and math skills.
- Learning about science and my culture.
- Meeting other Aboriginal students like me.
- Up early and ready to learn.
- English, math, and science are fun.
- Making friends, good times, having fun.
- SFU summer camp was really fun.
- I made new friends yay me!
- University is for me I belong
Most meaningful camp memory:
- Making the drums. We had a good time and shared a lot of laughs too. I messed up a million times. Also, I enjoyed meeting new people.
- Being able to talk to a friend about the IB Programme and finding similarity even though we go to school in very different places
- Doing the word chalk art. It was really cool sharing an Aboriginal word with people that may not have even heard of Cree
- Meeting all the amazing people here and getting to see them everyday
- Making new friends
- Making pals when I didn't plan to.
- TRIUMF when we did the thing with paperclips.
- Walking down the halls of SFU
- Most meaningful thing that happened this month was making very close friends when I thought I wasn't even going to talk to anyone. I realized every day that I was going to miss this way more than I had planned.
- All the voice instructor days. Brought us all together.
- The first day of camp, meeting everyone
- Meeting everyone and getting to know everyone and becoming friends with new people ☺.
- Drum making.
- I love expressing my culture in any way and being here helps me with that.
- Being able to know more math equations work in 5 minutes when I couldn't learn these in all year in math. Like the polynomials, I got help and accomplished more than I could in two months in just five minutes.
- The first time seeing an actual corpse during the entomology lecture both shocked me and amazed me. I honestly thought I would be revolted, but instead I found myself intrigued and enthralled by what I was being shown.
- Making my first drum was the most meaningful thing I did at this camp.
- TRIUMF really stuck out for me because how interesting it was.
- The start when we all talked. We got to know each other before classes started.
- Getting to see the beautiful nature at SFU, which made me appreciate living in BC so much more.
- When I started to make new friends.
- Learning new tips in math and being taught different ways in math.
- Going to MOA. It was my second time going. I got to see my great-great grandpa's art work.
- Getting to know everyone so well. Creating the friendships that we have today.
I am proud to identify as an Aboriginal youth because ...
- We are one-of-a-kind group of people and are very close and I am proud of that. Also, we were in Canada first ☺
- I am now more educated myself about my own culture and more proud and not afraid to show where I come from
- It's pretty cool, especially having good communities and programs like this
- We are the new representation of Aboriginal people in Canada, and it is who we are.
- We are originally from here and it's our culture that represents us.
- I love my culture and nation.
- We The Best
- It is who I am and it is what I'll always be. Until I grow up, then I'll be an Aboriginal adult.
- My culture is beautiful and powerful in so many ways. Coming to this camp opened my eyes to the beauty of my culture; it now brings new meaning when I tell people that I am Indigenous. I'm proud to know that I am the next generation to set an example for how amazing it is to be Aboriginal.
- I got to immerse myself in my own culture.
- My culture is important to me.
- It's something I shouldn't by shy off.
- It's who I am! I am me and nobody else.
- We get opportunities like this and I get to camping with my school. It was pretty fun.
- I am proud of where I come from and want to let it flourish inside me. I like the sense of individuality.
- I love feeling that I am part of a larger interconnected community. And that the people around me are there for me and that I can also be there for them when they need it.
- I am proud to be identify as an Aboriginal youth because coming to this camp from different tribes and learning more about my culture.
- Native culture really interests me.
- We have such a rich, interesting culture with inspiring people.
- We have an interesting history and culture.
- There isn't a lot of people like us.
- It's who I am. Aboriginal people have been through so much and we are still here! It shows how strong Aboriginal people are.