Man. I was a hardcore bookworm as a kid, but...waking me up before dawn? I might've stubbornly refused to read teh book for a few days, just out of bitterness!
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Jul 15, 2005 9:07:53 am PDT #8251 of 10002
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2005 9:22:44 am PDT #8252 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And five to ten for the counsellors who get tried for the child abuse.
Is that hardcore for camp? I'd always imagined it had stuff like that, except instead of reading there's cold lakewater or something.
Signed,
Went To Tech Camp, And Didn't Sleep Over.
Hil R. - Jul 15, 2005 9:35:52 am PDT #8253 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember camp wakeup as normally being not too long after dawn, anyway. And there were usually one or two things during the summer where they woke us up early for something.
Calli - Jul 15, 2005 9:42:34 am PDT #8254 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We didn't get woken up before dawn at camp when I was a kid, but we did have the occasional night where we never went to bed. We'd set up our sleeping bags on a big hill and watch the falling stars all night. I loved that. I was probably cranky and 'skeeter bit as hell the next day, but I don't remember that part at all. Lovely thing, selective memory.
Kathy A - Jul 15, 2005 9:44:43 am PDT #8255 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Did a lot of people on this board attend summer camp as kids? Because I didn't know anyone who did while I was growing up. I went to a few week-long camps (4-H, mostly), but that was it.
Jessica - Jul 15, 2005 9:47:48 am PDT #8256 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I spent 2 summers at a Jewish sleep-away camp. (Which was mostly like regular sleep-away camp, except we had Shabbat services and Hebrew school in addition to the regular arts & crafts / color war stuff.)
Some parts were fun (kicking the boys' collective asses in kayaking during color war, for example), but I was never much for teen girlish bonding, and so the living in a cabin with 14 other 11 year-olds part was about as close to torture as I've ever experienced.
Calli - Jul 15, 2005 9:48:20 am PDT #8257 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I went to a Methodist church camp several years running. It only lasted 10 days each summer. Still, there was swimming, hiking, canoing, singing, and mud fights in the peat bog. All in all, pretty fun.
Hil R. - Jul 15, 2005 9:57:25 am PDT #8258 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I had several years at a Jewish camp, and then two years at a regular camp (which was probably about 90% Jewish, but wasn't religious), and one year at performing arts camp.
Connie Neil - Jul 15, 2005 9:59:49 am PDT #8259 of 10002
brillig
I went to a Methodist church camp several years running
I was about to say I'd never stayed at a summer camp, but I did the Methodist church camp too. Ah, Jumonville, up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. I don't remember very much, aside from the view from the top of the mountain, how gorgeous the woods are, and how wretched other teenagers can be.
meara - Jul 15, 2005 10:01:03 am PDT #8260 of 10002
Girl Scout camp, two weeks (well, Tues-the next Sunday) every year from 11-15. Plus a year as a counsellor.