Yo, just been placed at camp anne, anyone else heading of their this summer... get in touch on facebook or sumin kenealy@hotmail.co.uk

I'll be there! I got placed a couple of weeks ago (I'm returning for my second year).
You're going to love it!
Look me up on facebook if you want - Kat Leslie

i just got an email saying would i be interested in going..... not sure tho, its in my top 3 but i want to see if i get any other offers before i decide!!

aargh all i wanted was an offer and now i have one im making it difficult!

yea checked out the site n looks amazing cant wait for the summer, is there alot of staff there... i saw on the site they employ like 200 or sumin, so should be able to meet loadsa people

what was last year like... bet it was amazing got any good stories u can fill me in on lol

aww yea i no wat u mean, once u actuli have a place ur like... umm i wonder if il get anufa one interested in me... but im going with my first option that came threw... camp anne lol

the website didnt really say much... maybe i was looking at the wrong one? hmmmmm

The website doesn't really say all that much, not staff-wise anyway.
Good stories from last year.... there's so many.
It's a great camp, I got recruited at a recruitment fair last year so I got to talk to the director then after I got hired I was worried I wasn't going to be able to do it, it seemed hard but I did. Everyone does. Everyone is so supportive and all the staff are absolutely amazing, the director and assistant directory person (Mike and Sue) are really really super great (they really must be if I can be enthusiastic about them at 11 o'clock in the morning). There's loads of returners so it must be a good place to be!
I'm babbling now, mostly because I should be writing an essay (on slopes - can you think of anything more boring?!).
Feel free to ask questions, I'll let some of the people I know fo' sho' are coming back that theres a thread for camp anne on the forum and I'll get them to introduce themselves.

Oh and yeah, there is a massive staff. If you include nurses, kitchen staff, maintenence etc there's definitely over 100. Actually, there might be nearly 100 counsellors. I'm trying to think... There's between 16 and 20 counsellors in each cabin, 6 cabins - so yeah, loads of counsellors, and that's just cabins with campers in them.
You get to know everyone though, it's like a huge non-dysfunctional family. Like the Waltons.

yea the website they have on their details isnt very good, try this one;

http://www.ahrcnyc.org/campahrc/campAnne/index.html

its a lil better and more staff orentated but still doesnt cover everyfing... i only saw that bit of ur msg so il read the rest now lol

lolol yea the site said it had like 200 staff, which will be kewl meeting everyone

yea CAD is the place to be if assignments are due lol i no i was on it wen i done myn last week lol

just been checking out google earth aswell, 2 hours n 25 mins away frm NYC lol so not that bad lol

Yeah, the way it works is you get 2 days off every 13 days, for the two days off if you want to go into NYC you put your names down on a bus list so you take campers back into new york on the buses then you just stay in NYC until it's time to pick more campers up two days later. So it's free transport there and back which is cool.

Hey guys!!
I'll be going to Camp Anne too! It will be my second year so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Hey Kat, just thought i'd leave you a little message to say hey!!!!

lol free transport to NYC is always good umm the amount of money i wud spend if i was hittin NYC every 2 weeks would be silly tho... lol i no i wud jus get carried away n b like umm thats nice... str8 to the till lol

does alot of "us" get the bus evry fortnight then or is there just a few ?

yea thats great, if u could just give me a lil background knowledge on the camp thatl be kewl as i said, 1st time going, and just sort of doing my usual thing and jumping in with both feet lol so a lil bit of info mite b a gd idea lol

xx

I'll try and find one of the returning returners who's returning this year to give you background, they probably know more than me.
I can give you basic info like most campers are 1:1 which means it's one camper to every one counsellor. The cabins are split into male and female cabins. Only female counsellors can work with female campers (there's two female cabins) but both male and female counsellors can work with male campers (there are 4 male cabins).
You start at seven most mornings and work until 'OD' is called at night and you get one hours rest during the day - 'rest hour'. During rest hour and OD three people stay in the cabin to look after the campers.
Umm.... maybe you should ask me specific questions because I'm a bit rubbish with giving descriptions.
As for the buses, I can't remember how many people are allowed to go but it's a lot, barely anyone stayed on camp for inter-session. If the buses are full theres a train station not too far away.

hi kat!!!!!!!!!!!!! not coming back this year but found that i could still write in this thread so thought i'd say hi!!!!

Boo. I'll miss you!
xxx

Hey guys, got placed at camp anne, and have finally decided to come on here, glad to see there a quite a few people already placed.