GI Jane

Shailey joined a week long "survival skills" summer camp at the YMCA. It was dirty and tough work and she loved every second of it. Shailey has always been a girl to go into a new activity head first and with gusto. She is festive, she is intelligent, she is brave, and she is a LOT of FUN! I have always told her she will make the best college roommate ever. If you want someone to join you in a crazy adventure, Shailey is your girl.

This is her survival skills teacher.... you know the kind who can be dropped off into the forest without supplies for months and be totally fine... uses a rock for his pillow.... you know the kind.


Shailey made an ATLATL (at-lat-al) and was taught how to hunt with it (most Moms would not know what an atlatl is, but being the archaeologist that I am I knew exactly what it is.... a type of throwing spear used during the late Pleistocene era [ice age]... later it was replaced by the bow and arrow. Think hunting woolly mammoths).


Woolly mammoth.


Shailey was only 1 of 2 girls in the group and was fine with that. On the last day the kids had to "camouflage" themselves with mud and plants of the forest and then played a hunting/ hide-&-seek game. They learned the value of being camouflaged because the better they were camouflaged, the more difficult they were to target. A couple kids opted out of this experiment... not our Shailey, we could only see the whites of her eyes and teeth!



GI Jane, She-ra, Ramibina... take your pick, she is awesome.