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cook out - even in the rain if you have a kitchen/cook shelter!

metal mess kit or plastic picnic plates?

plastic plates

campout in a shelter or not

in a tent

dome tent or A frame?

A frame

telling campers camp specific stories or not

Not - anything inspiring will do!

unable to sleep all night or so tired you sleep all day?

unable to sleep all night-- the last night of camp I was like this due to campers wanting to stay up until all hours of the night.

a decent camp bed or a one that causes back pain

a decent bed - we are there all summer even if the kids arent and should have decent beds - it should be part of ACA accrediation in my opinion

think this is a good idea or not?

Yes it is a good idea-- my bed would make noises when you move even a tiny bit. Also the bed would cause pains in my body anywhere from my neck to back.

allowing campers to stay up extremely late on the last night of the session or not

Well they are going to do it whether you let them or not so might as well plan for it - unless it is an A session and the kids are coming for B session only a few hours after the A session kids leave!

should there be one full day off between sessions or two?

two full days no matter how long the sessions are

getting paid at the end of each session or once every two weeks?

Once every two weeks

staff hoodies and jackets - SHOULD be provided by the camp or an optional extra offered to staff before they arrive so that if they want them they are there for the start of camp?

optional extra

have a say in who is assisting you in teaching an activity or not

towards the end of the summer definately! Not sure about at the begining as the camp will know more about their backgrounds than you do

"you dont have kids you dont understand" - insulting statement, insensitive statement or neither?

well at my last camp the statement would be neither in the context of our camp

having cabins/units paired off in villages based on age groups or not

not - cos at the camps I work at the age group with a unit would have been doing a different program to any other similar aged kids on camp - hence why they were in a different unit!

my camp had a saying it takes a village to raise a child and thats why they had villages and I think they did that to save money on unit leaders--- its cheaper to have 1 village leader for every 4-6 cabins then to have 1 per cabin when you have 270 campers


On to the question-- have a cabin/village night once a session or not

We had unit nights more often than we had all camp nights. I think it is good to get a balance between the two - so I would say 50/50

if running your own camp: here entirely US staff or a mixture of US and international?

in my experince I would do a mixture

have terrintial downpours almost every day or not-- this happened to me this summer

not - I live in scotland - it rains nearly everyday.

no camp at all or volunteer for a week

volunteer for a week of course-- some camp is better then none

have a set schudule for long camp sessions like an "A" day, "B" days and the like or not

not - allowing each unit a degree of flexibility with certain activities eg swimming set and others - boating, archery etc schedulable!

virtual farm or virtual city

virtual farm

bikes or baking as an elective

baking

chocolate brownies or chocolate cookies?

brownies

MTV night or welcome show

welcome show

movie night or ice cream social?