The Mystician

Boat Day! - Mygel's cabin out for their tubing ride. Summer camp has a special place in my heart. Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to go to camp as a camper. The closest I got to that feeling was going on a couple “father-son” retreats where the whole weekend is just tailored to us, but I never went to a weeklong summer camp growing up. It is something that looking back I wish I got to do, but I digress. This summer I got the opportunity to lead again at Castaway

Kayden Schmitcke (left), Liberty Friez (middle), and Sophia Fafard (right) stop for a photo before entering Canada. Over a weekend in July, Sophia took Kayden and me to her home back in Rocanville, Saskatchewan. We left on a Friday, and some road construction and a mishap with Google maps turned a four-hour trip into an eight-hour excursion. Oh well! Frustrating at the time, but now we look back on it fondly. We arrived around 10 that night, exiting the car and being bom

Water Meets Ingenuity - Pictured is the bottom side of the Hoover Dam and the entrance of the Colorado River. Started in 1931, the Hoover Dam was the largest dam in the world during this time and supplied much needed energy and clean water to millions of people. Nothing says summer like a girls trip! Over the last couple days of July, our family decided to take a generational Vegas girls trip with my grandma, my mom, my sister Kayla Hilzendeger, and me. We stayed at the Pari

High school students gather to learn about acting techniques as they rehearse with experienced professionals. The theatre camp group reads through a script in the Advanced Technology Center’s Rogers Black Box Theatre. From July 15 to 18, Bismarck State College hosted a camp aimed at helping students grades 9 through 12 refine their theatre skills. The camp, which ran for its second consecutive year, was organized and run by Camp Director and BSC Associate Professor of Tech