I'm so happy

[ocean]

Today I got a letter in the mail from my camp asking to return this coming summer. I am so excited. Has anybody else heard back from their camp yet?

[Dave]

Congrats ocean! I'm glad you've been asked back. I got my return letter a few days ago. I filled it out and already sent it back. :)

[ocean]

thanks and congrats to you

[speedx5xracer]

I heard back about next summer 2 weeks ago.

[countrygal]

All my friends in the city have gotten their from my camp so Im expecting mine within the next week because I live in the country where mail comes bout a week later...

[Indigo]

Congratulations! I'm still waiting to hear from my camp.

[camper]

i was the first person on the list to get a contract...then again thats b/c the list is in my house haha.

[who_stole_my_loofa]

im kind of surprised so many camps seem to have waited so long to ask returners back. mine asks in september because they want to attract people back before they start applying for internships or thinking about other jobs. i signed my contract almost 3 weeks ago already.

loofa

[Fleur]

My camp also sends out letters fairly early. We usually hear back within the first week or two of October. I had my interview about a month ago. Still waiting to find out what job I'm being offered (there were a couple of options discussed).

[Skater Bubbles]

I got my letter yesterday!! I was excited!! I have to fill out my application again and get three reference forms filled out again! It's all good though. I can't wait to go back to my camp!

[rockinsmiles]

I guess we get our return letters really late compared to most camps. We have to let the director know by the first of february if we are interesed in returning. Then again we can let him know whenever (one person inquired while we were still in session) but like i didnt get my answer till march last year. And i think i was one of the first people to send in my app.

[ocean]

Well congrats everybody who have recieved their letters. I filled it out and sent it this morning. So I am really happy

[audur]

I'm expecting a letter in late December or sometime in January, probably... I do know I'm invited back though - my director is keeping some stuff for me at camp over the winter!

[Flukie]

Staff reapps came out about a week ago. The online app for new hires has been up for about a month - but they wait till January before doing full hiring for newbies.

[Dave]

The good part about having them come later is that you have something to look forward to the months after camp is over.

[Skater Bubbles]

I filled mine out last night and I am just going to take it up with me when I go visit my best friend and her husband (my camp director) at my camp this weekend!

[rubs]

I hope I get accepted back. I got my letter last week and was SUPER excited to get it! Not only did it have the application form but..... the letter for the Staff party!!!1 I so can;t wait to see everyone!!!

[CAMPFRIEND]

I just sent out all of my letters asking staff back for 2006. It's crazy to think that I am getting ready for next summer. The office part of camp runs year round..

[code3cadet]

I do not know if I will be going back to camp this year. if my family need me for the summer I will not be. BUt if they do not I am open to camps that I mite go to this year

[EchoLaker]

Mine came in Mid-November, accompanied by the Reprise and Slideshow for this season.

It took me about 2 weeks to decide that it was financially viable, and confirm that my parents don't mind me having my University graduation "ceremony" and photos held at camp rather than at the City Hall back home.

Instead it looks like I'll get my degree certificate mailed to camp; will grab an old fashioned school masters outfit from the camps costume area, and will either have the Camp Director or Program Director do the presentation - at least this way I'll be around people I know, and around people that know me; rather than the President of the University who I've never met in my life !

Heard back from the director today who said that my office was never totally cleared, so it's set up how I left it at the end of August and that I should be getting a Walkie this year. :p

Bring on June 7th !!!

[ocean]

thats awesome echolaker

[CAMPFRIEND]

When you get a Walkie your big time at camp. People can find you whenever they want. I have one and a cell phone. I can never hide!

[rockinsmiles]

Yeah but i think some ppl need a course on how to use the walkies :D

[EchoLaker]

Yeah but i think some ppl need a course on how to use the walkies :D


When I was using the general office walkie (not my personal one) this year I was told that to start with it was coming across as muffled because I was talking too close.

But I soon learned my lesson when someone else with a walkie walked into the office, and I could hear what everyone else was trying to decipher !

The public address system, and the internal phones are far easier at times ! But for me, this year, I'd rather have a walkie so I can go and get in the sun for a few hours a day instead of sitting in my office waiting for someone to visit me.

I can figure the logic in not giving me one first year, ya know, don't know whether you can be trusted to use responsibly, or to keep possibly sensitive information sensitive, but I think I proved myself this year in that respect by not announcing the shear amounts of money that I was handling over the summer, and producing a set of petty cash accounts that actual balanced to the penny ! :D

LOL I've just recieved my agency application forms for this coming summer, and I'm having to apply as a First time councelor (Visa requirements), and as such they want two references --- I'm left in a bizaare situation where I'm going to be asking my camp to write a reference to an agency, to accept me on a programme to be able to go back to the same camp. Why does the US have to make it so difficult for us internationals to get across ! :(

[Dave]

When you get a Walkie your big time at camp. People can find you whenever they want. I have one and a cell phone. I can never hide!
It's the same our camp. At our camp, the division heads and the camp directors get walkie talkies. Actually so do the maintenance people, the nurses, and the aquatics people. Anyway, a lot of people at our camp think that each bunk should get a walkie talkie. It's not always easy finding someone with a walkie talkie, and if something were to happen we'd have to search someone out. I agree with this. I think that each bunk should be given a walkie talkie to be used in emergencies.

[collissimon]

I got the walkie of power one day, and one evening a week last year, when I was stand in Unit Leader. It does take a while to get used to: not to speak into as much, but to be listening for your name over it! I always found that a bit difficult, either missing it completely, or being really paranoid over it!

[camper]

i have a walkie when i do tours...which is almost every weekend...its always fun when someone asks someone else to switch to the private convo channel and EVERYONE switches to listen...lol.

[ocean]

All UL's and head honchos have walkie talkies at my camp

[CAMPFRIEND]

When I was using the general office walkie (not my personal one) this year I was told that to start with it was coming across as muffled because I was talking too close.

But I soon learned my lesson when someone else with a walkie walked into the office, and I could hear what everyone else was trying to decipher !

The public address system, and the internal phones are far easier at times ! But for me, this year, I'd rather have a walkie so I can go and get in the sun for a few hours a day instead of sitting in my office waiting for someone to visit me.

I can figure the logic in not giving me one first year, ya know, don't know whether you can be trusted to use responsibly, or to keep possibly sensitive information sensitive, but I think I proved myself this year in that respect by not announcing the shear amounts of money that I was handling over the summer, and producing a set of petty cash accounts that actual balanced to the penny ! :D

LOL I've just recieved my agency application forms for this coming summer, and I'm having to apply as a First time councelor (Visa requirements), and as such they want two references --- I'm left in a bizaare situation where I'm going to be asking my camp to write a reference to an agency, to accept me on a programme to be able to go back to the same camp. Why does the US have to make it so difficult for us internationals to get across ! :(

I think that you should talk with your camp to see if they can help!

[rockinsmiles]

Dave we use to want walkie talkies at our cabins too. Instead they put walkie talkies at each activity section. But ya know it doesn't help if we are at low ropes or are at the climbing wall or stuck in the cabin. And there always needs to be a staff person with our group it is hard to just go find someone to help. I do know i wouldnt want to be carring around a walkie talkie all the time though. that would be a hassle with the campers and it would end up in my bad i just know and then i wouldnt be paying attention or couldnt hear it. plus your bound to get wet at some point during the summer when you arent planning on it! especially when your small!

[KiwiCRB]

I hate having a radio that i'm suppose to keep up with. I leave it everywhere i go and then end up missing something i need to know. I like having it in the unit... just with someone else in charge. If i could remember it all the time i would like to have it, they are fun.

[collissimon]

All Unit heads have them, and Deputy's on their day off, plus medical and admin staff. Ooh, also waterfront and adventure staff have several

[Dave]

Dave we use to want walkie talkies at our cabins too. Instead they put walkie talkies at each activity section. But ya know it doesn't help if we are at low ropes or are at the climbing wall or stuck in the cabin. And there always needs to be a staff person with our group it is hard to just go find someone to help. I do know i wouldnt want to be carring around a walkie talkie all the time though. that would be a hassle with the campers and it would end up in my bad i just know and then i wouldnt be paying attention or couldnt hear it. plus your bound to get wet at some point during the summer when you arent planning on it! especially when your small!
I agree with that. I'm just saying we'd have it for emergencies or when we need some quick response. Because the way things are at our camp, it's not always easy to find a walkie talkie. And if something happens and we can't get a walkie talkie fast enough we're screwed.

[daisy]

all of our ad staff has walkie talkies, and activities that are far away from the main part of camp, and if the waterfront director leaves the waterfront, he always gives the walkie to one of the guards. its usually pretty easy to find someone with a walkie if you need them at my camp.

[KiwiCRB]

The part i hate about walkie talkies is when you have something important to say... like your parents found a rattle snake while taking their daughters to their unit.... and someone else keeps going on and on and on about something not nearly as important.... like a mouse.

[Fallen]

At my current job (night camp at the zoo) we all get a walkie, but at the summer camps only UL's and Ad staff have them.

With the hearing back to return since none of the camps have the same camp director they don't do it. Not even council sends a letter asking you to apply for the next summer.