Summer Camp 2008

hey welcome all tell me about what eveyones doing for camp... explain everyone

What Im doing for camp?
I'm being a general counsellor nothing too exciting!
but i'm really excited about meeting new people

I'm a swimming counselor! It's going to be mad fun!

I am a relief counsellor so I help other staff memebers, cover their breaks, take over a cabin if someone is sick and help look after the directors 7 month old as well

ooooo mel that sounds interesting!
how'd u get that did u apply for a general counsellor role or was that the role they pikd for u?

Yeah that sounds way interesting Mel! You get to do heaps of stuff and I asume you'd get plenty of time off!

The cmap director emailed me and told me about the position and told me if I was interested in the camp and the role to email her back.

I get about 2 hours a day off plus days off between sessions. I think nearly everyone has 2 hours off and between sessions off. Between sessions it is anywhere between 24 hours and 3 days off

thats the same as me!
wow you must get real busy then!
wat made u take the role?

i love babies.

im a cabin counsellor of the youngest age group and i get to go around to all activities and shiz and if i wanna help lead something i can

I thought the role would be interesting and I get to go to all of the age groups.

i'd like to do all age groups see what they're all like

i'm a 'music specialist' at camp , they havent defined it 100% but as far as i know i'm teaching music to all ages, teaching drama, accompaning a little on piano (it better be a little lol i'm not particuarly comfortable accompaning i'd rather be singing with them haha) and also auditioning and running musicals/plays with the rest of performing arts team (theres about 5 of us i think?) But yeah nervous but very excited

mel ur going to have SO much fun!!!! 7 month old wowwwwww lol, he'll just have learnt to sit up by himself and will probably be babbling instead of cooing! man wat a lovely age to work with, seriously lol. the 6 month old girl i look after is beautiful. you'll have heaps of fun!

i hate composition!
if you had to write ur own music that would suk!

gosh i hope not lol. i've done up to gr 6 ameb theory but it made me hate writing even more lol. i guess i can teach a basic chord progression for song writing but if i have to help everyone compose a song it will be interesting lol.

hahah imagine if u were that piano person wen they have skits and shiz hahha funny!
i memba doing composition in my exams it sukd ass and altho i passd it use to spend frikn ages on them!

Yeah I hated doing composition...mainly because it just took so long!! I'd come up with some really good stuff, but it took me ages! I ended up quiting music as a subject in High School....it was prety much for those with perfect pitch and who wanted to do it as a career. THEY WERE HARDCORE!

hahahaha i did it all through high school did it yr 12 pretty much all the people in my class have done nothing with music lol

I'm going to be a swim instructor and cabin counselor at camp camp greylock

apparently I'll be spending the morning 'teaching' 3-4 campers swimming, and then have something called wreck swim in the afternoon. I think thats like horsing around

why are so many people instructors
i want to be one now!!!

Its ok Shay, Im a general counsellor too

I think there are pro's and con's with both roles

def pros and cons with both lol.

yeah a lot of ppl in my music class took it because they thought it would be a really easy subject lol. they were sooo wrong and we ended up with like 6 ppl in our yr 12 class who were actually serious about music and enjoyed it lol. i did music cos its pretty much all i knew at the time.

u guys have to let me no how the swimming instructing goes! sounds kinda fun!

yeh bec you'll also have to tell us how the whole teaching music goes!!!

hahahhaa i will i will...i'm kinda interested to see how it's going to go myself u guys have any suggestions as to what i should be teaching? lol i have a few ideas but am unsure still as to how to teach those who aren't fans of music and dont sing or play an instrument...hmmm lol and no recorders haha

teach me the God Save the Queen

heck lol I dont even know God Save The Queen haha. (not enough of it to actually teach it anyways) Sorry Dan! how bout tie me kangaroo down sport? haha