She guided the cast members through many questions about her camp experience.

This was the first and only summer camp experience designed specifically to meet the needs of children with albinism.

"Because it's a ritual, a part of the camp experience," she said.

But extraordinary changes in counselor training is making the camp experience for children a very different one from that of several years ago.

Whether good or bad, camp experiences seem to make lasting impressions, sometimes more than the nine months of school each year.

"Because of my grandmother passing, I didn't want to take the camp experience away from him."

Such casualness was intended to be part of the camp experience.

"We want kids who are going for the camp experience."

But her favorite part of the camp experience, she said, is making new friends.

The speech usually is about their camp experience, or what camp means to them.