Quoting Cain from 22:45, 28th Nov 2005
People think you're wierd if Camp America wasn;t the best summer of your life, ever.
I hated it, being the only counselor in my division with any work ethic (and thus the only one to sort the kids out when they acted up = automatic bad guy status). At my camp i was one of the exceptions though, but don't expect to receive much protection. remember, the kids pay the big money and are the definite priority. counsellors should be in no doubt where they are in the camp food chain (at the bottom).
It's also a bureaucratic nightmare getting anywhere with Camp America = the number of forms that you have to fill in, the way that they give you two days to do something then leave you hanging for two months before giving you another ridiculous deadline...the way that you send them a letter with 5 forms and they send a letter back saying that they lost two of them (one of them was on the relevant desk, but they never bothered to look for it)... etc etc.
I was distinctly unimpressed with it, especially considering the amount of money that you have to shell out for it.
I didn't have the summer i expected from it.
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Quoting MadDog20/20 from 03:24, 30th Nov 2005
BUNAC offer a complete package that allows you to get a job wherever you like over the summer period (apart from childcare and medical jobs).
Most people seem to go and work in theme parks, which sounds shit to me, although I had mates that worked on the waterfront park in Santa Cruz and they had a good time.
Ive done loads and loads of these things so I have plenty of hard-won experience I am happy to share.
I'd recommend against camp america, principally because you dont get paid much. If you end up at a good camp it can be amazing but if you get a shit one it is essentially slave labour.
Ideally you wanna get yourself over to Northern California (easily the best part of the country, and I have done a damn good job of seeing the best of the rest) and see what you can find for work there. If you end up in, say, Berkeley, there are loads of cafes you can pick up work in and you can stay in frat houses for pretty cheap over the summer.
All I can say is, go for it! At the very worst if you can't find a job you can always just pack your bags and head down to mexico and party for next to nothing.
Oh yeah I would also give serious consideration to working in Canada. BUNAC run a program to go there too. Vancouver is magnificent and is almost as excellent as San Francisco (the only thing differentiating them being SF's marginally better pub scene).
Quoting novium from 03:32, 30th Nov 2005
santa cruz- the boardwalk?
Do you know if there are any programs like this, but that work in the other direction?
Quoting The Penguin Of Death! from 15:56, 28th Nov 2005
Hey
I'm thinking bout applying to do a camp-america-style thing during summer 06, but I have heard mixed reports about Camp America (the actual company)...can anyone give advice/ suggets alternate organisations that would offer that kind of program?
(bunac wont accept me apparently cos i'll only be 18 and dont have any previous camp experience)
thanks!
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