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.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Calli - Jul 15, 2005 9:48:20 am PDT #8257 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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
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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.
erikaj - Jul 15, 2005 10:01:56 am PDT #8261 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
This one time, at crip camp... I found out it wasn't just the wheelchair that made me weird to people.
Kate P. - Jul 15, 2005 10:03:40 am PDT #8262 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I spent many summers at camp, both as a camper and as a counselor. One of the most formative experiences of my life.
brenda m - Jul 15, 2005 10:09:15 am PDT #8263 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And five to ten for the counsellors who get tried for the child abuse.
Is that hardcore for camp?
I was thinking it was a commentary on the books? That sort of thing wouldn't have been out of the ordinary at the camps I went to.
DXMachina - Jul 15, 2005 10:16:27 am PDT #8264 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nah, I wasn't talking about the books (although for the kids who don't give a crap about HP, that would also apply). Just the waking the kids up in the middle of the night is bad enough.
Strega - Jul 15, 2005 3:23:14 pm PDT #8265 of 10002
It seems like the sort of thing that happened back in the nineteenth century, when people were waiting for the latest installment of one of Dickens' novels.
I've read that people in the U.S. would wait at the docks to meet ships carrying the next chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. People love a serial.
If I were a child, nothing would make me less interested in reading a particular book than 1) waking me up for it, 2) turning a solitary act into an communal experience, and then 3) reading it to me. If I'd had any interest in them up to that point, that would almost certainly kill it. But I suppose the relentless hype would have done that, too, since it's certainly had that effect on me as an adult.
DavidS - Jul 15, 2005 4:29:49 pm PDT #8266 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've read that people in the U.S. would wait at the docks to meet ships carrying the next chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. People love a serial.
Not that different really from being at the comic shop when they open the boxes for the new orders, or getting in line for a Star Wars movie.