Camp Kupugani Blog
Sunday Fun with Camp Songs and Skits
Hello Everyone! We’ve been continuing to enjoy warm sunny days at camp, and are currently enjoying a nice Monday morning. Looking back, Sunday morning was kicked off with campers arriving to a lazy breakfast with their cabin flags. They were able to sleep in a bit and enjoy a wonderful assortment of donuts, cereal, milk and orange juice at their leisure. The afternoon entailed relaxing cabin hikes and picnic lunches under a warm sunny day. Each cabin group was tasked with creatively composing a cabin song and skit to be […]
Counselor Camper Soccer Fun
Hello Camp Kupugani family! Today was another wonderful day with sunny skies and smiling faces. We have concluded our first week (3rd week for the 4-week campers), enjoying our Camp Wide Soccer Game today where both counselors and campers put their best feet forward. The game was exciting – full of energy, commitment, and sportswoman like competition. We are happy to say that the game ended in a TIE with both campers and counselors giving the glance of “until the next time!” Tonight we are preparing for our much anticipated […]
Kupugani Declaration of Empowerment
The first week of our girls second session is coming to a close. This week has been filled with river floats, dam jumping, volleyball and other camptivities. In a counselor vs. camper volleyball game, the counselors prevailed, but the campers have an opportunity to show us up on Saturday at the annual camper vs. counselor soccer game! In teams, the girls have been progressing individually and as a group. They are growing into even more independent and strong women. Today at lunch one of our teams shared an amazing Declaration of Empowerment […]
Opening to Another Great Session
Greetings and salutations! It’s another lovely day here at Camp Kupugani. Our second session has just begun. and we are so excited! Our staff is ready for another two weeks of hiking, singing, rock climbing and canoeing. We’ve swept out arts and crafts and the gaga pit is good to go! Yesterday our staff greeted campers and families with smiles on their faces and a skip in their step. We shared yet another incredible barbecue potluck picnic. A few games were played and introductions were made. Eventually everyone made the […]
A Great First Girls Session
The final week of session one has come and gone so fast we barely had time to blink an eye! As counselors said farewell to their campers and campers said goodbye to the many friends they have made during the past two weeks, heavy hearts filled camp. It was a bittersweet departure acknowledging they had to leave and appreciating the decision to come to Camp Kupugani for all of its inner and outer beauty, much like the journey of our campers. Summer camps have been a U.S. tradition for over […]
Happy 4th of July
Hellloooooooooooo from Fabulous Camp Kupugani, summer home of the most AWESOME campers on the face of the Earth! For all you citizens of the U.S.A., Happy Independence Day! For any remaining citizens of the planet Earth, Happy Day in General! You may be asking, “What happened? We missed you yesterday! I don’t want to lose another moment of that Kupugani super awesome happy fun time!” Don’t Fret, Don’t Frown. Yesterday was so action packed that we had to wait for today to sound off to you. So a quick snippet […]
Sending Our Son Away to Camp
As we enjoy our multicultural summer camp, because we’re in our girls-only session and our son is now of that age where he is part of the natural distraction reason we have single-sex programs, he recently left for a two-week camp on his own. Today, I came across an article that partially encapsulates the experience… “…sending kids to camp is not for wimps. It requires a leap of faith that the difficulty (and, I’ll just say it, that the cost) will be worth it. It requires an ability to manage […]
Cabin Quality Day
Today was a great cabin day at Camp Kupugani. We slept in, had delicious donuts with breakfast, and spent some quality time with our cabins. After a hike and a yummy picnic lunch, we headed down to the flats for an afternoon on the lake doing many different water activities, including dam jumping, canoeing, and going under the waterfall. Later, with a dinner of Mimmo’s pizza happily filling our bellies, we presented our cabin skits and songs and headed back to the cabins for a relaxing end of the day. […]
Amazing All Camp Soccer Game!
Saturday at camp was one of the most action packed days for both the campers and the staff! We started the day with activities such as leans and lifts all with the intention of facilitating with this incredible group of girls trust in one another, as well as helping them to trust themselves. We here at Kupugani believe that if a woman trusts herself then she is more likely to follow her true potential and become the woman that she has the ability to become. A particular highlight of the […]
Wonderful Wednesday at Kupugani
Good Morning! As the campers enjoy a breakfast with Natasha’s renowned coffee cake and the forecast of a warm, sunny day, we reflect on yesterday when we began our focus on conflict resolution during team building activities. Fostering those skills are an important component of self and character building. Another day’s highlight was having multiple campers successfully try rock climbing for the first time—definite empowerment as they challenged themselves to overcome any previously-held fears. Cabin color day also meant that the girls were encouraged to express their unified pride in […]
Staff Empowerment Striving for Child Empowerment
As yet another exciting Kupugani summer approaches, we reflect on the driving motivation associated with our all-girls program due to start in just three days. We exist for girls as they are, so they can imagine the women they can become. For our girls camp imminent start and our boys camp in just over a month, this means that we exist to empower young people to follow their dreams and strive towards their true potential. Over the past few weeks, our staff members have been excitedly training to strengthen and […]
Celebrating Father Figures
While we’ve been enjoying our counselor training session, Kupugani’s outgoing mailbox has been filling up with Father’s Day cards on the way to the families of our counselors, both near and far. As a multicultural empowerment camp, we recognize the importance of positive male role models in the lives of our campers. Father figures encourage us to be our best. June brings the sun, sport, and fun so often associated with both camp and Father’s day. This Father’s Day, we hope that you enjoy all that summer brings and take […]