Has there ever been a topic on this board that has gotten to 200 or more replies? Just wondering and I don't have the time or patience to search through the previous pages.

I was thinking a similar thing. There's some form of notation for a topic that's been closed...so I wonder if that's a result of getting too many replies.

Why don't we try it...how about a roll call where we ask everyone a different question every couple of days?

I'll start - how old is everyone? I am 21.

I am 20...

22 (almost 23 - YAY!)

16 (I'm a youngin!)

I'm freakin' 20, the worst age to be in the good ol' land of the free.

20 soon to be 21 though!

Just turned 21 beginning of this month

I'm 18 (19 in june!!! yeah legal age!)

I'm 24

16 by summer

17!! i'll be 18 in july!

very excited to be 21

I'm older than a couple of you combined (42).

16 in august

Well Gee now I feel old. I'm 30 and will be 31 in a few months.
I have a Camp birthday.
God I feel old now.

23, 24 in may!

What's with everyone saying their are on their next birthday? If you are 15, you will obviously be turning 16.

Me, I'll be 25 in August 2006.

I'll be 18 on August 18th. To reply to Canuck, we like to show that we're close to our next birthday (at least that's why I'd say it).

I'm 21. And just to add to everyone else's, I'll be 22 in July. Got to love camp birthdays.

I am 24, and no camp birthday, (mine was last month)

LOL...at another board I post on, we have the "neverending thread"...its got like 1300 posts on it, and its over a year old.

Oh and Im 19, 20 in july. I get a camp birthday, YAY! Its making up for all the years I didnt get a school bday :-D

I'm 24... will be 25 at the end of July - yep, another camp birthday! and I share mine with our camp director (who was previously a counselor & waterfront director)... she's a few years older though. =)

another board I'm on has a "random word association" thread - it's getting pretty long!

word assosciation is fun! we do that too. Ok so here goes...say the first thing that pops into your head...


Asparagus

I'll be 21 in 10 days.

My random word: CD

I'm 22. I kinda wish I had a camp birthday, because that would be really fun! Oh well.

21. Camp birthdays for the past 7 years.

I'm... not tellin. (shh forestsong)

hey alys, we have the same bday! haha, my bday was always in camp until 2 years ago when they started ending camp a few days earlier so counselors would have time to get to school.

ah i didn't see this. ok, um,

green

I'm 21
and
asperigus (sp?) = Yummmmy

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ahhh ya'll got it all wrong. you reply off of the person who last posted...so I said asparagus, then someone said green, then someone says what comes to their mind when they see green, not when they see "asparagus"

hehhee


green...


boogers

LOL!!! Nice move Canuck. We're still quite a ways away from 200, the topics within the topic will have to change a few times to get there. I literally did laugh out loud when I saw the route this topic had taken. Funny stuff.

FYI, I'm 26. My birthday is November 30th, 1976 (rock on bicentennial year!). When is your birthday?

If we get sick of ages and birthdays, I want to know what everyone's hobbies are!!! I have been thinking of starting that as a thread for a while. What do y'all do when you're NOT at camp, to stay sane?

And my birthday is in October, no camp birthday for me.

haha... I'm 21 ;-)

i just turned 18 last month

Alright, I may get in lots of trouble for suggesting this very camp inappropriate game, but what the hell.

One person names three people. You then have to pick one person to KILL, one to MARRY, and one to SHAG. There can be no ties; but you may mention if one person ends up in a category by default.

So here goes:

Kill, Marry, Shag:
President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, Joan Rivers

My b-day is April 3. My hobbies when not at camp so I don't go crazy: I love being crafty. I made huge sign for camp, a board of quotes to hang in my cabin, and now I am making a fleece blanket and putitng felt campy patches on it that I made. Random word game: Boogers..... Nose

I want a camp birthday!!! mine is June 22, yet camp doesn't start till june 24!!! But last year I got to go to first aid and cpr training at camp for staff members who didn't have it yet.

Hmmm... my hobbies.... music (I play the flute and guitar and love to sing), dance, read... I guess I'm not really all that exciting.

I'm currently 21, but I'll be 22 in May... It gets confusing around this time to tell people how old you are, like on little surveys... I'm also graduating next month, 5 days after my birthday... so I am also confused on little surveys about putting if I have a college degree or not... I'm so close, not much educationally is going to change in me between now and May.. sigh

My Hobbies when not at... well I love sports, I run and weightlift during the winter and spring. During the fall and winter I also play soccer and basketball... all for fun, not competitively really... I've got a lot of school work finishing my sophmore year of high school. School activites that I'm involved in, clubs and football and basketball games. That keeps me pretty busy in the off season.

um...smells

vanilla

I love this game. We used to play it at camp when we had a few minutes waiting for something.

melon, your birthday is my half birthday!

ummm...
cupcake

Icing/frosting ;-)

chocolate!

I'm 16, turning 17 on august 21 (my bday always misses camp by like 4 days!). Random word game: pudding. Hobbies: I play field hockey in the fall and winter, and I run alot as a stress reliever when it's warm out. And I LOVE camp songs, I'm always updating my songbook and making it wonderful

I'm 26, birthday is in November.

I will be fifteen tomorrow..I feel soo young! random word that describes pudding..umm...yum!

Cool

as for hobbies....Im into art, though I dont practice as much as I should. Lack of inspiration, I guess. Im also very much into music, listening/playing/seeing concerts, etc. Im going to Coachellafest next week! YAY! I also read a bit and spend way too much time on this computer.

The age thing is pretty funny (I'm 27). Regardless of your age, be prepared to have every camper think that you are twice your age. When dealing with the younger campers, they will always think that you are in your 30's oe 40's.

Awesome! I used to be jealous of everyone, because my birthday was between camp and school, but now I'm so much happier that I'm staff and my birthday's at camp. Once it was on the staff banquet... extra special. Camp birthdays rock because it's the one place where people don't mind if you run around yelling it's your birthday all day. At school that would be a little disrupting, but at camp who cares?

Random word in response to "yum" (AGAIN): yuck

Boogers...Nose...Smell

Hobbies...i like to go camping with a bunch of friends and make T-shirts (those iron on transfers you can make on the computer is SO much fun, you have to try it if you haven't already).

heres my post to help the cause. ;-)

I turned 21 last on monday!!! go me, go me, go me, no camp birthday ever.

hobbies. Goalie for INdiana University Women's Lacrosse Team! #23 in the nation, and heading to playoffs next weekend.
other hobbies~ procrastination, field hockey, soccer, photography, friends, and bar hopping since I'm legal.

random word~ float
kill, marry, shag~
kill allergies, marry oliver hudson, shag jake gyllehal.

Here's another survey to keep the post rolling: What's your all time favorite movie? mine is tied between When Harry Met Sally, and Moulin Rouge (i like chick flicks hehe)

Speaking of movies, here is my recomendation for A Mighty Wind. It is a mock documentary (like Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show), but its pertinant here because it makes fun of folk music. It gets in a good dig at Peter, Paul and Mary, and I'm sure that most camps sing a song or two of theirs.

I'll be 35 this Friday April 25th. Random word how about


MUD!!!!!!!!!!!

sliding!!

My favorite movie is The Royal Tenebaums, with Le Fableux Destine d'Amelie Poulain in a close second.

lets see here's another post...i want to see how fast we can do this haha...
hobbies- soccer, tennis, reading, shopping, journalism, baking and camp is a hobby for me as well, of course!
my favorite movies are Legally Blonde, Anger Management(which i just saw yesterday, see it, its sooo funny) and Ocean's 11.

camper, is there any sort of journalism at your camp? I tried to set up a program for a camp newspaper at a camp I used to work at, and I might be trying again this summer. I've always been a big newspaper person, I was an editor at the paper at my university, etc.

And I didn't answer my own question about hobbies: journalism, reading, ROCK CLIMBING, rappelling, hiking, rollerblading, SKIING

<--- celebrates birthday at camp!! I am 21. My b-day is July 2nd. Someone told me that you share your birthday with at least 700 people around the world. Anyone else have a b-day the same day as mine? I am yet to find one person (besides my twin sister!!) who has the same birthday.

Oh, favorite movie...White Squall

age:23 as of Feb 8th\
Hobbies: reading, ice skating, movies, camping

Random word: egg

Lois Lane, part of my job this summer is going to be working with the newspaper at my camp. I've never done a camp newspaper, but I'm looking forward to working with the girls on it.
Favorite movie, that would have to be The Princess Bride.

Favourite movie- Pride and Prejudice!
Hobbies- drawing, reading, watching tv, listening to music and doing volunteer work.
18, 19 on the 9th oct.
What is the funniest thing a camper has ever said to try and guess your age?

Last year when I was only 17, this girl seriously thought that I was 35 and that my sister (who is taller than me and almost looks older!) was my daughter!!!

favorite movie: The Princess bride and (blushes) land before time ( I watched it a lot as a kid, OK!!!!) oh yeah, and the lord of the rings 1

hobbies: Elijah wood stalking (heehee), soccer, field hockey, reading, mentoring, camping, backpacking

egg. . .

Omlet

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Yea I heard this too, but i think the number is more like 100 million (6 billion/365).

kill, marry, shag
Barbra Strisand, Wendy Testaburger, Beyonce Knowles


Random Word : Summer
Age: 23
What I am doing tonight: Fishing

Yea I heard this too, but i think the number is more like 100 million (6 billion/365).

kill, marry, shag
Barbra Strisand, Wendy Testaburger, Beyonce Knowles


Random Word : Summer
Age: 23
What I am doing tonight: Fishing

if we post twice, we will get there in half the time!

I once did this on another board.

We played Word Association to "up" the numbers.

Anyone game?

I believe that "georgie" and "nicole" have already started this game.

kill- Martha Stewart
marry- Ewan Mcgregor
shag- John Mayer

kill - Christina Aguilera
marry - Adam Sandler
shag- Colin Farrel

21 in October

favorite movie - Stand By Me

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too many favorite movies... The life of David Gale, Stepmom, White Oleander

Age: 16

Birthday: The middle of the freezing cold winter.

Summer...

... Lovin' (like the song)

Hobbies: Music, horses, painting
Okay new topic: how tall are you? I'm sort of short, 5'1".

Whoops. I didnt read the whole thread, just the first and last post LOL

I am 5'9" tall.

I am 5' 6" and shrinking every day, I swear!!!

5'2'' I'm pretty short too. But I think I might be growing a little...

5'5"...would definitely like to be taller!

im 5'5", and i used to wish i was taller but now im enjoying my height.

ok, heres a question for anyone who wants to respond. im a college girl, but ive never dated. i just met a guy id like to pursue, but i dont know what the heck im doing. i dont want to put myself out on the line and then get rejected and feel stupid...especially cuz this is a guy ill have to see a lot of anyway. eek!! help me!!!!

My hobbies... I don't really think I have any... I suppose theater (I've acted in or directed a play every semester in college), and movies would be my other hobby... they are kinda related... and the internet... computers in general...

Movies. My favorite movie is The Graduate (It's not much for plot, but for cinematography, symbolism and beauty it's great). Although The Fellowship of the Ring became a very close second last year...

a lil more than 5' 10" but apprantly, I still feel as though Im growing.

Im 23 and I think i grew maybe 1/2 an inch over the past year since im no longer just 5' 10"!

go figure!

i'm 5 feet or maybe a little shorter...really short!

5 feet 3 1/2 inches !!! AND DON'T YOU BE FORGETTING THE 1/2 and inch !!!

I'm 5'5". It's not too bad a height to be except my mom and brothers are all tall. *sigh* Well, at least I have no problem finding pants that are long enough.

Kill, Marry, Shag:
Kill: I really can't think of anybody
Marry: I'm married to the greatest gal in the land
Shag: My wife

I'm 6 foot tall on the money, about 285 pounds (former college football player and shotput/hammer thrower).

5'5"

What kind of pets do you have?

I have a golden retreiver named Medinah, a black lab named Skye, and a long haired basset named Gizmo

Oooo...good one Court.

We have two cats, the gray calico is named Woopus, and the tabby's name is Skeeter. We also have a bird named Uno and a Beta fish named Cat Food.

We also recently lost a dear pet. My pet salamander, named My Salamander died at the ripe old age of 7 years old! He spent 6 summers at camp!

We have a one eyed German Shepard that was left for dead in an garbage dumpster in Dallas. We took her in a nursed her back to health. Now shes our "G.G." (God's Gift)
"A living dog is better than a dead lion"
-Ecclesiastes, IX,4
Heavenly,
Madge

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Oooh! Gotta jump on the pet question. I have a cat named Stormy...she just turned a year old. http://community.webshots.com/photo/40940979/51188021VGJMID
I know, I'm a huge freak, but I LOVE animals and I'm still super-excited that I have a cat that is totally my own. I hate that I have to leave her this summer, but she will be with my boyfriend if it all works out. That way she'll hopefully be happy and he'll have someone to snuggle with while I'm gone!

I'm 21 and 5'6 or 7. It's a nice height. My parents have a psycho cat named Calvin and a big crazy puppy named Lincoln. I can't wait to get home and see my animals!!!

I've got a cat named Boo. Well, she's an office cat:
http://www.skyweb.net/~fee93/cat5.jpg

5'3 inches tall. People mistake me for the campers all the time.

Dog: Abercrombie Tyler Parrington, goes by tyler, or when in trouble Dumb shit. Cutest dog in the world. Got him for free from a friend. When oprah told us, about the smart blaket test for dogs we tried it. (to see how smart your dog is, throw a blanket over him. the faster he gets out, the smarter he is. Well my dog fell asleep under it. we nearly died laughing. cause were waiting their for like half and hour and all of a sudden we here snoring.

I'm 24, birthday is the 14th of February... I'm 5'8. hobbies: photography, scrapbooking, swimming, boating, fishing, and I have become quite the movie critic. I have a cat names Cali shes 4.. Kill, marry, shag: this dang fly that i can't catch, My fiance Bobby, and Antonio Sabato Jr.(did I say that)...Oh WAIT I ment, My fiance Bobby. LOL

Can I make each reply a separate post?? Although the number is going up pretty quick anyway...

I love the Princess Bride!! It must be one of my favourites. Oh, and The 3 Musketeers (the version with Charlie Sheen).

And I'm about 5'4", I think. I've always measured in centimetres rather than feet, but I can't actually remember how many cm I am anyway

I'm 5'5 on a tall day...

We've got two dogs, both were strays that no one claimed ever- one was found walking down a highway in a snow storm, and the other was given to us by friends who couldn't care for her, but couldn't find a home. I love my dogs, I call them my babies! They're both sound asleep right now- it's adorable!

Golyek, you missed the point of the game.

Someone else names three people and you MUST separate them into those three categories.

Here, try: Derek Jeter, Tara Lipinski, Britney Spears

i'm 5'6", and for pets, we have 6 horses, two dogs, and four cats. and i have some fish.

I have a dog named Jack and a cat named Figaro.

age: 17

birthday: july 30th! camp birthday baby!!

hobbies: sports- field hockey, skiing, track, shopping, watching tv, hanging out with friends,talking, being at camp,computer
i'm your average teen girl...

pets: 4 cats and 1 dog...

height" 5'1 i'm short.. but i like it!


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I'm 5' 3 and a half inches just like yoda!! Yes, that half means alot when you're always looking up at people lol! And I don't have any pets.. just an 11 year old brother

I have an idea, we should tell random stories that happened to us in the past few days. Here's mine: I was sitting in the courtyard at school one day last week with my friend for about an hour because it was really nice out. I was wearing a tank top because I figured I might as well try to get a tan. So, when I got home that afternoon I realized that I must have been sitting with one shoulder facing the sun because I was REALLY burned on one shoulder and the other was still pasty white! It's really funny looking

i'm 5'10 and have a west highland white terrier amed oliver who i live sooo much. he is so cute. I saw on another post that you guys did role call to see who was male and who was female. since a lot of people have tegistered since then, let's do it again
i'm a girl

I am 25 years old- September 23, the best birthday ever, first day of fall.
I am 5'11" pretty tall for a girl but I love it, I am never mistaken for a camper.
My favorite movies are Shawshank Redemption and Lord of the Rings, although the books are better!
I have 0 pets although we have animals at the center that are kinda like pets.
Hobbies- fishing, outdoor activities, shopping, travel.

I am a girl.
I have 6 dogs, Simba, Teddybear, Mickey, Daisy, Reenie, and Shadow 5 cats, Emily, Pansy(like the flower)Taffy, Snuggles(more a dog then a cat, she actually licks your face), and Rascal. Then I have a goat named Stacey, and some goldfish. Can you tell I live in the middle of nowhere?

height: 5'8" (I think - something like that)

as for hobbies...
playing on the web, making websites, IRISH dance, making travel arrangements for irish dance competitions (sadly, I think the planning is more fun than the competitions - I get very bored during "feis droughts")
oh, and I'm also co-leader of a Girl Scout troop.
I'm contemplating taking up Highland dancing as well. probably next year when I have a "real" job and my schedule is less chaotic. =)

fave movies: The Sound of Music, Addams Family & Addams Family Values, Practical Magic, The Princess Bride... there's more
fave musicals: Phantom of the Opera, Les Misearables, Scarlet Pimpernel...
I saw Seussical the Musical a few months ago - very cute! sets/costumes were quite creative too!

there are so many movies i love....jurassic park, princess bride, dirty dancing, american beauty, amelie, life is beautiful, chicago...the list goes on.

...and i have NO PETS!!! im allergic to cats and scared of dogs.

No pets - not suppose to have them in dorms.
almost 20
5'3 1/2"
Tons of favorite movies.
Hobbies: soccer, climbing, camping, hiking, wondering around, etc.
And I'm a girl.

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funny story...
friday night i went to bed wearing a tank top and scrubs and when i woke up the next morning i was wearning blue jeans... don't remember a thing!! lol.. funny stuff

movies..
coyote ugly, a league of their own, drive me crazy, 2 weeks notice, sweet home alabama, moulin rouge, top gun, bring it on

I'm 24- birthday on Nov. 20th,
I have 2 doggies - one is Byner.. he's 6 and the best buddy in the world. He's a golden retriever...
The other is Davis, and he's about 2... we rescued him from the APA and he's a lab/golden mix. He LOVES his mommy.

I want to know if anyone has ever heard of a book called "A Void" which was written entirely without the letter "e." I just got it and can't wait to start reading. It amazes me that you could write a sentence, never mind a book without the letter "e." just think... no the, we, she, he, where, there, when, ever, no verbs ending in -er, nothing is better or best, or any other -er or -est.

wow

I'm 5'2 and 3/4ths

Pets... I have two chinchillas (Willie and Chi-Chi (pronounced G-G) (I didn't name Chi-Chi, my friend who owned her first did...her full name is Capizio or something like that...)(They live at home with my parents) And my dearest Fish with No Name (who spent the last two summers with me at camp) swam off to the big fish bowl in the sky about 4 weeks ago, sigh)...

Pets: Dog named Belle (that we rescued as she was on the way to the pound), 3 Arabian Horses. Joey, (thatI have had since the day he came outta his moms womb, Buddy who we rescued from an abusive desert backyard, and Lucy who is related to the Black Stallion. 2 koi fish named Bubba, and Roy, 4 doves that are nameless, we at one time had 7 rabbits but they are now all gone, um... what else do we have? I dunno our house is a zoo as it is.

Random story from last week. I fell during a salchow in skating practice and my but landed on the back point of my blade... so now I have a big ole bruise on one cheek and it hurts to sit down... LOL I am just glad I didn't have to go to the ER with an extra hole in my Bum !! lol

Thanks... now not only am I daydreaming about camp, I'm daydreaming about my skating days too... I would give anything to be able to skate again. Okay, so not to be misleading... I am not saying i was ever a terrific skater.. just that I took lessons for a few years, and worked at an ice skating rink no matter where i was... home or school. got lots of ice time that way! And I miss it

6/10ths of the way there! We've had literrally hundredsof animals through our house, everything in your basic petstore except sugar gliders and kittens. Other than that, all the small mammals, most birds-softbills and parrots, lots of fish, and lizards, snakes, and turtles. and of course dogs. most of those have bred to, making life pretty interesting. Anyways, its pretty quiet now, I have a fish named Hershey, a box turtle named Mikey, and my beloved Lab-mix, Julia. At home theres a basset hound, a lhasa, a budgie, a lori, and some fish. I'm working for a breeder right now (mostly training-obedience, socialization, and conformation) in exchange for a lab pup. Soon! I can't wait. I love critters. Figuires I'm EQ, huh?

you guys, i just ate a whole pint of ben & jerrys. its been a bad day.

17, with a camp birthday during precamp!

I have two dogs, a cocker spaniel named cassie and a cocka-poo (half cocker spaniel half poodle) named kiwi. I love dogs, I'm going to have like 20 when I get older. I'm a real animal lover I guess, I've worked at a pet store and a vet's office, and I've always known I was going to either work with children or animals when I got older.

And I'm 5 foot 5 and 1/2.

I'm joining the 5'3 1/2" club.

jj, YAY ANOTHER CLIMBER! I'm excited, this board is devoid of us.

cutter, I have the same problem, being confused with campers... boo.

CourtLeigh, what day is your birthday? I'll be 21 on October 3.

And my pet in San Diego is a !#&^%&^y cat named (appropriately) Trouble. Does anyone want a cat? At my parents' house I have a dog named Romeo, an English springer spaniel, and he's the coolest dog on earth.

And Forestsong, I've always wanted a chinchilla!!!

MAN! I really thought this thread was gonna die! Ok, I'll bite now...
I am 28. My birthday is March 27, 1975. So yes, you calculated correctly! That makes me an Aries sun, Libra moon, with Virgo rising!

Andi

LOL... whenever we had bad days my best friend from school and I would sit there eating ben & jerrys right out of the tub... I can still polish off a pint without even noticing!

Hope your day got better, magenta :-)

been there done that... is there anything we can do to help?

Oh, and I saw your post earlier...about the guy. Here is my advice. BE FRIENDS FIRST. some people don't agree with me on this one, but it is a standard I hold strictly to and I can honestly say that all of my relationships that have ended have never been really negative...all the guys and I are still friends. It seems to work for me everytime. I hope it helps you out. good luck! Those first steps in a relationship are the most fun and exciting times!!

Even Ben & Jerry's pints remind me of camp! Ha, we keep them in the freezer in the staff lounge. My fav flavor if "Half Baked". What's everyone's favorite Ben & Jerry's flava?

Oh and I, too, am in the 5' 3 and 1/2" club! Yeah us! That half is important because 5'4" is the average woman; so with the 1/2 we can round up to 5'4"!! Not that I wanna be average, but I don't like being confused with campers either!

We defintiely used to eat alot of ben and jerry's at camp too!! My favorite flavor is... ok actually it's tied between Phish Food and Cherry Garcia. I hope your day gets better

October 3 is my mom's b-day

I'm 21, and Great-Grandma (she fixed the only Asparagus I've ever actually liked).

-Joe

P.S. Oops, didnt read far enough before I posted this

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Let me know how it goes, maybe we should start a lending library on this board to share some of these interesting books that come up (i.e. holes, A Void, etc.)

-Joe

Thanks for the heads up Canuck.

OK, Derek Jeter, Tera Lipinski and Britney Spears

Derek Jeter: Kill
Tera Lipinski: Marry
Briteny Spears: Shag

That makes more sense.

Well, the first thunderstorms of the springtime have moved into Denver and it reminds me so much of camp. I love storms during the summer.

What is something you've never seen that you really want to see?

For me it's a tornado, I've never seen one.

A real live platypus.

Washington DC Holocaust museum

My mom's birthdya is on OCT. 3 too!!! This year is her big 40. But shhh!!! I didn't tell you!

fave ben and jerrys flavors...mint chunk, peanut butter cup, all those good ones. you cant go wrong with ben and jerry.

thanks for advice about this guy. i definitely want to be friends first!

Small world

my birthday is on Oct. 9, and my fav. flavor of ben and jerries is...um, chunky monkey, i guess. they are all so good though!

What is something you've never seen that you really want to see?

The Northern Lights!!! (i've actually seen this)
This was something that i've really wanted to see and i finally saw them last summer on a canoe trip with my campers in minnesota.

you guys, we are so close to 200 posts!! keep them coming. ;-) ha ha, this is funny. i cant think of something ive always wanted to see but never have...i think the asian countyside might be something. and ive always wanted to be in space and see how the universe looks from way up there.........

I'm going to answer a previous question as well..

I'm 21.. b-day: June 17th.. 3 day of camp. I'll be on a bike! (my favourite place to be!)

I'm a tall one, sort of.. 5'9".. though I have to grow 2 inches because SpiderAndi thought I was taller.. (hehe.. )

I've never seen an ocean. I want to see one. Also, Big Ben, The Eiffel Tower, L'arc de Triomph.. but the ocean.. definately the ocean.

YOU'VE NEVER SEEN AN OCEAN?! HOLY CRUD... wow i just take the ocean for granted- living within 15 miles of it does that to you... but then. i've never seen snow fall, so hey... trade off...

Lois,

My birthday isn't until the 30th...

I wanna see a shooting star. I always miss them when I am looking for them w/ people. Everyone else sees them but me

What is your middle name?!

Mine is Leigh.

~Courtney

I've been thinking about what I want to see... I want to see a lot of things... I'll go with a tornado and Paris

My middle name is Louise.

I've never seen the ocean should have when I went to Florida but never went... and there is no way in heck i'm telling my middle name LOL

Thing i wish I could see would have to be snow. I am always hoping that one day it will snow in Florida but it never does. My middle name is Rose.

My middle name is Daniel. I saw the ocean for the first time in October. I got to snorkle in it with Sea Lions, it was awesome.

I also really want to experience an Earthquake, standing in the middle of a field.

Seeing earth from space would be pretty sweet, too.

I would like to see snow...and lots of it!
My middle name is Ashley.

wow, a person is away for a short bit and look at this post! Mad props all. I am also 21, there seem to be a lot of us. Birthday is August 3rd and its at camp so I am thrown in the lake on every one. MY favorite movie of all time is Slam, indy film that won best picture at sundance film festival. I highly recommend it. I would totally love to see India. I think the culture is amazing.

nichelle is my middle name. like michelle with an n. exciting. sh don't tell

NO Ya Don't want to experience the EarthQuake ! Been there done that .. have the cracks in my house to prove it. Once you've been through a 7.1 you don't ever want to feel the ground move again!! Believe ME!

Yoda, I wouldn't want to be near any building or in a buidling. I'm talking about being in the middle of a super cushiony field of grass with nothing that can fall on top of me.

Does the ground itself hurt you? Or is it just the things around you that hurt you?

I would have to agree about the northern lights, also the treve fountain in Italy, and the great barrier reef.

middle name~ nicole

so my question to continue the post... what is your nickname?

i have two, some of my friends call me ap, the others call me cutter.

Has anyone else here been to the Ben and Jerry's Factory in Vermont? It's the coolest place...I didn't realize how into community and peace and saving the planet they are. That place rocks. And you get a free smaple!

1) it's a bumpy ride 2) depending on the magnitude, the ground can hurt you, if it throws clumps of dirt around or something and 3) it's just a very unsettling experience to have the gournd, the nice solid taken for granted ground be suddenly very unsolid and moving! It's actually pretty scary- i wouldn't wish it on anyone.

something I would like to see that I haven't seen... The It's a Small World ride at Walt Disney World, I am going on vacation to WDW mid May and that was one ride I didn't manage to make it on the only other time I was there, and if I saw it that would mean I was on vacation already.

my middle name is kind of weird, it would take a bit of explanation, but if someone really wants to know I will share.

I'm 20 My Birthday is October 14, 1982. I'll be 21 this year!!!

Hobbies include watcing Lots of TV (Frinds, ER, The West Wing, 7th Heaven, AMERICAN IDOL (I'm obsessed with that show!) Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes (Antoine is soooo SEXAY!!!!! .), Punk'd (this show is SERIOUSLY disturbed. It's great!) Days of our Lives and Passions (I'm realy gonna miss those this summer) Sorority Life and Fraternity Life (Soooo much drama) Boomtown (DONNIE!!!!)), the Internet, reading (I love the Star Wars novels and Tom Clancy's Net Force series), playing tennis (which I may teach this summer), chattin' it up with all my sorority (Alpha Xi Delta) sisters on the AIM, listening to music (Nsync, John Mayer, Matchbox 20).

Fav Movies: Any Doris Day romantic comedy from the 50s/60s, Gone With the Wind, Star Wars (all of them), Sleepless in Seattle, My Big Fat Greek Weedding, Sweet Home Alabama, Ernest Goes to Camp, Legally Blonde, Notting Hill, Pretty Woman, Mary Poppins, How to Marry a Millionaire, A League of Their Own, Forrest Gump, The Cutting Edge, Center Stage, Serendipity, Sabrina, My Fair Lady, Grease, The American President, The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Chicago, Shakespear in Love, When Harry met Sally, A Time to Kill, The Firm, True Lies, Hook, XMen, Lake Placid. Wow that's a lot!

My fav B&J flavor is Vanilla Heathbar Crunch.

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Joe, I saw the Holocaust museum in Copenhagen and it was the coolest museum ever... ever read about the Danish Resistance?

Yes! I love that place... I went my first year of camp. Yay for free samples! My favourite ben & jerry's flavour has to be cherry garcia.

And my middle name is Jane. Original isn't it? :-P

Go on, I'm intrigued...

So who will be #200? You know you all want to be

I suppose it should be Golyek, since it was his idea

Im 19. My birthday is March 22

Middle name's Louise. I dunno if it's the same where u guys are but i've found practically everybody's middle name is either Louise or Jane! I went to a girls' camp 2 years ago and they split us into teams alphabetically by our middle names and seriously about half the camp were either Louises or Janes. Strange!

Last summer I had my girls sleep outside one night (which we dont usually do)... I was just going to bed, wondering if it had been worth the trouble (it had been a really hectic day) when some of the girls saw a shooting star, and it was the first one that one of them had ever seen, and she was thrilled, and so then I was too... But I swear that usually if somebody says "hey there's a shooting star" the next comment to be heard 99% of the time is "oh, you missed it". But good luck Courtney!

Another camp birthday ...8th July I'll be celebrating my 21st ...yay~!

hobbies: goin to the beach, watching movies, going out dancing, reading romance novels, hanging out with friends.

random word game: nose....piercing

oops...didn't see that I this thread was 5 pages long....oh well.

My middle name is Eliane.

Something I've always wanted to see.... perhaps my grandma. She passed away when my mother was in highschool, but all my aunts tell me that she and I were a lot alike. So I wish I could meet her.

Fav. Ben and Jerrys- unfortunetly, I don't think I've ever had Ben and Jerry's. I've had plenty of other types- just our family doesn't buy ice cream that much. And when we do- it's Vanilla (BORING!). But oh well, what can one do when they don't have a car to go buy it themselves.

WOW!! I can;t believe some of you guys have never seen the ocean or snow! That's just crazy to me, because it snowed feet upon feet upon feet here this winter, and I live about 1/2 hour away from the ocean. Geez, the things you take for granted huh?

Thing I've wanted to see: nothing in particular, but I've always wanted to go to Italy.

My middle name is Harding.

Here's a question: do any of ya'll watch american idol? (I'm obsessed) if you do, who should win?

My mom's birthday is Oct 11th, and my cousin is getting married on Oct 11th, so I'll be in California... I'll actually be on a cruise (crossing fingers) from the end of Sept into October.

And my best friend is getting married in August... Kind of a bummer cause he was my back-up... REALLY reminds me of the movie... "My Best Friends Wedding." It's okay cause I've got another back-up lined up.

Anyone ever notice how weddings seem to happen in bunches? I had one a year (yes I've been a bridesmaid 3 times) for 3 years.. and then none for a couple years.. here we go again...


and I really want to go to Australia- partially cause I've always wanted to go there, and partially cause *someday* that's where my boyfriend and I want to go for our honeymoon... and that would mean we'd have to be married first

Wilderness Mama- you listed 'elijah wood stalking' as one of your hobbies...I'm curious- please enlighten me?

I'm a giant...6 ft!! (good for b-ball/v-ball, less fun when meeting guys..)

Thing that I wanted to see for ages...the Chinese Wall..finally got to see it last Easter- strenuous hikes but so many amazing views!!

(sorry I wanted to respond to several questions here)

crazyness....what an excellent post. havent a clue what ya'll are talking about and I do not have the time to go back and read 174 posts. It is nice to see people acting young eh...

I'm 21 and gonna be hitting camp for my 6th year this summer

my parents are slightly different. So they decided that the middle names of my brother and sister and myself would have to do with the different pathways of the truth. My middle name is Seeker, which means Sees the truth, my brothers is Walker, which means walks in the truth, and my sisters is Speakur which means speaks the truth. Kind of weird, but unique. I didn't like it when I was younger but I do know, it just takes explaining when people ask.

Ahhh!! Too many posts to read through after I've been without the internet for a week!

Here's the best I can do:
I'm 19, bithday is next Saturday (4/26)
Hobbies: Playing volleyball, having fun, throwing on campus parties
Fave Movies: Meatballs, Dirty Dancing and any disney movie!
My fave B&J flavor is Phish food

I totally think Rueben should win! I really like his voice & he is from a town that is right by mine! But I really like him!

CLAY ALL THE WAY!!! I love him soooo much. And he was also a camp counselor at a ymca camp.

My middle name is stacey... I'm not a big fan of it.

ANd I've never had ben and jerry's ice cream before. I'm not sure if you can get it in canada... so next time I'm in the US (may- I'm going to chicago!) I will try and find some.

American Idol ? --I agree with sparkle...clay all the way!! We have to represent the camp counselors!

Middle name is Marie

Hobbies- chruch, drama, singing, learning the guitar, reading, working with kids, i love anything in the outdoors...expecially camp and the beach!!

Fav ben and Jerry: the cookie dough...i forget what it is called though...i also like the dave matthews band flavor one world or something like that...

We're so close!!!

My middle name is Mary, and I've never tried any Ben & Jerry's ice cream... am I weird?

Oh, oh, oh I thought of a new question!

What languages does everyone speak?

Besides English (duh) I speak French and I know some ASL.

I'm in the boat with you Lois but with alittle variation. I obviously speak English, I know some French ( like if you drop me in the middle of France, I'd be ok ) and I know ASL.

FYI, my middle name is Elizabeth, I am 19, turning 20 at camp and heres my question...

What kind of food do you LOOOOOOVE but EVERYONE thinks your weird for eating?

My answer? EASY CHEESE AND RITZ CRACKERS!

Yes I eat cheese out of a can.

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I actually like some kinds of baby food-- mostly the fruits. i think that might make me wierd.

But here's my thought from left field. Usually every once in a while the board gets quiet, and most of us don't contribute too much... anyone else notice that this topic (which when you figure in that this is a CAMP message board-isn't too substantial) is 'hoppin'? As well as the rest of the board. Maybe that's the secret... keep the substantial as well as the wacky! They help each other!

I speak english of course, and then Spanish pretty well. My nickname is Mel, real original, just a shortened version of my full name, Melanie. I have never had Ben and Jerry's before. Not a big ice cream person. Here's a question, whats everybody's major in college? I'm an elementary education major.

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I speak english (of course), spanish, italian, and romanian (yes, random) I am studying to be a ESL teacher so i have to know a variety of different languages

My middle name's Anne. In my area it seems like everyone's middle name is either Ann(e) or Marie!

I speak English (well being from Northern Ireland thats questionable sometimes!) and enough French to make myself understood but i can understand a lot more than i can speak.

Im at college in Scotland so we dont really do the whole major/minor thing. In 1st and 2nd year we do 3 subjects and choose in 3rd year what we want to keep on to honours level. I'm doing modern history, social anthropology and moral philosophy (possibly the most random subject in the world).

My middle name is Marie, and my last name has 12 letters in it!

My hobbies include.... guess what?? RIDING horses and doing anything that has anything to do with horses. I am also a musician French Horn is my primary instrument, but I also play fulte, trumpet, baritone and tuba. I like to watch birds and anything that has to do with nature. I dont watch any TV really, but I have lots of fav movies and lots of fav books, I also really love to read.

My fav Ben and Jer is Chubby Hubby.
Jiff

Yeah, where I'm from Marie is the dominate middle name, I'm not sure I knew any one else with Louise as a middle name before now...

I'm still in high school (my last year - grade 13) and Next year I will be taking recreation and leisure studys at university. depending on which one I go to I may be specifically taking outdoor rec.

Oh and I can speak English and I understand and can speak a bit of french.

I watch American Idol every once in a while, and my personal favorite is Ruben. He's huge!!!! My least favorite is Clay, his voice sounds good, but he makes the funkiest facial expressions while he sings.

I really can't believe how this topic has taken off. I was just curious ! I think this has also been a great "get to know you" topic. We really have learned a lot about each other. It's been fun.

Who's going to get #200?

Woohoo, another anthropologist! Where are you at uni? I'm in my second year at Durham.

I speak English (lol), French and German, although my French and German are a bit rusty.

asfcurly, thanks for telling us the story about your middle name - I really like names that have a special meaning. :-)

my middle name is lynn.. around here everyone is either lynn, ann or marie..

wow! you've never seen the snow or the ocean! i live in jersey so i get the best of everything.. the jersey shore is the 2nd best place to be in the summer!! the 1st being CAMP!!

umm.. i would love to see england! i've never left the east coast of the usa.. also i would love to see the earth from space.. i think that must be soo cool and like only a few people have done it..

i don't really eat ben&jerry but i LOVE chocolate chip mint ice cream! yay!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DreamingOfTheLake:
[B] Woohoo, another anthropologist! Where are you at uni? I'm in my second year at Durham.

Im in 1st year at St Andrews. Anthropology is really weird right now but ive heard it gets better. We've just had the worst, most monotone lecturer for the last few weeks about magical speech. But we had a really cool lecturer last semester who looked like u know that alien in Men in Black that lands and takes over ppl's bodies. Yeah well it was pretty much like that.

The ground can crack open and you could fall in.. I have heard of cars falling into cracks ... or like the Bay Bridge in SF. Also the 7.1 was so strong that as we were trying to get outside it was to hard to walk we were getting tossed into walls as we ran down the hallway for outside... In a period of 48 hours we had a. 6.5, 6.6, and a 7.1 which were all jerking earthquakes which shake back and forth, then there are earthquakes that are more like rolling kind of like being on a waterbed when someone is squirming around. Anyway no matter where you are the strong earth quakes are pretty scary.

we

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close!!! YAY

I speak english, some spanish (my g-ma is from El Salvador) and some ASL.... I do know a lot of swearing in Spanish due to a high school emersion trip in High School.

200 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POSTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SO I treated a little ... I couldn't help it !

Yay! We did it! And I'll keep posting anyway.
My major is elementary eduction.
My middle name is Elizabeth.
My nicknames are Flower and Bloomer. (I did a doubletake the first time Bloomer posted on here.)

Should we try for 300 ???

I am an elementary ed major two...
I will start I new thing .. what are you doing at this very minute? Besides reading the boards I mean ?
--- Watching the Brady Bunch and wishing I didn't have to leave for a 3 hour long class in 40 minutes

Yeah finally made it to 200 good for us. Right now, I am getting ready to eat dinner and just surfing the net.

Phoenix my b'day is the 9th Oct!!!!
Helen I'm from N.Ireland and I have a cousin who goes to St.Andrews! I have a place there in 2004 for an Archeology degree. So.........have you seen Prince William yet??

The thing that I would most love to see is a Tornado!
I can't believe you haven't seen snow or the ocean! That is so strange!
Blizzards are beautiful to watch if you are in a house being warmed by a lovely logged fire.....but after a few days of snow lying there it gets a bit boring!

I'm not doing much Yoda! Think I might go to bed now though its getting past my bed time!

Right now I am watching White Oleander, eating, and reading posts on this site.
I am an elementary education major as well and I am 19 years old.

When I started College at Morehead State University I was a music major (French Horn) with a double major in Biology with an emphisis on Ornithology (study of birds). I was lastly at University Of Florida in Gainesville Town (GO GATORS) and there I was a Zoo Animal Technology Major (zoo education and animal care). Curretly I am between college's at camp (YAY CAMP) But will return to college the fall to Hocking College in Ohio where I will major in Outdoor education/recreation with an emphsis in Backcountry Horsemanship.
Kind of much I know I just cant seem to make up my mind that's why I'm in Indiana at Camp right now.
Jiff

Right now I'm only reading this board, and well, listening to music and thinking of making me some dinner in the good 'ole staff kitchen I have pollo loco left over from this weekend when we went out to eat. Here in the program office there really is not much to do besides be on the computer anyway.
Jiff

Her name was Lola she was a show girl!
Sorry but I need your help .......I have had this song in my head for the past few days and these are the only words I know! help me!

Why should we stop at 200? Lets set a new goal for 500!!!! I bet we can do it by the start of camp!

-Joe

Sweet!! how old are you going to be? i'm going to be 21!

My major is microbiology.
I speak a little Spanish, but I'm not really fluent. I can get by with people who kinda sorta know English though. It's probably the most useful language to speak here in Texas (besides English).
I haven't eaten much Ben & Jerry's...they are pretty expensive here. I usually stick with Blue Bell! Mmmm...their chocolate Moo-linium Crunch is really good, as is Triple Chocolate and several other flavors.

Right now I am editing an essay on the novel 'fifth business' by robertson davies. The essay is about the main character and the use of jungian psychology. I hate OAC ENGLISH!!!! Arggg...

hey guys guess what. In 15 days 4 papers and 2 final exams I will be done with my junior year of college! That's way exciting.. ok, but maybe I should get back to work, I have 10 pg paper due tomorrow and I am on page 3 hmph

i just got home from an AP biology review session..it was quite boring.. horray for less than 2 months in high school..

i will be majoring in history and education in the fall at washington college in md!! and i am SOOO excited!

I only have one more day of regular classes and then exams next week and im done for the semester.No class till fall *does a happy dance*

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hey! mine is too! I always feel weird when people ask me, just cuz it's not very common.

I don't know what's next, but at some point I think it goes into:
"At the copa
copa cabana
da da dadadadada da"
um,yeah... I had the words a second ago! lol!

ooh! found the lyrics: http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/song-608.html
enjoy! =)

eeks! after listening to it growing up (my mom's a Barry Manilow fan), I never knew what the lyrics were. gosh, that's a depressing song!




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My middle name is Faith and I'm the only one I know with that middle name. My nicknames are Lan and Maverick. I speak English and a tiny bit of Spanish.
Does anyone else think that grad school sucks? I'm having the hardest time with it right now!!

hehe.. its like the episode of friends.. the one where rachel is the maid of honor at barry and mindy's wedding.. shw gets up and sings copa cobana.. lol..
anyway friends is my favoritest show in the whole entire world!! yay!

Okay new discussion for posts

Whats the weirdest animal you have ever seen?
For me it would have to be a Neutria.... they are half RAT half Beaver and the live on the rivers in Oregon and in the swamps in the south.. They look just like the ROUS's in the Princess Bride!! They are so freaky!

WOW! Honestly, I didn't think it would happen, but when folks on this board set their mind on a goal, they get it done! Well done everybody! I do believe we've just made ACA Bulletin Board history!

It certainly wasn't my intent to get 200 replies, actually, Canuck got the ball rolling. Well, we got 225 in only a few days, I think 300 is definitely within in reach. Some of this stuff is hilarious and its cool to learn some somewhat personal information about people. We're really getting to know each other and I think that's great.

The weirdest animal I've ever seen...probably a Sea Cucumber (they'll spew out their intestines when scared and they have little fish living in their butts).

Also, congrats to Yoda on #200!

Thank You , Thank You... you can't see but I am curtseying (sp) and doing a beauty queen wave too. : )

weirdest animal i have ever seen- a lemur but they are so cool too!
middle name- lynn...like speedy's!
college major-wish i could have 1 but i think i want to major in elementary education w/a minor in french or something communications related

and catkel3299, i'm SOOOO addicted to fraternity and sorority life, i think tim is sooo cute and the girls are just so mean to each other that its hilarious!

You should check out a book called "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn...in each section of the book certian letter cease to exist in the story as well as in the book...it's a fun read!

Camper: My middle Name is Lynn too !

Camper,

I'm so glad somebody commented on my reply! I feel so special! Anyway, that is sooo not how most sororities are. I love to watch it to laugh at all the crap those girls have to put up with. When I was a pledge, all the sisters treated us (pledges)like goddesses. I wanna be a pledge again!

later
Kelly

Oooh hannah, u don't happen 2 be ruth watterson's cousin hannah do u?! If u are i tried 2 email you but i must have taken it down wrong. That's so cool!

Cancuk
No offerense but I don't think that game is appropriate even on this board. Thanks

what game? and why isnt it appropriate?

haha catkel, i know a lot of crap goes on on the show and thats good b/c i am definitely looking to be in a sorority when i get to college. i know a lot about aephi and sdt b/c i have friends in them and it sounds like its the coolest thing ever. and yea the sisters are definitely meaner than the pledges on the show- except maggie she's a little rambunctious. lol

and whoever else has the middle name lynn, rock on! its such a popular middle name.

I was just wondering...why do people join frats and sororities? What I see on MTV and what I saw at the college I attended kind of turned me off to that lifestyle. I think it's the whole concept of having to "try out" to be accepted as a family member (brother/sister). It's so exclusionary, and judgemental. At least the ones that I've seen have been like that.

I don't know Golyek, and I have often wondered the same thing. The whole thing just seems kind of dumb to me, but to each his own.
I had a bad experience with sororities. I had a group of friends who all pledged my freshmen year in college. Now in the fall, we hung out, did stuff together, and it was great. In the spring, when they started to pledge, suddenly they didn't have time for me, their whole lives revolved around sorority functions and their new "sisters". I realize not everyone has this experience and maybe some people are better at balancing out their lives...it just seems like an awful lot of people in sororities and fraternities are only interested in their own little exclusive group. Plus so many of them (I know, not ALL, but a lot) do nothing more than drink and party...a big turn off for me.

The Greek System is different on every college campus. ANd a lot of times it has nothing to do this the size of the college or university. What you see on MTV isn't the full picture. First of all, they air all the "drama" that goes on. The producers create story lines that will be interesting for the audience and get the highest ratings. Second, that is just one sorority chapter and one fraternity chapter out of the many thousands of chapters across America and in other nations. Third, both Delta Xi Omega and Sigma Chi Omega are local chapters. This allows them to get away with a lot more hazing than National Chapters.

I love my sorority Alpha Xi Delta which I pledged in the fall 2001, as well as the greek system at Auburn University (my college.) I have never once felt jusdged by other members of my sorority or anyone else outside my sorority for that matter. Everyone I met in all the other 14 sororities during recruitment was very nice and polite to me. I wasn't very involved in high school and I didn't have any close friends. But when I got my Bid last fall and pledged, I was instantly accepted and now I have over 100 friends, many very close to me.

I don't deny many people have had bad experiences with Greek organizations, I'm jsut saying what you see on TV isn't the full picture, and that my experiences have been the best of my life.

Kelly

I'm 18... my birthday is April 2nd hehe
-Roxy

I'm with him on this one. I attended a Uniersity that has a very large "greek" population and they are all over the place. Let me just say of all the people I have meant they have fit all the stereotypes I have heard

YAY WE DID IT!

My major is political science and my minor is public service with a focus in education.

And I don't understand the Greek system, it's pretty disgusting at my school, but hey that floats some people's boats. I'm just sick of every time I go to a party I get asked "so what sorority are you in?" I mean, hello, it *IS* possible to be social without joining the "system." Grr.

There is a disproportionate amount of October birthdays on this board! (LIBRAS TAKE OVER THE WORLD!)

ok, i gotta stick up for greeks here. first my school is pretty small (4,000) and DRY. So, really, the frats are the only ones that throw parties cause they have off campus houses. (ussually the parties are open-anyone can come) (the sororities all have dorm wings-some dumb rule about more than x number of women in one house is a brothel)I pledged SAI in the fall. It did not take up too much time, the sisters are great, and they love everyone in the music department equally from what i've seen. (its a proff/social music frat) i just saw that MTV show tonight, me and one of the sisters sat there and were horrified. my campus has ZERO tolerance for hazing. i mean, we were afraid to interview our MITs (members-in-training, apparently pledge is demeaning)because we were afraid THAT was hazing! by interview, i mean a pretty damn proff type thing. the stuff on mtv would never, ever fly on our campus. I enjoy it, i still have lots of time for my old friends, and have met new people to boot. I wouldn't ever join a strictly social sorrority i don't think, but i have friends that have and for most of them it hasn't affected a thing. I too know people who have deactivated from their frats for many reasons, but most folks seem happy with our system. Not all systems are as awful as tv, some are actually pretty decent.

I didn;t see the MTV show cos we have MTV Europe (so I'll probably see it in 6 months time !! ), but we have sororities over here as well and a similar "initiation" system. Pledges are called 'zeros' and they go on a weekend where basically they're humiliated. There was an incident where a student died cos of alcohol poisoning so the initiation isn't allowed to involve drinking anymore. Some of my friends did it and I've heard sooo many gross and horrible stories. My sister was humiliated so badly....and my cousin had to lick custard out of a toilet bowl. UGh!

In the end they're all happy they did it though, cos all the 'zeros' bond really well the first week and after initiation all the older students who were mean before are really nice. I think it's pretty two-faced and wouldn't personally want to go through such an awful process.

- Flora

I went to a big university, Michigan State University, I was in a sorority. The sorority on Sorority Life is NOT an accurate portrayal of sorority life in general. They are mean to those girls. I liked being in a sorority. My school was so big it did not really matter if you were greek or not, there were so many things to get involved in. I did not join till my sophmore year, I am glad I waited. I always had more then one group of friends that way, different people to be around. Still to this day I take a trip once a year with my sorority sisters. It was a good expereice. They are not as bad as they are made out to be on MTV, although I love the show!

You know I just don't understand sorities. They say that a soroity is a great way to make friends, but you have to pay to be in one. Why should I pay someone to make friends?

nebit- where are you? At my school in Virginia, we were not allowed to have a guy stay over for more than 3 out of 7 nights or it would be considered a brothel. Wierd.

Speaking of Sororities... I went to an all womens school, only 900 of us undergrads. We did not have any sororities, however I feel like I spent 4 years at camp. It was so fun... lots of traditions and fun stuff. At times it seemed like we were one huge sorority. We had "Ring Night" which was actually a 3 day process where you "earn" your class ring. It involves sophomores, juniors and seniors, and although hazing is not allowed, we certainly toe the line. I could go into more details if anyone is interested... The most important part is that it is a bonding experience... and I will never forget my Ring Sisters!

Speedy I love friends to! I never miss it!

I'm going to be 19 Phoenix. You are 2 years older than me!

Goeorgie you are a life saver! thank you!

Oh My Goodness Helen !!!!!!
What a small world!
Yeah I claim her to be my cousin!
If you are talking to her tell her that I will come to her B'DAY party and that it is rude to not reply to text messages! ;-)
Oh and tell her to msg me with her email address I can't remember it!
It is hannah_will_iams with the rest. hope that helps!

hannah.. did you see friends tonight! it was really funny!! i was happy because i am a huge days fan too and there were 2 real days charachters!! usually they are all fakes!! hehe... also the whole nobel prize thing was great! hehehe!!

I'm also an SAI girl like Nebit (YAY SAI) I'm not a big fan of social sororities, mine SAI, is a professional music frat/sorority. It all depends on your personality. Nebit, I had this weekend off, we should have gotten together somewhere between here and Valpo! oh well, maybe some other time! let me know whats up and when you leave for camp!
Jiff

Let's keep this thing going .. NO MORE TALK ABOUT GREEK LIFE THOUGH K? it's boring me.
What is you favorite thing to see/do on your day/night off?

Movies! amd Walmart. And pizza (Papa johns is the best!)

Movies! amd Walmart. And pizza (Papa johns is the best!)

We don't get a night off and I usually spend my day off (Saturdays) resting or going into town, shopping, going to Wal-mart, eating oriental food, and occasionaly going to see a movie with some camp people.

I definitely spend my time eating REAL food. And cruising around town with my friends in the pimp-mobile we call the camp van! (haha just joking). But really, Wal Mart is by far the best place to go

Walmart rocks!!!!! I love that place, and I too get real food. I also go see all the sights and go outlet shopping with other people from camp. On my days off, I go to my sisters house and hang out since I live in Florida and my camp is in New Hampshire so I can't go home, going to my sister's, who lives in Maine, house is the next best thing.

What would a camp counselor do with out Wally World ??

My time off during camp I really love going out to eat, doing laundry and having a beer or two. I just LOVE chillin' on time off. I also like getting back to camp at a decent hour, I'm usually back around midnight.

When I'm not at camp, during my time off I enjoy playing disc golf, going to see movies and on Thursday nights watching Survivor. Did you folks know that Christy (the woman that is deaf) is from Colorado and she is involved in camping as she works for a youth adventure program. I think that's awesome and I'm really rooting for her.

Today it was in the seventies here in Denver and I played 72 holes of disc golf. It was such a great Saturday!

I don' t know but I am so glad I will never have to worry about that. Wal-mart is by far the best place to go when you just want to get away from camp for awhile and they have such great deals.

I've got a couple of questions for you.

1. Do you still play with toys?

2. Do you still watch cartoons (other than the Simpsons and King of the Hill)?

If so, why do you continue to do so as an adult. If not, why have you stopped? Just wondering.

1.) Yes
2.) Yes

I think playing with toys and watching cartoons keeps you young. PLus it lets you know what kids are into so that you know what they are talking about when the keep drawing a yellow sponge in square pants for all their "kid writing" entires (I am working in a kindergarten right now).

Yeah, I definitely still watch cartoons! I agree with Yoda that it's a great way to keep up on what kids are going to be talking about. And, on a somewhat related note, I still sleep with a stuffed animal, does anyone else?

Last year we had like 2 hours off twice a day (since we didn't have campers). I spent time cleaning my bunk- I always managed to ge it so dirty! Sometimes I would head down to the creek to talk with some people, I did some painting towards the end of the summer and other arts and crafts. Sometimes we hung out in the staff lounge, we went swimming sometimes too. We were 15 so we couldn't leave camp... but we managed to have quite a bit of fun... oh yes, and we had watefights. We also sat and just talked outside our cabin somedays- it was relaxing.

I sleep with a stuffie only when I'm taking naps. When I'm going to bed at night I don't.

lol, I sleep with my bear everynight. If I can't find him, I'll wake up everyone till i can. hmmm, when my lil sis was a cit in my cabin, she gave my bear to a homesick kid while i was helpin another kid-I was going to kill her, but thankfully the kid believed me when i told her ihad an even cooler critter for her to sleep with. what can i say, I'm attached. I also have a special pillow-one of those little camp pillows, but i'm not as crazy about that.

lets see....
Toys! heck yes. I LOVE toys. plus, it keeps you young. (I'm still searching for never neverland )

Cartoons-not so much, i don't have a tv, but if i did i'd prolly watch them.

Oh yeah, I love toys! I stole my boyfriend's old box of lincoln logs to play with!
I watch cartoons sometimes. But more often I end up watching the ones like "The Simpsons" and "South Park" rather than the kiddie ones.
I sleep with two animals and a blanket on my bed, but don't really sleep "with" them. They're just kinda there.

Oh yeah, I love toys! I stole my boyfriend's old box of lincoln logs to play with!
I watch cartoons sometimes. But more often I end up watching the ones like "The Simpsons" and "South Park" rather than the kiddie ones.
I sleep with two animals and a blanket on my bed, but don't really sleep "with" them. They're just kinda there.

I also can't sleep if I don't know where my blanket is. I have to turn on the lights and search for it.

The only difference between men and boys is the expense of their toys.

I also watch Anime (sorta cartoons, but not really for kids) but not Hentai.

-Joe

To continue the thread could people answer these ??

Soda or Coke or Pop?
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes?
Sofa or Couch?
Freezies or Otter Pops?
Black and Blues or Bruises?
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon)
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada)

Answer these and if you think of more post them! Here are my answers.

Soda
Tennis Shoes
Couch
Otter Pops
Bruises
Orey gun (Oregon)
Nevaada (Nevada)

Inquiring minds want to know also please put what state you grew up in so we can find some correlations.

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Soda or Coke or Pop? Pop
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Tennis Shoes
Sofa or Couch? couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? What are they??
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon)Ore gone
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevaada

I sleep with a stuffed animal, Winnie the Pooh

I watch cartoons (can't stand Simpsons or king of the hill)

and as I work with 3, 4, and 5 year olds, I def. play with toys.

Pop
Tennis Shoes
Couch
Freezies
Black and Blues or Bruises--Both
Orey gun (Oregon)
Nevahhda (Nevada)

You know that sugar frozen juice that you squeeze out of the plastic to eat? I have always called them all otter pops but when I was at camp when I called them that no body knew what I was talking about!

Soda
Tennis Shoes or Sneakers
Couch or Sofa
Freezies or Icies
Bruises
Ore gon (Oregon)
Nevahda (Nevada

I watch cartoons occasionally. Tom and Jerry, Tweety Mysteries, and the one with Tweety/Taz/etc. as babies are my favorites.

I play with toys, puzzles, and games occasionally too (last week I lost in a game of Monopoly). I also like to attempt juggling stuff, and other stuff.


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Coke
Tennis Shoes
Couch
I usally call them Freeze Pops or popsicles
Bruises
Orey gun
Nevahhda

From Texas, as my name indicates.

soda
tennis shoes
couch
freezies
bruises
Ore gone
Nevahhda

Im from Florida, born and raised Floridian.
I still play with toys, they rock. I occasionally watch cartoons but not too often. I still sleep with my little tiger stuffed animal and I still have a bunch of stuffed animals.

coke
tennis shoes
couch
otter pops
bruises
ore gone
nevaada

Yeah, I have to defend the Greek system too... I was very much anti-Greek when I came to college, and wouldn't even consider joining a sorority. However, a close friend who was in Kappa Kappa Gamma convinced me to come over to dinner one night, and I was amazed at what I found...

...a house full of friendly, energetic, eclectic, fabulous women who I wanted very much to be a part of. These women were supportive, outgoing, active, and lots of fun. I

I was looking for a way to get more involved on campus, meet more people, and have a more active social life - joining my sorority did all those things. In addition, I have made friends that will last a lifetime, and I have wonderful memories of socials, parties, study snacks, and random nights staying up late just hanging out with my sisters and laughing until my stomach hurts.

So yeah, it's not for everyone, but I highly encourage you to look into it. There is no "typical" sorority or fraternity - they're all different, from school to school, and from house to house. And they can be an amazing addition to your life.

Soda or Coke or Pop? Soda
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Sneakers
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? Freeze Pops
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Ore Gone
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevahhda

I grew up 15 minutes from boston.. so I also enjoy "pahking my cah in hahvad yahd" lol

Soda or Coke or Pop? Coke
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Tennis Shoes
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? Freeze Pops
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Orey gun
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevahhda

Yay, Reggie has the same answers as me! I don't know why I get a kick out of that but I do. Of course, seeing as we grew up in the same general area, it shouldn't be all that surprising. Here's some other stuff if anyone wants to answer:

Which do you prefer?
Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance (other?)
Swimming in lakes or pools
Sunrise or Sunset
Cats or Dogs
Flowers or Candy

Soda or Coke or Pop? Coke
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? gym shoes
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? I still have no idea what these are
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Oreygun
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevahhda
Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper? I don't like any dark sodas.
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance (other?)? I like New Balance and Asics to run in. Adidas for just casual ones.
Swimming in lakes or pools? Pools.
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
Cats or Dogs? Dogs!!
Flowers or Candy? Both

Soda or Coke or Pop? Pop
Sneakers of Tennis Shoes? Sneakers
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter pops? freezies. Crewbie, these are just plastic tubes filled with juice in them that has been frozen. just think of those yogurt tube things only frozen with juice in them instead of yogurt.
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Oreygon? Oregone
Nevahda or Nevaada? Nevahda
Coke, Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper? i don't really like pop
Nike, reebok, adidas or new balance? Whatever fits for running, i have i pair of sauconys i like. For just hanging around at camp nothing beats my superstars
Swimming in Lakes or Pools? Pools
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
Cats or Dogs? Dogs
Flowers or candy? flowers

Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper - Neither, I drink tons of water and Kool-Aide
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance - Adidas and New Balance
Swimming in lakes or pools - both
Sunrise or Sunset - both
Cats or Dogs - dogs
Flowers or Candy - it depends on the occasion

I love the new dr. pepper red fusion, but dont drink dark soda to often, more of a lipton/nestea girl or juice
Adidas, seem to be the only ones that are comfy for me, but i live in flip flops most of the time.
love both lake and pool swimming
sunsets rock especially at camp.
dogs and cats, love them both
flowers

Soda
Tennis Shoes
Couch
Otter Pops
Bruises
Ore gone
Nevaada

And I'm born and raised in California, though I saw a few things funny because my parents were born and raised in WiscAAAAAHnsin.

Here's another one...
"Sore-y" or "Saw-ry"? (Sorry)

I was born and raised in CA too, but now I am an Oregonian and around these parts ( with my hich accent on thick) everyone says Oreygun and Nevaaada
Why is it that only us Californias know what and otter pop is ? Thats sad. What would a childhood be like with out Gonzo the Grape and his other Otter friends ?

Which do you prefer?
Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper -- Coke
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance (other?)
I really want New Balance
Swimming in lakes or pools -- lakes
Sunrise or Sunset -- sunrise
Cats or Dogs -- cats
Flowers or Candy flowers

Soda
Trainers
Sofa
what's a freezie?
ore gone
Nevaada
sarry

heres another,
hOribble or hARRRible

And on my nights/days off I usually end up taking staff on a trail ride, or I get into town to do laundry. ALSO, do any of you notice that your bathroom #2's turn color when you are at camp until you are use to the food. I know it's a weird gross question, but we had some Americorps visitors at camp and they asked the same question cause the were all worried about themselves...... does that happen to anyone else with camp food?
Jiff

coke
addidas/puma
lakes
sunsets
dogs
candy, but never have recieved flowers from anyone other than my parents... Might change if i get them from a boys. (wink, wink)
Saw ry

California... born and raised What What!! spent the most time there in my life. Absoultly love it. Sac town!

I dont say Soda or Coke...here we saw Pop.
I say Orey gun & Nevaada.
Definitely Freezies.
Adidas or North Face.
Tennis Shoes.
Bruises.
Sawry.
Flowers.
Pools.
Dogs.
Sunrise.
Couch.

How about "turn-knee or tour-knee" and "done-key or don-key"

Post number 293!

Saying this word alone can determine how far north you come from: OUT

Do you say Oot?
Do you say Oat?
Do you say Owt?

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Soda or Coke or Pop? POP!
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Running shoes
Sofa or Couch? Chesterfield!!! lol that's the canadian word but I say couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? Freezies
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Ore gone
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevahhda
Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper? Pepsi
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance (other?)? None
Swimming in lakes or pools? Pools
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
Cats or Dogs? Dogs all the way!
Flowers or Candy? flowers

SODA
Sneakers
Couch
Freezies
Bruises
Orey gone
Naavada
Coke
Adidas
Swimming in a lake
Sunset
Cats
Flowers




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Does nose breath have a smell?
If so, can you smell your own nose breath?

Soda or Coke or Pop? soda
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? sneakers
Sofa or Couch? couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? ice pops
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Ore gone
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevaada
Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper? COKE
Nike, Reebok, Adidas, New Balance (other?)? i like adidias and nike if i have to wear sneakers but i prefer to go in sandals!
Swimming in lakes or pools? Pools
Sunrise or Sunset? Sunrise
Cats or Dogs? cats
Flowers or Candy? hmmm.. well if i ever got any flowes it would be a different story..

i'm a jersey girl!! hehe you can never tell where i'm from when i talk because i have a mix of accents when i talk.. its a combo of brit, southern, jersey/ny and its funny! sometimes i go into an accent and i'll be southern all day and all my friends are like where are you from?? hehe

i wanna be at camp... and the

the 300 post!!!! YEAHHHHH..

ok, i am procrastinating on my paper and saw that we only had two more to go to get to three hundred.

Congrats Cutter!!!


Should we try for 400 ???
I'll start .. 301 !! Woo hooo ,....
Let's see... hmmmm...

Favorite board game as a child: Chutes and Ladders/ Candy Land/ Mouse Trap/ Operation/ Scattergories Jr. ( I lived in a rainy place we played lotsa these!)
Favorite Childhood T.V. Show: Punky Brewster / Kids Inc./ MMC/ Hey Dude/ Salute your Shorts/ YCDTOTV (again rainy place)

Just to let you all know it's 12am here in Indiana. We have a three day group in camp right now which I have to get up in the morning and do programing with, but NO, I'm on the computer. Screw taking a ashower when I hike back to my cabin, I'm going to be all Minger (smelly) tomorow for the kiddies YAY FOR ME!! LOL
JIff

Camp Anawana, we hold you in our hearts, and when we think about you...............

i am 30 and this is my first year as a counsellor

Thats awesome! Welcome to our ranks

So what made you decide to give camping a shot?

Well, I finally got the chance to read Holes today. Took me all of 2 hours Great read. I couldnt remember what thread we had discussed it on, so here's to 306 messages!!!

-Joe

Joe now go see the movie.. It's great!! They did a great job staying true to the book.

Come on let's keep this thread going just to see how long it will go..

Here's my question : What is you favorite episode of the Brady Bunch ?

The one with Davy Jones (the cutie from the Monkees!!!)

What's your least favorite camp song?

My fav. Brady episode is hard to choose I like the measles one and all the Hawaii ones .. all of them crack me up....


Least fav. camp song would have to be our alma matter... no offense but i really don't like the alma matters they are all so slow and cheesy ..

Well, I cant think of any specific brady bunch episodes off the top of my head, so I'll pass on that question!

My least fav camp song? The Princess Pat!! AHH! It gets REAL old REAL fast.

I can't remember any specific Brady Bunch episodes.
My least fave camp song is The Telephone Song. It keeps repeating and is so annoying after around 2 rounds.

What do you do for fun when you are not in the camp season ?? I.E. the rest of the year..

Nothing, its all school and work for me these days and if not I am too tired so I watch tv and see if anyone has posted on here.

I play disc golf at least 5 days a week, 36 holes each day. I LOVE DISC GOLF!!!!

Okay ya'll, I went to see the movie Holes today!!! It was awesome. Such a good wholesome theme. I loved the whole friendship\sacrifice thing. Not enough of that in the world for kids today. I loved the fact that the kids in the movie learned that life isn't about money, wealth, fame, fortune, or greed, but that it's about family, love, loyalty, devotion, and faith in something other than oneself. I am DEFINITELY a fan.

-Joe

joe, I finished the book, Holes, and saw the movie last week and I too loved both of them. The movie was exactly as I imagined the book (although I pictured Stanley a little chubbier). I'm definitely going to be reading the book to my campers this summer.

I give the book and the movie a thumbs up!

I loved both .. the only thing I didn't like about the movie is they was they gave the ending away to soon.. Like how you hear Madame Zeroni's voice as he's carry zero... and how they say what zero's real last nameis really early on.....
I liked how in the book the ending was more of a surprise.

Soda or Coke or Pop? POP
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Tennis Shoes
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? otter pops
Black and Blues or Bruises? no idea
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Orey gun(people from the east coast crack me up)
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevaada

Soda or Coke or Pop? Coke
Sneakers or Tennis Shoes? Tennis Shoes
Sofa or Couch? Couch
Freezies or Otter Pops? otter pops
Black and Blues or Bruises? Bruises
Ore gone or Orey gun ? (Oregon) Ore-gen
Nevahhda or Nevaada? (Nevada) Nevaada

Anyone have an ideas on how I can cheer myself up? I have been really down especially since I don't have camp to look forward to this summer.

Take out your old camp pictures and call some old camp friends :-)

That just makes me miss camp more!

Chocolate ice cream :-)

I know how you feel, Yoda... I'm already planning to send care packages to my friends who are going back to camp. Can you find something fun to do during the summer (non-school related!) - maybe take up a new hobby or something?

Do you have to work or can you get away for a couple of weeks maybe stay with a friend or family? When my holiday plans fell through last summer I was really p-ed off but I arranged to stay with a friend who I don't see often for one month. It's good to just get away from home every now and then, and even though you'll still miss camp it'll take your mind off it for a bit? And you'll get to catch up with the person you stay with!!

*Think positive* and hopefully you'll be able to go camp next year? Good luck!

BUMP!!!

yay this post came back!! remeber we have to hit 500 posts by the start of camp season!

ok i guess i can add to this...

Okay, i'll add another question for everyone. How long is your camp season for staff? What about for campers, how long can they stay, how many sessions do you have etc...? My camp is 9 weeks for staff, 8 weeks for campers. Campers come for 2 weeks and we have 4 sessions. Campers can stay 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, or all 8 weeks. We have campers aged 6-15 and its an all-girls camp with a brother camp that's a half-hour away that we meet with twice a session(once at their camp, once at our camp)

9 weeks for staff, 1 week sessions for the girls

my camp has:
a week of lifeguard training (optional)
a week of ropes course training (optional)
a week of program staff training
a week of staff training
9 weeks of campers
the campers only stay for a week (sunday - friday); but some of them get to come twice. the age range of our campers is from 4 up to... let's see, the oldest camper i can think of is 60+, but i'm pretty sure we've had them older than that even. does anyone else work at a camp for people with disabilities?

...and since we're apparently trying to make it to 500(!) posts by the start of camp (only 10 more days! OMG! i need to start packing!), here're some more thoughts for us all:
1 how far from home is your camp?
2 how many years have you been camp staff?
3 what's the longest song you sing at camp?
4 what's the one camp story that always makes you a little misty?

1. i'm only 30ish miles from my camp. during the summer, however, it takes over an hour to get there because it's right outside of wisconsin dells. those of you familiar with the area know why. for the rest of you, the dells is one of the biggest tourist towns in the world during the summer. on any given day, the town of 2-3000 will have over a million people in it, and none of them seem to know what a crosswalk is!
2. this will be my... let's see... 5th summer at camp. spent 3 years as a counselor, last summer as "the arts and crafts chick", and this summer will be head counselor.
3. longest camp song... it's either "the green grass grows all around" song - we've come up with about 22 verses for it now; or the jelly bean song. we once filled a 45 minute tractor ride with just that song, it all depends on how many kinds of beans people can remember on a given day.
4. aside from the sad stuff that would make anyone feel blue (campers/staff passing away), there's one happy story that always makes me "misty": on our ropes course, we have an element called the travine - kind of like a zip line, but it goes across this big ravine out in the middle of the woods and you get to go back and forth a few times if you want to. anyway, working with people with disabilites, it can sometimes be difficult to gauge the whole "challenge by choice" thing -they can't always tell us what they're feeling. but, one day while we were out there, we got one of the guys into the helmet, and then into the harness, and on the static, and then finally got him beanered onto the cable. just as we were about to take the static off, he indicated he didn't want to do it anymore, so we unhooked him, and he started running all over shouting "eric champion!" awwwwwwwwww...
...sorry for the insanely long post...

1.) My camp is way far away from my house. It's 1400 miles away. I live in Florida and my camp is in New Hampshire.
2.)this will be my third summer on staff, never went as a camper, and I am an arts and crafts/cabin counselor.
3.)The longest song is the telephone song and it has to be the most annoying song as well, and then the divisional songs are also really long
4.) My misty story isn't really a story but a song, "The Circle Game" always makes me misty.

1 about a 40 minute drive.
2 this will be my second year on staff
3 noahs ark song in the morning.
4 hmmm.... I can't really think of any stories, but certain songs make me cry.

1. about 35 minute drive on a good day- not in rush hour.
2. This will be my second year as staff- but my first summer with campers of my own (kinda- I'm a JC).
3. The longest song- I'm not sure, I'll have to think about that one.
4. Camp story that makes me misty eyed- I remember the first time I felt like a counselor. It was during the off season and I worked for a weekend- and it was my first time living in the cabin with kids. Well I was the arts and crafts instructor- and we were window painting for the activity. I gave the kids some paint- and then I was helping some other kids start bracelets. When I turned around- they wrote my name on the window and wrote underneath it- Cabin C rocks! And it was the first time campers had ever considered me a counselor. :-D That made me smile...

When was the last time you were genuinely scared for your life and what scared you?

I think the last time I was that scared was when I bungee jumped about 2 years ago. I really thought I was going to die.

I think the last time i was genuinely scared for my life was on the weekend when i was driving with my best friend. she forgot to do a shoulder check when she changed lanes and another car was in her blind spot. we were going pretty fast and were about a centmeter away from hitting the car. I saw everything. and since i was on the passenger side, if there had been an accident i would have been flatened. it was scary stuff.

i have another question to keep the post going. if you could change one thing about your camp what would it be? For me i think it would be the price. I think all kids should be able to go to great camps and not have to pay $1000 a week.

$1000 a week, I hope u are exaggerating because kids shouldn't have to pay that much to go to camp. Anyway, lets keep this post going we have to get to 500 posts or above.

yay! I just realized that I finally made it to my 50th post.

Wow, kids at my camp pay between $0 and $50 for a week at camp ($0 when they get camperships).

Last time I was scared for my life:
About two hours ago when I was hanging headfirst over a sloping ledge trying to take down a climbing anchor.

nope, i'm not exaggerating at all. A two week session costs $1,998. On top of that there are a bunch of extras the kids have to pay for. it's very expensive. I remember being a camper and going to camp for $100 a week and having the time of my life. I have no idea why this camp costs 10 times more.

sad but true that my camp costs 7500 dollars.

wow!! mine costs about $300 a week.. so if on was to come all 6 weeks it would be around $1800.. some are a little more than 300.. depends on what program you chose.. basic programs are less, and sailing, overnights.. are more
still its not as expensive as other camps..

The difference in cost, from what I can tell, is usually wide between not-for-profit camps and for-profit camps. Non-profits have an external organization (YMCA, Easter Seals, Girl Scouts, Boys & Girls Club, etc.) paying their staff and owners, while for-profit staff have to be paid by the camp itself. For example, I am on the payroll of the B&GCA, not on the payroll of "Camp Mendocino." Also, for-profits tend to offer more extensive facilities, things we don't really think about as costing a lot to build and maintain. Tennis courts are freakin' expensive, so are swimming pools!

do any of you out there have camp mascots? what are they, and why were they chosen?

Well, I guess that my camp's mascot is sort of a lion because it is a lions camp.

I have no idea, i've never been to this camp before :-) I just thought I'd add in my 2 cents to help us reach 500 :-D
So......i'll pose a question to help spur us along the way......its hard to not repeat questions or question-types....
*hmmmm, whats one thing that you suprised you the most about working at camp that you never expected :-) (for example, how many uses there are for duct tape)
*Or maybe, the one most helpful piece of advice you could give another counselor (for example, always look inside your shoes before you put them on)
*or one never (or hardly) fails tip or trick when it comes to campers.

Sorry if they go redundent to other posts, i was trying to think off-the-wall
~*~Mandie~*~

keep posting everyone!!

Probably the biggest thing i learnt was that one summer can change your life and that you never relize how tired you are until you see your own bed again

AHHHHHH!!! Too many questions to answer!!! Alright, i'll answer the ones that are a) easiest and b) that I remember!!!

If i could change anything about my camp, I'd make us have a lake and be more like a traditional 8-week summer camp.

I don't think I've ever really been scared for my life... I'm been scared, yes, but not for my life... except when I'm in the car w/ *certain* people...

Our camp mascot is Rusty the Raccoon... dunno why he's our mascot.

Top 3 biggest things I learned in a summer 1)goodbyes are the hardest things I'll ever go through 2) I am more than I thought I was 3) I need camp.

I don't know what i'd chance since i've never been there yet.

I've never been scared for my life... wait last night when i ran a red light scary.

I have no idea what our camp mascot is

Top 3 biggest things I learned in a summer ummm that you really can loose 15 pounds at summer camp lol.. that you really do make life long friendships at camp ( wav you court) and that summer camp does open kids eyes to oppturnities.

XOXO
Roxy

hey whats up, I'm 24!

because i'm bored i just read this entire thread. i want to add my two cents to some of the stuff that's been said already.
my middle name is louise and so is my best friends and a ton of other people. It's weird that it's such a popular middle name. And about ben & jerry's ice cream they have it in canada but a pint is $6 too much for me. (if this makes no sense just check this thread)

what up scooter! i'm 24 also!

I'm 20 and my B-Day is Nov 30th

MaThU,
My birthday is November 30th, too...1976! The bicentennial year rocks!

*BUMP*
I'm 20, just turned, actually...may15th!

I've been reading these boards for awhile, but this is my first post. I just had to reply when I read about the 2 November 30th bdays, because my birthday is November 30th too.. I just thought that was kind of weird..

Oh yeah, by the way I'm 18

one thing i would change... lake on camp grounds

never been scared for my life

no mascot at camp, but head family is broken down into four animals for college days.

I am 21

I'm # 400!! woop woop!

Ok, i'll answer some questions.. last time I was scared for my life- on sunday when i went to switch lanes going 80 on the highway a woman in a really big SUV pulled out in my blind spot and I almost hit her, that was wicked scary.

How many of us here are under 18? I sure am, still got 1 year and 3 months of being a minor to go lol

crap, I was only # 360.. oops I guess I can't count

what number am i?

I'm 18! 19 in less than a month (woo hoo! drinking age is 19 here in ontario).

Question. How many people are taking recreation in college? I've been to accept to all the schools I applied for rec. and the one I'm going to is specifically outdoor rec.

Pas moi. I am a political science major and a public service minor with a focus in education. I go to the much revered "University of California." The UC Regents would rather die than allow a major with PRACTICAL application in the world. Yippy.

i'm under 18...i'll be 16 at the end of the summer!

I am 15...the youngest one here.

*bumping because camp season doesn't start for me until June 20th*

So this still counts :-p ;-)

I'm 20 (wow I almost wrote 19) and a Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation major (no outdoor rec at my school ) but hey, I'm looking at Outdoor Rec or Rec for my Master's. Anyone know of schools with a good Master's program?

i'm 20! i'll be 21 after i get home from camp... in september.

legal here in canada... not in CT where i'll be soon. oh well!

i'm 27

Well- Camp doesn't start for me until July 13th... maybe earlier... but who knows. I can not wait to go. I thought I'd help the 500 post thing. New Question:

-What is your favorite dance song at camp!? I think mine would be- "I Want You To Want Me" by Letters to Cleo.

My favorite camp dance song is Cover Girl by the new kids on the block!

American Pie all the way :-)

Mine would have to be "I Will Survive" by Ms. Gloria Gaynor. I have fond fond memories of sweeping the dining hall with the CITs while belting out that little ballad... I love that song!

My fave dance song would have to be "cotton-eyed joe" have no clue why, just alot of fun to do with my campers

hmmm favorite camp dance song......probably YMCA, just because every kid gets involved with it even if their shy about dancing.

heres another question to keep this thread going: What's the coolest activity or program you do at your camp or have seen another camp do? Mine would be when i was younger i went to this camp where for a week you dressed up in clothes from the 1800's and spent each day on a historic settlement behind the ropes where the tourists weren't allowed to go. You cooked food, played games, went to the school in the village. It was amazing

My fave activity at camp is a tie between Christmas in July and Carnival. They are 2 of the many special days we have during the summer but i think i like them the most. There are so many traditions that go along with Christmas in July and Carnival is just so much fun.

obviously for those who have been on here for awhile, i would have to say that my camp's best event is our color war. its the most amazing thing, so traditional, so fun, and so emotional.

The best camp activity would be the closing night campfires. Everyone walks in starting with the oldest campers who walk all the way around the ring and take spots in the back and so on by age until the youngest campers are last seated. This is done in silence- just the sounds of nature. Then we sing our camp songs, give out awards, and do the memory stick program. We finish by singing the camp song everyone with their arms around one another- aww.... I miss it so much! When do I leave for camp again!?

Ok your from canada right? so what camp was this. Have you ever heard of upper canada village. It's like 45 minutes away from me and they have that type of program for summer camp. I'm thinking about appling for the counselor position next year.

i have heard of upper canada village! When we were in ontarion i really wanted to go but there was no time. The camp was at King's Landing in Fredricton. It's a loyalist village. The program was called visiting cousins, we as campers were supposed to the "cousins" visiting the "families" in the houses. It was so much fun, i loved every bit of it. It's a lot smaller than upper canada village, but it's amazing. You definiteley should be a counselor at upper canada village next summer. It's kind of the best of both worlds. It's a real job because your're involved with tourism and a government funded organization, but you are also a camp counselor at the same time!

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That's so cool. I love stuff like that. I'm always visiting upper canada village. I went to fort loiusberg (sp?) out east, I'm not sure what province, I think new brunswick but I'm not sure.

At upper canada the campers dress up and are stationed at different houses doing different things. They also go to school. A couple of my friends did it, I never got the chance. oh well.

just doing my part to keep this going.

btw- i'm 24

sparklelicious- Fort Louisburg is in Nova Scotia, up in good old cape breton. I've been there a few times, it's alot different then most historic villages but still really cool.

I saw that this post was pretty far down and I thought that I would move it up. I think that a new question would help to keep this going but I can't think of one.

Here's one.


Excited yet?

OF COURSE I AM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO GET HERE

I'm 26, married and still going to camp for two weeks.

I have two favorite camp dance songs. One is "Who's in the House" because we have a little dance we do to it that the whole camp knows. Then "40 days" because we all have so much fun getting "stuck in the mud" and then jumping for the chorus.


Best activity.... I teach circus. That means I teach trapeze, mexican cloud swing, and spanish web (all things in the air) it's a blast!

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back to the top...so whats everyones camp colors? my camps is green and gold.

at my new camp i'm pretty sure they are red and gray. at my old camp the colors changed every year. last year it was purple and orange and the year before that it was red and blue.

geeze i cant wait till I go to camp so I have answers for all these questions.. I dont know my camps colors ( i think blue and yellow) or a real favoirte camp song, but right now Im getting psyched for camp with The ataris "In this diary"

btw im 19 (20 in 5 months)- scary how life passes by so fast

My camp's colors are gray and green. Odd numbered cabins are on the gray team, even numbered cabins are on the green team.

I'm 16

I'm 20, have no idea what camp colors are, and I'm really getting excited!

my camp's colors are red and white I think.. and my old camp's colors were yellow and blue.

I's like to share that I've had the camp song "hooka tooka" in my head allllllll day!! Does that happen to anyone else? you get a camp song in your head and find yourself singing it in public?

yeah i get camp songs stuck in my head and then just start singing to myself when i am walking down the street or in the shower, or just about anywhere else.

Oh my friends hate when I start singing camp songs. I do it everywhere, but I always find I do it most often in the supermarket. I'm a weirdo in the supermarket, and I don't know why lol.

I'm happy though because I got my friends to start singing the "Wee wee" song (one of those forbidden songs )

Well, I'm happy to say that I'M AT CAMP!!! It is a 10 month dream come true. The mosquitoes are horid (I'm getting eaten alive as I type!), but I'm loving every minute of it.

As it is 12:30am, I don't think I will be the person who gets #400 because I have to go to bed.

I hope you all have a good summer and I'll check in from time to time.

By the end of the summer...500?

i get it!

ok not yet

ok soon

ok do i get a prize!

helping the cause b/c I am bored...it's 2AM here & for some reason I just can't sleep...ok so to keep this post alive here is a question:

What is the first thing you are going to do when you get to camp??

~Courtney

Ok...to answer my own question...

I am going to go run into the lake and do a lap...no not really. I think I will be boring and just go straight to my cabin (i am a first year so i really don't know what else to say). If there is anything better than being a nerd & heading straight to a bunk let me know by all means

~Courtney

I'll be heading to my cabin and claiming my bunk. I live in a cabin with all the other JC's, and I really want a bottom bunk! I'll be arriving fairly early- like 11:00 when we're supposed to be there by 1 lol! Then I'll be unpacking and setting up my area! I can not wait to get there. I was there for the past 2 days for staff orientation, wow- what a blast! I learned how to do all the activities, it was so much fun! Camp starts this Sunday- I wish I was going to be there! But sad thing- only 30 girls will be campers the first week, we normally have at least 150!!

I will be getting all my stuff out and bringing it to my cabin and setting up my area. Then i'll probably just chill out and talk to my co-counselor, whoever that may be, and wait for the dinner bell to ring at 5pm. I will probably get up there around 3pm so i have time to unpack and stuff before dinner at 5pm.

i'll be going to my cabin throwing my stuff wherever and then going to find where everyone is. Because of my graduation i have to go up a day late. i'm really scared about that because everyone will be there the day before and will all know each other and i'll have to try and fit in. Has anyone else had expierience with being new and having to come up a day late?

ill unpack then find people

I will find everyone and then take my stuff to the unit we will be using for the week, we stay together as a staff for the first week, sometimes just half the week.

the first thing I do when I get to camp... hug people I haven't seen since the summer before! Than I throw my stuff in the cabin.

new question to keep the post going. i thought of this from the backpack post. Imagine that you are flying to camp on a plane which says that you only have room for one item. not a bag of items, just one thing. You have the colthes you are wearing and that's it. What would that one thing be that you would bring? Remember it must be one item and the airplane doesn't have alot of room so it can't be too big. Mine would be a camera that i had taken pictures of people at home with that were still on the flim. That way i could develpo the pictures when i got there and still have a camera to caputure all the new memories. I couldn't think of anything else that i wouldn't be able to find when i got to camp or that really mattered

Seeing as you can find most things once you get to camp some time or another... I would have to say my camp journal. It's a journal I just write in during the summers while I'm at camp. I reread it, and it reminds me how much I've changed as a person throughout my camping experience. I don't think I could survive without my journal. It gives me time to myself, to vent and just be me- and to relieve my frusterations- without getting mad at anyone. I can't wait to go to camp now!

I would have to say my wallet, because I'm gonna have to buy a lot of things when I get there....

i'm 21, i'm a co-director for a ymca teen camp, and one of my counselor's favorite words is poop. just hearing it gets him laughing for the longest time!

lol loislane exactly what i was going to say!!!

Just trying to keep this thing going.

Who's left here on this board? I still have 9 days before camp starts. What is everyone doing till camp starts.

I'm in school till tues. than I have exams to the next mon. Going to wonderland on sat. sun is my b-day, mon is my last exam, than camp!

My last day at my job on campus is Tuesday. I leave on Friday...so for those 2 days in between I will just relax. Probably hang out at my bf's pool. On Thursday I have to have a cavity(sp?) filled...it's my first one
I just can't wait for Friday to come...soooo excited!!

~Courtney

6 days left, not counting the rest of today.

26 days not counting the rest of today. I'll be around the boards until July 8th. I arrive at camp on July 13th. Until I leave I've got to finish the Scarlet Letter, Read Harry Potter V, and read Up From Slavery- and probably finish the second sisterhood of the traveling pants tomorrow or Tuesday. I need to write an essay on The Scarlet Letter and do a packet of questions. Not to mention get about 20 hours worth of driving in. I'm going to be BUSY! And my couzin is getting married the Saturday before I leave... and her shower is on the wednesday before then- so I'll be out of town for all of that. I love the summer- lol, even if I've got tons to do! I can't forget running 3-5 miles every day!

I am still here until wednesday(3 more days, not counting today). I am packing, making sure i have everything i need, i have to register for fall classes before i go, and just relaxing when i can. I cant wait to leave!!

I leave a week from Monday to go stay the night at my grandparents and then fly out really early Tuesday morning. (My grandparents live a lot closer to the airport than we do.) Between now and then, I need to finish marking clothes, pack, and go out and get what I need. I'm waiting until next weekend for the supply trip so I can pick up my copy of Harry Potter! Also, I'm helping with some room painting and stuff like that, so I at least have some to do.

I'm not going anywhere until the beginning of August, so I'll help keep this going

this week I have 6 finals to take, and then when school gets out (the 23rd) I'm going to go work for my friends dad for a couple weeks, then look at colleges and such. I can't wait until I get to spend my 2 weeks at camp in august I miss iiiiiittttt!!

HEYHEYHEY, we alre4ady have a thread goin' for camp count down, c'mon now peeps!!! Here, I have a riddle for y'all... (course, there's a thread for riddles, too, but that's not the point):

A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN
This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word. What is it? _______gry?

lol, have fun guys... and just for the record, I dont' know the answer, tho i bet if i thought about it i could figure it out...

haha i definitely can't think about the riddle right now- but i'll be around until next thursday, camp starts next friday. i leave home to spend a week with my family this friday though, i'm so excited!

Alrighty- so I solved the riddle. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER!

The third word is language. The statement says there are 3 words in The English Language. The third word is Language which we use every day. The first word is the and the second word is English.

And, there are 5 words that end in gry"
Angry
Hungry
Puggry
mawgry
aggry

Use that riddle on your campers and they'll be thinking about it FOREVER! haha! :-D Good riddle though, it took me a while to figure it out... and then I had to know the other gry words once I did .

The wording on that version had me totally confused...to clear some people up, here's the version I've heard...
"Think of words ending in 'gry'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."

I used the version volleygrl19 had mentioned because the wording had confused me too. I guess I should have mentioned that- lol! Anyways- it's still a pretty tricky riddle.

That makes more sense... I heard it the way I typed it, but I like your way better.

hey i'm leaving on july 19. hey guys, or anyone else who is stil here. okay i 'm leaving for camp on july 19-29, then comming back home and going to L.A. on July31-August 8, going back home and going to camp again on August 9-23. Should i leave my luggage at camp then go home and pack another bag to L.A. instead? or should i just bring the bag with me the entire time.

I'd leave the luggage at camp. It just seems to me you probably have more stuff for camp in your luggage than is worth dragging to LA with you. I know that I would.

Not a single response since June 17th? I thought we were shooting for 1,000 here!

Golyek is back on the board.

I'm in... wahoo!

and I even have a question for you all to answer...


why?

hey camp kids-
so, i was just re-reading the old posts to this "topic", and i was curious as to what the whole "BUMP" thing is about... can anybody clue me in?

lol, BUMP is when somebody doesn't want a topic to die... so they bump it back to the top of the boards by posting on it. however, is they don't ahve anything to say... they just say BUMP. LOl...

Maybe we should try to keep this thing going till next camp season...So i'll start w/ a question. Has anyone ever heard of the milk song? Maybe it is just a weird,annoying thing that my camp does.

I haven't heard the song but I am all for keeping this thing going!

I havent ever heard of the milk song, how does it go?? I also think we should keep this going until next summer.

I knew it. My camp is just crazy and has crazy songs that are annoying. I am glad that i am not the only one who wants to keep this thing going.

New question: What do you think is the one aspect of your personality that fits the sterotype of a camp counselor/ camp person?

Wait a second! You can't switch topics until you tells us the milk song! I think we all have some crazy annoying songs, but that is part of what makes camp awesome!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by camper4ever:
[B]I knew it. My camp is just crazy and has crazy songs that are annoying. I am glad that i am not the only one who wants to keep this thing going.

Does the milk song sort of spell out the word milk? Like:
Give me a little m, little m;
give me a big M, big M;
Give me a little i; little i
etc...
Then there is some sort of chorus

If so - I have heard it and some of my friends have sung it to me (I'm not sure where they worked, but they sang it to me over and over).

the one aspect that makes me a camp person, hmmm thats tough maybe the fact that i am crazy, or a big kid, or just that i love having that positive impact with kids. I think there's no way to pick just one aspect of my personality that makes me love camp because every part of me loves it and i find just doing your best and working hard makes you a good counselor. I am so happy at the end of a session when the kids give you that smile and say see you next year, it makes it all worth while, the magic of camp

One aspect of my personality that makes me a camp person would have to be that i'm kid-friendly! Kids always seem to love how crazy and goofy i can be and i kind of like that about myself too. I have to let that side out every now and then cause if i didn't, i would explode. There's so much more that makes me a camp person but if i had to pick just one, that would be it.

Yup jj, i think we are talking about the same one. Maybe later i'll post all of the song but i don't feel that well right now, so i am going to hold off on that.

I will be 37 next July! Another camp B-Day

I'm 26, but just a big kid (around 300lbs)!

I think what makes me a camp person is that I'm super enthusiastic and get really excited about whatever is going on. Takes the piss out of my non-camp friends, though...

My birthday is is..... 26 days

I will be 25...

wahoo.

bump!

Turtlez, your post on the 'physical punishment' thread reminded me of this. Longest thread in the world!

Are we addicted here? I believe this makes 448 replies.

It would take days to read this whole post. I don't think I have that much time.

I should be 42 but I was sick twice on my birthday so those don't count - call it 40.

Today March 10th is my b-day and I am 19 years old. Every one wish me a happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My hobbies when not at camp so I don't go crazy: I love dance. Even thought I work at a GS day camp in the summer I just don't have the energy to take dance classes in the evenings. Sept-June I take tap,ballet/pointe, clog with the 4-H. I also like graphic arts do the church newsletter. I took quite a few pictures of camp last summer near the end when I got digital, this summer it is going to be part of my job!!! Can't wait!!!!!! For now just pray that I get through remedial math course I am taking this semester.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

How many replies do you think we can get up to by the start of camping season?

Happy 19th birthday!!!! (theres one more post)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

happy birthday as well....and we could break a thousand pretty easy if we tried

This board is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give me some tips on telling other staff about it???

the one aspect that makes me a camp person, is that I am all ways promoting the GS day camp where I work. Next mission after spring break see if I can reserve a table in commons at the community college I go to to put up display about camp jobs. Hopfully they will not charge.

This is the thread that has no end...

What is your age? This was one of the first posts. This is about 2 years later from the first post. So do a re check of ages?

I'm 21 years old!

As long as we are going to try to keep this going let's add a question. What is your favorite activity to do at camp?!

My favorite activity is a toss up between teaching golf and having bunk time with my girls.

~Courtney

My favorite activity is bunk/bonding time

I love to swim in the lake. When I was younger I loved capture the flag. I would kiil myself if I tryed to play that game now :rolleyes:

My favorite camp activity is disc golf. I love it and because I started it at the camp I work at I get to play it 4-5 hours a day!

Good call on the disc golf man. We are putting a permenent course in at our camp this summer...along with one that changes each summer...its gonna rock.

I love all evening programs that involve running around- specifically Capture the Flag. Our camp has gotten really into it the past few years- it's just really fun. It's not unusual to see a counselor leading a pack of 20 campers on a "raid" to the other side- only to all have to go to jail... it's times like those that really make the night great....

Going to jail in our games is a really fun activity where everyone sings songs, dances, yells funny things, do gymnastic flips, heck, we've even had counselors sumo-wrestle and compete in "ice-skating" contests!

hmmm favorite activity...that would be either just chilling in the bunk (which we hardly ever actually get to do, except at night) tennis, and just about any evening activity and special event day, including color war.

How long are you at your can during the summer? What is your job going to be this summer?

i'll be at camp 8 weeks (1 week of orientation, 7 weeks of camp) and i'm a counselor w/a bunk of 5th or 6th graders (hasn't been decided yet) and i work on the tennis courts!

I'll be at camp for 10 weeks this summer. 1 for work-week, 1 for orientation and 8 of just camp!! And I will be CIT Director this summer!

I'm 21 years old(22 in April). My fave activity at camp is teaching arts and crafts. I also love the staff play, it's jut so much fun to be a part of I will be at camp for 9 weeks, 1 week of staff training and 8 weeks of campers(4 sessions, 2 weeks each session). I teach arts and crafts and am a cabin counselor for juniors(age 6-10) but im not sure which cabin of juniors i'll have yet.

I'm 22 for this summer and will be the Assistant program director for boys camp this summer. The rest of the time will be spent in the kitchen or painting or many other whatnots for a total of 14 weeks.

I'll be at camp for 9 or 10 weeks. One week of training and then 8 or 9 weeks of the acutal summer.

I'm most likely going to be working with the 3rd and 4th graders- which I'm really excited about. I'm also going to work the ropes course some...

I will be 20 later this month, and i get to spend 10 wonderfull weeks at camp as a Program Specialist / Lifeguard.

I won't be sleeping in the units... but hopefully i will get to work with every unit at some point. Either running a program or when guarding.

you can't triple stamp a double stamp!

I'm 20. I love to play soccer and paint, draw, etc.

Favorite words: whipper-snapper, 'ello

How about favorite movie lines?

"mine, mine mine, mine, mine mine, mine, mine,mine...." -Finding Nemo

"Having a Boo Radley moment, are we?" Said by Joon in Benny & Joon

"FIRE! Look what I have created!!!!" Said by Tom Hanks in Cast Away
I like this one because that is how I feel when trying to start a fire at camp, on an overnight, in the rain, with damp wood.

No way, the Nemo line is, "The sea monkey has my money."

Well... I haven't been around much for the past week or so... good to see this post has a little life left in it. I'm 25, just moved back in with the folks in CT (I was in St. Louis). It's a very very long story, but basically I was left in a bad position financially from an ex, and am hoping to get back on my feet again here.
I was working at the St. Louis Science Center, doing outreach programs and camp programs, but hopefully soon I'll start my new job, developing an outreach program for K-5 through the Acad. of Math and Science in Hartford, CT. I also need a second job. Not sure what yet though...

I am still recovering from the long drive from St. Louis to CT, by way of VA. But I am here now... still missing camp

BUMP...Because I am bored and missing camp especially the people ...plus I like this topic...

Just because I feel like asking a random question, what is your favorite number (I hope this hasn't been asked)?....Mine is 21...

I am at camp for 8 weeks (1 for orientation and 7 for camp). I am a Senior Girls (15 year olds) counselor & I am the Golf Instructor!

And my favorite number is 7!!

To add to the randomness of questions...what is your favorite color!?
Mine is pink!

~Courtney

Give my favorite number back...the nerve of some people..stealing my favorite number like that

my favorite numbers are 4 and 21. My favorite color is blue.

Favorite # 21, cause ill be 21 tomorrow!!! and 12 it my softball number

favorite number?? 20.

Favorite color? That's a tough one. I really like a good forest green, but when it comes down to it, I like more shades of blue.

I have a whole set of random questions that I ask everyone... Some of my favorites...
1. Do you wear socks to bed?
2. Did you ever french-roll your jeans? Or wear 2 pairs of socks, with the inner pair folded over the outer pair?
3. If you could re-live one period of your life, what would it be?
4. What's your favorite memory from camp? (usually involving me, but I think camp is a better fit for here!)
5. Let's say you sent someone 6 roses, but when they called to thank you, they also asked why they received 7. What is your response?

1. NO

2. NO

3. My first summer at camp because it taught me a lot about myself.

4. So many to chose from! My first summer at camp, some of the moments just chillin in the cabin w/ my counselor, any opening day of camp, when I spent a weekend at camp during the summer (no other campers were there), My "date" to a dance with the cutest guy counselor, nights in the bunk when you laugh until you can't breathe, having the cutest little girl look up to me and follow me everywhere during the week she was there this summer, another camper asking me if I was a counselor cause I looked/ acted like a good one!..awww.. I have soo many more...

5. I will have to think about that

Favorite colors~ Blue, some greens, silver

1.)no
2.)no
3.)age 5 because life was so carefree and simple
4.)seeing the homesick camper happy and hearing them say they want to come back to camp next year, having campers want you as their counselor, everything about camp is great, it's so hard to pick one memory
5.there's an extra one for good luck :p

1. Do you wear socks to bed?
2. Did you ever french-roll your jeans? Or wear 2 pairs of socks, with the inner pair folded over the outer pair?
3. If you could re-live one period of your life, what would it be?
4. What's your favorite memory from camp? (usually involving me, but I think camp is a better fit for here!)
5. Let's say you sent someone 6 roses, but when they called to thank you, they also asked why they received 7. What is your response?

answers:
1. yes
2. no
3. my last summer as a camper in camp, i wish i could do it all over again.
4. o wow too many. maybe reading my name as camper chief on a color war paper? or hanging out w/everyone? or waking up in the middle of the night during a HUGE storm when everyone else wakes up too and laughing and all squeezing onto 1 bed...too many.
5. definitely would say the extra was for good luck.

favorite number?? 7

Favorite color? violet
I have a whole set of random questions that I ask everyone... Some of my favorites...
1. Do you wear socks to bed? yes, but I always kick them off right before I fall asleep
2. Did you ever french-roll your jeans? Or wear 2 pairs of socks, with the inner pair folded over the outer pair? not usually
3. If you could re-live one period of your life, what would it be? the summer I was 13
4. What's your favorite memory from camp? There are way too many... I think my favorite was sitting on a picnic bench talking to my counselor and looking at stars
5. Let's say you sent someone 6 roses, but when they called to thank you, they also asked why they received 7. What is your response?
One for each day of the week I think of the person! (Obviously a special person, since I'm sending them roses)

I'll be at camp for 9 or 10 weeks this summer.
9 if I dont stay on camp for wrangler week, 10 if i do.
I'll be a wrangler teaching kids western riding.
I'm very almost 20 (just a few more days)
my favorite number is 4
i cant remember any of the other questions in this thread, but i felt the need to chime in.

Well, since Hayfever didn't end with a new question for the next poster I'll make up one...... hmm lets see........

I don't know if this was asked before but:

Which would you/do you prefer:
Night patrol (patroling a area in camp) or Cabin duty( having to stay in your cabin and your co can leave. )

Oooh...that's a tough call because I actually like both. I think I would choose cabin duty...it's always nice to be FORCED to relax, read a book, take a nap, etc... Although, it's also nice to get outside at night in the fresh summer air. Good question.

I think I will stick with cabin duty though.

Cabin duty, definately. As much as I enjoy night watch, I sometimes need to be forced to chill and catch up on my "quiet time" activites.

My favorite is night watch, which we call night patrol at my camp. I have no idea why but I love night patrol. I held the record last summer for the most night patrols because I would do it for other people whne they were going on a night out or day off. I had it 12 times last summer and with every head staff member at least once. I just love it

I'd pick cabin duty. except I'm often at my program area until 10 at night making sure everything is dealt with before we go down the hill, then need to take a shower before bed. so I dont really get to my unit to stay for the night until almost 11. by that point i'm all about quiet time

ooh and i forgot a new question... hmmm whats the "uniform" at your camp?

mine is moslty tshirt shorts and closed toe and heel shoes with socks that cover your ankles. we started wearing mens a-shirts (slang: wife beaters) instead of t shirts because they're inexpensive and can be decorated for whatever is happening at camp.

1. NO

1.) No, I take them off right when I climb in.
2.) Yes, duh I was a child of the 80's
3.) Well since I am about to graduate from College in June I would say I would like to start the college experience again .... ( well the lifestyle part... not so much the school part!)
4.) To many to mention but probably the huge thunder storm that went all day and my cabin and co's stayed inside all day in our PJS with our sleeping bags on the floor just talking, laughing, telling stories, it was the day when our camp really bonded and came together as a group.
5.) I would say " Well your worth more than 1/2 a dozen, I wanted to show you that you were worth 7/12 of a dozen. "

My favorite colors are Blue, Green, and Pale Yellow.

My question is what is your favorite team mascot, (College of Professional)?
My first one is kind of obvious for me and where I live THE DUCKS!!!!, and my other fav is the Dolphins.
Because both animals are awsome and can be way more vicious than most would first assume.

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Welcome back

My fave mascot is the Buccaneer for the Tampa Bay Bucs because that is my fave team ever

gee whiz!!!! the most posts!!!! well I have four cats!!!! I was born in 1948 ------yes guys and gals!! 1948!!!!!! -- the oldest camp facilities person here????? -- let's see---hmmmmm---- what else to say!! Oh yes! anyone here ever hear of Franklin McCormack who EMC'd WGN (Chicago)music in the 60's and 70's??? ( he was great at reciting the words to the old songs of the 40's ) OF COURSE NOT you never heard of him!!! YOU WEREN'T EVEN A GLEAM IN YOUR PARENTS EYES!!!! How about "what is the best method to clean the bathrooms???? "(kybo's if you are YMCA --LOL)---

wdee,
I (the one who humbly started this topic like...a year ago...sheesh! ) noticed two things of cool coincidence about your last post. Ironically, my last name is McCormack (which you just mentioned) and I noticed in your profile that you are located in Northwest Wisconsin...and the camp I work at is located in Northwest Wisconsin. Coincidence? I think not!

Too cool.

im 20 i'll be 21 in 38 days

and my favorite mascot is the buccaneer.. go tampa bay

my birthday is in three days!!!

whats your absolute most favorite camp memory? mine is my last night as a camper, it was so bittersweet.

Go Bucs! Although, last season was a disgrace.
My other favorite is the NY Giants cause I'm from New York. As for college teams, FSU all the way!

yeah I know last season was not the best for the Bucs but I still love my team. I also love FSU for a college team. I am sad that the Bucs got rid of Warren Sapp though. He was my fave player on the Bucs. Oh well, at least they still have Joe Jurevicious

I agree Melon! Plus, they had a lot of injures and they would have had a better seasom if they hadn't. I am kind of glad that Keyshawn Johnson is gone though.

Wow, your birthday is really close to mine. I'll be 21 in 34 days!

My birthday is 20 days from today!

If you had to pick one thing to change about your camp, what would it be?

Favorite nonsense word?

Soda or pop?

yeah I don't miss Keyshawn Johnson at all. He didn't want to be on the Bucs in the first place and to think they paid him for sitting on his butt those last few games. Must be nice to be paid to do nothing :rolleyes:

My birthday is saturday(April 3), i'll be 22.

The one thing I would change about my camp, some of the food, not all of it but the bad stuff.

Soda all the way

fave nonsense word nanananabooboo,don't know why just makes me smile every time :p

oh and fave camp memory, awards night in the chapel when we are all linking arms and singing the slow, sad songs at the end of the summer, such a beautiful scene, bittersweet end of the summer.

- I'd put in a climbing wall and high ropes course... Granted, the camp would need money first, but if we are talking "in a perfect world..."

- Blarg. It means a lot of things, and is part of the "secret" language my best bud from camp and I use. He and I apparently use a lot of nonsense words or partial phrases that only we can understand... which is why we don't get why no one understands our conversations.

- Soda.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by piXie:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by camper4ever:
[qb] My birthday is 20 days from today!

If you had to pick one thing to change about your camp, what would it be?

Favorite nonsense word?

Soda or pop?

1. I would definitely make the staff lounge nicer. It isn't the greatest, I would get a faster connection for the computers, and for sure new furniture!

2. My favorite nonsense word is Sboob! It's really a long story...but it is a great word. We even named my cabin the Sboobs this summer & our bunk plaque is all cute with Sboob stuff!

3. Definitely POP!

Just had to add a random note.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME :p
Had to wish myself a Happy 22nd birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

thanks

My turn... ***sings loundly*** Happy birthday to meee happy birthday to meee happy birthday dear hayfever.... happy birthday to meee.

its my birthday today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

Happy B-day!!!!!!

Might as well hop on the bandwagon!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Have a great day!! Live it up!


~Courtney

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Yoda:
[QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by camper4ever:
[qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by DeeDee:
[qb]

I have a whole set of random questions that I ask everyone... Some of my favorites...
1. Yes But they never stay on till morning
2. umm.... No
3. I'd like to be a camper again.... but I love being a counselor
4. You know this is going to be my 12th summer at camp.. so I can't pick a FAVORITE moment
5. hmm...... I guess they got lucky?

My 300th post!!!!

Hmmmmmmmm random thoughts........

This ravioli is GREAT!!!
Not too long before camp starts!!!
Got a new xanga page...you should check it out!
www.xanga.com/mandie515

Hockey game tonight!!!!!!!
Got a date for formal!!!!!!!
Um.......
That's it for now ;-)
..::Boo::..

So, the car got stolen over 2 weeks ago, and the police just recovered it. However, we have to pay 166 dollars to get it out of impound now, which is money we don't have. By the time we have it, the impound cost will be more than what the car is worth! Crazed.

I took my car to get an estimate today (my ex got in 2 accidents in 1 day)... 2 accidents means 2 claims... 2 claims means 2 deductibles... my deductible is $500. Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

The good news is that UCONN Men and Women are both National Champs... first time a school has won both titles in the same year thankyouverymuch! Go Huskies!!!!!!

the board is so quiet :-(

Superman loves chicken! Long Live The Queen!

so let's play the "or" game... ya know... where someone says coke or pepsi, and then the other person says coke... and then adds one... so they say "sneakers or sandals" and then someone answers that and puts another one up.

I'll start.

moonroof or sunroof?

sunroof...

easy one:
camp or school?

I am definitely changing your subject so sorry! So I was grounded for less than a week and there are so many new topics and people everywhere. Crazy stuff. I'm going down to check out Warren Wilson College in North Carolina this week and I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it. I think I asked about it eatlier too when I mentioned how I am looking in Sterling College in VT and Unity College and ME but I dont know. I'm going on the Blue Ridge Parkway for a while too and it made me think of camper! hahaha That could be a sign I need a life. Not sure though.

camp or school?! camp. obviously.

matches or the old fashioned way?

define the old fashioned way... until then... since theres lots of choices within the possibilities.. i'd go with hrm... magic water... lol... also known as kerosene.

coed or single sex camp?

coed

friends or survivor?

friends no doubt

hrm....

opening or closing campfire?

hahaha i meant rubbing sticks together!

but i love my magic water... or those fuel blocks that burn really hot and can get even wet wood lit...

hayfever's question:

definitely opening night, i just feel on top of the world on the first night of camp. and carpenterant thats really funny, lol my camp was named for the blue ridge mountains b/c the founder of the camp had been there and thought they were beautiful, but my camp is actually nowhere near there! lol!

soda or water?

water

cookies or cake?

cake!

dogs or cats?

ahh used to be dogs without hesitation, but now I have a kitten and love both, but if I had to choose it would be dogs.


Beach or Mountians?

Both, if I had to choose I'd say beach

Ocean or pool

ocean! Yay salt water!

Beatles or Rolling Stones?

the rolling stones...

phish or the dead?

Neither really...but if I had to choose one I guess I would go with the Dead.

Who would win in a fight? A Rhino vs. Hippo?

a hippo

gimp or hemp?

hemp

hamburgers or hotdogs at a cookout?

hotdogs!

sunscreen or nothing

nothing

sneakers or flip-flops

camp is coming
camp is coming
camp is coming
camp is coming
camp is coming
camp is coming

The horsies came yesterday
The horsies came yesterday
Camp is closer
Camp is closer

YAYYYYYYY PONIES!!!!!!!

and we watched "But I'm A Cheerleader"... which definitely helps remind me of camp

sneakers
ummm, e-mail or letters?

Letters!
"Linger" or "On the Loose"?

LETTERS!!!!

lake or barn?

It's all about the lake...in my opinion camp just isn't camp without a lake. There's something magical about it.

On the Loose!

shower or sleep on break?

sleep..

day camp or res camp?

res camp duh!!!

late night excapes or abiding by the rules

late night escapes

staff bonding... or pre camp training?

Staff bonding!

Canoeing or Kayaking?

562

Canoeing!

Run rise or sun set?

Sun Rise

Live with Kids or live with staff?

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!

happybirthday!!!!

happy birthday

live with staff

tan by the pool or ride horses though the hills

happy b-day, ride horses through the hills, even though ive never ridden before.
peanut butter or jelly?

Peanut butter!

Tents or cabins?

CABINS!!!!

Grilled Cheese or Peanut Butter and Jelly?

grilled cheese..

cold or hot lunches?

27 during the summer.

21 will be 22 June 23 Yeah camp b-days!!! :p

we sometimes make up camp birthdays for staff people to give us something to be excited about when the days are getting long

21 on Aug 1- the day campers arrive- so NO ME TIME:(

We had a camper who always had her birthday on the 3rd day of camp. We felt bad for her, cause she didn't get birthday cards or anything and always threw her a big party. we didn't catch on that it wasn't actually her birthday until she attended a different session one year and told us her birthday was on the third day of camp! no one had bothered to question her and look at her file until then. Her birthday was really in March!

hot lunches

smores or banana boats??

smores

swimming or canoeing?

Banana Boats for definite

Yech...banana boats are NASTY!!! Did you notice that bananas have little buttholes? Bananas disgust me because of that little hole they have at their base.

Would you stop going to camp forever if someone offered you 1 million dollars to do so???

I would have to go with smores, but I also really like brown bears (dough boys).

Though the million dollars is temping... I wouldn't take it, if I could go to camp forever.

Oh, and I turn 21 the first day campers come.

- Teenster

YAY! I get to participate. . .

19 until January

Here's my question:

Which would you rather have to fend off?

Geese or Swans?

(both of which happen to be shear evil at our camp. . . )

~me.

I don't think we have geese or swans at my camp, but I would much rather fend off geese. Not really sure why, maybe it was because I ran into some "killer" swans in Stratford, England once...

My some what silly question, would you rather have a storm or really intense heat at camp. I know it is weird... but I would rather have a storm.

-Teenster

That would depend on where I am. New Hampshire: storm. Nebraska: Heat, because I hate tornados.

Um, let me see, sorry if this is repeat.
Younger campers or older campers?

I think I would rather have heat and then swim to cool off. There isn't as much to do in a storm. Anyways I live in the extreme heat here in California so I guess that's why I would choose that, it's what I am already use to! It gets to about 110F sometimes a little hotter here where I live. ( I hope the mountains I will be in will be a little cooler :crosses fingers:

younger campers, i love my little ones

whats worse?
night patrol or lost camper drills(we call the m yellow shirt drills)

i would have to say the yellow shirt drills are worse because they scare all of the counselors to death, we sometimes don't know if a camper may actually be missing in the water.

Haha- I don't know what night patrol is. But I'm gonna go with lost camper drills. I was the first one at the lake (besides the water front specialist) after having sprinted quite a distance and had to do A LOT of diving. I don't like searching for bodies, much less in freezing cold water where you can't see!

One weekers or two weekers (if you go to a one week/two week camp)?

Age: 32, no camp birthday for me

Hobbies: Reading, writing, singing & acting

Fav Movies: Shawshank Redemption & Meet The Parents

Kill, Marry, Shag...hmm
Terrorists, Brad Pitt, Ashton Kutcher

Random Word: Kitty!

just because i'm a little bit evil...

*BUMP!!!!!!!*

I TURNED 2O THIS WEEKEND

...just cuz I haven't been part of this fun...

Blackhawk or Silent Rock?

They DO both start with B ya know...

no they don't!!! they DO rhyme though, contrary to popular thought... or are you the only one that thinks that? LOL!

besides, silent rock is the evil campsite from haites! "kerri to sammy, our door is broken! can we get a hammer?"

Yet somehow, that remains one of my fondest(?) camp memories!

camp memories! Looking throught all the pictures I got prints made of and putting togehter scrapbook for the camp I work at in the summer. Wow the memories of the summer are starting to come back!

i am 23. (April 5, 1981) yay!

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I'm not really sure at what this topic is going for... but, I want to wish all of the American posters out there a happy Thanksgiving!!! I'm now home from school for a week, and I'm loving every second of it!

- Teenster

has anyone started a countdown to smmer 2005 yet? I've had mine going pretty much since the summer ended. I've only got 209 more days to go!!!! How about the rest of you, is anyone as dorky as me and has a countdown going already :p :p

I have my countdown on my computer at school (I'm at home, and using my brother's computer... don't tell him!) but I think it is about 6 months or some where around that. I'll post it when I get back to school after Thanksgiving break.

- Teenster

217 days, 23 hours, and 19 minutes. well until the campers arrive. i think i get there 10 days earlier

Where's the snow? It's 40 here in Maine and I want snow! It's supposed to be 40 into December !

The snow is stuck in ARIZONA!! YAY!! Our local ski resort is opening on Friday!!

I'm not really a fan of the snow, but be do get it here in Illinois... and it is suposed to snow tomorrow...

- Teenster

Yeah we get plenty of snow in Indiana...first snowfall is happening early tomorrow morning according to the weather channel. Fingers crossed b/c I love snow!!

Which is better?

Moonlight swim in a pool or in a lake?

I say Lake- 4 sure!

All the lights on the houses around the lake is beautiful.

moonlight in a lake, for sure!!! pools are cool to swim in at night, but swimming in a lake in the middle of night is just so peaceful. you feel part of nature, with no seperation between the lake and the sky.

I agree moonlight swim in the lake. It's so beautiful out there and you see the moon reflected on the lake and nature is completely around you.

Lake is much better.

You guys want snow pfft come to Canada, it was snowing with about 1 foot of snow on the ground on my first day of classes which was the begining of September then it all melted but snowed lots again in october then it all melted but it snowed a bit like 3 days ago but right now there is only like a light frost on the ground.

Speaking of the Lake....

September 29th, 2004 my wife and I had a baby boy and we actually named him Lake.

All our camp friends are like..."Cool name!"...non camp friends are like "Blake?"...no it's Lake!

My wife and I like the reference to water and it reminds us of camp. We both love the Lake and now we have our own little boy named Lake.

NIGHT swimming in the lake for sure!! Sometimes i freak myself out though and when I think of that movie "What lies beneath"!!!

What is Lake's middle name?

- Teenster

Congrats Golyek is he your first? I have a two year old and a 3 month old. I have never learned as much in my life as I have as a father.

Congratulations Golyek. I love the name, very much a camp name.

that is a GREAT NAME!!!! I want name that is from camp........I think it would be so cool to grow up with camp popel for your parents, I mean I love my parents but camp people are so cool....make sense????


It's all about lake swimming! I love lakes.....so has anyone ever gotton caught swimming in the lake at night? It's against our safety rules, which make sense.......but I used to do it now and then and I know the tradition carries on

campismylife...my mom IS a camp person and it is definitely cool. i was born during the summer, and it was announced during breakfast in the mess hall at camp that day that i was born and i was a girl, and cheers broke out!

I see that after almost 2 years, this thread is still hanging around...amazing eh?

I can remember when this was started...hehe

I wonder when and if this "topic" will ever reach 1000 replies? It's past the 200 awhile ago.


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haha


hohum


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I would have to pick night swim in a pool. As a lifeguard I have seen too many snakes in the lake to go swim there at night. Atleast in a pool I can see what's around me.

Back to the word association game....have you realized almost anything said gets related back to food???

My random word.... brick

I would have to vote for the pool, only because I have never been in the lake at night. That's something I should try this summer.

...of cheese.

showing my age here

brick....
house lol

It would be really hard for me to swim in my camp's lake at night because it'd be FREEZING, being a mountain lake and all, but it might be fun. I'd have to do some heavy swimming to get warm enough before I could enjoy it. :p

she's mighty mighty... lettin' it all hang out...


(it's okay, sarah... you're not the only one!)

Okay, I know its been a while... but I was sad to have to search for this topic!!!

I still don't have much access to a computer, but soon... soon, crossing my fingers, I will!

Till then... keep up the debates/discussions!

I would have to go with lake...mainly because there in no chlorine in lakes...
...And about snow, I love it! Although somedays I hate living in Canada with it's stupid 4 seasons, sometimes I love it. I skipped school today and went boarding and skiing for the day.

night swims in the pool... because I wouldn't swim in our lake during the day...

and with house... rising sun

how many boxes of camp memory crap do you all have in storage......

oh jebus... its not all in storage... but i'm certain my mother would say i have wayyyy too much camp stuff...

but most of the stuff that is "memories" arent stored, so i can see them and they can make me happy

Ha, we get shirts for every little thing so I have at least 20 camp t-shirts! My mom is always trying to take them from me. She just doesn't understand.

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I can't get my three year old to go to sleep for his nap. So I'm ignoring him. He tends tire out when I do that. Just thought I'd share.

haha sara yeah we get shirts for everything also, if it's not a shirt it's sweatpants or a sweatshirt.

The shirt thing reminds me of my college... love my college shirts... well, actually, most things camp remind me of my college, and most things my college remind me of camp!

***Bump!***

Ok, thanks you guys, now i've got "brickhouse" in my head....

to contribute to a very old discussion, i'd rather swim in the pool at night because it's heated and then you know the mist over the water, with the lights off (no bugs)....deer come up to the fence and eat (wildflower meadow around pool)....

:sighs:

My random word? Hmmm, Tic-Tac
~*~Boo~*~

TOE!

from toe... knee chestnut

uh i'd say pool fo sho! i always go in the lake because i want the kids to go in but it's nasty! I mean our lake does close when the sun goes down cause there are not really any lights by the lake. But pool hands down because it's more fun. Also it's a lot safer, it's easier to see everyone and all most people can touch the bottom at least somewhere. If we're talking in terms of a pool party that's much better for campers. But... if I were to sneak out to go skinnydipping with some friends.. lake-it's just so cliche!

I think I thought about this way too much...

Loofa

Sidenote: I've got like 15 or so invites for gmail if anyone wants one :-)

~*~Boo~*~

Do you like black or white? I like white

To continue this game:
Kill: President Bush (I HATE BUSH W. A PASSION)
Marry: Natalie Portman
Shag: Jessica Alba

Kill: Brittany Spears and Christinia A ( cause their virtually the same person anyway)
Marry: Colin Firth
Shag: Colin Ferral

i like the color black best.

from knee chestnut=finger

Now for something completely different.....


...............anyway that's how the cat got out of the bag.

"And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

Couldn't resist....after the "and now for something completely different" :-)

great movie, my favorite part is with the french guys taunting the knights

"I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!"

19...20 a week after camp lets out!

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

.....sorry had to say it.
mashnut
P.S. "I'm a lumberjack...."

Kill: Whomever is responsible for these outragous gas prices

Marry: Julia Stiles

Shag: Angelina Jolie

I can't believe this topic is still rolling...I posted this topic AGES ago. Haven't been on the site for a while...crazy to see this thing still going. Looks like fun, too.

That's right, I'm the last one standing, another one bites the dust