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bike - have never riden a horse in my life much as i would love to

So you have job that means you cant work at summer camp - do you take a 2 weeks of your hols to volunteer at a camp thus spending it away from OH/family or struggle with your camp withdrawl and go on a family vacation/hols with OH?

I would volunteer at a camp--- I done this in the past and this has helped with not being at camp for the whole summer

would you rather work at the Nature program or the Arts and crafts program -- if these were the only 2 choices you had

arts and crafts - cos you make bows and arrows and hence do my true calling to teach archery (hehe!)

run an arts and crafts program with very little money or supplies but enthusiastic staff OR with lots of money and staff who really couldnt be any less enthusiastic if they tried?

I would take the enthusetic staff and little money and supplies-- that was happened at my last camp where we had little supplies for arts or crafts for the first session

Cookouts-- for the whole camp or just for indivudal cabins

Individual cabins. cook out, to me, is a bonding time for small groups, rather than the huge meals with the whole camp.


Spending most of your programs (let's say nature or arts and crafts) budget on one HUGE and totally awesome thing or spreading out out and getting several smaller, not nearly as awesome but still valuable things?

spend the money on one huge totally awesome thing....like a third arena at barn...I have no idea where we'd put it but it would be awesome to have a staff only arena for horse staffie like people's time off

work in the kitchen or be the offical camp do whatever you're told now person?

lots of projects

one project that all the different groups worked on over the season or individual projects for each group or a combo?

individual projects for each group

be a Nature specalist and be a part time counselor or only assist at certian activities and be a full time counselor

full time counsellor

run a department with not enough staff or too many staff?

too many staff-- you never know when you may need the extra staff in case of camper or staff injuries or campers getting homesick or campers needing to use the bathroom-- I had times this past summer where I thought I had too many staff and then was happy I had them when I had homesick campers or campers who slipped and fell and needeed to be transported to the nurse( I had no walkie talkie and it wasnt so bad that I needed to use my cell phone to call it in)

Anyway back to topic-- have too many staff assigned to a cabin or not enough-- keep in mind time off and day off schudules

too many - although that can present its own challenges when planning TO as I have experienced

Allowing staff in a unit the freedom to work out time off among themselves - following camp guidelines - or have a head counsellor or AD who works out everyones TO at the same time?

Do it for themselves. Our AD staff tried doing it for us for a week, and it was a disaster. I think it's also a good way to build communication skills (speaking up for yourself - or for the little guy) between unit staff when they have to do it on their own. I personally enjoyed doing it the day of ("hey, can I have 2-4? sure, you can have 4-6" and so on).


Falling in love with a staff member at your camp, or at a camp totally unlike yours that makes it somewhat difficult to talk about camp experiences (one is more rustic and "campy" and one is more upper-class and has A/C)?

someone at your camp! (although not likely to happen for me!)

read a book or surf the net?

read a book

have a day off eariler in the session or later in the session-- espically for camps that have longer sessions of more then 1 week

later - you need the time off more towards the end of the session

work with staff you love your but arent that great at their job - or people you only get on with but who are good at their job?

people who are good at their jobs-- heck I had a combanation of both during my electives

have a camp job that you love and get paid well for doing or having a camp job that pays a little less but have more time off ie daily time off, more nights off etc

less pay and more TO cos it doesnt matter how much you love a job if you are burnt out

confession time: take a teddy/blankie to camp or not?

Well you've all heard about the sleepy monkey who travels everywhere with me so I say take to camp!

Sofa or floor? For sleeping on I mean.

floor

Daily time off-- being able to schudule your time off by yourself ( with the ok of your co counselor) or being told by your supervisor when to take it

Working it out with the rest of your unit staff - as a UL last year I only ever put my foot down and claimed a TO before my unit staff - the rest of the time we worked together so we all got the TO times we wanted

completely random and nothing to do with camp: legally blonde or sweet home alabama

Legally Blonde!

If you can't have a whole summer: first 8 weeks or last 8 weeks?

last 8 weeks. The warmer half of summer is always best

Work at a smaller camp as Ad Staff not getting paid all too much, or work at a bigger camp as a counselor (let's say just regular old unit counselor) and get a huge pay raise?

Oh that is hard - i think it would depend - but more likely now that i would say be ad staff

would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Too hot! I'm bad at regulating cold.

Camp vegetarian, real vegetarian, or all meat all the time?

meat all the time

rectangular or mummy style sleeping bag?