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I've incorparatedit in my life- headache, i drink water, confused? Drink water? tired? drink water! etc. It does work...
Yeah, since i am raised with medical people all around me most of the time i just take care of it myself- i know what to do. I had to go when i broke my toe and then once or twice for advil. It hurt!and then once for the inncident beforehand.

really, if water, a buddy, duct tape or a tissue can't solve your problem, you're screwed.
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absolutely!!! I love that quote/saying!!! hehe

I was lucky enough to have some awesome nurses when I worked at Merriwood (though I think there was a reason there was a new nurse my first year). When you've got a good one, it's so nice to be able to have a nurse take a look at what ever issue you have. I ripped the skin off the back of both my heels hiking one year, and it was good to have someone who could tell me what I needed to do to make sure they healed well.

Good nurses rock! Not good nurses, well, they make life difficult for everyone.

Last night, I just sat reading through this entire thread, and I realized you could make a really great camp-based Drama show.

haha - now thats an idea! And we could all be the stars!

I could play the naive little camper... XD

haha, so true!! We totally could make a movie and star in it! Instead of those T-shirts we talked about a few months ago, we should make a movie! haha, even though the logistics on the movie would never work out with us all at different places! That just means that we would all have to apply at the same camp or something and somehow manage to get the same TO or spend our weekends making it!! haha

Not to mention that there are soooo many more stories that aren't on here, and all the camp love connections! We actually have like 4 differnt couples who met at camp and are still going strong!! Funny thing is that most of them are internationals and Americans, so they have the whole long-distance relationship thing going on! Or they get married and the guy follows the girl (seems to be traditional at my camp that the guy foes to live where the girl does!) We've even had one of those couples get married at camp!

Yeah, I've heard several stories of couples who have fallen in love at camp and then came back to get married there.

We could try pitching this idea to some network, and see what they say. =P

absolutely!! If I ever run into someone who had an in, I totally would! haha

Although I must say that it would be a better TV series than movie because you could make each season be a different summer and each season be 10 weeks long for each week of the camp that staff are there!!

Weren't we talking about a TV show in the first place? Oh, well. It would be cool either way.

oh, yeah, you said tv show when you brought it up, but then the word movie was mentioned so that was what stuck in my brain! sorry!!!

and it definitely would be cool as a movie too- thonk of all the amazing camp movies out there!!! Parent Trap being one of them (despite the lack of counselors!!)

Then again, if we do it as a TV series, we could leave cliff hangers! And there's more chance of people wanting to come to camp because of a TV show than a movie.

And, yeah, The Parent Trap (as good a movie as it is!) is totally unrealistic.

Cliff hangers are awesome for the writers but horrible for the viewers!! Then again, the writers know what is going to happen next!!

What are you talking about??? I love cliff hangers!

And they would make it so that more people would want to see the show, because they HAVE to know what happens next.

They do make you NEED to know what happens next, but I guess I hate them for myself sometimes because of the whole waiting a week! I am a very impatient person!!! But other people love the anticipation!

I must admit cliff hangers do make you really love it when the next episode finally gets here!!

Totally. Which is why it would be good advertising for camps.

Because people see that camp is an exiting adventure, and if they want to watch a show about it so badly, then why don't they experience it themselves?

Absolutely!!!

Wouldn't the world be such a better place if everyone went to camp?

oh it so would!

woah guys. more worst staff stories haah

wow, we took up almost a whole page talking about a non-existant movie!! Sorry guys, once again!!!

umm, I am working on thinking of some more worst staff stories~

We had a specialist one summer and for 2 sessions she didnt have a program and the rest of the summer she didnt really have a lot of campers to deal with - she actually had alot of "prep" time which was often used just to hang out! Anyway the second of the 2 sessions that she didnt have a program she was assigned as unit staff and she was not happy! She actually ended up in the office crying - partly cos she didnt want to be unit staff and partly cos if she had too she felt she would learn more from american staff and her co was me! I mean most of the american staff had less camp experience than I did - and she was told this but she still wasnt happy about. She also spent the who summer moaning about how much she was getting paid - she had done it for the money not the experience - and obviously being british she was only paid something like $550 (standard CA pay for a first year counsellor!) - needless to say it was a hard session - but not as hard as some I have had!

I can't imagine somebody doing camp NOT for the experience. She could have easily gotten a different job...