Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Did you like it?
Did you get home sick?
How many years did you attend?
(06-30-2010 12:48 PM)NKBurlington Wrote: [ -> ]Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Did you like it?
Did you get home sick?
How many years did you attend?
I went to YMCA day camp in New York City.
It was pretty much all purpose: Learn to swim and do gymnastics, do crafts, play sports, go to beaches and parks.
I hated getting up early for it, but I liked it while I was there.
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Maybe four or five.
Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Once -- a day camp that lasted all week, with one overnight. I didn't know anybody there and was very shy, so I was miserable. However, I did learn you could make "pizza" using an English muffin, how to make a God's Eye, and that you can stick a peppermint stick in an orange and suck on it and it's pretty good.
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Lots of crafts. Other than that, I don't remember.
Did you like it?
Once I got into the crafts and quit pondering the fact that I didn't have a single friend there, it was all right. I imagine camp would be tons of fun, if you have, or make, friends there.
Did you get home sick?
Since it wasn't an overnight camp, but the one night, I guess not.
How many years did you attend?
Just the one. There was one overnight camp I desperately wanted to go to. It was in the Ozarks, and it seemed everyone from my Catholic school class was going but me. But it cost $50, and that was a lot of money in 1976, especially for poor people like we were back then.
Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
I went to a day camp for a few weeks one summer when I was 10.
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Just kids playing all day at a church/community center. I went to kindergarten there so I was familiar with the place. I just remember playing outside all day and swimming in the pool. It was where I learned to swim for the first time, but then my swimming ability disappeared later. There was nothing constructive about the "camp," no interesting activities.
Did you like it?
No, it started too early in the morning for me and it was full of idiot kids.
Did you get home sick?
There were no overnights.
How many years did you attend?
Just the one summer. I was pretty disgusted with it after awhile so I just quit going.
BTW, the idea of real summer camp, where you go away to the woods for a few weeks and sleep there, my mother used that as a punishment threat. "If you aren't good, I'll send you to camp!" The thought of real sleep away camp absolutely terrified me, and I worried every fucking summer that she'd do that to me.
Like Anastasia I was afraid of away summer camps.
In 6th grade we did have the week in a local science-natural history camp with all the 6th grade classes. I remember having a stomach ache and not liking being there--but I did like the natural history part. It was wierd being with your classmates all day and night.
I also went to YMCA trips, not really camps. There used to be the Pacific Coast Conference every Thanksgiving weekend where YMCA high schoolers from CA,WA and OR came to Camp Jones Gulch in the redwoods near Santa Cruz. I did like those, but again, not summer camp.
I used to BEG to go to Girl Scout Camp. It was $60/week. I can't believe I still remember that. I'd read the brochure every year about 1,000 times, until I had it memorized. I'd beg and beg to go. But we couldn't afford it and at that point I was too young to babysit to earn the money.
So, no. No camp for me, although I still wish I could have gone. I think that was one of the things I wanted most as a child. But with four kids and only one parent working (for minimum wage!) there was no way.
We went to 'Vacation Bible School', a day camp type of thing that all the churches had. We had numerous churches in our town and we always made the circuit. We loved it! I probably did this from ages 5-12. When I was an older teenager, I would help run the schools at my church.
We never went away to a camp. My parents actually raised their kids and didn't send us away for the summer to get us 'out of the house'.. of course, we spent all day outdoors anyway during the summer.
As a child I was not allowed away from home at night, or away from home without a parental unit. One of things about my childhood I'm bitter about! I would have loved to have the opportunity for camps and friends. But like Kittiesplease I suppose they raised us and never needed to "get us out". We played out a lot. But, they didn't keep us home because it was good for us, they were just overprotective and didn't like us having friends, or having to drive us anywhere. They were extreme homebodies who didn't like to leave the house.
Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Yes. It was in Muskoka and it was for two weeks.
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
It was a Christian camp. Other kids from my parents church attended as well.
Did you like it?
It was OK. I usually took a friend. One year, my friend and I would sneak off to the woods and smoke cigarettes. Ooh - daring! I had my very first crush on one of the counsellors.
Did you get home sick?
I did the first time but after that I was fine.
How many years did you attend?
I don't remember. I think it was two or three.
No, never. When I was 15, I was able to go to an Air Cadet exchange thing in Arizona, but I paid for that myself and would hardly call it summer camp. It was military style life, make your bed, shine your boots, fall into ranks, that sort of thing. I ADORED it and it was a seminal time in my life. I wasn't a kid, then, though.
(06-30-2010 12:48 PM)NKBurlington Wrote: [ -> ]Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Did you like it?
Did you get home sick?
How many years did you attend?
I went to various summer camps as a child, mostly to do with the arts, for the most part it was enjoyable, but I didn't enjoy having to interact very much with those who I was told where my pears (never got on very well with them as I had next no nothing in common with them save the topic at hand).
It never bothered me to be away from my folks, the longest summer camp I went to was 6 weeks and of the entire cabin I was part of I was the only one not home sick, only thing I missed was my puppy at the time.
I went to camp from age 5 till I was 12, after that I mostly did work around the home or went traveling with my folks around the country and to other countries.
I went to Girl Scout camp (mainly weekend trips/day trips) a few times. I also went to a church camp that was a week long thing. I liked it alot - mainly for the outdoors stuff - hiking, swimming, etc. I ended up becoming a counselor for about 5 or 6 years- one week per summer mostly except one year I worked for 4 weeks. It was a great way to lose weight. Lots of exercise & blah food (powdered eggs - ICK!). I never got homesick.
Did you attend "Summer Camp" as a kid?
Yes, several.
Was it a theme camp such as sports or theatre or educational?
Yes. Basketball, baseball, drama, journalism, paleontology, field biology, computer science, & musical theatre.
Did you like it?
Loved it!
Did you get home sick?
Maybe a little my first year, when I was 9.
How many years did you attend?
8 or 9 years of boarding camp, plus another 3 years of day camp.
I attended day camp for a few years when I was a kid. It was not sleepover camp and was not for any specific interest. I did not really like it; I tolerated it.
Computer camp. I'm sure that's a shock. I loved it.