Things I Learned Working At A Summer Camp:
things i learned working at a summer camp:
-you're gonna be ugly and not everyone's going to like you and that doesn't mean you aren't good and loveable and important.
-protective parents are the scariest and most dangerous creatures on this planet
-your beliefs will be questioned a lot in life and that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong, but you have to be open to it. you cannot follow your beliefs without accepting that you're a human in a subjective world. sometimes you're going to be wrong and that doesn't make you a bad person.
-so many things can be solved with a hot meal and a full night's sleep
-friendships are going to be inconvenient. that is the nature of friendship. but you are going to do things for your friends because you love them, not because it's convenient, and vice versa. and it won't be a burden because you and others choose to carry that.
-literally just give yourself two minutes to breathe and think about a problem without outside influence. step into a broom closet and block your ears. sometimes you're panicking because you're overwhelmed by outside stimuli added to a situation, not because the situation is too overwhelming to handle.
-sometimes you've gotta be alone with yourself. you're feeling overwhelmed and stressed and like you're going to snap at anything that breathes? take a solo trip to the grocery store and buy a mango and eat it with your hands alone in your car. think about your favorite tv show. plan your future apartment on pinterest. just only talk to yourself for an hour or two.
-sometimes self care is a face mask but a lot of times it's washing your water bottle and your favorite pair of pants and filling your gas tank. i feel a whole lot better after washing my water bottle than i do a bubble bath.
-i'm so sorry to tell you this but exercise and vegetables will legitimately make you feel better if you've been depressed a while. i still get mad about it but it works.
go forth and be sane friends
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I miss summer camp… I can’t wait for summer… I miss my buddies from summer camp… summer will come… I will rise again… to go to summer camp…
I can’t wait for camp foodjsgdusbd
the audible gasp I let out upon reading the update- this is so terribly “Girl Scout camp core” that it’s not even funny lol
I also don’t think our HR lady is real, evidence: I have never once met her and she definitely has not stepped in when very clearly needed in the past… if she was long-ago fired, but we didn’t know, I wouldn’t be too shocked actually
"my camp conspiracy theory is that [our hr person] doesn't exist" "oh i actually met her last year! it was weird" "see i don't think you met her, i think you met an actress who was pretending to be her. i think [our hr person] is just a shared email account that everyone at council sometimes checks"
(conversation that was had with the lovely @girl-scout-camp)
I miss summer camp… I can’t wait for summer… I miss my buddies from summer camp… summer will come… I will rise again… to go to summer camp…
I can’t wait for camp foodjsgdusbd
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900 favorite vintage postcards, mostly weird.
An instructor teaches archery to a camper in the summer camp "Wooden Acres"
Montreal, Quebec
1942
me, to the kids i worked with last week: welcome to medieval camp everyone! can anyone think of any fun medieval activities we might do here at camp this week?
kid: well, they used to do this thing where they would take your body and make it into four pieces and i think it was called quartering.
me: that’s called torture! we will not in fact be participating in torture this week! …anyone else?
(Good) Camp Directors are active supporters of staff’s pure chaos and it really does set the bar quite high for future management… like what do you mean a 9 to 5 won’t support me standing on the table singing a song suspiciously close to Rattlin’ Bog at 8 am on a Monday?
I need someone to match my freak the way my Camp Directors do holy shit
i love name-dropping people from camp with absolute no context to people not from camp. like just casually mention my good friend [greek goddess], and you can’t forget our coworker [name-brand cookie]. and of course, there’s [marsupial], who keeps texting me the most out-of-pocket life updates that mildly concern me… what are you talking about those are their names, completely normal names for a coworker
Campers enjoy some water activities at Camp Eagle Island summer camp.
Saranac Lake, New York
1960
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Girl Scout camp counselorsomewhere in the woods, probably in a canoe
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