I was in English class when I found out I was going to New Hampshire for the Student Conservation Association program for the summer. I was so excited that I asked my teacher if I could go call my mom, and safe to say, he was not as thrilled as I was. The news that I would be spending a month camping outdoors with five other Jewish teenagers and two counselors and learning about environmental conservation did not merit an excuse to get out of class, but it did make the day go by a lot quicker.