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74 until OE and 87 until summer!!!!!!

21 until OE, 71 until Summer!

56 days until ad staff week starts! About half that until I start working at the barn a few days a week!

68 and 81!!!!!

oh man, I can't believe it's so close!!! Thanks to the OE session I have 2 months and 1 week 'til I will be at camp! Then I'll have to leave for a almost 2 weeks, but I can live with that! I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed a campfix!!! ooo, and Dad/youth overnight is April 24th! So that's like 2.5 weeks away!! Yay!!

45 days: can't wait even though I have to actually pay attention in training this year

I am still waiting to hear from the camps I applied to volunteer at this summer.

Lucky for me, I can just daydream during most of the staff training!

DTP, that's how it's been the last 2 summers for me but this summer I have a new position so I 2 extra weeks of training but then during the general staff training(all staff), I'll still be able to daydream,etc

3 days!!!

I have 89 days until Caledonia 2010, and then a week after that I have fusion, then nothing until Oct when hopefully I will be helping with a Rainbow overnight and then in November Mash and I have a pack holiday with brownies!

55 'til my OE session!!!

68 'til summer!!!!!!

4 until I leave for my weekend at home/camp and 5 until I am actually at camp!!! YAY!!!!!!! I wish it would be 4 until I got to camp, but my friend has her reasons for not wanting us to run into someone who might be there Friday night. So instead we are driving over Friday to stay at my parents' house and my dad is going to make us biscuits and gravy in the morning before my friend and I are going to pick up her girlfriend from the bus station and head up to camp for Dad/youth overnight!!!! woot!!!

DTP...3 days? Wow! Have fun!

Only 41 until staff training starts! I am way excited!

38 days 'til Cedarledge starts. Woohoo!

30 days until I move in for the summer, 31 days until training begins. Can't wait, especially since each summer now may be the last one, gotta enjoy them as much as possible

Yeah its awesome, I start OE tomorrow. I won't actually move up to camp though until Mid-May. Only about 7 weeks to staff training begins, yay!

yeah, nataylor I'm kinda with you on that one. Last summer was going to be my last at my camp and i was going to find new, completely different one, but then I decided to apply for UL and got excited about that and now I'm a counselor again at my camp, and this will make my 11th summer (including as a camper of course) there. Next summer I think I'm going to go to another camp. Right now I'm all gung-ho for doing this but I know that I will miss my camp and that this summer is going to tear me apart when I do the last week especially because it will probably be my last. Though I am going to be a teacher and my camp is local so chances are I will end up doing that in the summers.

woot for OE!! I miss it!! I have 54 days until my 1 OE session!! Actually, now I think it's 53! And then 65 for DC for grief camp and then a week or so after that until staff training. OH! and 3 days until Dad/youth overnight!

Giggles, that's quite the path traveled. I'm a ways behind you since this will "only" be summer #4 for me but my camp also does weekends during the winter and this is winter #3 but my 1st 3 summers were spent as a counselor and i'm the trips coordinator this time around. I also don't have the summer flexibility as you since I won't be a teacher but I'll be working with kids year-round so I'll still have a little bit of camp in me forever

Will you get to go on the trips or just plan them?

87 days until Caledonia 2010 and then it will not be long until I can start looking for a camp for 2012 - why do I bring this up - I am really campsick the moment cos I made the mistake of watching photo slide show from one of my old camps and it has made me really campsick - I really should have known better!

52 days until I make the drive up north!

- Teenster

Smudge, I'd still get to go on the trips as well since I'll be one of the "main" drivers but I'll be covering breaks as well so that all campers have a counselor because we have a 1:1 ratio due to the fact that we are a special needs camp

1 month until training starts, can't wait

That is cool when I was at Main Idea the trip person didnt go on any of the trips cos she was soo busy getting stuff ready for the next trip etc and i felt bad for her.

that is cool, nataylor. Poor Main Idea trip person!

We only have 2-3 trip programs/weeks per summer and the kids sign up for them from the get-go. Then 2 counselors (or a lifeguard and a counselor) go with them. The kids (usually around 10-14 of them, co-ed) show up Sunday with all the other kids and do some camp stuff and prepare to leave. Then they leave by Tuesday morning and come back Friday afternoon, run straight to the lake, jump in the deep end, swim out to the floating dock that's in the deep end, sing their unit fast song, jump back in, get out, and go shower. Then they are like a normal group in that they go to banquet dinner and closing campfire, etc.

Our trip planners are the directors and they plan the trips along with the rest of the program and they are the ones to hold the before camp meeting for the kids and parents.

I leave tomorrow evening!!!!!!!!! and I will be at camp the next day so 2 DAYS!!!!!! woot!! But of course I will be leaving camp in 3, so yeah. However, I will go back in like 52 or 53 days!! and then again in 65ish days!!

I am headed up to camp on Saturday to lifeguard for a camporee. I am excited to see the place and see the changes that have been made over the winter.

oh, in case you want ot be even more campsick- read the children's book "Froggy Goes to Camp". It's a pretty excellent book. I read it last night and definitely got a little more campsick.