My Summer: My Experience To Be A Camp Counselor

Summer camp is a time to create memories of laughter, friendship, and new adventures. It is a time to get away for a week, and experience new adventures with familiar and fresh faces. It is a chance to experience the sound of crickets at night while lying awake in the bunk, wondering what kind of excitement the next day will bring. Camp is where friendships are created that last a lifetime.

For Christmas break, I had gone to Charleston, South Carolina, to see my family. I was very excited because I had not seen them in a long time. When we got to Charleston, my grandparents had invited some of our extended family over. This included my cousins Erin, Bo, Emma, and Finley. My cousin Holland, sister Maggie, and I all played with Emma and Finley because at the time, Emma was three and Finley was five months old. We all had a great time and when everybody left, we all fell asleep.

Thus starting the best summer of my life, I grew closer to God then ever before, made life long friendships, and saw God work in amazing ways in the hearts of kids. This summer was the most productive summer, spiritually, I’ve ever had all because I followed the call. Following the call was not an easy thing to do, I had to quit my current job which was a great Job with a nice big paycheck every week, and leave home for two months, all to take up a job that didn’t pay well and that didn’t have the most comfortable sleeping quarters, but it was well worth it and I am planning to return to the camp next

Perhaps the most important experience during my more formative years was my experience with YMCA camping. I was a camper,

While I was a kid my family and I used to go on bike rides all the time to anywhere you could think of. We would go boating everyday in the summer. We would ski, wakeboard, go tubing and many more. Go tubing was one of the funniest memories I have boating because the thrill you get is unbeatable trying to hold on for dear life. Anothering thing we did as a family was go on vacation everywhere. The road trips were always fun because we would bring our dog turbo. The one trip that will never be forgotten is North Carolina. We go there every year with family friends and it will be a trip on go on with my kids.

I attend my church's fifth and sixth grade summer camp as a teen counselor, and have done so for three summers. This experience is very special every year because as I grow in my own faith and knowledge, the experiences I see my campers undergoing in just a weekend means more and more

The first week, of my second year, being an assistant counselor at Camp Shalom was one of the most enlightening weeks of my life. The Camp Shalom

I had better opportunities come to me. Not saying that TLC wasn’t an amazing opportunity but I needed to get out of my comfort zone and try something new and exciting, which wasn’t Trout. Unfortunately I will not be at my home away from home this summer. Now your second question. Do I regret it? That’s like asking me after I get burned from being at the lake. “Do you regret going, Hannah?” Of course not. No, because at the time it felt right. It felt like the world was okay, I didn’t have the stress from my family or school or work. I just had me. And that is how I felt at camp. The only worry I had was who was going to wake me at 3 am because they needed to use the bathroom and couldn’t go alone. Or who was going to be the next camper to end up in the health lodge for some stupid reason or another, like scraping their knee or “I don’t feel good” when really they just didn’t want to do cabin activities that involve physical activity. I don’t think I will ever regret going out of my comfort zone and going to Trout. I remember the first time canoeing there I got stuck because I picked the smallest canoe. The friends that I met is something that I will miss. I remember I was having a really bad night, my mom was going in for cancer testing, we didn’t know what was going to happen. I was all the way up north away from her, I couldn’t sit with her and tell her it was okay, I couldn’t be with my mom. Because of this I

I have assisted with babysitting and being involved with leadership clubs, however, this past summer was the best voluntarily experience I have ever done. I volunteered at the San Fernando Recreation Park’s summer day camp for eight weeks. Not only was I being prepared to become a counselor, but I obtained skills there, such as patience and responsibility.

When things aren’t going as planned and there is no way to move forward I tend not worry about the things that I cannot control. I explore every option, I will seek out the help of others who have been in my position before see if they have any advice, and once all options have been exhausted I will take a step back and try to focus on another step that can be handled while things get worked out. I also pride myself in making sure that I hold myself accountable when things aren’t right. When I was the summer camp director at a daycare center we had a no nut facility, so any lunch brought from home had to be check by the team leaders. One day a team leader missed a lunch with nuts in it, the kids told their parents that another kid had was

This job also gives me a chance to impact the lives of the campers I am working with. I am doing this by helping them have the experiences and memories every child deserves. They are learning social behaviors and how to interact and build relationships. This camp gives these kids a sense of normalcy and fun. I have built relationships with children who had started off not liking me but by the end of a week of camp they are comfortable and have fun with me. They know they will always have a place at Camp Munroe and I love being a part of that experience for

During my sophomore year of high school, one of my teachers approached me and asked if I was interested in a job for the summer at the country of a local country club. While I was nervous at first, I accepted the job, and have now completed two successful summers there. The experience of having a summer job taught me many things; and as I continued to take on more and more responsibilities over the summer, I learned even more about how to be responsible at all times and to empathize with someone in order to understand their perspective and to help improve their experience.

I was a Camp Counselor assistant as well. I worked with ages 5-18. I created different arts and crafts the days we did not have a field trip. We made jewelry, birthday cards, and decorations for the community center that I volunteered at. Many younger children like arts and crafts more than the older kids. I knew I had to appease to all of the children. I helped out with creating t-shirts, poetry, and a book club. These are also arts and crafts but just

What I initially thought would just be a summer job turned out to be an enriching experience. Being CPR and lifeguard certified, I became a camp guard for my town pool. The town camp would come to my pool during the week when I worked, and I formed new connections with many children. During the summer, I also taught these children swim lessons.

Over the summer I had a lot of fun, maybe the most I`ve ever had. I spend a large amount of my summer at my grandparent’s lake house. My grandparents lake house is huge, a mansion compared to my house. At their lake house they have a lot of fun stuff, my personal favorite are the jet skis. I didn’t get to ride them that much, but when I did it was a blast! My days at the lake house were the highlight of my summer, but I did a lot of other fun stuff too!