Here goes since we are all starting to get excited about going back to camp and are actually starting to get start dates I though this would be a fun way to share that with people
I have 3 months and 4 weeks until I leave for camp. Yipeeee (jumping the air and clicking heels to gether!)
I have 128 days, 15 hours and 19 minutes, approximately! Go myspace countdowns!! it even tells me the seconds!!
Mines is from my CA ticker (from ticker factory so it isnt worked out into days yet let alone seconds!)
that's still pretty sweet, I kind of like the months and weeks thing. It makes it seem like a less daunting amount of time seperating me from my lovely camp! though with the days I can celebrate when it goes under 100 days!! So let me see then, I have 4 months, 1 week and 1 day!!!!
Haha... how many days left for you?
I think mine is 112 or 113 days.....
Wow. wonderful. 112/113 days thats really cool! Not going to deny I am jealous!
lucky duck! I want to be that close to camp!! but no, our camp decided to start a week later than usual, but it is a good thing. If camp had started when it usually did I would have had to pack for camp when packing for going home after school. I have to move out on a Friday, my cousin graduates from here on the 14th and my family and i would have to drive home that evening so I could get to camp the next day! wow! However, I have a week off before camp so I can relax, chill with friends, pack at leisure. It gives me one less weekat the end of the summer, but that's ok since i had 3 weeks last year!
i think we are actually going a week longer this year, which will be downright exciting. If I don't have a previous engagment the days before, i would go up before camp and stay with camp epople that live near bye, etc!
How many weeks will you be at camp? I have 2 specialty camps, 1 week precamp and 7 regular sessions, so a total of 10 weeks at camp!!!!!!!!!!
It would be nine then (with the extra week). We have one pre-camp week. Six weeks of resident camp. A week at the end that has troop samplers and other sort of camp sessions, etc. It is great.
awesome!!! until last summer we had 8 weeks regular with the possibility of working during the 1 specialty camp, and precamp. But starting last year we have 2 weeks of specialty camps!
That sounds amazing. I would love for my camp to offer my camp. Yet, I do have plans to stay around the camp scene longer and have a great time with friends from camp, and those people that live around camp that unfortunately cannot return this summer.
It is amazing, tohugh i have never done precamp, i have heard that it is amazing!!
ohh i am so jealous of all of you!!
i don't even know if i'm going to camp yet!!!!
well, officially I haven't found out yet, but I still know. And I feel really really bad for you!! I hope you find out soon!!!
so do i!!
thanks!
i hope you find out soon too!
I hope you guys find out very fast. I would dying to find out where I was going to work, etc. So, exciting! Hope you get good news fast.
thanks! I am hoping to find out by Monday, and if I don;t I am going to email or call the CD to see if she just hasn't had time to catch up on everything after her week at the ACA conference or if my references haven't gotten their papers in. If they haven't I want to remind them about it since it has been like 3 weeks since I sent them out and it takes like 5 minutes, and another minute to write their address in the return spot and mail it! Though if they aren't all in, most likely they just got lost on their desk or something!
I have 118 days till I get to camp.
We have 6 1/2 weeks of session plus 3 weekend camps (one during pre-camp) and a week and a half of pre-camp and 3 days of post camp (first year internationals have a whole week of post camp)
Yeah I am lucky, but camp is only 2 months with 2 weeks for precamp... You might remember the CD named Goof Oak that was on here about a month or so ago.... I'm going to be at her new camp!
Cool - there are loads of people from CA going there!
I have no idea how long until I get to go to my camp. I have my final year university exams in May/June but camp starts early June so I really hope all my exams are early so I can go. I don't know if CCUSA or the camp would have a problem with me missing a few days at the beginning if I had to.
I am sure that you will be able to work something out with them!
Yeah.. I'm starting to get to know them on our camp website. I love working with internationals because everyhting just seems to be that much more fun!
Just out of curiosity - how so?
It is cos so much of it is new to them or just because they bring new cultures and traditions with them?
the culture and traditions... but also the fun jokes and hillarity (sp?) of trying to figure out what everyone is talking about. Last summer I listened to one conversation and sisn't understand a single thing because of the different vocab. Also, I haven't traveled at all so everything is new to me.
^^ Yeah, I totally agree. I want to travel to every country an international was from.
Angharad, I wouldn't worry too much. We had two internationals arrive at my camp quite late. One came 10 days late. The other camp around 3 weeks late. The first due to schooling, and the second do to a family emergency I believe. It should not be a problem at all. The frist was new to the camp, so it was a little hard at first. Because, on the way home from teh airport, we were trying to cover an entire 10 days worth of information, etc!
I worked out my camp count down in days yesterday! 116 days! Yeah - it is getting closer every day!
Argh! I have 120 days. 120 days to my Neverland. (I love that idea of calling camp Neverland btw). Because, it truly is Neverland. You can feel like you are 30 outside of camp, but whenever you walk onto the camp grounds, you feel like you are 8 again. True bliss!
107 days for me!!!
btw night owl we're at the same camp! lol its cali here btw. i'm so excited for summer!
Thats really cool that you guys go to the same camp, and know each other!
that is pretty awesome that you know each other! I keep a lookout for people from my camps, but none so far, and I don't think i will find anyone. Who knows though!
I got the idea for the Neverland thing from my CIT director who is 31 years old now! so for her it truly is a Neverland!
126 days and 11 hours! maybe plus a few hours though, I will have to fix my countdown when I know for sure!
no one from my area frequents the board...but one of the posters, goof_oak, was staff at the camp i have applied to back in my camper days.
yeah, I have done a tour of one of Night Owl's camps but other than that I don't even know of anyone else who has a camp in Washington!
No one does mine either. Not all of them are camp geeks. I guess they have more important outside lives...dont know how though! I would recommend you to my camp, but its a travel from Washington.
I might be looking for a camp in a few years, so I might look into it then, but for now I am going to stay at my camp and get my 10-year! Not this summer but the next one!! I don't think I will make 15 years so it might then be time to look into a completely different camp. Maybe an all girls one, with longer sessions to go completely different! I know someone who did her 13 summers and stopped because she knew that she shouldn't or wouldn't be able to come for her 15th summer. So instead of going 14 summers and being 1 summer, just 1 summer, away from that she had to stop after 13.
oh how sad!
if i get hired this summer...i will be working on my 8th year! ahh i feel old-ish!
Are we talking years working at camp or number of years attending camp? Working camp (if u include day camp): 4 years
Attending camp: 10 years.
8 years on staff, or at the camp? because I have only done half a summer on staff. Last year we had someone get their 10 year as a Day Camp Assistant, so he is like 16 years old, so he had to start going to camp in like 1st grade. And someone who is on her 3rd year (or maybe second) on staff is getting her 15 year this summer.
8 years attending camp as a camper/CIT/and hopefully staff!
I think it would probably be at camp.
126 days and 9 hours now!!! hehe
119 and 20 days or something! I think we begin camp on the same day. June 15th by any chance?
no, actually I head up on the 21st, which I am actually glad that it isn't the 15th because I have to be at my cousins graduation on the 14th so then we would have to drive 5 hours back that night (though graduation is in the morning) and I would have to be at camp at like 9 the next morning. I would have to pack for camp while also packing up my dorm room. Normall camp would have started the 15th, but they are mixing it up this summer and going a week later in the summer. It should be awesome!
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone on here that I know face to face. Cali and I will meet in June and I will also meet Goof_Oak. Goof's the CD. I get to camp on the 4th.
That is really cool that you get to talk to each other before camp. That is actually really amazing that your CD is on the board. That must be very nice!
I think I hit 100 days left next week. That's always a big "date" milestone in the countdown!
Lucky you!
I am jealous of those who can work out how many hours they have until they get to camp! I wont know that until I know my flight details!
But I have 116 - I hit my 100 day mark in March sometime! But is fine cos I get to go out to camp a whole week before precamp starts and day earlier than I thought I would be going out!
My camps website has a countdown to the millisecond, ridiculous, nonetheless, I have 122 days. Going back to work at a camp after 7 years off:)
That's cool the your camp's website has a countdown!! I still don't know for sure how many hours it is. I just picked a time that it could be! i won't know for sure until I get the details from my CD! But first I have ot get the call!
125 days!!!!!! And 18 or a few more hours!
Thats really cool that your camp has a countdown. My camp really does not have a wonderful website. It is a simple girl scout website. I could do the actual calculations of how many hours. Yet, it is just actually easier to know the number of days, hours!
Alright, I've got...121 days until camp (120 days until graduation)!
Oh that is really exciting! I missed my graduation cos I was on a road trip across the USA - definately more worth while that sitting in a boring grad ceremony!
I can't wait until June!!!!
Camp is going to be a blast Night Owl!!!!
Is it June 2nd yet?
June 2nd? i wish! I don't go to camp til the 21st!! That is still only a week later than previous years! Although I really wouldn't mind if it was June 2nd wven if I don't quite get to leave for camp! It would still be a lot closer and I would be done with this whole quarter!!
June, come quickly!
3 months and 20 days, I think if I make it into CIT
June 2? Wow, that is early. But, I know other camps that are even earlier. My camp is about two weeks after that. And I am very happy it is. My school doesn't even end till the 9th, and then a well deserved break session is great before leaving.
Bailey, hope you will, too!!!
Oopsies, sorry I can't count! I meant the 8th... I'm really horrible at math.
Oh wait my birthday is in 4 months and 20 days!!
Thats very cool. Happy very early birthday!!! My birthday is in 10 months and 9 days! However, this birthday is one of the big birthdays, so I am so excited!
Thats cool. Do you leave on the 8th? how long is your camp experience going to be?
It's taken me six years to get this degree, so I will be happily sitting in my boring ceremony - I figure I've earned it at this point. (The moral of this story is: Don't change your major when you are a junior!)
Besides, both my parents are coming, and one of my sisters might come, which will be the first time I'll meet her. I'm the only one of my mom's kids that went to college and I'm the first one on my dad's entire side of the family to go, so it's a big deal.
Wow. Yes, I would agree to that. I just found out that I might get to go to camp about 10 days earlier. Quite excited. Very interesting, it is!!!
Yes, you did achieve the right to go to that...haha! Okay, I will make sure not to change it my junior year. That is really cool. I hope that you have a wonderful time. A well deserved celebration.
Our camp website has a countdown as well...but it's for when the campers arrive. We have to arrive I think at least 10 days before them!
we dont have a count down on our GS camp website - I guess that no one has suggested it!
Midknyt, it's really cool that you've accomplished that! Congrats! [well, a little bit early...]
the only countdown i have right now are:
CIT Reunion: 12 days! [then an interview can be scheduled!]
Arkansas Backpacking: 26 days!
Wow, you have tons of things coming up.
Here are my countdowns...
Camp: 117 days
End of School: 110 days
Trip to Italy: 51 days
123 days til camp!!!!!! woot woot!! or 4 months and 3 days!!! woohoo!!
114 days! It is getting closer every day!
I feel almost the opposite, each day I do more to get ready like emailing my CD, send in application, and I get more and more excited about the summer. And then I remember, I have 100 and soemthing days left till camp. I love how this countdown started so early. It will be great when we get to tell people goodbye in June. I will look forward to posting to say goodbye and thank-you, and i am leaving for the summer of my life!!
Yeah, I feel that the countdown is almost hindering my ability to see that it is truly coming! I can't believe that February is more than half over already!
Oh well, I will continue counting down, because it is fun even if it is an agony and I will end up calculating it every time anyway, so I might as well take out the work!
True. I remember in August thinking that camp would never be here again, and now look its Feb. Even now, the year seems to have crawled by. It is already Feb., which is amazing in my mind. This year is passing faster than I thought. I now just to need to get steller SAT scores, so I don't fail to get into my college of choice.
What college do you want to go to? and for what?
I want to go to University of Rochester for a double major in neuroscience and international health (pre-med).
Are you in college? Where do you go/want to go?
wow, nice! Actually 2 of my fellow counselors go to U of Rochester! Cool! One of them is the one that I want to come back this summer! The other one I don't like!
I am going to Eastern Washington University for a major in Elementary education!
how do u like it at eastern?
I like it! The winter kind of stinks, but my classes and professors are good. I like my dorm and the food isn't bad either!
Where are you going or thinking about going? and for what?
I'm not sure where I am going to go. Hopefully in September (finances permitting!) I will start at a comm college and then transfer. I for sure want to work with kids, but am not sure if as a teacher or in some other position ie GS or Campfire.
Thats really cool. Do you know if they like Rochester or anything by any chance? Sorry to ask you!
Campkgurl, do you live in Seattle?
that's cool. Eastern has a great edu program if that's what you are thinking about doing. They also have a program (though I am not sure about its quality, but I am sure it is good) for Outdoor recreation, I believe it is called, so if you want to work at camp. They also have a Children's Studies Major, which goes more into the programming/admin side of education I believe and has other options for working with children. We have elementary and early childhood, along with a special education endorsement. On campus is an observatory elementary school!
Wow that was a big plug for eastern. They should be proud! haha
That would be really col to get into CF as a career, but I think what I will do is be a group leader! By the way, Camp Fire candy is amazing, right?!?! Most the people on the board haven't tasted it and it left me baffled, but living where you do, you have to have tasted it, right?!?!
Yeah I've tasted it!!! However, since I work at Girl Scouts camps, I probably shouldn't admit to that! LOL! I have thought about eastern in the past, but wasn't sure if I could stand being that far away from home.
Now, after this summer, I should be able to tell!
Far away from home?? I love being away from home. It is amazing. I really like it!
Lets put it this way:
I have never been past Leavenworth!
I have only visited Victoria, BC on a school field trip!
I have only been through Portland to Depoe Bay, OR! (about 1/2 down coast)
I have never flown!
See why I said far away?
I have literally lived in/around Seattle my entire life!!!
In a way it is far away, but in a way it isnt. I have a camp buddy who goes here and lives just an hour north of my place so there is a ride, and i have met someone else who lives in the Seattle area with a car. A lot of people are from the west side and I only pay about $25 in gas money for the trip. Also, flights can be anywhere from 100-250 bucks, depending on when you book them and when you are flying. It is a really easy flight too, and short! If you go here, we could even fly the smae flight! haha
I do understand tohugh, it is an adjustment, but one that is made fairly quickly.
I love being away. I just live better under my own decisions and whatnot. Whenever I am truly 100% liable for me, I work a lot better.
Last year I start my count down early even in though I wasnt hired until mid feb! (I know sad!) this year I waited until I had my flight date confirmed before doing so!
115 Days... I was almost in tears earlier than evening due to stress and whatnot. I seriously miss camp so much right now. I do not know what to do. I just want to forget about school and just like the rest of my life in the woods, working with kids. Whose needs school, lol? I just feel completely stressed out and just insane right now. I just want to be back at camp with my camp friends laughing about something stupid or sleeping in that hard bed ever. I just want to be there. I would even give up a lot to be told off by my CD or someone...haha- my CD has never yelled at me. I would want to be at camp just for that to happen.
How do we overcome this?
i think i'm at 102 days until my train leaves for camp i'm so excited!!!!
i miss being at camp a lot too. and having my camp friends to sit up in the tent laughing with me all night.
I'm at 116 days and am going crazy!!!!
It's been an emo night because I've been watching camp videos instead of studying!
aw, that makes me want to look at my camp pics and the staff slideshow and listen to the staff CD! Actually what I really want to do is look at my momentos, but those are at home, not school, so that is sad.
4 months 2 days 7 hours 18 mins 27 secs
I still have no idea when my camp starts and if I will be able to make it in time when I do know!
That is tough - i would hate not knowing when everything will be!
i'm in the same boat, sort of, Angharad, i haven't gotten an interview scheduled yet! soon soon i hope!
I'm heading down to camp a few days early for Ropes Training this year, so that leaves me 104 days till I move down to camp. Yay!!!!!
I can not wait for Camp Grove Point to open for the summer!
...Even though I'll probably be there almost every other weekend this spring doing various Archery, Kayak, and Team Building activities with troops...
Sounds like lots of fun in the run up to camp!
One up point to loving to go to training classes, and living within an hour of camp.
Spin1157, I'm in the same boat too!
I've already started a packing list, and I have not even signed a contract for this summer yet... although I have started the paperwork.
My contract was put in the mail like yesterday so thats great. Last night, I listened to the "camp song" and looked through all the picutres.
I am still waiting for my contract but I have already started a pile of stuff that I wont need between now and camp in the spare room!
My little sister has stolen my backpack to go travelling round the world and I wont get it back until just before camp. All of my stuff is mixed up between home and uni so it's going to be a nightmare trying to sort it all out for camp.
I can imagine! My sis wouldnt do anything like backpacking she hates anything that involves roughing it! Hope she doesnt trash it while she has it! When I was at uni I used to have about 4 days to unpack find everything and repack!
I hope she doesn't trash it too. She promised to treat it well so I reckon it should be fine. I never saw my sister as a roughing it kind of girl but I don't think she really is apart from a few days camping trip. I am very jealous as I would love to go around the world but I decided I'd rather go to camp this summer than do that. I might meet some friends in Peru after though.
I would love to travel around the world but think i would like to do it over a number of years to that you could have time to spend a decent length of time in each country - althoug to do that I would have win the lottery and dont do that! I am planning to go to Utah after camp!
I am 'traveling' the southern midwest soon! Ha, i'm going to north Arkansas, west Kansas, northwest and southeast Missouri. I'm going all over the place!
I really would love to go somewhere warm for spring break...but i have to make time useful and visit schools. pooey.
I went to Utah last time I went to camp and was offered a job at a random ranch that I stayed at. It was cool.
Where abouts in Utah did you go! I have been to arches and natural bridges and SLC and ogden! I am meeting a friend there this summer and he is gonna take me to some of the places that I wouldn't be able to get to without a car!
I've got 119 days which is the same as 3 months and 29 days or 2847 hours, lol. My countdown thingy tells me it all
I would love some kind of program that would enable me to put a count down on my computer but I have no idea where I would find such a thing - has anyone seen anything like that?
I have a myspace countdown, so if you have a Myspace, you can just search for myspace countdowns and find plenty.
121 days and 13 hours!! or 4 months and 1 day!!!!!!! I am almost to some check points, like 119 days and less than 4 months!!
I have a tickerfactory one that I can put on my facebook and have it on CA - but would love to have something on the comp for when I am not online! But I do like my tickerfactory one - it is very cool.
I wonder if we can add them to our profile here..... wanders off ot try!
I fully support you in your efforts!! And I totally want you to share if you do find something!!!
I don't have a camp countdown yet, but I do have a short one. In seven days, I'm interviewing for a job at a camp I'm really interested in. I'm trying not to get nervous!
March 3rd is day 100 for me! Got a countdown on my work calendar!
Even on the small setting the ticker had too many charcters for the signature bar! Booo!
March something is the 100th day for me. I am too lazy to find out what it is.
Just can't wait for camp!!
Reading all of this talk about how long left people have makes me want to know.
I am sure you will know soon enough! You could always work out when you are able to leave and base a count down on that!
I don't know when I'm able to leave because the registry wont tell us when our exams are yet.
That is really crummy! Go hit them over the head with your visa paper work or passport or something!
Ooo... I am so sorry. Are you taking A-levels? One of my friends couldn't come to camp till late because she was taking them. She did not even know where she was flying to till like 5 days before she left. Poor girl!
That's sad!
I don't know exactly when my finals are, but i know when move-out day in the dorms is and finals week is the week before that. However, I am staying for my cousin's graduation so I don't get to head out early if I am done early, but I probably won;t be done early anyway!
Today marks the 4 month checkpoint!! Tomorrow I can say that there is less than 4 months til camp!!!!!!!! also tomorrow I can say that I have less than 120 days til camp!!!! woohoo!!
I think I have something like 110 days - not sure where my diary is!
I lost my countdown. That is jsut awful. I lost it on my computer. I need to try to go locate it. I just sent a long email to my CD. So, i will be getting tons and tons of lovely camp news soon. So excited.
My CD is currently at camp so I can't wait for her to post pics and whatnot! My staff packet is also on the way!
My CD lives at camp year round in her very own house (ok, I am not exactly sure she owns it, hehe)! She is hopefully goign to send out my confirmation packet soon, but first I would love to get a call! That would hold me for a while until I get my packet!
I know what you mean! I found out through my friend that I had actually been hired when she seen the CD at a GS rally!
I have 112 days!!!!!!!!!! Almost 111!!!!
I still have a loooong way to go until I leave. We had a teacher strike in October/November, so school's out on the 11th of July for me...
ouch!! we had one of those a few years ago in a nearby district for a while that totally messed up the summer so camp started a week or two later. My district wasn't on strike, but one of the main districts for campers was.
Yeah, I hate that the teachers go on strike without caring about how it affects students' summers.
yeah, it is annoying, but I suppose that in someways they are thinking about their own families and how they have to pay for them, some of them being single parents and whatnot. I do get what you are saying though. Teachers are supposed to think of their students, but their strikes affect the students. Of course, it is nice that you find out when you get out of school before you sign up for camp so you can make sure that you don't have them at the same time!
Well, they told us when we got back to school that our summer vacation was going to be shortened.
Yep! but at least you still get to go to camp this summer!!! Is your camp a week-long session, or longer?
awesome! Mine are week long sessions! In a few summers I am going to be looking around for an all-girls camp with longer sessions like that, at least in a state besides WA!
This is actually my first summer at the camp, until now I've been doing only week-longs.
cool! You will have to let me know how it is and which one you prefer afterwards! We even have a thread for the topic!
Oh, yeah, I think I've seen it, but before I made this account.
I can't imagine teachers striking. Our uni professors went on strike but a lot of then sneaked in and taught us anyway because they said it wasn't fair to ruin our educations. They wouldn't make the year longer at the end to make up for it though but then I suppose we have time to add more lectures in during the week and make up for it then.
I can't wait for camp!!
Neither (niether?) can I!
I think it is neither! that's awesome!! Neither can I!!!!!!
In the public school districts they are required to have so many days or hours of teaching so they have to add them in somewhere. We added in snow days and everything. However, at my uni we had 3 days cancelled because of snow and basically life just goes on. The professors decided how to deal with it for their classes! Finals are still at the same time as they were scheduled.
I have 102 days to go .... which in my opinion is 102 days too long!
105 Days... oh my goodness. The 6th of March will be my 100 day mark. I am so excited.
111 days!! So that means that my 100 day mark is March 11 or something around that, I am too tired to figure it out! I am so excited for my 100 day mark, and my 99!! And of course my 0 day mark as well!
Yeah, don't we all wish our 0 day mark was here already?
Yeap!
101 days! IS everyone jealous my 100 day mark is tomorrow - that means in 2 days i move down into single figures!
Good for you! I don't know when my 100 day mark is, but I'm pretty sure it's in a looong time. My 0 day mark is sometime in July...
I know, isn't it? *cries*
At least now I have you guys for comfort. Lol.
absolutely! and I will totally be on here like every weekend or during some of my TOs so long as I can get to a computer! Weekends won't be too much of a problem since I will most likely be home for a lot of them! I am excited to see if the boards are insanely busy or really calm during camp season! Afterwards, it is goign to be freakin' crazy insane and I am looking forward to it, especially since I have a few weeks between camp and school, so i won't have too much to do, like papers to write! By the way, I totally started on my paper! well, an outline, but that is good! Sadly I got online to look something up and had to check here! oops! not quite over the addiction!
I went home this weekend and actually managed to write an essay that I have had since before christmas. None of my friends were online and nothing decent was on tv so I just had to work. Even this board can't keep me occupied 100% of the time on its own.
I just told myself that if I don't get good grades, I won't go to camp, and that was the only push I needed.
If I dont work I wont pass my degree then I wont be able to do my next one and I will end up with a job that sucks and doesn't pay well. Theoretically that should be enough of a push but it doesnt always seem to work.
Other than the camp thing, I tell myself that I'm going to have to do it eventually, and I might as well get it over with, but that NEVER works.
Usually a few days before something is due in I have a major panic then just get down to it and pull a few all-nighters. Perhaps that's why I don't do as well as I should.
I WISH I could pull all-nighters, but my parents would totally kill me if they found out I wasn't doing my homework...
I was a master at pretending to do homework but not actually doing it. I was in detention most days though so don't copy that! The funny thing is that I wasn't actually doing anything in particular when I was pretending to work except perhaps reading a book which was my favourite pastime.
Yeah, I'm actually considered a 'good kid' at my school, because nobody really knows about my procrastination problems, and what I hand in I get good grades on...
Yeah, there's definitely a need to please the parents when at home! At school too, but they don;t know when you are doing your homework! The only know if it doesn't get done when your grades come out!
I definitely am going to be doing an all-nighter with this one! I should have worked late last night, but I was so tired and I had a headache along with all my stress and overwheledness, so I just couldn't do it.
I am totally scared for report card day. I have the feeling my grades have gone down quite a bit since last time...
My thing at school was that even though I never did homework I was actually really quite clever so always did well in exams without needing to do the least little bit at work which frustrated my teachers no end. Unfortunately its not that easy any more and if I didn't do any work I wouldnt get a single mark on any of my papers because the topics are so hard.
yeah, I definitely felt that last semester last year! eek! It wasn't horrible by any means, but for me and my standards it was. This quarters grades are going to stink sooooo bad in 1 or 2 of my 3 classes! I better get a 4.0 in my German class or I should just drop out of school and save my parents the money! I have taken German before, and it is an easy class even if I hadn't taken it before!
At least you get to choose classes that interest you, right? And yeah, my math teacher totally hates that I get good grades, but I don't really work in class.
For my GCSEs I got straight As in all 9 subjects without doing any revision. It went down for my A-levels to all Bs which felt like total failure to me but I really didn't do any work again so it was fair enough that I didn't do that well. Now I have to work hard but if I do I can get a first class degree I reckon. (I know you probably have no idea what I mean by some of the grading but then I don't have much clue about your system either
at least an A is self explanatory). Sometimes I have no idea why I chose to do science because I really dont want to be a scientist.
Our grading system is kinda easy... it's just number grades (0-100) that are divisible by 5. So 100, 95, 90...
But 40% is for behavior, and that's mainly the part I'm worried about.
wow that's a big chunk just for behaviour. I'd never have got very high for that part! I was a horrid child in school. I even made a teacher cry once. Luckily I grew out of that stage.
AHAHAHAHAHA! You made a teacher cry??? What did you do???
Well she was a terrible teacher and she kind of asked for it but I really shouldnt have said what I did. I was passing notes to a friend and she saw and asked if I didnt like her lessons or if I thought she was a bad teacher and if I'd rather not be there. I said that I hated her lessons because they bored me, that I thought she was a very bad teacher and that in fact I'd really rather not be there and then I walked out!
Wow. That's baaaaaaad... I'd just shrug and roll my eyes.
Like I said, I was a bad kid. I do feel bad about it now looking back. I wasnt as bad as one girl who caused a teacher to quit because she was constantly harassing him. Youd never guess that this was quite a posh all girls school would you!
No, not really. My friend's class made a teacher quit last year! Our grade is constantly being told that we are the worst grade the teachers have seen in a long time.
ouch!
Yeah, in the school systems over here we are big on participation grades! This can translate into behavior, depending.
All through high school I had mostly As so my grade point average was around 3.9 out of 4.0, so that was amazing, but then I got to senior year, second semester and ended up dropping from a 3.85 to a 3.75 cumulative. Then I got to college and your first quarter gades are usually worse because of the whole transitioning to college and living away from people who actually care if you do homework early enoguh, or even at all. However, I carried this right over into my second quarter, so that is bad!
We have classes of degree at uni - first, 2:1, second, third, fail
To get a first you need to be getting 70% in your exams which trust me is harder than it sounds and a first is very very hard to get. For a 2:1 you need 60%, second 50% and so on.
I didnt do well in uni - for 2 reasons - 1 - when I was at school i never picked up a text book to study (didn't have to) and did all my home work - except art - last min sometimes in while sitting in other classes cos I had finished the days/weeks work! (in fact one class I transfer out of cos I was getting the weeks work done in the first 2 of the 5 classes so I would end up using the other 3 classes to do home work - eventually i changed to another harder class. The second reason was that my first attempt at 3rd year I was ill the whole year and in my second attempt at it I had just sort of lost my motivation cos I no longer had anyfriends cos they had all graduated!
That sucks Smudge. My grades took a dip last year because one of my best friends died of leukaemia just before the exams but I hope to get right back up this year.
Yeah, it is interesting to think aobut what I am going to do next year since my cousin graduates at the end of this year. I don;t know that I hang out with any freshman whatsoever! I know that I will get more friends who are in the same grade when I get into my program, so I am not insanely worried. Plus my cousin hung out with like 2 people all of freshman year all the time, but now she doesn't even talk to either of them, so I figure that I will find friend in other classes or in my dorms!
That sucks Smudge. My grades took a dip last year because one of my best friends died of leukaemia just before the exams but I hope to get right back up this year.
That sucks more though! Glad I only had to deal with my own ill health and that wasnt life threatening - just painful and boring cos I made it difficult for me to read or do any of my hobbies!
Yeah it sucked a lot and still does but these things happen and you have to deal with them.
That is soo true - you do!
Looking forward to camp helps though!
You don't really expect people to die when they are only 19 but it has definitely made the rest of us closer and want to live our lives the best we can.
And yes looking forward to camp helps. Yay more friends to be made.
That's so sad! But I agree with you guys on moving on and also looking forward to camp and being with your friends. In 4th grade one of my classmates was diagnosed with a brain tumor and I remember all through the rest of elementary school I was his buddy. I helped him out with things, I went with him to the nurse. We hung out during recess. Then middle school came and we didn't have like any classes together and it was sad. He passed away in 8th grade and I remember the principal's voice over the PA system and what class I was in. I went to his funeral, as did like half the school's faculty and students!
Ok, wow, this is a sad post! We definitely managed to find a depressing topic. I have been lucky tohugh, that nothing traumatic has happened that caused me to not really be able to get good grades, nor have I been sick enough to not go to classes for more than a few days. One of these days something is going to go horribly wrong in my life because I have yet to really have any horribleness in my life. Eeek! Well, back to the grindstone of homework!
Life really could be quite depressing if you let it be. Luckily we all have the joys of camp to keep us going.
That is soo true!
in 34 mins I will only have 100 days till camp!
oh wow thats very exciting
Yeap - will have to stay on for at least another 30 mins having realised that!
i cannot believe I am still awake. I barely slept last night. Perhaps its because I only ate gingerbread men for dinner.
Gingerbread men are amazing! I can't believe you guys are still up either! It is 4 pm here, so I know it is much later for you guys.
you are sooooooo lucky to have less than 30 minutes until your 100 day mark!! I have 110 days and 16 hours!!!!!!!!!!
It's quarter to midnight.
I love gingerbread men but perhaps not in the quantity that I ate them. They are even better when they have icing decoration and smarties buttons and things.
Um you know those tubs of them you can buy from sainsbury's- an entire one of them. It was about 25 of them (about 3inch high). Far far far far too many!
100 days! til I am at camp!!!!!
It deserved its own post!
I agree, it did deserve its own post!!
That is a heck of a lot of gingerbread me!
It really is a heck of a lot. Don't try eating that many. It didn't help that I topped it up with crispy toffee rice crispie cakes.
I'm really starting to worry now that things wont fall into place and I won't end up going to camp this summer.
I said I was going to go to bed 20 minutes ago so now I really am.
Goodnight.
It really is a heck of a lot. Don't try eating that many. It didn't help that I topped it up with crispy toffee rice crispie cakes.
I'm really starting to worry now that things wont fall into place and I won't end up going to camp this summer.
I am starting to feel the same way! Although, I have much less to arrange than you do. However, I am beginning to think that my CD has just forgotten about calling me! It has been almost 4 weeks since my interview! I know that I have a job since she emailed me that, but still! It's either that or I am low on her priority list, which makes the most sense! Gah! Her definitiion and my definition of "soon" don't quite match up! haha Oh well, at least I know I have the job! (not that I was real worried even before she emailed me! gotta love going back to the same camp!)
I am sure everything will fall into place you both.
Angharad why dont you call the camp and see what is happening?
Yeah, just call the camp and ask about it. Taling always makes the problem better. Good luck!
I know it sounds pathetic but I am a total wimp when it comes to phone calls. I don't mind answering the phone but calling someone is a different kettle of fish especially when I don't really know them. I guess I'll just have to do it though.
calling someone is a different kettle of fish especially when I don't really know them.
a different kettle of fish? haven't heard it put that way before!!
Haha, yeah... That's cool. I might start saying that... lol.
I love that saying. Heaven only knows where it comes from!
My CD phoned me today but I was at Tescos. He always seems to pick the times when I'm out.
Poor you! Maybe you should just try to stay at home during the times that he usually calls...
The thing is that he calls at random times. He has called me everywhere between 11am and 9pm and will ring and then if he misses me not call back for several days. I know I really should just ring him but at least today he told my housemate that he would call at 6ish so I know to stay here for then.
Well if he doesnt call back then maybe you should bite the bullet and call him even though you dont like too - I know what you mean about not liking to call people you dont know!
Call me crazy, but I sometimes get nervous calling people I DO know.
I am not that bad - but I am gonna have to call someone I have only met once soon! and I am stressing about that!
Well, I wish you good luck. And mainly my problem is if somebody other than them picks up...
So many people seem to have this problem but its not like anything bad has ever happened to make me feel so nervous about it.
I know, I think it just comes from being shy...
That's probably true. I don't mind answering the phone though but I guess there is less of a choice about that and youre more likely to know the person.
Hmm it's 6.40 and my CD hasn't rung yet even though he said 6ish. Apparently it took him about 1/2 hour to work out what time it would be for me so he might have got it wrong.
Maybe he meant to say 7? I sure hope so!
Hooray Ive had my phone call now. Slightly panicked because he now wants me to go through interexchange not CCUSA and it looks much more complicated and requires more organisation on my part! I like that he wants to go through them because they are non profit but eek!
Inter exchange look expensive. Have had another phonecall and now might be going through CCUSA again. I'm so confused. And I might be the horseback director!!!
i have never even heard of Inter exchange! Hope you have gotten everything sorted now!
Hoorse director should be a fun challenge!
I'd never heard of them either. My CD is getting in touch with CCUSA and seeing which costs us both the least so I still don't know what's going on yet. Horseback director definitely sounds challenging. Hopefully it wont push my abilities too far.
What about some of the other organisations - camp leaders, Iccp or camp america?
ccusa is the cheapest in terms of the fees we pay. i dont know from the camp directors side though.
Ah!
I looked at ICCP and their deal for returners isnt that great.
I have only paid CA ?200 + visa money! but I applied before the cut off date for the returner discount!
Isn't that still a lot of money for working? 400 dollars. To to seem ignorant, but what exactly does CCUSA do for returnings.
Sorry, I meant... "Not to seem igornant." haha! I can't wait for the summer.
I know what you meant!]#
Not sure about CCUSA - but for my ?200 that I paid to CA - I get return flights to the USA (worth about ?500), med insurance($500,000 worth of coverage!) and visa sponsorship!
they arrange flights, help sort out visas... that sort of thing
Smudge do you know if the camp have to pay for the flights or if CA do
I think CA - but camp pays CA something like $1000 (if I remember correctly from my contract!) But the flights themselves are booked by CA.
I could book my own - but I would still pay CA the ?200 and would only get an extra $500 or so in my pay so it isn't worth it!
I can check my contract from last year if you want!
It never seems like a very good deal for the camps to me. I feel bad that I probably cost them quite a bit more than regular US counselors.
If I remember from last years contract I got paid about $500 less than an american UL - but it worked out that if you count the full amount camp had to pay CA camp paid out $600 extra for my services above what they would pay a US UL (just wish i seen more of it!) - hope i explained that clearly!
I just wanted to pop in on the countdown since I can officially do so!
I have 104 days until camp starts!
I was offered a position today as a Group Leader at a day camp. I'll have a few weekends/evenings of training before then. It's a day camp that strives to still have a camp feel which is what I was looking for. I'm so excited!
116 days until my camp starts :D. i am so excited, a summer of new experiences!
109 days for me!!!! I know I said that earlier, but I am feelign the need for a pick me up since I still have like 4-5 pages left to write by tomorrow!!
Here is a helpful hint to all of you still in school- in particluar those of you who have or will have English classes.
Though they reccomend you choose a topic you are interested in, make sure you aren't TOO interested in it! haha My paper is on whether or not mild-moderate developmentally disabled kids should be included in regular camps or if they should have their own. Well, without this paper on camp to write I might never have found the boards (that would be tragic!), but I would have been done with my paper by now! haha This was my downfall and thereason i still have so many pages to write. I spend all my time on the boards! eek!
I also found out today why it is taking so long for my CD to cal me. Apparently she has been sick and then delivering the camp brochures to places around the area, so she hasn't been in the office. She emailed me when I asked her a question about the special needs kids program at Camp K!! She should hopefully be calling soon now, unless something else crazy comes up!
I found out last night that precamp starts on june 2nd! I have no idea how many days away that is.
90 days away!
I am now into single figures in my count down! 99 days Whoooop!
wow 90 days isnt very long!
Grr... I'm so jealous of you all! June second? I'm not even out of school by then!
how long is everyone spending at camp? I am there all from june 2nd to august 31st!
3.5 weeks. From July 21st to August 13th.
10 weeks!!!!!! I start on June 21st and I leave sometime around the 31st of August!
I am with you there Campluver! I don;t get out until the 13th or so, and I am in college!! Last year I was a senior and we got out on the 13th- hey wow, i never noticed that before- but the other students got out on like the 21st or something. I don;t know of many schools that do get out that early!
we arent technically meant to finish before the 20th but they are supposed to put all final year students exams within the first 3 weeks of the 5 week exam period. Whether they do or not I can't say for sure until april 14th when they publish the timetable but I am just hoping for the best.
What happens if you have to do an exam when you're supposed to be at camp?
um then im screwed. it's unlikely. i hope.
Me too! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!
i am keeping my fingers and toes crossed. i need them to be crossed for the outcome of my interview to get into vet school which didnt go too well.
I think that I will be on camp from 11th June - 15th Aug - but then may come back for 2 weekends as a (prob)volunteer (if they will have me!).
Gaah, I just watched the "Promotional Movie" for my camp, and now I want to be there even more! Why do I do these things to myself???
I don;t know!!! i picked a stupid topic when I am camp sick!!! haha, although i suppose if I am going to think about camp I might as well write about it!!
Yeah. I can see it didn't make it much easier for you, though...
well, considering that paper is the reason i found these boards- no it didn't! but it did help me because of the quotes i am getting from all of you!
Good luck with your paper. GREAT JOB!
thanks! i got 9 out of 10 pages done, but they are kind of bad! I will do much better after revising it!
Thats great. I would imagine they are not bad at all.
Thanks for the confidence! I know they aren't horrible by anyone some standards, but to me they seem bad, especially since I can be a fairly decent writer. Although, it isn't so much the writing that has me saying that, but the fact that I did it so rushed and at the last minute and all that that has me down about them.
Yes, one is always one's harshest critic.
Ok well I can't read all 11 pages lol, so back to the topic...I have 90 days to go!!!!!!!
woohoo! I have 108, almost 107 days!!!
88! SO jealous! I'll be in the 80's tomorrow though lol!
in the nature of being childish, I am going to :P ! You are so lucky you have 20 days less than me! Although actually i like my start date because if I had yours I would be so late it wouldn't be funny. I don't get to leave school til the 14th, so I like my start date!
I think knowing exactly how many days away it is is going to make it seem like the time is going much slower.
I think it will too!!! but does that mean I am going to stop counting down? No! I am too weird and obsessed! However, I won;t look at my countdown everyday!
Now I have found a countdown webpage I know I am going to get obsessed with it and look practically every day.
Ha ha I downloaded a countdown to my desktop from STA Travel!! Everytime I turn on my computer it is there lol! And I have a countdown on MSN MEssenger!! I'm too excited to get rid of it!! Like you Campkgurl...I'm way too weird and obsessed :P I haven't even gone and my friends are sick of hearing about it!
I have been very restrained so far and have tried not to bore my friends too much.
How do you put a countdown on MSN? I tried, but I couldn't figure out how to do it...
yeah, I want to know that one too!!
My friends are already bored with it, so hopefully I can let up on the stories until I go to camp this year because the few months after camp are worse than the ones before it!
I won't be at my uni with my friends after camp so they don't have to worry about it. My best friend is coming to stay with me for 2 weeks right after it though so she will be thoroughly sick of me.
my best friend is coming back from Germany the first week of camp! This is a week where we get out Friday night so I will have all of Saturday to hang with her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited (in case the long line of exlamation points didn't let you know that!) She will probably be sick of my camp stories but she will have plenty of her own, along with all the stories she brings back from her family reunions!
That's random- my best friend lives in Germany.
cool! what city? or near what city?
100 DAYS... 100 days till camp.
nice Twirl!! i have 107 now!!!
I love that it is called Essen!! translated that means to eat, or if you were to put "das" (the) in fron of it it would mean food!! My friend and I went with an exchnge program through the school a few years ago for a few weeks and she lived in a town called Stuecken- which translates to "pieces"!!!!
That is pretty cool. My city means nothing interesting whatsoever. But, it is alright. My last name means happiness I think in some strange translation of our name or something.
that's pretty cool. I don't think my last name means anything cool, nor does my city. oh well! My camp is named after a supposed indian chief who love the old poplar tree by the lake! I love the legend! it is amazing "Many many moons ago, before you or I or anyone we know was born there lived a young indian brave named Killoqua..." Those are the first lines of our legend that is read every friday night!
89 days!! Yes down to the 80's!! And my friend is from Germany too lol!!
Wow. Lucky you. You get to leave early. You must be leaving in May. That is great!
Actually I leave 4th June!! Oh so close to May, but not May
134!!!!!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
99. I broke the awful 100 day barrier.
yeah - we are all starting to that!
That's excellent you broke the 100 barrier! It feels so good lol! 88 days!
108!!! counting that this day is over!!! 8 more days til 100
I think that when we all start getting down to 10 we are all gonna have packed everything and driving our friends insane!
absolutely! I will be packing as I pack up to go back home at the end of the year! I almost had to be at camp the day after my cousin's graduation- which would mean a 4.5 hour drive- so getting home at like 7pm and then packing late into the night so I could be ready to go by 11 at the latest! (I don't have the time i need to be there!) Luckily i have a week! I will still probably pack some of my camp stuff together!
When I get down to 10, I'll still be in school (school's out on the 11th of July, camp starts on the 17th), so I definitely will not be able to concentrate on ANYTHING.
I will likely be taking a final on my 10 day mark! I hope I don't fail! haha Somehow I think that I will manage to pass since I will have easy finals and if I don't pass, I really need to start counseling to get over my addiction to camp!
106 days, but almost 105! I am getting sooo close to that 100 day mark!!
Yay! I'm so happy for you!
Thanks! I just thought of this, but I go home for Spring break the night before my 3 month mark! I go home on the 20th and the 21st of March means that I have 3 months til June 21!!
Awesome! What if I said I was getting my report card 2 days after my 4 month mark? It wouldn't be awesome, but at least it's something to mark it for me.
I'm jealous. So totally extremely jealous.
I am too!! You have 20 fewer days left than me! wow! I know that you, campluver, have more than me so I really feel bad for you!
Thanks. You guys will try to find computers at camp, though, right?
absolutely! I will sit down at leat once a week most likely and get on to the message boards to talk to you! Plus I might be home for a lot fo th weekends, so I can get online then too! If not, I might be at camp, but there are 2 computers in the staff room! Old, but they work, so that is what is important!
Well, I can finally join this thread as I got a job offer last night!! Yay, I'm of to GS camp in conneticut!!
Oh My God, but I have completely got myself overexcited especially as I'm hoping to fly out on the 1st May!!
That's only 54 days away!! Thats right 54 days!!
Pre-camp tho starts in 104 days
but hey i'll already be out there doing the camp thing!!
Congrats Ermie!!!!!!! Wow, 1st May?!?!?! That is crazy amazing!! I wish that were so for me, but I will still have another 5 weeks or so of classes then!
Thank you!
I haven't stopped smiling since I heard!
I kinda want to be there for the open house and there's gonna be alot to prepare for the season plus training courses that I can do such as Archery and the Challenge Course etc.
5 weeks of classes, if that was me I wouldn't be concentrate at all during that time!! I know I'm gonna find it hard to concentrate at work!! lol
Yeah, I am in class until June 12th. I start camp on the 21st!
Congrats, Ermie! You're so lucky! I hope you have fun! (Even though it's impossible not to have fun at camp!)
I am in class untiil June 12th too. I will be at camp on the 15th, I believe.
nice! I would love having camp start on the 15th if I got to pack up and go home on the 13th, but since my cousin's graduation is on the 14th it would be really hectic! Especially since I am going to be a counselor for a week of grief campers before precamp, so I would have to have everything I needed for that, which would probably be more than I would need for precamp.
105 days!!!
12 weeks and one day. I got so campsick this morning I paged through my planner counting the weeks.
I have done that before! I usually just use my Myspace countdown and then on convenient dates I realize how many months and weeks!
1 day until my interview!
after i get my call about being hired or not, i will begin a countdown, or not.
I have faith that you will get hired. I wish you the best luck, espeically at your interview and everything.
I am happy I get to leave straight for camp after school, because then I will not go crazy. But, I am not sure. More time to sleep and rest might be nice. Yet, I get bored very easily. Now, during school, I wish about not having school for a while, but I get bored. There are only so long you can read, watch TV, and go online till you want to jump out of your skin. I think I will go insane whenever I retire.
thank you!
I leave for camp either a week or 4 days after I finish school. I'm not so sure when I finish school yet...
i'm in the same boat.
our district hasn't announced the official last day of school yet. poo!
We were supposed to finish on June 20th, but then the stupid teachers went on strike, so I don't know anymore.
103 days until I go to camp!
11 weeks and five days! My camp starts on May 31. It's soooo early this year!
I think I have about 83 days to go
It makes me laugh, you guys are all counting down your days left in school and i'm counting the days left at work!! lol
Excluding weekends, I have 38 days left at work!! YAY!!
51 till I fly and 101 till pre-camp starts!!
Yay I am not the only one who still hasn't broken the 100 day mark! But that will soon change! Anyone else who still has over 100 days left?
When does your camp start, campluver? Cuz 130 days seems awfully long...
81 for me, if I get hired!
Only 75 days until I go to camp for Ad-staff week...May 27th. I hope I counted right
My camp starts on July 17th...
Lucky duck! Okay, maybe not so lucky compared to other people here, but compared to me... I have...
Oh, goddamn it, I left my countdown paper at school. Stupid me.
80 days, but I'm already getting ready. I've got so much craft junk in my dorm right now, my RD probably thinks I'm like one of those crazy old ladies who hoard random things. One whole corner of my room is full of boxes and craft supplies. I'm such a pack rat lol!
hehe - i just picture it in my head!!!!
It's INSANE how much crap she has... and it KEEPS GROWING!!!
(I'm Rosethorn's roomie, BTW, and her coworker.)
sorry to interupt the conversation
but i just want to say... 99 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is so cool that you guys are roomies and coworkers!!!!
Yeah, you guys get can talk camp as much as you want, without others getting annoyed with you.
exactly!
these boards are nearly my second home some days!
What??? I have more than 4!!!
yep our staff week starts on june 1, but our training starts on may 19th. so its a little more than 2 months. when do you start?
July 17th...
May 19th is my best friend's birthday!
july? dang my camp is almost over by then...thats kinda funny. one of my friends birthday is on the 19 too!
I think my camp ends on August 14. I'm only a camper, so I only get to go half the summer.
90 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
99 days!!! I think I already said that today, but you guys know how it is!
June 21st is my grief camp precamp! so technically most of the staff don't start until June 29th! In previous years precamp has started around the 15th or so, but this year it is later, which is good for me!! Go having a week to pack instead of 1/2 a day!
I have had that - got home from uni and then have like 3 days to unpack, do all my laundry catch up with friends and then repack - it is crazy!
yeah, wasn't looking forward to that, but then I found out that I had an extra week! It would have been ridiculous!
Why did your camp move to later Campkgurl? Mine moved earlier. The office staff goes on May 27 this year. We get out on August 3rd now...They moved it to fit the school schedules because our school are starting earlier these days so kids were missing or leaving camp
I am not exactly sure why they moved it back, but I think the main reason is staff and schooling. and possibly campers and school. Like with me, the whole thing of getting out on the 12th and then camp starting on the 15th would be craxy. Most of the schools in the state have similar schedules, and a lot of our staff come from local-ish schools.
Oh our schools all get out the last week of may or a bit before...and then start around the 11-15 of august
When i was at uni I finished the first week in June (offically) and unofficaily the end of may! and didnt go back until the beginning of Oct! But alot of UK uni's finsish later and start earlier - but had longer holiday throught out the year! n I prefered my uni's way!
Down to 3 months and 3 days, or 95 days, down to double digits instead of triple digits now, YIPPEE!!!!
97, almost 96 days!!!! Or 3 months and 6 or 5 days!!!!!! woot woot!
Oh! And I almost forgot! Happy b-day, Angharad!
91 days until camp officaially starts but only 45 days till I fly out!!
o_0 That's about 1/3 of what I have left!!!!
I've got 90 days!
And that's just to actual start of camp. Being a day camp, I'll have some evening/weekend trainings before then!
80 days until General Staff Training
89 days until the 1st session starts
oh i am going crazy waiting for my call!!
soon soon soon i hope!
exactly 3 months to go a.k.a. 90 days!!!!
YIPPEE!!!
i love how i've had my camp count down forever in my agenda, and i have just recently put in a count down for my major birthday! Shows what is more important to me!
It took me ages to work out my count down in days - cos my departure date kept moving! But it is writen in my diary now:
84 days!
My count-down was really easy in days, go Myspace countdowns! But in months and weeks I have to wait for important days, such as the 21st of each month, since I start on June 21st!
93 days!!! or 3 months and 2 days!
i dont know how many days.
2months 1 week i think
41 days till I fly!! (I think?) lol
92 days for me! You are so lucky to be leaving in 41 days!
95 more days!!!! til Camp Tweedale!
88 days until camp (87 days until graduation!)
-Peeking in from a board hiatus-
77 days until General Staff Training
86 days until the 1st session starts
i counted 68days till i leave for camp
89 days to go, 89 days to go, high ho the dairy oh, 89 days to go!!! I cannot wait!!!
Clearly - cool that you are soo excited - 82 for me!
I have a chalkboard in our halway that I keep a count down on!
If I remember correctly, 91 for me!!!!!
i dont know but not long yaay
I GOT THE JOB!!!
only 68 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah - we know you could do it!!!!!
aw thanks!
75 days until General Staff Training (June 6th)
84 days until the 1st session starts (June 15th)
Yay CIL!!!!!!! Congrats!
90 days for me, though in about 12 hours it will be 89!
thanks!
oh it is not soon enough!
80 days for me although in 1 hr 15 mins it will be 79!
74 days until Staff Training
83 days until Session #1 starts
89, almost 88!!! But i have broken another 10!! I sadly can't see my countdown right now because my internet is being stupid, so I can't look at the 89, but I know it is so because of my previous post! ha
79 - I have broken another 10 too!
88 days! I finally got to see my countdown! Stupid computer!
Only 67 days until precamp! I'm excited!
67 days! Lucky! I have 88, which I mentioned in the post prior to yours! ha!
62 days till i arrive at camp
indigo, where do you work at?
67 days too!
oh you will have so much fun! i loved my CIT summer!
Im so excited! haha yeah then I have CIT2 next year.
oh wow.
our council has just one cit year, but this year they have bumped the age up to 16.
Ours has always been 16 as far as I know. Except for last year. Somehow something went wrong and it was open for all going into 10th. Well there were CIT that were younger then me and most of my friends... it was awkward. But I think its back up to 16. So then 17 ill be a CIT2 and hopefully 18 I will be a Counselor. To bad my birthday is in October...
yeah, having 16 will be better for them in the long run, so they will be 18 by at least their second year of staff.
it will be awkward this year, many of the cits hired this year are only 16 this summer.
OUr CIT program is 2 summers also and you have to be going into your 11th grade year to do it so that you will be graduated from high school and 18 by the time you are hired for your first full summer.
I loved my CIT summers too! I loved my second year more because we had some people not do it, like 4 people, so there were only 9 CITs and our director. It made it more intimate and we were just increasing our bonds as opposed to starting them.
For the 3rd time today, 88 days!! Almost 87! haha
37 days till I fly!!!
Hey everyone, we have lots of international staff on our forum who are going to camp for the first time. If you have any tips / recommendations or even if you are going to any of their camps please give them your advice
http://www.summercampworldwide.com/chatThanks, have an amazing summer everyone!
67 days for me as well...but I will be there for the next three weekends!
Oh I work at Camp Cedarledge, in Pevely, MO! You know you want to join us.
Just 66 days now!
72 days until ESW General Staff Training
81 days until The 1st session starts
Heck yes for 66 days! I heart Cedarledge!
Indigo: That's what I thought!
I work at Oakledge about an hour from Sedalia, MO.
what council are you part of?
66 days!
We're from Eastern Missouri, formerly Greater St. Louis, recently merged with Becky Thatcher. I work with Indigo btw.
Sweet. We're NE KS and NW MO...but i don't think the camp is inside council boundaries, maybe?
Your camp, or our camp lol?
my camp...sorry for the confusion!
i don't really know if it's actually inside our council's boundaries...but i guess it is.
you guys are confusing me! haha
87 for me!
oiiii my flight from LA stops in st louis then goes to hartford
thought i would share ahah
36 days till I'm over the atlantic!!
77 days till camp (which is funny cos 77 was the year I was born in!)
we have several GS camps in NH that are part of other councils!
84 days!!!! till i leave soo excited
77 days till camp (which is funny cos 77 was the year I was born in!)
we have several GS camps in NH that are part of other councils!
looks like that day for me was a few days ago, 88! Now I have 86 days! (sorry to make you feel old Smudge!)
71 days until General Staff Training
80 days until the 1st session starts
Today is 82 for me, the year I was born in.
(81 days until graduation!)
77 days till camp (which is funny cos 77 was the year I was born in!)
we have several GS camps in NH that are part of other councils!
looks like that day for me was a few days ago, 88! Now I have 86 days! (sorry to make you feel old Smudge!)
It doenst make me feel old - other things do though - like the fact that my best friends daughter was baptised 2 months ago (in my church that happens when you are 8 year old) that really made me feel old!
wow, i feel so young! 91 was passed a long time ago for me...
66 days!
77 days till camp (which is funny cos 77 was the year I was born in!)
we have several GS camps in NH that are part of other councils!
looks like that day for me was a few days ago, 88! Now I have 86 days! (sorry to make you feel old Smudge!)
It doenst make me feel old - other things do though - like the fact that my best friends daughter was baptised 2 months ago (in my church that happens when you are 8 year old) that really made me feel old!
Yeah, the kids I started my baby-sitting career with are in 5th and 7th grade. I started when they were 3 and 5 years old! And my friend's daughter is almost 2! Then again, she had her before she graduated high school.
how old is every one here i though everyone was like 20.
im 18
I am 30.
campkgurl - that isn't as bad as me - my friends daughter was born almost exactly 9 months after she married at the age of 20!
I'm 19! I think most of us are in our 20s, though we do have people who are younger and older. We have CITs and a camper or 2 and then we also have more senior staff on here too! And of course the early 20s late teens!
Yay for still being teenagers! haha, though I only have 5 more months of it!
haah okkkk awesommee i just turned 18 n stuff. sooo annoyin in a way cause of american laws ah
being grown up is over-rated - I dont feel any older than I did when I was 20!
gotta love 'em! haha It is kind of weird becaue most the people on here it seems are internationals! Or at least most of the people on here all the time. Or if they aren't international, they are from the east coast! Oh well! It is cool to talk to all you guys!
86 days? ok, yeah, I looked at previous posts, and apparently I posted this morning! haha
Ignore me I am speaking rubbish!
yay ok smudge we still count u as being 20
yay - I like being considered to be 20!
absolutely you count as being 20 Smudge! yay!
Smudge- yeah, she had her young, but graduated hs and is just finishing up her degree in medical assisting! I am glad that she got to finish high school and really really happy that she got to go to college too!
me too, and this kid is the cutest thing since sliced bread! sooooo amazingly cute! and i haven;t seen her since Christmas and she is almost 3 feet tall and she is 22 months old and I get to see her twice this week!! tomorrow and Friday!!!
That is really good - as much as I want kids I wouldn't want to have had them while i was in uni!
yay my cousin had a baby late last year and we always see him and i like kidnap him everytime i see him and o1 else gets to hold him but me hahaha
I so do that too! Esepcially with Ari since her mom is basically just happy that she doesn't have to do anything! So long as she tells me anything I don't know, such as where stuff is, she can just chill! I love babies!!!! Sooooo cute! and little kids too!
yessss hahahah so thats never put both of us in a room with only 1 baby hahah
hahaha, so true! I hate it when there are other people who want to spend all their time with the baby, but that doesn't usually happen with me, though I do share if I must and my mom always tells me to visit other people, preferably ones over the age of 10! Lucky for me, you can visit with adults while you hold a baby!
Same here Smudge, though I still have 3 years left of college before I can say that I didn't have a baby while going to school! However, I must say that I wouldn't be too horribly heartbroken to have a kid! haha
who has aim/msn one of them i have both ha
so add me:)
msn: erin-reilly@hotmail.com
aim: erinreilly90
i can't imagine having kids for a looooong time!
i hope to adopt, but we'll see where life takes me.
I am with you there CIL! At least on hoping to adopt! I can imagine havin kids somewhat soon, but then again I am almost 20. However, I guess what I mean by somewhat soon I mean in like 7-10 years! haha! Ok, I guess what I am saying is that I want kids, but I know I won't (or shouldn't) have them for another 7-10 years!
i want kids and a family by 25.
I would love except for one slight problem I have already passed that age! hehe!
I would love to be married and have some in the next few years!
yeah true - and that is how I am gonna stay for at least the next few years!
I have friend who said that once she reached 30 she was gonna start going backwards to 21 and the head back up to 30!
It is the whole turing 29 again thing! haha
yeah - I dont thing I will turn 31 in may I will turn 29 again!
sounds good to me! once you hit 30 you grow younger each birthday, so then after 29 will come 28! haha
I think I am gonna do it - just to see what people say!
then when ur 50 u can say ur 30 haha
I like it! Let us know how well it works for you!
I am still working on getting older, haha. But, I know whenever I turn 30, I will want to be my age again. You guys surely have been busy, lol.
we certainly have! We haven't seen you in a while!
Today has been manic! Lots and lots of posting going on right now!
Haha... I know I have been extrememly busy, but I did break my camp sickness through keeping busy. I have been in and out of my state constantly, and I am so excited now. I just got a huge present from my parents, and it is great. But, now I have huge amounts of homework to get too...
homework- grr! I am on Spring Break! The amazingness of college breaks is that you are between classes so you have no homework at all! It is truly a break!
Keeping busy is one way to not think too much about how you miss camp! Another way is to go to camp, like I am on friday!! 2 days for me!!! I should do an hourly countdown! haha Of course then I have another 80-ish days left til summer camp!
I cant believe how busy it is tonight!
I have about 45 more days of school left and about 80ish too towards summer, I assume. I haven't checked recently.
Our spring break is not till later in April. But, I am leaving the country, so I am so excited for it.
It is riduculously busy! i haven't seen it this busy in a month or so, but even then I think it was like 3 people instead of like 5!
My high school spring break is next week, but I will be back in school for it! Have fun with your travels! I have approximately 12 weeks til schools out/camp!
I cant remember the last time it was this busy - it has been a while usually it is CA forum that I cant keep up with!
yeah i havent been on for a while soo much HW but im on break
everyone needs breaks from HW!
u mean u cant believe how busy it is this morning haha
ugh HW. i thought about doing it, then i got on here!
thats the good thing about school being finished ahah
lucky lucky. i've got at least 5 years ahead, most likely 7.
actaully it has only just turned morning for me and then only on a technicallity - since it 00.05 - but that means I am a day closer to camp - only 76 day now!
hahah its 11:07am thursday here
what? 00.05? what the heck are you talking about!?
The time it was 5 past midnight! on thursday morning! so at the moment I am talking to someone in the future and in the past at the same time!
o wow future and past is coool
so erin is thrusday turning out to be better than wednesday was?
well its nice and sunny and not much wind and yes i have eaten less chocolate so far so its quiet good
well it was dark here at 12am to
It is only 6pm wed for me, though when you fuys were really into this conversation it was about 5!
hahahahah its 12:06pm now
well in perth its 10.07am!
so agian sydney is still ahead and wininng we r the best
simply thebest better then all the rest hah
nah - the UK is cos time around the world is set by time!
Yay Big Ben and greenwich meantime!
nah nz is infront of us
lol
NEW ZEALAND is the best =D
hehe
the UK is the best cos I am here!!!!!!!!!!!
go me for being in almost last! haha I think there are places with time zones 2-3 hours behind me and that's about it! I know at least 2 hours, but i am not sure about anymore!
well I have 54 days left until i leave for camp lol
it's 10:13 in MidWest USA.
oh camp is so close, yet so far away.
Its 3.14 am and I cant sleep so I am gonna have fun counting down the days to camp (76 days!) and planning fun stuff for after camp!
oh my! go to bed! that's what i plan on doing sooon!
its 12:19pm here in perth =) so i'm already ahead of u guys lol
oh wow!
i have a friends who lives/d in perth! small world!
I have been through perth in Scotland!!!!!!!
haha cool cool.
i really need to get my butt overseas before i'm an old granny.
lol where abouts in perth does she live?
sad to say, but i have NO idea! i just know that she's from there. sad sad sad.
CAMP!
of course.
she worked there a few summers ago, but sadly we have lost contact.
That is sad!
But maybe you could find her on facebook or myspace
awwwww and u dont look her up on facebook or myspace?!?!?
yeah, maybe!
i guess i will check into that!
ok, i must sleep now! sleep brings you closer to camp!!
night all!
Ok I am gonna follow CILs example and head to bed!
Good chatting with you shayshay.
you guys all left me! haha even though I left you first! Most of you are probably getting up for the day soon or something like that, while it is only 11pm Wednesday for me!
they'll all have one day less wen they get back on the forums where as I'll still have 54 days!
but in 9 hrs i'll have 53 days woot!
i went away for like half a day and im so behind
LOL I know! I got on here this morning, and there were over 200 new posts! I was like, WTF? Did I like, sleep for three days or something?
yeah, yesterday was a crazy crazy day! I left for like an hour and came back to 100 or so posts! We had 5 people on here for hours!
85 days!!!!!! (I think!)
I am just glad that I didn't have to catch up after last night business!!!
yer everyones posting is out of control
i was out all afternoon n night but luckily you guys were all in bed and it slowed down.
59 days
53 days!!!!
Man I feel like I'm going so early!
you are compared to me, and especially to campluver! She was on here for a month or so and then disappeared.
She is a camper and is going to camp in approximately 100 days. I have 85.
75 days for me - yay!!!!!
y am I going so early
anyone had a camp brithday?
cos if i stay at camp for 16 more days I would have!
You are lucky to be going early!
I have never had a camp birthday but would love to have one they are soo much fun!
i want one so badly =(
shame its like 16 days after i leave!
My birthday's in September, so I never get a camp birthday. I don't even get a camp half-birthday.
wat u mean camp half-birthday?
Having her half-birthday at camp- so if your birthday is in Dc, Jan, or Feb your half birthday might be during camp!
dang it i wont get one since mines in august lol
so how far is everyone in preparation for camp?
I have a July birthday, which means a camp birthday! I love having a camp birthday. It's so much fun to share it with all the camp people, and kids are so happy about birthdays.
awwww flower ur SOOO lucky!
My favorite part of it at the camp I used to work at was that I'd get a cake to share with my cabin. Sitting on the floor around a cake laughing and eating was great. The dining hall would get decorated around the birthday person's table, and the whole camp would sing this really long birthday song. I've still got some sweet cards my girls made me, too.
awwwwww see that'd be the best thing but im guessing there would b HEAPS of camp birthdays!
I dont get a camp half birthday either - I think I might suggest to my CD that we have a staff unbirthday for all the staff who dont have camp birthdays!
I like it! Until last summer I didn't get a camp birthday either because it always fell during the grief camp week. But last summer I got one which meant that I got a candle in my desert and happy birthday sung to me. They clapped 19 times for me and then I had to run around the tables while they sang about me doing that!!
As for camp preperation, I am not really all that prepared physically. I have been compiling stuff in my CBIAB and buying a few books, but other than that I haven't really been doing anything. Partially because I have no money to buy too many things at the moment!
84 days!!! and mere hours before I get to go to an outdoor ed thing at camp!! I want to know who else is going to be there! I have no idea aside from the PD, and most likely the CD!
OMG camp preparation! The junk is piling up in my dorm daily. I'm home for spring break, so I've been collecting stuff here too. I have eight bottles, a bag of toilet paper rolls, and a bag of miscellaneous junk, and alreay my mom is yelling at me to find a place for all this stuff. LOL I wonder what she's going to do for the two weeks between school and precamp. She going to freaking cry when I unload the junk from my van. Actually, now that I think about it I should probably just keep everything in my van until it's time for precamp...
That would be an excellent idea to keep all the junk in your van during those 2 weeks! Not only is it out of your mom's way, but it would be pointless to unload all the stuff you have now only to load it back up again!
The thing is I don't know if it's all going to fit lol. I've been bringing it home little by little so I won't have to keep all of it in my van in addition to everything that I'll be bringing home from my dorm.
Hmm, maybe try a friend's garage? (or yours if you have one)
Or could you take the stuff out to camp or the council offices?
Yeah, I thought about checking. I'll have to get onto that...
62 days! But about half that until I start at the barn part-time!
69 days until General Staff Training
78 days until The 1st Session begins
83 days!! you guys are so lucky that you are all going up at least 5 days ahead of me! The boards are going to be so lonely!
73 days (I think I haven't looked in my diary for a fes days - not even sure where it is!)
hahah i dont have a diary
i need one to keep track of all the stuff I do!
62!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
67 days until General Staff Training
75 days until the 1st session begins
51 days till staff training
dont know wen the sessions start lol
should i!
hahah neither do i actually yer i do.
22june so late im there so early
i think mines 4th of june
yeah, my first regular session is like the 6th or sometihng of July. This is because we are starting a week later and we are doing grief camp week first! Yours, shayshay, is like a month later than when mine starts!
82, almost 81 days!
dont u mean a month earlier
hahaha i just thought that!!!
yeah i finish before everyone tho!
72 days until camp - yay - its gradually getting closer!
OFFICIALLY 50 DAYS TODAY!!!
lucky you!!!!!!!!!!!
71 days!
down to 79 days and counting!!!
if i were u guys i would have a camp birthday
Just 59 days for us Cedarledgers! So exciting! We get to go next month, think of it that way!
54 days and i stil have no visa hah
80 days for me! I am almost done with another 10! And I got my contract yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How awesome, I get my contract on Wear Your Camp Shirt Day!!!!!!! woot woot!
I forgot about wear your camp shirt day - but I was wearing my camp hoody so I think that counts!
68 days. oh so long. too long
49 days today people woot woot!!!
I think wearing your camp hoodie counts!
Cool.
We are currently trying to get a guide leaders hoodie (cos currently we dont have that option for our uniform) and one of my co's thinks that my camp one looks really comfy! and it is!
My camp hoodie is really comfy too! I had a second one but it was stolen out of the laundry room, grrrrrr.
I wana buy a hoodie!!
that'd be sooo cool!
do most camps have that option of buying one?
27 days days for me I think!!! Yay!!
Smudge, I'm with you on the Hoodies for Guide Leaders! I was only talking about it with my assistant guider last night! We've even worked out what colour they should be!! lol
The is a petition for them I will get the link for you when I get back from london!
Visa day tomorrow - then camp will seem even closer!
yay! I love it when those cool things happen! I just got my contract on Monday!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo! I already have almost everything filled out and ready to send back to them! I looked at the Colorful Packet of Info (that's a technical term, haha) so much, despite it being more for those staff who have never worked at camp, that I found a typo! They forgot to switch the dates of our time off at the end of precamp so it looks like the time off is before most of the staff even get to camp! Plus it says Friday June 22 to Sat June 23, well the 22nd is a Sunday this year!
79 days til I get to be at camp!!!!!!! I just watched my myspace countdown go to the 79th day since it is a rolling one! I have it set up that camp starts at 9 am, so it changes then, not at midnight!
53 days/
and i got my contract yesterday
It was very exciting getting my contract on Monday!!!! I just have to fill out the W-4 and the rest of the health history form which we are supposed to bring to camp anyway! All the rest is done and just needs to be mailed out tomorrow!
79 days! I know, I already said that this morning, but I am excited!
mine says it has 2 be signed and back there in 21 days(just this 1 bit of the form) anyway its dated the 18th of march n i just got it so im ignoring that hah
I have to have mine back within 14 days of the date mailed. It was mailed on the 28th, so that is alright with me!
Then there are other things that have to be back by May and some that I have to bring with me to camp, but I basically have those done too! haha
i should know before th end of april... probaly sooner
I think I have 67 (it may be 66 or 68) I am not sure were my diary is!
77 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I get to go to camp again in a month for a night!
If you have 77 days then I have 67!
25 days!! Can I say that again?? 25 days!! Whoop Whoop!!
I'm basically the camp director so i kinda need to be on site for the open house and as i'm international i want a couple of days to settle in. So i get to fly out in 25days!! and then theres gonna be an awful lot of prep work to be done before everyone else starts to arrive!
I am still really jealous of your Ermie!
I know lol, i'm jealous of me too!! lol The problem is tho that i've started to get myself all over excited!!
Hello everyone!
My name is Elise and I'm from Holland. This year I'm going to work as a counselor on Camp Horizons (VA) And I was just wondering if there were more people who are going to work as a counselor on the same Camp?! Well... let me know
-xx-
hehe - your allowed to be! I really wish I was going that early!
I would also be over excited about it if I were going so soon! But it makes sense that you are going so early since you are ad staff!
Welcome Elise! I haven't heard of Horizons on here I don't think, but I oculd be wrong! It should be fun though!! Is it s girl scout camp or what?
heey Campkgurl,
Camp Horizons is a Traditional/Pricate Camp in Harrisonburg.
http://www.camphorizonsva.com
hey welcome!
is this your first year @camp?
Hello Cedar Trees,
Yes this year will ne my first year @ camp! And I'm really excited! So if you have any advices or something, let me know!
-xx-
Hi Elise.
Welcome to the boards!
Camp is amazing you will love it!
Which agency are you going to camp with?
I have 66 days until I get to camp.
hey elise what camp u going to
ok ignore that i read higher and found out
I'm going with the Dutch organisation TravelActive, but it's the partner organisation of InterExchange. I will fly June 5th from Amsterdam to NYC and fly June 6th to Camp. Can't wait! -xx-
Cool! I am sure you will have an amazing time at camp - this will be my 6th summer and I always do!
And now I only have 65 days and a visa - all I need is my actual flight details!
75 days! and less than a month until I get to go to camp for an open house and a mom/youth overnight for CampFire!!! woohoo!
woot woot 44 days to go people!!!!
COUNTING DOWN!!!
25 Days 1 Hour 10 Minutes and about 15 seconds. May 2nd here I come.
OMG MAY 2ND HOW COME SO SOON!!!!!!
I'm thinking i've got 22days now? Flying on the 29th April!!
65 days - I think I posted that before but for some reason I was a day out!
59 days until General Staff Training
68 days until the 1st session starts
74 days!!!!!!! woot woot! That means you have 64 days Smudge!
Yeap 64 days!!!!!!!!
Thats is only a little bit more than 2 months.
21 days till i'm over the atlantic!!!
Tomorrow though... Visa Interview!!!
Only 52 days! Wow! I could start packing.
Hello!
I guess all of you are experienced campers! This will be my first year. And after Camp I want to travel around the USA. Does anyone know how much money I need to do something like that? I have no idea what the prices are for bus/train/airplain etc.
-xx-
Six weeks tomorrow and I will be on an aeroplane. Oh wait, sill need to book that!
Hello!
I guess all of you are experienced campers! This will be my first year. And after Camp I want to travel around the USA. Does anyone know how much money I need to do something like that? I have no idea what the prices are for bus/train/airplain etc.
-xx-
It very much depends on what you wanna do and how much luxury you wanna stay in while you are travelling - in 04 my mother and 1 hired a car for a month and drove across america between us we had some thing like $3000 - but we camped alot and nearly all the places we were going to see were free!
Only 52 days! Wow! I could start packing.
Listen, Indigo, I wish I could start packing, but right now I'm more concerned with where the heck I'm gonna pack all this stuff! Plus I gotta get through a paper, an audition, exams, and moving out of my dorm first. Ick!
good luck on your audition!
Aw, thanks! It's not something I think I'll make, but I'm gonna do my best anyway.
47 days i think or 48 or 46
I have to get ready for the summer to come before the staff shows up. Planing events and getting a idea of how the program will run.
Only 23 more days now.
almost 72 days now!!!!!! and I just realixed that I jumoed from being in 9th to 5th on the top posters board! Not that it was that hard to climb those ranks since they were all so close to each other. Now I have to get more than 100 more posts before I pass another person. Oh well, it really isn't all that important, but it is fun to look at sometimes when I remember!
less than a month before I get to go to camp for an overnight thing!! and 73 days til summer camp starts!
I don't go to camp this year :-(
I'm getting married instead though :-)
63 days - getting closer and closer - cant wait!
in 4 minutes I will have 72 days left til camp!! my countdown switches days at the hour that I need to be at camp, 9 am.
I'm down to 67! And that's to the first day we have kids. I'll have a few evening/weekend training things before that.
i have 68 days till i go back to camp! but its 78 days till campers.
rosethorn- what is it for?
Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It's about seduction lol.
a play? are you a drama major?
I have 62 days and 29 mins it will be 61 days! That means that I have 2 months until I go to camp - which is awesome - I totally cant wait!
40 DAYS!!!!
1 MONTH AND 10 DAYS!!!
5 WEEKS AND 5 DAYS
I think you mean 61 Smudge?!
55 days until General Staff Training
64 days until the 1st session starts
70 days! In 11 hours it will be 69 days!! another 10 is almost broken!
59 days - that is less than 2 months!!!!!!!!!
53 days until General Staff Training begins
63 days until the 1st session starts
66 days! 78 days till first session starts
one month before my b-day!
68days till campers come.
43 days till i go.
47 days!!! I should start packing soon, I'm usually all packed and ready by this time of year.
58 days to go!
I already have as stack of stuff waiting to be packed!
5 weeks on Wednesday until I fly!
For real, Indigo? Actually, I think I was the same way when I lived at home. Give me til the semester's over and then I'll be ready.
wow, i normally spend the week before to pack. I clear out my scheudule pretty much to make sure i have time! I'm just way to busy otherwise, and i have less time between my last day at school and camp this year.
I will start packing during finals week because I need to see how much I can sort out my camp stuff and my home stuff and my laundry (which I should probably just do here to make one less pile of clothes!) Then at home I have a week to get everything already, so I will have to do it then!
I might start packing a few weeks before finals because of excitement, but anything before that won't work for me since i am in the dorms this year and anything i have here that goes to camp with me I use while I am here.
68 days!
15 days!!
Possibly should start thinking about packing!! lol
wow 15 days.
yes like how exciting
15 days! O i wish i could go sooner
Wow, you're lucky!
I just get really excited and the way I deal with that is packing. But I've been focusing on school and family (and, admittedly, video games and schemes). I need to decide what I'm doing luggage-wise this year. I think I may go with plastic bins, and leave my suitcase for my Korea packing so I don't have to rush to unpack and repack after camp.
ONLY 43 more days for me! WOOHOO! I cant wait. Even though I have to drive back and forth to work at camp and teach 7th grade at the same time for 3 days...that part is no fun
not 15 days, for me, i was saing that in disbelief!
I fly out two weeks today! Thankfully I got my passport back yesterday with my visa in!! Yay!
Just starting to realise though just how much I have to do before I leave the UK!! Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
Yay! Was gonna ask if you had it back yet!
I have 57 days!
61 days until I leave.
- Teenster
64 days to go until i'm flying to camp, almost less than 2 months, yippee!!!
wow! 66 days and 45 minutes!
39days
50 days until training
59 days until campers arrive
12 days! Is it me or is the time dragging??
55 days.
No its true - the closer you get to camp the slower time goes by!
33 days!!!
i memba like it was yesterday saying i had 3 months to go!
even 2! now i have like a month and yes smudge ITS GOING SO SLOW!
64 days for me! I still have a few days until my 2 month mark- grr, but it is going slow and I am not even close yet! Although I do remember joining the boards and getting a countdown at like 122 days or something like that, so it has been like 60 days and it is basically the half-way mark from then, so that is awesome!
I know I am going to have less than 50 days soon and that is like the next big barrier to pass!
62 days to go!!! So ready for it!!
53 days.
I finally got my flight details - i have to be at the airport at 6am - that is the only thing I am not looking forward to - now I have to figure out how since no in my family has a car and buses dont run then!
I sure know how that goes- trying to get to the airport! By the time Ifinished with my finals after all my friends with cars had left. I had to take 2 busses and get there like 2-3 hours before my flight when i really only needed to be there an hour before since it is a smaller airport. It took me 1.5 hours to get to a place that is normally 20 minutes away!
Good luck!
62 days!! 2 more days until I have 2 months!!! woohoo! That means that I have less than 2 months til I am out of school! another woohoo!!!
52 days - nearly breaking another huge barrier in the count-down world! Soon I will have less than 50 days - Yay!!!!!!!!!!
2 months exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo! actually less than 2 months since it is after 9 am and that is when I have to be there in June!
45 days until General Staff Training
54 days until the 1st session begins
i only have 34 days woo.
i thought it was 36 lol
oooooo eff yeh!
now 29 days before I leave!
THATS UNDER A MONTH!
thats 4 weeks and 1 day!
The boards are going to be so lonely!! I will get on the boards and there will be no replies for me to read! I will probably end up looking back in the archives! haha or I will hang out with friends and such and study for finals and pack! I think there is 1 person on here now who is within 10 days of my start date! Campluver4eva had more than me, but she hasn't been on in a long time.
2 months though!! and actually I have less than 2 weeks until I get to go to camp for a weekend thing! woohoo!!!
Next tuesday I fly out!!
Wow, thats a week today! Thats a whole 7, yes I think I just said SEVEN days to go!!
Sorry but I really felt the need to rub it in a bit!! I know, I know how childish but I'm so excited!! lol
OMG! I only have 172 hours and 42 minutes before my plane takes off from Heathrow!!
i'll be here for awhile, mine starts the 2nd week of june.
57 days to go, less than 2 months, woohoo!!!
After today, only 34 more days for me! YEAY! I can't even wait.
59 days!! under 60 and under 2 months!!!!!!!!
I have to be at camp on the 2nd of May to help plan for the summer. I'm the assistant camp director running the day camp.
Only 9 more days!!!
OMG! I only have 172 hours and 42 minutes before my plane takes off from Heathrow!!
Oh my goodness ermie you have worked it out to hours and minutes
I have 50 days but an only a bit over an hour away from having 49 days!
Now it is only 49 days till camp!
From the date and hr now i have
672 hrs and 15 mins
I just got placed at a Girl Scouts Camp and leave in 55 days !!
Thankyouuu! I've been messed about a bit with my application so I'm really happy that I finally know where I'm going!
where are you going plum?
Camp Yaiewano, NY.
I haven't been able to find out much about it but it looks quite nice [:
Cool. Lots of us here work at GS camps and have done for a number of years (this will be my 5th summer at GS camp and 6th summer at camp) so if you have any questions about GS camp in general I am sure we will be able to answer them for you.
37 days! I'm starting to think about packing, but I really should do my final project for school first, since it's due in 6 days.
One nice thing Indigo, is if you do the school project you will be done with it and then think about packing and such! I know, I am such a hypocrite as far as homework goes since I never do it before 8pm on the night before it is due!
58 days! less than 2 months! and i have a week and a half until I get to do a little weekend thing at camp, including open house!!! i am soooo excited for open house!!! woot woot!
51 days.
- Teenster
57 til summer camp!! 8 until mom/youth overnight and open house!
41 days! (assuming I can count ;))
that is 1 month - you are sooo lucky!
I KNOW RIGHT. but im scared.
and yesterday i got a what 2 bring list n they want me 2 bring khaki shorts.
its going into winter here, like no shops have summer clothes anymore:(
that's sad and something I never would have thought of! But then again I have never had to experience that!
dont worry you will be able to get them in walmart once you get to camp! I would just email you camp and check that they are gonna do a shoping trip before the campers arrive!
42 days until General Staff Training begins
51 days until campers arrive
Only 52 days until the first day of camp! (Less until the first staff day.)
57 days til I get to camp and 58 days until I have campers! I am one of the returning staff who is going a week early to be a counselor at grief camp so we have a day to get trained for the grief camp, reunite ourselves with the staff and get settled and ready for the campers the next day! Then I will have precamp the week after that and then campers will come like the 6th of July, which is late, even for us.
4 days!
51 days till Pre-camp training courses start
63 days till the first camper arrive!
I am soooooooo jealous Ermie!
46 days til i fly to camp!
And i am soooooooooo excited - i was just chatting with a new member of staff on face book - i love the new chat facility!
39 days till i fly out 42 days till i start at camp
Boxy
5 days 14hrs 6mins 20 seconds.
40 days 21 hours 59 minutes until staff training starts
50 days EXACTLY until the 1st camp session starts
as of 12:00 noon Central Time
55 days 20 hours 9 minutes and 58 seconds!!!
45 days and about 2 1/2 hours until I leave the house for camp - and about 46 days and 12 hours until i actually arrive at camp!
I love how you are always on the boards Smudge! It must be like 3 am for you and you are always online about now!
it is 3am and i will shortly be going to bed! I just though I would check them before heading to bed - crazy pyscho neighbor has been partying again!
stupid crazy partying neighbors!
I like how just checking the boards turns into a long thing!
hehe! there are some boards i am on where i can safely check them late at night it is quick and other like here it can take an hour - but it is all good!
yeah, we know how long it could take when we go to the site! haha That is true that other boards are quicker! I don't think I have ever had anyone who replied to my talkcamp posts while i was on!
they do for me - but usually it is like laurathistle or code3cadet or these city lights no one else really!
34 days until staff training! Oh, so close yet so far away!
54 days and 22 hours! That's the problem with my countdown though, it switches to 54 days, but it is 54 days and 22 hours, so it is really closer to 55 days right now! haha Oh well, i think that is how most countdowns are, but since I see the hours I think it is wrong, but it is right or something.
5 days until I will be at camp!!!
32 days left, or so my countdown says! I was thinking I had 33.
I've been working hard on my school project, and it's almost finished now. Plus, I've had a lot of camp-related things to do lately! I went to give out camp information with my camp's director at a farmers market on Saturday (nobody was really interested). Then yesterday I went to my camp's barn to see the horses and accompany our council's head of camps on some shopping trips for the barn. Today I'm going to a camp parents night at council's office. I'm excited!
that sounds like alot of fun! I wish I could be involved in camp so much more of the time!
o wow i wish i could leave this weekend!!
but i still have 3 weeks left of classes
then another month after that before i leave - 51 day in all till camp
Well guys, just thought i'd drop in and say goodbye as i'm flying out tomorrow!! I'm not sure when i'll be online next but I hope each of you has a safe journey to camp!
This time tomorrow i'll be landing at JFK!!
Well guys, just thought i'd drop in and say goodbye as i'm flying out tomorrow!! I'm not sure when i'll be online next but I hope each of you has a safe journey to camp!
This time tomorrow i'll be landing at JFK!!
HAVE A SAFE TRIP!!! AND HAVE A AWESOME SUMMER!!!
Wow, some people seem to have barely any days left. I've still got 52 days to go but it will be worth it once camp comes!!
Wow, you are so lucky!
I still have 5 weeks of classes left, and a week at home! 53 days!
It is so weird starting these goodbyes! I haven't experienced it yet, but it is kind of interesting, but sad and happy at the same time! Ya know?
I have 32 days as well Indigo! We are count down twins!
In 10mins I will have 53 days! (and i am being stalked by laura - hehe!)
22 days today!!!!
btw i think im going to go CRAZY if i can't go to church......i want to try and find a church near me but im like 6000 ft on a mountain......im hoping theres one there! the shitty thing tho is that i have to be at camp on sunday morning and well i dont know if i'll be able to fit in church!
neone had this dilemma?
I have that dilemma every year. At my previous camp we had it writen into our contract that we could have 2 hours off on a sunday to go to church if was wanted to (obviously not if the entire staff took that up!). Anyway last summer I didnt get to church once and I found it really hard, however this summer I have found a church near me - well about 30-40 min drive and I have figured that if the CD will let me adjust when I take my 6 hours off I can get to church if someone will drive me - so I am going to ask her when I get there. If not then I am planning to take my scriptures which i read daily and the manual I use when I am teaching sunday school so that I can keep up with the course for when I get back and i will be able to pray too. Although i find it hard not getting to church at all hard - I dont find that my faith wavers because every one on camp has to live the same standards as I anyway - no swearing, no alcohol, no drugs, dress modestly etc. Hope this helps!
43 days till i leave for camp!
i had my visa appointment thismorning.
and 27days.
Good luck with that Erin - hope it goes OK!
Hope it went ok!
I love how we just go off topic on this board, but add our countdown to the end of our post and all is well!
So, in keeping with it, I have 53 days!!
51 days til summer camp!!!
2 days until mom/youth and open house!!
I am so excited for the 50 day mark!! and the less than 50 day mark! I might not get to see my countdown on the 49th day because i am leaving early in the morning- before my countdown switches to 49 days, but that is ok!!
50 days and 23 hours!!!!! It says 50 though!!!!!!
33 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes till I have to be at the airport!
12 more hours and I'm heading to camp!!!
50 days!!!! and 17 hours!!
25 hours until I will be at camp for the weekend!! but I leave in 20 hours!!
OMG I'M INTO THE 10'S!!!
19 DAYS TODAY!!!
lucky you!
I leave in 40 days!
I'm waiting on the less than 50 day mark, coming up in 54 minutes!
one month from yesterday!!!!!!!! WAHOO JUNE 1st
down to 49 days, yeah!!! I'm happy to be out of the 50's and almost down to only a month to go. woohoo!!!
Just wanted to say... I'm back! And with only 76 days to go, which is a large improvement over my last post, lol.
28 days! So freaking excited!
11 days for me.. and I have so much to do still!
OMG 17 DAYS TODAY!!!!
I'm so effin excited!!!!!
Yay for campluver for being back!!!!!
47 days!!! In some ways it was awesome to go to camp and get a fix, but since it was only 24 hours, and we didn't have campers of our own (they were with their moms in cabins seperate from us, and open house was just tours for campers) it was kind of a big tease! I got a little bit of it and then it was ripped away from me so soon!!
30 Days today
29 more days till i finish at work
41 days. Why do I have more than anyone else?
- Teenster
dont know but pre camp has started my owners and directors are at camp already with some staff arriving in the next week
Teenster- I have 46 days! But yeah, it seems unfair that everyone else gets to go earlier!!
I keep saying 'hurry up camp' but the days aren't really dragging by the way they did last year. I wouldn't say they were flying by either but moving at a steady pace! Any one else think that?
38 Days!!!!!!!!!! I'm so ready!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so not ready! But I will be in 25 days!
I agree with you laura!! The days are moving, neither quickly, nor slowly. Some days are really slow, some are really fast, but most are just there.
46 days!!!!!!!
31 days 15.5 hrs until staff training
40 days 17 hrs until the 1st session begins
16 days!
there going by so fast and i have so many things to do before i leave!
Good luck to you all this summer. I am jealous. I spent 8 summers at camp, and got just as excited as the kids each year. I hope you all have a great experience!!!
i just called the hotel radisson cos thats the hotel we're staying at for our orientation
and the american i spoke to asked me one question "do the toilets really flush the other way"
HAHAHAHAHA sorry but i thought that was the funniest thing i had eva heard!!!!
i just called the hotel radisson cos thats the hotel we're staying at for our orientation
and the american i spoke to asked me one question "do the toilets really flush the other way"
HAHAHAHAHA sorry but i thought that was the funniest thing i had eva heard!!!!
That is hilarious! it sounds like they have never spoken to an Australian person before! They must have seen that episode of the Simpsons where Bart makes a long distance call (charges reversed) to find out the answer to that same question and later has to go to Oz to make an apology.
My god. Stupidity like this is something you don't here often. Oh, wait... Yes you do. So many stupid people in this world...
Anyway, 72 more days.
36 days - but nearly 35 days yeah!
Well it's an equator thing, like the water is supposed to swirl the opposite way in the bath tub.
yeh in the northern hemisphere it goes anti clockwise while in the southern hemisphere it does clockwise
well when they guy asked me the first thought that came into my head was "he's neva spoken to an australian before" lol
2 WEEKS TODAY!!!! WOOHOO!!
Maybe it was a really bad pick up line Shayshay! Maybe you can expect a box of chocolates/bunch of flowers taped to the toilet!
yea u guys should of like organised a date it was obvious u were meant to be. haha
Just thought I'd say hi!
I can't count down to camp anymore as I'm here!! yay! The flight was fairly uneventful but the camp is beautiful, so many trees!
If it helps there's 39 days till pre-camp starts and everyone one else gets here
Yay!! another countdown for ermie to have!! I am glad that it's all going good too!!!
44 days!!!
Thats right rub it in Ermie - hope you are having fun at camp though!
28 days until i goto camp. i'm arriving on June 5th and training begins on June 6th
34 days for me - I arrive on the 11th June, pre-pre-camp starts on the 13th and pre-camp starts the following wednesday!
Maybe it was a really bad pick up line Shayshay! Maybe you can expect a box of chocolates/bunch of flowers taped to the toilet!
hahahahah i hope he got my room number cos man i totally hope theres chocolates on top of the toilet lol
that would be really funny to see a box of chocolates on the toilet!!
hahahahahahaha wen i get there i should ask someone who knows the guy who asked the australian that weird question! lol
that would be funny - you will have to let us know how that goes! You mean you didnt ask his name!
Just 21 days for me! I'm so excited! I have to finish my packing, though. I think I've got everything I need, I just need to throw it all in the right bins.
19 more days...oh, wow...less then 20! and 14 more days of teaching 7th grade(thats too many!)
I agree, too many days of teaching 7th grade!!! I am definitely not going to be teaching middle school!! I like the little ones!! I love the kids of that age, but I don't want to deal with 20-30 of them at a time and with all the behavior and mouthing off and hating me for telling them to be quiet! The little ones still love school and their teacher!
43 days!! You guys are so lucky to be at a month left or less!! I have 4 more weeks of classes and finals week, so I won't be home for another 5 weeks! Then I have another week at home before camp, so 6 weeks til camp!
I think to teach the little ones, high school, or college would be best. Middle schoolers are sooo moody.
definitely moody, which I can't really blame them on account of their bodies and such, but I just would love to teach the little ones, either preschool or elementary!! and then, preference-wise, I would teach high schoolers, then college, then middle school.
43 days!! getting close to the 40 day mark!!!
Grr. I have exactly seventy days, today.
i have 12 days today =)
and today i finish work
oh its so sad =(
Wow! Lucky you! I WISH I was that close. Too bad that's only going to happen in July...
I have 33 days! Yay - that is nearly a month!
22 days!. Three weeks tomorrow!
42 days in a few hours!!!! although I suppose it is basically 42 days now since I am counting down to the minute when we are supposed to be there!! I will be getting up about now though probably!! If I am not already awake because of excitement!!!
It is so weird because I am excited to go to camp for grief camp! Just sounds ironic, doesn't it?!?!
You who are going so soon are lucky! I will be in finals weeke when Smudge leaves! And still in classes when everyone else except campingqueen and campluver leave. I will be at home when campingqueen leaves and at camp when campluver leaves. So I am the last staff person to be leaving for camp that I know of on here!!
It's funny, how when you're the last staff person to leave, and (I'm pretty sure) I'm the only camper... We are the two last people to leave, and we have a 28 day difference.
Kinda makes me want to kick something because I'm so jealous of all of you.
I'm not far off of you, 38 days for me. (37 days until graduation!)
Silly PNW school schedule...but there is the bonus of not starting up again until the end of September - you still get summer vacation after camp to do nothing and prepare for another school year.
Yay!!! i found someone else within the 10 days that seperate Smudge and I!! I was thinking that I was the only one who was leaving so late, but then campingqueen and now you midknyt!! yay!! Of course I wish that we could all be leaving a little earlier, and I am happy that you guys get to enjoy yourselves soon, but it will be so lonely for those 3 days!! haha I probably won't be on them much since I will be packing and hanging out with friends!! Oh well!
Campluver, I will sign on while I am there so that you are not toally alone on here!! probably like once or twice a week!
That's not much, but thanks...
It will be nice talking to someone who's actually AT camp!
very true! But we only have 2 computers at camp and 5 staff, so i can't guarantee that I will get the computer all that often in the first place! Better to surprise you with signing on more than signing on less than I say!!!
I will miss the boards, but not really all that much since I will be at this place that we talk about sooooo much!! haha
5 staff? That's a pretty small camp, then... Good point, though. I'd rather be surprised than disappointed.
And it's not very easy to miss the boards at camp, especially if we're on the boards because we miss CAMP.
oops, 50 staff!!!!! hahaha
and it isn't very easy to miss the boards when at camp!! I don't really know why I said that!!! I went to camp last weekend and didn't think about the boards unless I was using knowledge, ideas, or stories gained on the boards!!!!
41 days, 41 days, lalalalalala, 41 days, lol, getting more and more excited!! It's tough to be one of the last to leave, but it also means we will be one of the last to get back home:):) Some people will already be back home while we're still at camp.
very true, but at the same time, I am coming straight home after camp, or maybe after the weekend, depending on what plans are made. Either way, I will be home within a week of the end of camp and most everyone else is traveling!
I will get home on the 29th or 30th of August I think. What about everyone else??
42 days!!!
I will prob get home mid october - my visa including the grace period expires 24th oct!
But since you were probably meaning when do we finish camp - I am not sure - my contract is up in 15th Aug - but may stay and do the troop camp and tall and small the two weekends after my contract finishes!
I will be on occaisionally while i am at camp cos we have wireless at camp so will be taking lappy with me!
I love that you have wireless at camp!! Our computers are soooooo ancient!!! We don't have a flat screen monitor and probably haven't gotten new computers in like 5-10 years!! Or at least that's probably how old these ones are!!
Yeah, my contract includes our extra weeks, but that is because they are included in the season and I was asked if I wanted to work them when I interviewed and got hired.
We appear to have a wireless router at camp but whether it works i'm not sure! The internet at the moment certainly doesn't so I have to keep treking down to the library which is why i'm not on very often!
37 days till everyone else gets here!!!
NB was telling me that!
I love that we have wireless too cos as I am sure Ermie or NB would back me on this - the 2 computers we have are also ancient and very slow and unreliable!
The Chenoa computers are of the same era that Fransworths were from i.e pre-dinosaurs!!
Although the ones at my camp this yar don't look particularly up to date!
hehe! I guess it is the price to pay for doing the job we love - i guess at the end of the day we arent there for the computers! But having a lappy is will be soo much better! Specially cos it means i wont have to deal with computer hogs!
30 more days till camp! 6'till my b-day, 12 more 'till summer!
wow!!! Lucky!! I have 42 til camp, 32 or 33 til school is done, 35 til I go home, and 102 until my birthday! and like 93 until my cousin's wedding in Hawaii!
32 days till i leave for camp!
Okay, let's see if I know this. 69 days until leave for camp, 73 days until camp actually starts, 55 days until school's out, and 111 days until my birthday.
nice, nice!! I like how we turned this into the Ultimate Coutdown 08, as opposed to just camp!! haha
Yeah, though we're getting a bit off topic here...
not really, we are keeping our camp countdown in there!! haha
41 days til camp!!!
sad! I remember those days! those were bad days- before the 2 months date had past!
I think everyone else is going to be mad at us for posting so much today!! haha So I will apologize now, Sorry everyone!!
I guess I'll apologize with you, even though I won't be posting anymore, 'cause I gotta go to bed. 'Night!
good night! and i need to shower and get ready for the day and then go hang out with one of my camp friends!
31 days - that is one month!
68 days. That's... more than one month...
More than two, actually. Double
Today is 11th May and this time on 11th June I will be half way over the altantic ocean! Whooop!
(It is also the 22nd anniversary of my getting baptised as a member of my church - i know it has nothing to do with camp but had to share it with some one!)
I have been at camp for 8 days now. I'm still getting use to the new camp but I'm really like it. The only thing we are missing are the campers. 36 more days to go until campers get here!
Luke, you are lucky! And Smudge, congratulations on your baptisation (or however you say it) anniversary! XD
yay!!! That's cool that it is your baptismal anniversary!! and it is cool that it falls on your 1 month date for camp!!
Luke you are lucky!! You campers will be there before I go to camp!
40 days though!!!!
30 days!!!!! (less than a month!)
40 days!! Tomorrow is another 10 down!!! As of today though, a month and 10 days!!
me too - i cant beleive it is getting sooo close
67. Not too close, but closer than it was earlier, when I started posting here. *Snort* 134 days...
I remember having like 122 days when I started posting on here! Now it is at 40!!
35 days...
- Teenster
Ahhh....two weeks...14 days
39 days now!!!! As of 2 minutes ago!! woohoo!!
I'm in the 30's yippee, 37 days to go!!!
1 month, 1 week and 2 days!
I'm into the teens now - 18.
24 days until training starts
33 days 2 hrs until the 1st camper session begins
but, indigo... why are you at 16 and i'm at 18... it doesn't make sense.
But Speckles, I'm going a couple days early to entertain the internationals during ad staff week.
in 27 minutes it will be 38 days for me!!
How many internationals are coming in early? I thought most of them were getting in on the 30th or 31st??
The internationals always come on friday mostly.
That's what I've been hearing from them.
Whoooopee! I no longer have to catch the train to get to the airport! My craft club is having a social the night before and I was saying I would have to leave early so that I could catch a 6am train and someone offered to drive me!!!!!!! Whoopeeee makes life sooooo much easier!
yay Smudge!! that's awesome!!!
38 days and counting!
37 days to go or 1 month and 5 days.
Umm... somewhere around the mid-sixtys... I'm not sure, and I can't find my countdown paper.
Okay, I found my sheet. I have sixty five days.
4 weeks today at this time I will be on the plane just about to take off!
Haha. You're so lucky! I don't even know what time my flight leaves yet! Or what airline I'm flying!!!
in 33 minutes I will have 37 days!!!
12 days, cause you dont count today, or the day you go? right...haha.
Well, I think that depends how much of the day is left... and how much of the day you have to wait until you leave.
my countdown is very exact! To the second I am supposed to arrive, so I don't really have too much of that issue! hehe and since my travel time is so insignificant compared to a lot of other people's I can just subtract the 45 minutes of travel time until i leave!
37 days! or, as I realized, 1 month and 1 week!! In 1 month I get to go home!!! woohoo!!
This time in 4 weeks if I am not at camp then I will at least be in NH and nearly at camp!
yay Smudge!!!! You are soooo close!!! I still haven't hit the 1 month mark!! I still have a week left for that!
Not long until you do though!
very true! since it is now Spring the days go by so much faster!! It is sad that spring started like a month and a half ago and it is no just starting to be Spring! Especially since we had the extra 6 weeks of winter so spring started later!!
Your spring started late - ours started early - i was wearing shirt sleeves in early feb!
35 days to go, almost only one month for me too!!!
It's just now starting to be spring there? Wow. We're expecting our first 100 degree day this weekend.
And with it feeling like summer, I've got 32 days until the first day with kids! (And 14 days of school!)
well, ok I suppose it was really spring a few weeks ago since I am thinking more of summer weather I guess. We are getting days in the 50s and 60s. This week it is going up to the 80s, which for me is summer. Just a week or so ago we had a few days in the 40s and most in the 50s.
For all of you complaining that you have more than 1 month... be happy- I have more than 2. 64 more days.
i must say 6 days sounds totally awesome woohoo for me
I'll be at camp in a month... 32 days (counting the day I get there).
- Teenster
17 days! I think! Leadership brunch Sunday! I am pumped!
That's exactly half of my time!
14!
I keep finding more things I need. Like I went out and got deodorant, only to come home and realize I still need 2 pairs of flip flops for showers and the pool. So I'll have to make another quick camp shopping trip some time soon!
yeah, soon I am going to have to make a list of things I need for the summer and then go out and get itwhen I go home. Although, I am going to be at Walmart on Sunday, so I might get some stuff then!
36 days in 6 minutes!!
Oh Indigo...that means I have 12 days...and so much to do! I best get busy, while still teaching!
i haven't even thought about what i need! my last final exams are on the 28th, and i go to camp on the 30th!
it shall be crazy to get everything done before then.
So out of curiositity I went back to find out how many days I had when I started this thread - at that point i only knew in weeks and months - the first time I did post days i had 118 - not i only have 27 days and 8 hours until I leave the house!
woohoo!
i have just 2 weeks left!
63 days... 9 weeks... yipee.
31 days... I'm starting to get nervous.
- Teenster
in 2 hours it will be 35 days!! tomorrow it will be 5 weeks!!!!!
I was just looking at my weather thing on my computer. It gives me a 10 day extended forecast. Well, today it is going to be 84 degrees F, and it will be in at least the 70s for most of the next 10 days. Wednesday the 21st is my 1 month date. Well, on that day it is going to be in the 60s and raining. How poetic is that! That is not summer weather, but at the same time, it is what I am going to be getting most of my summer! So it is going to "rain on my parade" a little more literally! haha
1 hour until I have 35 days, and today I figured out the day of the week that I will be celebrating my 1 month! It is less than a week away!
hehe - not excited about camp are you? have you worked out how many hours you have yet?
not total, no, but I could do it really easily since I have my days and hours countdown. multiply the number of days times 24 and then add the hours! so I have 864.5 hours!! haha That seems so far away!! I don't like it! I will stick with my days and weeks! and soon I will be rid of my month unit!
I was thinking about working it out into hours but havent yet.
I have 613 hours and about 15 mins until I leave and then will get to camp 17 - 18 hours after that!
another countdown mark could be when you reach 500, or 100 hours!! haha
yeah that is true.
Just cos i am that sad - 613 hours is 36780 minutes or 22068800 seconds!
hahahahaha!!! That's amazing!! I didn't even think about going that far into it, but I definitely will have to, after i finish the math that is due today, in like 2 hours!! oopsies!!
oooops! i am gonna go then and stop distracting you!
But it was really easy maths to work out if you have a calculator.
oh I know, it will take me about 1 minute, including getting out my calculator! In fact we just learned conversions in math class (more complicated ones, but we did talk about these for a minute or so!) because I am in elementary education math, so we are learning all the stuff we were already taught and forgot!!
Sounds fun!
I have taken a math class since 1996!
One month, 31 days, today!
(30 days until graduation!)
13 days! oh i can't wait!
Wow Smudge, that is a long time since you have taken math! I am done with it after this quarter. I have 2 more math tests and 1 more math final for the rest of my life!!! woohoo!! I like math, but I don't like math tests!
I have one more math final for the year...i'm debating to take or not take precal and trig next year...any thoughts? should I or not?
At UK unis we dont have generals so when I finally made it to uni aged 24 i didnt have to take them!
18 days, 6 hours, and 51 minutes till I get to the airport!!!!!
2 weeks today! I am starting to freak out a bit! At least I have finished all my school work.
24 days, 13 hours and 24 mins until I leave for the airport!
take pre calc if you know you are going to care about your grades, but i would take pre-calc. it'll get you further... but i don't know your other choices.
lucky you! Does that mean that shayshay has left already?
i think so but her msn has been left on if sooo. but its constantly away. she prob has
nope im still here lol
yeh dam msn my bad i never really turn it off im a bit lazy =P
i leave on wednesday!
2 days!
well techincally only really 1!!!!
woohoo for you guys!!!!!! Soooo lucky!! Shay, you leave on my 1 month date! I leave on June 21st! So I have 32 days!!!
one week from today! Woohoo
have fun Shay!
15 days for me!
32 days and 18 hours!! On wednesday it will be 1 month!!!!!!!
haha - on wednesday it will be 3 weeks for me!
I leave a week on Saturday and am starting to flap about a bit because I am really unprepared!
22 days!
I am sure you will be fine laura.
I was a good guider/counsellor today and pegged out my sleeping bag to air (washed it when I got home from camp but i has been in my back pack all winter!
thanks guys todays my last before i leave
ARRRR IM SO SCARED!
just about finishd packing my bags and well for me to pack just over 20kgs is such an achievement i pat myself on the back lol
Well done - shay - i usually end up with well over that - my prob is that the more i do camp the more i know i need!
Have a safe journey and a wonderful summer! And we will see you back here after the summer.
Have a good trip and a fantastic summer Shay!
See you later shay!! Have a good summer!!
byeee shayyyy have a great timeee.
14 days for me 2 whole weeks i had my visa iterview today it was the easiest one yet they asked 2 questions. one was Do you Know where your camp is. the other have you been thee before
19 days left if I am able to get into the camp I would like.
14 days for me 2 whole weeks i had my visa iterview today it was the easiest one yet they asked 2 questions. one was Do you Know where your camp is. the other have you been thee before
that sounds pretty much like my visa interview - except the bit where they didnt accept my pboto cos I tried to use the same pic as last year. But my questions were "so this is your 6th summer at camp you must love it" and "Do you have family nearby to help you mother while you are away" - I really feel like the interviews are such a waste of time and money - but they have to be done.
Thats sad that you have to go through them every year, just for something as stupid as that! If they asked more substantial questions, I could see doing it. But since that is all, it sounds like it is just a waste of time and money (aside from the fact that you have to do it to work at camp!).
Exactly! The worst of it that this year I wouldnt have had to have went if i had went to london last year. Instead i worked out how much it cost and it worked out cheaper to go to Belfast (by only something like ?5) so I went there. When i found out that meant i would have to go again this year I was well annoyed!
That would be very annoying! Will you have to go again next year?
31 days!!!! 1 month and 1 day!!!!!! woohoo!!
wow, less than a week! So lucky erin!
I dont know if i will have to go next year cos I am not using CA so might have to
21 days for me - or 20 days and 23 1/2 hours!
oh ok, that's right! You are going to be ad staff or at my camp!! woohoo!
Yeap - just have to wait until after camp to see which - that is getting me all excited for next year - yeah to new challenges!
yay! I am excited for my new camp (whichever one it may be) but I still have this summer and the next! Not to mention the fall of that year! And that is just before the application process starts! 2.5 years! wow!
29 Days until i leave for camp! boy do i hope this next month goes by fast!
That is understandable - but i am sure you will be fine!
Have fun, Shay... (I know you will!)
And on a sadder note... 58 days.
hey campluver!! you have less than 2 months!!! yay!!! That date wasn't that long ago for me! But it is a good one to get done with! This month has pretty much flown, though I bet this last one will fly too! got to get there though! Tomorrow!!
25 days.
- Teenster
Lucky you! But this time in 3 weeks I will be on the plane waiting to depart heathrow airport!
(I can see me posting on here from the airport cos am taking my lappy with me this summer - i am sure there will be post like - just leaving for the airport, at glasgow airport or just going to board the plane in heathrow!)
1 month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as of 3 minutes ago! so really, I leave for camp in 43 minutes less than a month! woohoo!!!
(Can you get online without paying for it at heathrow? At the airport near school we have to pay for it in chunks of time- 15 minutes, an hour, etc. I haven't tried it at my home airport though.)
I think the airports have wifi! At least glasgow does - it even has places were you can plug in your laptop - oh i need to add an adaptor to my shopping my list!
yeah, we have wifi, but when you go to log on you have to pay for it, probably with a credit card or something.
I can't believe it but today is the one month date!! woohoo!
Yeap! For me it is 3 weeks - infact 3 weeks today I will actually be at camp!
hopefully if I get the job at Shaw it will be a matter of days
That seems weird that you could be leaving in a few days and you still don't know if you got the job! wow! I suppose Lostfiniel (sorry if I spelled that incorrectly!) is in much the same spot you are! I knew like 3 months ahead of time (officially). Then again, I applied in January, within hours of the online app becoming available!
I know it would be weird but thankfully I live in the same state as the camp and hopefully I can get the physcial done in time
that's good then. Can't you get the physical done before you get hired? Don't they jsut need to be within the year or something like that? I highly doubt camp would object if you got it done before you found out. Or at least made the appointment.
My camp is in the same state as me too- only 30-45 minutes away!
I will send the director about e-mailing the form and I can make the appoinment in the morning.
I am about 2 hours or so away from camp and they want an interview in person but I want to do a phone interview because of gas prices
That seems weird that you could be leaving in a few days and you still don't know if you got the job! wow! I suppose Lostfiniel (sorry if I spelled that incorrectly!) is in much the same spot you are! I knew like 3 months ahead of time (officially). Then again, I applied in January, within hours of the online app becoming available!
I think I bet you on that one campkgurl - I knew I had my position, although i didnt know what position, before the application process was opened in February.
I think you definitely beat me!
I am getting really worried now as I leave a week on Saturday and am still no where near ready!
I had to have my placement confirmed inorder to get the returners discount so emailed my CD in Dec, heard through a friend that i was hired before new year and 3 or 4 days into January it was official!
most camps I talked to didnt even have the applications ready until mid janurary
Ah but you see being international we get treated differently so that we can make the most of the discounts available if we apply early!
yeah plus you can proberly get cheaper airfare if you plan in advance
I dont have to pay my airfares - they are included in the flat rate that I pay CA - would have to pay the same to them even if I took the own travel option - and dont get a significant enough increase in waht I get paid to make it worth it!
ok because I head that though another placement agency that my first camp used that one guy had to pay his own airfare
Ah - in CA the people from NZ and AUs have to pay their own fares but they get paid alot more than european staff do to help cover that!
That explains it because the staff I knew from Aus that used CA said that had to book a flight many months in advance and had to save alot of money for the flight
Yeap! Glad I am not in Aus or NZ cos the flights can cost loads if not booked well in advance!
I kinda know that because I priced tickets for almost a year in advance and they are expensive
26 days till pre-camp!!
And only 10 days till my co-director moves on site with me!! Camp feels empty when you're there on your own!
I wouldnt like to stay on camp on my own!
Oh its not too bad, my accommodation is near the entrance to camp to it isn't like i'm in the middle of nowhere, although it is pitch black outside and it's a 5 min walk to the rangers house!! lol
Rather you than me - when I lived alone - but near others one summer I didnt sleep well at all!
Ick! What is that in USD?
no aud - australian so thats more then usd
no aud - australian so thats more then usd
I meant what is the exchange rate - how much would it be in USD - cos i dont know what how many aud there are to the ? but i do know how many usd there are to the ?
1 aussie dollar is like .90c generally its been changing alot.
OK! Having converted to a currancy I understand i still say ICK!
hahah yay we all understand
I'M HERE!!!!
just thought i'd tell you all that I'm here and it's so awesome!!! having fun chilling out and can't wait to go shopping!!!!
Hey Ermie - why are you there so early? (just curious)
When you first said you got there I just thought your camp started really, really early.
I love that you want to shop!
Yay for being at camp!!! more and more people are there each day! This place is going to be so empty after the Cedarledgers leave!
Glad you made it safely to camp Shay.
hooray!
i leave a week from tomorrow!!
well i'm not at camp yet! lol
i should of sed i'm in LA =P
just done my orientation and its my last day to be free and do nothing so guna take advantage of it!
25 days today.
(24 days until graduation!)
29 days!!! wow, less than 30 days!!!!!
Still cool though Shay! hope you are enjoying LA!
exactly TWO WEEKS and like 12 hours until i get on a red-eye flight to the other side of the country!
i'm nervous...after three years at the same camp, this year i'm going to a new one.
excited, though!!!!!!!
How exciting - new camps are always fun! You will have a great time!
Is that LA as in Los Angeles or LA as in Louisiana?
12/13 days left for me. Depending on whether or not you count today!
hoping if I get a call soon I may be at camp with a week or so
She was flying in from Aus and going to camp in Arizona so i would guess that it is los angeles!
That WOULD make a lot more sense than Luisiana!
Haha! true! But you just gotta make sure!
16 days! SO much to do, but SOOO excited
Lucky you!
I have 19 days! Oh my goodness just registered that I have less than 20 days!
it only registered today 4 me cause my 2 best friends left for their camp, there meeting me at my camp in 3 months
Thats cool! I meet up with one of my friends after camp in 02 it was soo much fun!
I am excited to get to camp and I am excited for my after camp travel plans - washington and utah here I come!!!!!!!!!!!
la is really cool!
i can't get over the tax thing tho
everyone keeps staring at us aswell!!
weird but newho the one more thing thats weird IS THE CARS!
for the last 2 days all we've been doing is looking the wrong way and literally running across the roads!
THEIR CRAZY lol
sorry to the americans but its so weird! lol
I bet!!! It would be so weird to be in a country that did everything so oppositely!! I too would run across the street and hope!! hehe
I know what you mean shay, it does take a fair bit to get used to!
Hey Ermie - why are you there so early? (just curious)
When you first said you got there I just thought your camp started really, really early.
This year its a new position for me at a new camp so I wanted to come out a little bit early to find my way around and work on pre-camp stuff, then open house was booked for the 4th May and I wanted to be there for that and there is so much prep work to do such as a brand new manual to be written, pre-camp trainings and sessions to be devised as well as hiring staff that it was just easier to come out early! I admit that next year I won't be out as early as this! lol but it is fun being here and getting things done. I feel like i'm achieving something everyday! :-)
20 days until pre-camp!! (i think?? lol)
ONE WEEK.
oh jeez jeez jeez.
la is really cool!
i can't get over the tax thing tho...
for the last 2 days all we've been doing is looking the wrong way and literally running across the roads!
THEIR CRAZY lol
sorry to the americans but its so weird! lol
Well, not all states have sales tax (i.e. Oregon) Which I get used to not having tax and then end up thinking I'm overcharged when I go back to Nevada. Then to really mess you up each state has a different percentage of tax too, so when you get to Arizona it'll be different!
And, as far as weird goes, most of the world drives our way, so :P
The funniest thing I think I ever saw was the "Look left" painted on the road at crosswalks in London. Silly people driving on the wrong side of the road.
Nah - you all drive on the wrong side of the road!
you drive on the wrong side of the road!!! gah i always look left STILL idiot me lol
ummmmmmmm going to arizona tomorrow should b fun
can't wait!
Well, considering the fact that you have been in the USA for less than a week I think we can forgive you!
I am excited for you, and I still have 29 days and some amount of hours!
what do u mean diff taxes
haha, this argument could go on forever!
what do u mean diff taxes
Each state can descide how much sales tax they will charge or if they will charge any at all!
23 days.
- Teenster
California has a lot of taxes and there will be more to come! the governor wants to put taxes onto services too. So, if you see lawyer you get taxed for that, if you get your haircut, a massage therapist, all adult movie downloads (That you pay for), etc.
LA is pretty bad when it comes to roads. Not as bad as New York! But still, if you were to head down south to San Diego, I think you would find things are a bit better. Las Vegas should be pretty bad too, especially right in the down-town area.
Shay, you are currently experiencing some of the weirdest weather you will ever see in Southern California. Although, if you are from anywhere else, it might seem mild. Yesterday there were flash floods, tornadoes (VERY rare here!!!), snow, sun, hail and rain all within about 100 miles.
wow happy! that's awesome!
Weather this year has been crazy!!!!! I am experiencing weather that I owuld at home, over here on the more extreme side of the state, and I don't see an end to it on my forecast thing!
28 days for me! Tomorrow is the 4 week mark! I will not be up to watch the countdown switch over since it will be Saturday and all my friends are going somewhere for Memorial Day weekend except me! Sleep is amazing!
i was talking to the lady who pickd us up and was saying arizona had some snow flakes and that was really weird
and wen i came here i was totally not expecting it to b chilly BUT IT WAS!
they sed it snowed at camp today so i'm excited to go up there and check it out!
omg the roads are just crazy! we went to get into the car and i was guna get into the passenger seat which in australia is on the drivers side here AND I WAS LIKE WOOPS!!!!! hehehehe
so jet lagged the only day i havent been on a plane was yesterday but still walking round all day
i havent had a proper sleep in the last week =( lol
oh well hopefully the nxt week will give me a little more time to sleep!
I do that when I get home from camp - not as much when I get out to camp!
Snow in Arizona in May? say it isn't so?!
28 days! I know I said it this morning, but when I said it I still had like 15 minutes before leaving time!
one week one week one week!
Not excited by that are you CIL?
you know, I don't think she is excited at all!!
I think i agree with you!
oh pshhh.
you know you would be just as excited, if not more than me!
oh, and it's down to 6 days and 12 hours!
6 days and about 8 hours!
14 days! (Well at midnight it will be!!)
have a wonderful time erin!
I only have 16 days! I still need to go the library and print off all my travel stuff!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Sorry. I am beginning to panic. Only two more shifts at the crappy gas station though!
I am sure you will be fine! You are gonna have a great a summer as last year. When do you leave laura?
yeahhh i willl, ill try and get on in the summmer
9 days, 3 hours, 52 minutes and 12 seconds
thanks to timeanddate.com
I leave on Saturday. I am so disorganised for camp because I have had loads to to for college, my new college, moving to my new college and starting up my new guide unit this last few weeks.
12 days! (Out of the "teens"). SOOOOOO Excited and I want it to be here NOW
3 days and 18 hours!
oh joy i have much to do still!
6 days until my Co-Director moves on site
15 days until my Program Director moves on site
21 days until pre-camp starts!!
ermie I love how you are now counting down for other people.
Well I can't count down myself anymore!! lol
well you could count down to BF arriving - but that would mean counting down to the end of camp.
The summer is gonna fly past so quick anyway that i don't want the end of summer to come to quick! lol
When the last campers leave thats when i'll start that countdown!!
I dont blame you! Dont want summer to go by too quickly.
My 4 week date was 2 days ago and I totally missed it! I was on a bus all day beasically to go visit my family!
oh my goodness, 25 days!!! I haven't looked at my countdown since Friday!
Goodbye and have fun erin, even if you have already left! woohoo! Wow, you guys with less than a week must be getting really excited and restless and such! I know I will!!
15 days or 14 days and 18 hours
4 more sleeps!(yes, I'm at that stage.)
19 days.
- Teenster
4 more sleeps!(yes, I'm at that stage.)
At least you are not down to counting the number of hours!
11 days, exactly. :-) Next Saturday at 10 am I will be leaving
20 days.
(19 to graduation!)
24 days (in 5 minutes)!!
I love the how you are counting in "sleeps" Laura! Totally how you explain amounts of time to a little kid- in sleeps and episodes of their favorite TV shows- "we are eating lunch in 2 Doras"!!!
2 days, 18 hours and 32 minutes!!
I may be heading up soon if the phone call tommorrow goes well
I hope it goes well for you marty!
thanks. I would proberly miss a part of staff training but I hope to get there before camp starts if I get hired.
I leave on Thursday! I'm not sure when on Thursday... I'll get a call about that tomorrow. And then I'll start loading the car.
that is exciting - lucky you!
19 days until the start of camp, but only 7 until my first training! A week from today I have an evening training for group leaders. It'll be great to meet some of the people I'll be working with and learn more about what I'll be doing.
But my major countdown at the moment: 5 and a half days of school left! (not counting weekends) Yeah, I think teachers count down more than the students, sometimes.
i'm almost done packing!!!!
18 days.
- Teenster
in 25 minutes I will have 23 days left!!
I leave tomorrow! I'm excited!
Lucky you Indigo!
This time in 2 weeks I will on a plane half way over the atlantic!
Have fun Indigo and Cam_is_Life and safe travels!
I can't belive how quick the time is going, my staff will be here before I know it!! lol
Have a good time Indigo!!!
I hope the forum stays just as active when all you lucky counselors get to go off to camp :P
Oh I forgot to tell you good luck and have fun, CIL!!! hehe or maybe I was going to tell you tomorrow, I don't know!
So, have fun CIL!!!!
I hope the forum stays just as active when all you lucky counselors get to go off to camp :P
I'll try and post when i can to keep you company!
I will too Lostfiniel!! Just keep posting and we will come on and reply when we can!! You aren't the only one who won't be at camp this summer, so they might also be coming on the boards!
Just a few more hours! My car's all packed (except for the inevitable pile of stuff I found after I packed), and I'm ready! Have a great summer, everybody!
12 days and 16 1/2 hours!
i leave tomorrow, exactly 24 hours[in 5 minutes]!
Wow, Indigo! That's awesome! I know I already told you to have fun, but since you signed on again, Have fun! Actually, I just looked at the time of your post and realized that you have probably left!!
If I am not running late (but who runs late when going to camp?!) I leave the house in a little less than 22 days!!
i'm leaving on a red-eye flight in about 7 days, 12 hours!!!!!
and arriving at 5:45am...which is 2:45 in the time zone i'm used to...EEP!!
SO EXCITED!
I hate red-eye flights - I always have them coming back to the UK at the end of the summer!
5 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes till I leave for the aiport!
Add 3 hours to that for when I will fly for the first time!
have a great first flight NightOwl!!
wow, everyone is gettin so close to their leaving dates!! However, I leave school in 16 days, after finishing with all my classes in 13 days! wow, I will be done with classes in less than 2 weeks! Finally something is less than 2 weeks away! camp however, is 22 days away!
12 days until I leave for camp - it is getting sooooo close!
I leave tomorrow and I haven't even got my suitcase out of the loft yet!
i leave in 1.5 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 12 days until I go!
3 weeks 1 day!! or 21 days 23 hours, 53 minutes!
I finally have less than 1 week left. At this time next Friday I will be getting to know the rest of the staff and getting ready to start training
20 days!!! Yipee almost into the teens!!!
yay!!!
I just realized that today is my 3 week mark!!!! I will be at my cousin's graduation in 2 weeks at this time, and then heading home, and then in 3 weeks at this time I will be doing something to get ready for the grief camp kids! I will have been reunited with some returning staff!!!!!
20 days 23 hours 16 minutes!!!! How did I catch up to you campingqueen? you leave a day or two before me.
10 days and 16 hour 45mins
wow Smudge! You are so close to less than 10 days!!
I know! i am getting excited!
Tomorrow my co-director arrives!
9 days before my Prgram Director arrives!
15 Days before pre0camp starts!!
Yay
Yay - you will have company!
I know, i'm so excited about having someone other than the Ranger to talk too!! lol
Yeah! How is getting camp ready - will everything be ready in 15 days when pre-camp starts!
Its not long till then - I cant believe how quickly time has gone by!
I love spring quarter! Everything goes so much quicker!! Winter just goes sooooo slow, and the nspring gets here and it is like, woah, is it sumer already?!
I know what you mean!
And now we are like wow - everyone is running away to camp and leaving us here to amuse ourselves by taking over their threads!
19 more to go, so close!!!
20 days 1 hour 26 minutes- almost under 20 days!!! Holy cow- it doesn't seem like it!! But it is June!! and I am almost done with school!!! 5 more class days and then finals week!
9 days, 18 hours and 45 mins! That measns that i am under 10 days!
Let's see...I think it's probably just about 4 days, 13 hours, and 35 minutes until I get on the plane! I mean, I'm not counting or anything
hehe! Not at all - at least you havent worked it out in second or minutes - or have you?
I did about 3 weeks ago just out of curisity!
2 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes till i leave for the airport! Add 4 hours till my flight!
Hope that everyone has safe travels and a GRAND summer!
You too!
How long is your flight?
I love how over the last week we have switched from just days to days, hours and months!
15 days! Which sounds short until I come here and see the rest of you guys' - 2 days, a couple hours. Geez.
(And..egads, 2 weeks until graduation!)
i leave my house in 4 hours! and my train leaves in 6 hours and 45 minutes. and i get to camp in 23 hours!
I'm with you there Midknyt!!! I have 19 days 21 hours and 3 minutes!!!!
6 days!!! I can't even contain myself, I'm so darn excited.
Yay, my CO-Director has now moved in!!!
So just 8 days till the Program Director arrives and the rest fo the staff arrive in 14 days!!
yay - ermie isnt lonely anymore!
But boooo cos I bet that means that she prob wont be on here any more cos she will have real company so wont need virtual company!
I agree with Smudge! yay and boo at the same time!
I got to talk with a friend who also knows the joy of camp and it was exciting!! Different camp, and only a week long total, but still has the same essence!
less than 3 weeks!!
i am soo excited that camp is getting closer!
ugh Cali! when do you get to camp? Hope the train ride is okay.... I was going to go that way originally, but flying ended up being cheaper!
Smudge- my flight leaves at 6 am and gets in at 1 pm (both are in Pacific time!) I think the first part is 2 hours and the second a little over 4 hours!
13 days before I leave.
- Teenster
You go to camp just before me!
Next Wed - but the time I leave it will prob still be Tue for you.
Lucky you! I am talking at church and teaching a lesson that day!
i still go to church too! i love church!
Me too - my leaders dont want me to go! But i am cos i couldnt stand to spend a summer here when i could be at camp!
18 days 8 hours 48 minutes!!
7 days, and 17 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah - that means that a week tomorrow I will actually be in heathrow airport!
im flying out on thursday
12 days. I'm driving a little more than half way there on Saturday (I needed to stay in town for a friend's wedding shower). Then the rest of the day on Sunday. So the happy news here, is last night I booked my hotel room! Yay!
- Teenster
6 more! YAY! wOOT! holla! Jump 4 joy! Groovy!
have a great time NightOwl!!
17 days 23 hours and 59 minutes!
yeah.... but now I have a killer headache! I think I slept funny last night!
drink water!
hehehehe!!!! the cure all!!!!! I have been downing it all morning, took some IB pro, and took a hot shower.... I think it may be gettting better
thx!
welcome! water IS amazing!
that it is!! along with Band-Aids!!!
OMG OMG OMG like 50 HOURS! CRAZY!!!
Lucky you!
This time next week I will have less than 4 hours until I leave
craziness!!!! you guys are getting so close!! Have an awesome time everyone, in case I don't get to say it to you personally!!
17 days 13 hours
exactly one week today I will be in heathrow airport waiting for my flight to Boston!
16 days 23 hours and 19 minutes!!!!!!! I will be done with classes in 1 week and approximately 3 hours!!!!!!! I also just finished up my last math homework that I will ever have to do, aside from methods of teaching elementary math, but that is a totally different thing!!!!
Exactly a week today I will be in the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and if not actually at camp I wont be far from it!
67 hours!
yes....we have gotten to that point!
Lucky you! I am only at this point - this time next week I will actually be on camp!
I might get to go to camp a day earlier than expected!!!!!!!!! we are having a prep day for getting things set up for our week of campers before pre-camp. Normally I think we do it during precamp, but we have to do it beforehand this year! So I might be going on the 20th!!!! Or we will have the prep day on the 18th and I will still do it, but I will be going home after that and coming back on the 21st!
I had my first training type meeting for camp last night! I got a tour, found out more about camp, etc. with some of the other group leaders.
This Saturday and the Saturday after that, I'll have training as well. I'm looking forward to meeting the counselors this Saturday and just getting ready for campers!
I found out last night that my group will be called "The Bigshots". Now I'm trying to think of decorating ideas for our 'bunk' (really a classroom during the school year). I'm going to have five year olds, so I'm sure I'll get plenty of tears the first couple of days.
Lucky you campKgurl! it is always good to get an extra day at camp.
Flower that sounds fun - althoug I dont think I would like to have to deal with 5 year olds!
so smudge, maybe you will leave the same day as me!
Oh less than 5 more days!
16 days to go for me, I can't wait as you can see, I'm rhyming like the Seuss, and waiting for bug juice!!
lol, yeah I'm crazy for camp :P
nice one campingqueen!!!!!!!!!
Have a great time katerd!!
15 days 23 hours!!!! how did I get ahead of you campingqueen?!?! you used to be a day ahead of me, and I haven't added the potential extra day into my countdown yet.
10 days.
- Teenster
Thanks campkgirl, I try
I leave for Camp in 11 days, and arrive in 12 (:
9 days.
- Teenster
14 days 23 hours 52 minutes!
Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!
I leave on Wednesday!
This time next week I will be getting ready to start lifeguard training!
wow! So lucky Smudge!!
I still don't know if I have 14 or 13 days and however many hours, but I hope to know soon!
Less than a day! Tomorrow I have my first whole staff training day!
Down to the single digits: 9 days for me.
Week one completed!!
less than 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know yet if it is 2 hours less than 2 weeks left or 1 day and 2 hours less than 2 weeks, but it is under 2 weeks! I will be home in 1 week and 7 or so hours!!
3 full days!
(and desperately longing to get away cos the ladies at church gace me fresh flowers, and I stupidly bought my mum some so I am really sick with allergies at the mo!)
Yeap allergies - but at least they arent so bad when i was at camp!
hey guys!
so ive been at camp for like nearly 2 weeks and last week i had my first bunch of gurls!
i did beta then i thought and didnt curse as much as i thought i would have
i loved them so much and its really sad to see them go only after 3 days and knowing i wont see them agen
hopefully i would have impacted them in some way cos i know im guna miss them alot
hopefully nxt week will be just as good!
it sux dragging my stuff all over camp I GET SO PUFFD OUT! lol
silly altitude!
hope everyones camp is going well
That's great that you did better than you thought!! Yay! I know what you mean with letting them go and hoping that in the short time you guys knew each other you impacted them! I miss half my campers still!! and I haven't had any since last summer!!
oh my goodness, less than 2 weeks! I know I already said that today, but I want it to come quicker!!!
Glad that you are enjoying camp Shay!
3 days and 3 hours until I leave for camp!
15.5 hours! oh my gosh i am pumped!
I am sure you are - i am soo jealous
you are not that far behind smudge, and you get to stay longer!
That is true - and I am not going home until October - cos I am traveling after camp! Among other things I am going to seattle to see campkgurl!
Yeap - we are looking forward to it!
Me too! Cant wait to get to camp! My travels are just an added bonus!
yay for traveling to Seattle!!! I am excited for camp too!!!!!! I just got a few more things today that I can use at camp!!!!! My cousin is cleaning out all of her college stuff so she doesn't have to trekk everything home and then throw it away so I am reaping the benefits of her being done with college!!!! Among other amazing things I got a lot of school supplies and a few books and things, and also a bandana which will be totally amazing as an ick rag or for bandana/blindfold games!!
hooray for the best year at camp ever!
i'm about to leave! in6 more hours i'll be at camp! have fun guys!
wow, she is going to be at camp in approximately 15 more minutes, so I guess it is a little late to tell her to have fun one more time! Well, have fun cedar!
It's so weird because I get on the boards and it says everyone was posting at like 5 am this morning and every morning and I almost always wonder what people were doing up at 5 am and then I remember that I am in like the latest time zone so everyone is a few hours ahead of me!
I have 12 (maybe 11 if my CD ever gets back to us about the prep day!) days and 22 hours until I will be at camp!! 6 days until I am at home and 4 days until I am done with all my finals!!
I have about 2 days and 7 hours or 55 hours!
Can't believe I only have one week before my staff arrive!! Am I ever gonna be ready in time!! lol
Bet ur super excited now smudge?
10 more days to go for me, so ready to go now!!!
5 days.
- Teenster
Course I am super excited Ermie!
I leave the day after tomorrow!!!!!!!!! So that is like 1 full day or 40 hours!
5 days.
- Teenster
How did that happen? I'm at one week today, and you've been a day ahead of me for the countdown.
11 days 20 hours 2 minutes!!! or 10 days 20 hours and 2 minutes, depending!!
about 30 hours!
And today i booked my hostels in San Fransico and Seattle and also the bus tour that will take me LA and Vagas (as well as other places!)
That sounds like fun, Smudge! Hopefully you'll enjoy some nice heat while you're here in Vegas.
I had my first full camp staff training Saturday. It was great! Now I'm chomping at the bit for camp to actually start, or at least our next training day to get here Saturday.
oh my goodness!!! I just found out that I am going to go to camp a day early so i have 10 days and approximately 15 hours, since i don't know when we need to be there on that day!!!!!!! woohoo!!!! Thanks for telling me Marinara!!!
I leave in 12 hours!!!! Exactly!
4 days...
Leave it to Smudge to be on the boards until the last minute!
- Teenster
absolutely! I bet Smudge will be on here the minutes before she leaves saying good bye to everyone!! So at 9:30 pm Pacific time I will come on here and she will be posting!
My countdown right now is kind of feeling like when I knew I was going to be hired, but hadn't officially goteen the call. I heard from someone who heard from our CD that the prep day is going to be the 20th, but I haven't gotten an email from my CD making it official, so they could have changed their minds or my friend could have gotten it wrong. But it is like 99% certain that I am going to get to go to camp a day early, but there is still that 1% since it isn't official!! Plus, I don't know what time I need to be there so my hours part of my countdown is shot for now!
I am weird, I know! So, unofficially the countdown is 9 days and approximately 21 hours (I figure the prep day will start in the morning, so it is probably a few hours less than 21 but somewhere around there!) Like I said, I am weird! 9 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I now have 6 hours to go and I still havent finished packing!
My countdown is all messed up, but I have like 8 or 9 days left!! I will be there in less than a week and a half!!! woot!
and I am done with school now!!! I took my last final this morning!! I only have 2 more nights in my dorm room, and 1 night in a hotel before heading to the other side of the state!!! It doesn't feel like summer yet!! Holy cow, I am done! No more homework or studying until Spetember 24th!!!!!!!!! It will take me a while to believe it!
Aw, no fair. I have a final tomorrow. And it probably doesn't feel like summer yet because it's so bloody cold, or at least I assume your temperature is near ours. We might hit 70 this weekend...so toasty.
5 days for me.
yeah, our weather is definitely notsummer weather! actually, it is summerweather for me right now, but not for this area!
We are going to be in the 70s this weekend too!! Normally it is like 90 over here at this time!
good luck on your final!!
The weathers been hot here in CT as well, reaching up to the 90s recently!
Well, my first international staff member arrived yesterday so I gues that camp has really begun although officially I have 3 and a half days until pre-camp starts!
My heart goes out to Smudge whose plane got delayed at Heathrow for about 5 hours!!! I'm sure she'll be on soon with all the details!!
It's been a bit cold for the area (Southern California) for June. I'd love it to stay this way for the remainder, if possible. It's just perfect!
Oh my goodness! Poor Smudge!! Her trip was long enough before the delay! I hate having an hour delay with a trip that is only like 4 hours long, so I can't even imagine what it is like to have such a long delay!
2 days until I leave.
- Teenster
1 week and 1 day until I will be at camp!!!!!
My last full day at school too!! Today is dedicated to packing my stuff for home! I am being a smart kid and packing a bag of stuff that is going directly to camp!
6 more days here.
6 days 23 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ww, talk about a quick countdown, Lostfiniel!!! I started mine at 122 days!!!! I hadn't even had an interview at that point!!! hehe
I leave tomorrow. I won't get to camp until Sunday... but leaving is still cool.
- Teenster
I leave tomorrow!
I can tell almost everyone's gone - no new posts for 18 hours.
I'm still here, 5 days to go!!!! Can't wait!!!
So I have been at camp for 4 days and yes my journey was a nightmare.
After being delayed for ages at Heathrow and not really being feed on the plane (the food was aweful!) it then took over and hour to get though emigration and then they decided that they wanted to re-xray my luggage.
Then finally I got out of the airport and then we got lost in Boston trying to get onto the interstate.
I finally got to camp at 6am british time - to say that I was tired would have been a complete understatement.
So yeah I am now semi-unpacked and settled into my pre-camp cabin!
That's so sad that you had a horrible trip!
Yay for being in your cabin and settled, at least partially!!!!!! Now you don't have to travel again until mid-August!!!!!
5 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope my CD emails us soon to let us know officially that Friday is the prep day and also when we need to be there!! This means i only have like 4 days to do everything, from all my appointments to hanging out with friends and family, and packing too!! eek!!!! that;s so close!!! But I am home now!!!!! My brother;s girlfriend just got here and when the doorbell rang it was weird since I have been in a dorm room for the last 9-10 months so people had to knock!!!
Smudge,
So sorry to hear the trip was so horrible:( I'm glad you made it to camp okay and your settling in
That's too bad, Smudge, I hope it is much better on the way back. You probably have more experience than I do, but when I would travel internationally it would always take longer to get to the US than to leave. Perhaps it is inefficiency on our part :P
I have 4 days left. My husband and I drove up to the front gates of the camp just so I could find out the length of the trip, how much gas it took and what kind of weather I could expect (At least sort of.) It looks beautiful up there and it is sooooo close to one of my favorite towns in San Diego County. I know that I will be stopping off there now and then on our days off.
In 14 hours I'll be in the car on my way to my first full day with campers! I'm so very excited!
I'm sorry the trip there wasn't much fun, Smudge. Hopefully the trip back will go much better. I had a trip home from camp that lasted 12 hours or more longer than expected one year from fun with airline delays. It sucks.
391,358 seconds to go, lol, had to post this because I have a silly countdown machine that tells me random ways of counting down. This one truly made me smile so I had to share
that is an amazing countdown campingqueen!
Have a great time at your first full day with campers, Flower!!!!
oh my goodness, aproximately 3.5 days!!!!!!
I love it, it's called clockish and it's a mac widget!! It's one of my fave things
I leave in 5 hours! Damn, I need to sleep.
Since I'm packing my laptop as soon as I'm done, I'll see you guys on the other side.
Good luck getting to camp, Midknyt.
3 days now. 3 days 10 hours or so. I'm very anxious.
I have been at camp for ages - well 6 days and pre-camp start in 2 days.
4 days 4 days, can't believe there's only 4 more days!!
Yeah, just a teeny tiny bit, lol
I cannot wait to get there!!!!
2 days 15 hours 56 minutes and 50 seconds
almost 2 days more....but my car broke down! I'm hoping it gets fixed before I need to drive up to camp.
Friday, so ready to go!!! almost only 3 more days!!!
I got the email officially telling me I get to go up a day early, so I will be there Friday at 9 am!!!!!!!! which means I am leaving at 8:15 am!!!!!!! Which means I have 4 days and 8 hours until I leave!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness, I am as excited as you campingqueen!
Lostfiniel, I hope your car gets fixed! we had car troubles ont he way home from the other side fo the state and almost had to get the car towed! Thank goodness we didn't! We drove on the 70 mph freeway at 50 mph, thanks to the transmission, but we got here in 1 piece!!!!!! It would have sucked since all my stuff was in the car too!! We packed our mini-van so full that my brother would not have fit if he decided to come along with my parents. Thank goodness he had other plans for the weekend!! Heck, one more rubbermaid container would not have fit, let alone my 6 foot tall brother!!
Lostfiniel, I hope your car gets fixed! we had car troubles ont he way home from the other side fo the state and almost had to get the car towed! Thank goodness we didn't! We drove on the 70 mph freeway at 50 mph, thanks to the transmission, but we got here in 1 piece!!!!!! It would have sucked since all my stuff was in the car too!! We packed our mini-van so full that my brother would not have fit if he decided to come along with my parents. Thank goodness he had other plans for the weekend!! Heck, one more rubbermaid container would not have fit, let alone my 6 foot tall brother!!
I REALLY want to the car to be fixed and working. Getting to the camp requires some driving on roads that are not forgiving to broken cars. In the first hour of the trip there is a section of freeway with no exits for a good 20 miles. The second has roads with no exits for long times, very small shoulders, one lane per direction, and each side has either sheer rock face or mountain. Just before camp, the road is not run by the state so it is uneven, bumpy and then unpaved. I'm going to be frightened getting there in one piece.
3 days for me too campkgurl!!!! I won't get to camp until late Friday evening though.
But, I am so pumped and happy to say I have just finished packing!!! I'm ready to go!!
1 more day!! I leave tomorrow, YIPPEE!!! Have a wonderful summer everyone and I'll see you all in the fall
oh my goodness!!!!!!!! 22 hours, 12 minutes!!!
have a great summer queen!!!!!!
I will probably be on here once more before i leave! haha gotta love the addiction!!
I have someone from my camp on here now!!!!! killoquagirl2008!!! I am no longer the only one from camp K!!
You too campkgurl!! I have to leave really really early in the morning since my plane flys out very early so this is my last post until I get back in the fall. Have fun and stay safe!!
Great... I'm all alone now. I know I left a while ago, but there were several reasons why I couldn't post, and together they make for a long story. But to get back on topic, 13 days left... Happy 4th of July!
Zomg! I'm not alone! It's a miracle!!!!! 12 days left.
1 day left I leave tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
yea but today is going soooo slow
The day always goes by slow when you're waiting for something... 12 days!
o days I go back to camp today!!!!!!!!!!
Back? You mean you already were at camp???
no, I meant from last summer
negative 2.5 weeks!!!!
I have my 1st-3rd graders this week!!! more later!
have fun campluver!
I know that the waiting has probably been really hard!!!!!!
Session 2 starts tomorrow I have 23 5-8 graders doing 2 programes and an SN unit assisitant which will be interesting! I had the ittle-bities this week just past and it was exhausting.
Session 3 is tomorrow!!! They gave me the boys again. but this time at least I hope they will be the littlest ones instead of the 4th grade ones!!
I hade my little girls this week and it was amazing!! 9 of them, so it was a little hectic and took at least 30 minutes to get ready for the day! but it was amazingness!!
have fun campluver!!!!
Thank you NightOwl and campkgurl! I am so excited! And... I'm officially counting down minutes until my flight is supposed to leave. 3 days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes!
Thanks, Smudge! 1 day, 15 hours, and 29 minutes! Eeeeeeeeep!
6 hours til my flight takes off!!! And 2 hours until I leave for the airport!
I am so excited that you are at camp now!!! woohoo!!!!
hope you are having (or had if you dont read this until you get home) a wonderful time.
my camp FINISHES this wednesday =(
sad day!
That is really sad but you did start earlier than most of us! I still have some thing like 3 weeks.
I have 3 weeks, but I am only going to be here for 2 since I will be in hawaii next week for my coousin's wedding! I have never been, so I am really excited to go!!!
that is sad, but I agree with Smudge!! you were saying things like "3 days" when I was like, "1.5 months!"
I finsh session three tomorrow and then i have 4 days of Adventure and 2 days of post camp!
Tomorrow is our last day of camp. The summer has gone by so fast.
My offical contract finishes a week today! I am then volunteering at camp for 3 days until my friend finishes camp and then I am off the following day to The Main Idea at Camp Walden in Maine - which is a 10 day program for under privilaged kids - I am very excited.
So I now I get to start a new countdown!
11 days until camp!
I finished camp on Monday, had to leave early due to work. I'm so sad because everyone else is still there and I wish I was too.
I came back 2 weeks ago... but then my computer died, so I couldn't post anything. But now it's alive again!
And we should start a new countdown thread... XD
I would but since I dont know where I am going to camp next summer yet I dont know when I will be heading there!