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@night-orienteering
At the overnight camp in my old council, there were bears that would try to get into the dumpster. We called them the fairy friends so as not to scare the kids. A lot of camps have code words or euphemisms that we use so the campers/parents won’t know.
What euphemisms does your camp use?
Snakes are dragons at my camp :)
Things they don’t tell you about working at camp: (Part 1)
You will essentially be living out of a suitcase for the entire summer, and moving frequently, so pack light
You will have at least one camper that hates you and actively tries to sabotage you
Don’t bring your pillow when you sleep outside, it will get wet and it takes forever to dry
You might love kids with all your heart and soul but there will come a time midway through the summer when the thought of seeing another child is enough to make you crazy
Kids are smart, they will figure out who you are dating/ who you like even if you’re discreet
Leading arts and crafts is not easier than leading soccer or canoeing, they are entirely different and both deserve respect
You will have to clean up vomit/urine/blood/poop at some point, just remember sawdust is your friend
You can sweat out one 32oz bottle’s worth of water in an hour, so keep drinking, all day everyday
You are more than welcome to play music through your phone/speaker, but kids will pick the most annoying song as their favorite and request it all week
Your director has eyes and ears… everywhere
Befriend the kitchen staff, they might slip you extra desserts
Bring extra socks in your backpack, even if you don’t think it will rain
There will be nights when your campers don’t go to sleep until 3 and then wake up at 5
Sunscreen needs to be reapplied throughout the day!
You will probably spend most of your paychecks on food
There will be staff/ campers that you can’t stand, you have to work past that
You will have to intervene on camper issues even if they are not you’re campers
At some point a camper will tell you “I hate you” it’s probably not your fault
Counselors are more likely to be hurt at games, campers are more likely to be hurt in free time
This job won’t be “easy” but it will be the best job you have had/ will ever have. Make it count and have a blast
Finding out the kitchen made the best meal option ever for dinner
When the campers wake you up at night
Remember that disgusting camp song about the baby bumblebee that started with finding the baby bumblebee then “I’m pickin up my baby bumblebee, won’t my mama be so proud of me,” but then the baby bumblebee stings you then suddenly you’re smashin up your baby bumblebee (won’t my mama be so proud of me), then somehow you’re lickin up the damn baby bumblebee, then you’re pukin up the damn baby bumblebee, then somehow you’re lickin it up again and all the while the mamas remain so proud like what the fuck? We were seven??
Me: I
Everyone else: YES WE GET IT YOU MISS SUMMER CAMP AND SEROTONIN
Camp staff are those ridiculous people in math problems who buy 55 oranges.
I know I wrote this earlier this week as a Mood but today I bought 90 fruit snacks, 80 juice boxes, and 10 loaves of bread, so this wasn’t wrong.
Most recent addition: 90 capri suns and 75 cans of Pringles.
When a parent says they love a counselor but that counselor was fired
This is so accurate. At school, we literally have children who will watch our facial expressions to see if them falling is as bad as they think it might be.
CORRECT CHILD INJURY PROCEDURE:
do not react. at the most, maybe wince and go “ooooh”
go over to the child to assess panic level and severity of injury
if they’re like, dying, remain calm, but they’re probably not.
look them in the eye and ask, “you okay?” they will nod. possibly all teary-eyed. then ask, “are we gonna need to cut it off?”
the child is thrown off. if they giggle, you’re in the money. if they do not, put a bandaid on and do some sympathetic patting. they are probably a little teary. let the sad little bug sit out for a minute. they will quickly get bored.
works every time
“sad little bug” is the cutest and most accurate term ive heard used to describe a child because sometimes bugs are kinda super cute sometimes bugs are really fucking annoying and sometimes bugs are downright TERRIFYING
any group of children between ages 7 and 14 will, if left unattended for over 40 seconds, begin to form weird cults
seriously you go into another room to get a band-aid and you come back to find a quartet of ten year-olds prostrating themselves around a dirty baby sock they found on the floor and chanting “speak to us, master” and that’s just life
I am a teacher and my students formed an unhealthy obsession with a can of unopened sprite I had on my shelf. They called it their god. One day I found them holding rulers in the form of a cross singing Kumbaya, so I hid the Sprite as it was becoming a distraction. So the students made a change.org petition to find it.
Your should let them outside more.
Oh, trust me. They’ll just form cults outside.
You’ll have a hundred exciting outdoor activities available to them and they’ll start worshiping a zucchini called Me Boy.
When people think of Girl Scouts they always think of the Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors (grades K to 5) but rarely do people think about the older girls. The Cadettes, Seniors, Ambassadors, and even the Lifetimes. We still sell cookies, we still go camping, we are still just as active as the younger girls. Us Girl Scouts, of all ages, are one. We all build up the Girl Scout community. We all are equally Girl Scouts. We are a unit. One year, I did a Girl Scout Cookie booth sale with my old troop and we corresponded with a Brownie/Junior troop (grades 2-5) that year. It was astounding how many people skipped over our table of older girls and went straight to the younger girls. Some people looked at us as if we were “fake Girl Scouts” and some acted as if we didn’t exist. I’m not saying we didn’t get sales but it amazed me how people seemed like we were wrong or weird for being older Girl Scouts. It was almost as if we weren’t “cute” enough. We weren’t the cute little girls that they expected us to be. What people fail to realise is, that this is a business. Girl Scouts sell cookies as a business; we earn badges/patches/pins, a percentage towards our activities and our Bronze/Silver/Gold Awards, and a great experience. Now other people that I have encountered thought it was wonderful to see older girls still be interested in being a Girl Scout. So I guess it all depends on the person’s view. But next time you purchase Girl Scout Cookies or even just encounter a Girl Scout, please try to remember that there are Girl Scouts of all age/shape/size/ethnicity. We are all equally Girl Scouts.
The Science of Becoming a Heroic Girl
There is nothing the Internet loves more than a good villain, and the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh sure looked like it fit the bill.
The Science Center offers classes for scouts, girls and boys, to get their science badges. But while the Boy Scouts have classes in Chemistry, Engineering Astronomy and two levels of basic science, the Girl Scouts offered but one solitary class:
Science With a Sparkle
Oct. 11 1 – 4 pm Ages – 8-12
Prepare to be dazzled! Dive into chemistry and learn how science relates to health and beauty products. Become a cosmetic chemist and concoct your own creations to take home.
That’s right, the only “science” offering for girls was a course on how to make make-up. We had our villain. Boo! Hiss! Carnegie Science Center, shortchanging our girls.
But not so fast.
The Science Center put out a Facebook post to address the controversy. It reads in part:
We understand your frustration and would like to offer some background:
Regarding Girl Scout-specific programming, we have struggled when it comes to enrollments for our Girl Scout programs. In the past, we have offered engineering, chemistry, and robotics programming for Girl Scouts. We created programming to go along with the new Journeys that Girl Scouts use. Unfortunately, no troops signed up for these. The programs that consistently get enrollments are “Science with a Sparkle” and our Sleepovers at the museum.
That’s right, Carnegie Science Center used to offer better science programming for girls — but no one signed up. That’s not a problem they can fix alone. That is one that we must tackle together.
We need to explain to girls why science is something they can and should do. We need to encourage their curiosity and push them to explore the world around them with a critical eye because science is fun and amazing. We can and must get girls more involved in science and engineering, but we can’t count on a single science center to do it for us. It is something that we have to do together: parents, kids, teachers and society at large.
I did invisible ink with 4-5th grade campers on Wednesday and two of them wrote “yeet.”
I had a CIT make a clipboard with a “yeet” so big it took up the whole thing
That sounds like the CITs (and staff) I know.
My camp had an LIT (idk of other camps do that, it’s like a CIT in training) who wanted her camp name to be Yeet.
