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Chessie! I loved her in the movie!

absolutely!!!!!! "Can I hug her?!?!?!" haha I want those choclate chip pancakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love choc chip pancakes!!

I really dislike choc. chip pancakes. The bane of my exsistence.

Did you notice they hardly show any counselors in The Parent Trap?

That's sad. Oh well, to each her own!

haha i watched that this weekend with camp friends!
oh it was good times...

We watched a variety of movies, only one or two of them were camp associated.

I love the camp bits too - but it really isn't like camp - at least not any camp I have worked at! And yeah were are all the counsellors?

I know it!!! They stuck 2 11 year olds out in the middle of nowhere without anyone there! Legally you can't even stay home by yourself until you are 12! (at least in WA) and you can't stay home alone overnight until 16! I never understood how they got away with not having counselors. They had more supervision at activities than overnight!

Its bizarre! But I still love the film!

You know you are a counsellor when you sign up to a facebook group called The adventurous Rubber Chicken!

LOL!!! I was talking to my mom today. She has been a stay at home mom for at least the last 8 years and sometimes is ready to just give up (I'm 20, my sister are 18 and 17 and my bro is 15)

She said she might like working at a camp as a office assistant or program specialist. I thought it would be great for her to get away. She also has expierience working with kids with disabilities (she's a personal cargiver for a couple of hours each week)


We were joking about how if she did it summer of 2009, and my dad was on a trip, and my sis wasn't around, that could mean the 17 (18 then) and 15(16 then) would be by themselves! Maybe not the best idea, but who knows!!!

My mother has been a stay at home mum my entire life (she is disabled and cant work!). She has said lots of times that she would love to work at a camp in the office or something - but we have a dog and cat - and to be totally honest she doesn't realise just how demanding camp can be!

I think my mom would be great (as long as it wasn't the same camp as me!)


PS - LOVE YOU MOM!


(I know I may accidentally leave this up and she may browse the topics!)

haha, nice NightOwl! I understand though! I wouldn't mind my mom doing anything that I had done, but there is just something about having your own thing, especially in your late teens/early twenties! I love my mom too! (I am at school, so mom can't read this! haha)

My mom would not work well at camp. She was a girl scout troop assistant leader. But,she does not really liked the outdoors as I do. Also, she would get bored easily with the simple life.

I really wouldnt like my mother working at my camp! I guess that she would do a good job but not at my camp! I go to camp to escape my crazy messed up family!

That is the big thing. They can go to camp, yet not to our camp. We want to ability to go away.

well said!

You know the only prob with camp this year! Our counties international camp will take place while I am in the USA so I will miss it! I am kinda dissappointed about that but..........


I get to camp for 10 weeks not just one so wouldn't change it for the world!

Yep. The longevity of camp is waht makes the change adn the friendships so great.

I wouldn't mind my mom working at camp, but she works full-time so that isn't possible. She applied to work as a secretary at a local school, hopefully she gets it... Because I want her to work at camp.

I know a girl whose mother works at camp so her and her sister go for free.

Yeah but usually that is istead of being paid!

Have you heard anything back from your CIT app?

Yeah, did you learn anything about your summer plans?

Yep, it sounds nice, but we couldn't do that. The girl's mother is a stay-at-home mom anyway so she doesn't mind.

No, I haven't :[ They aren't due until March 14th unless you're applying for financial aid [I was] so they were due for me on Feb 14th. So.. Idk.
But I did email the CA and she said they try to place each girl in a program, if they don't make it in CIT.

that sounds positive!

Our main nurse's daughter is going to get her 15 year at camp this year and I don't know if it really bugs her or not since she is a few years older than me and not with my unit so we never actually got to talking. I don't think it does though. Then again, her mom has been at camp for over 20 years, so it is kind of her mom's thing that she got to get in on!