Hi Fiona

whats the best thing about camp and what did u do in your time off?

Joe x

omg the best thing, thats such a hard question to answer. I loved every single bit of it
I would probably say all the people you meet, I've definitely made some friends for life ... oh and the 2 water parks are great as well. You got the outside one which has one slide that you go down in tubes (either one your own or with someone else) as well as a hot tub and a pool and then you got the inside one which is amazing, lol. It will only have been open for a year in the summer and basically it is a body slide, a toilet bowl slide which you go one with someone else, another slide for either one of two people and the four person slide which the kids absolutely love but it's hard work carrying the tube up all the stairs. There's also a hot tub and a wave pool.

On one of my time offs I went to one of the american staff's houses and the other two I stayed in camp and either hung around there relaxing or borrowed of the american's cars and went to the beach and shopping.

If you go on this website http://www.doublejj.com/ it shows where the camp is set. I'm guessing you don't know that it's one a holiday resort where familys can go and stay. You don't have much contact with the public unless your at one of the waterparks as the camp has it's only pool for general use

Here's some photos to see what it's like, sorry there's quite a few but believe me I have a lot more. If you wanna see more let me know.

Indoor waterpark







Outdoor waterpark


Back Forty public view (where the younger children stay)


On the back forty - one of the tipees the kids stay in


Arts & Crafts tent


Lake where you can water ski, wake board, go tubbing, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, trampolining, go on a pedalo and fishing (and probably other things but I can't think of them right now)







Fiona
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thanks for that, think im going to take a bit of everything so i can choose what to wear.
what kinda clothes did you take because i have no idea what to take for night times or days off or for travelling afterwards

if your gonna be a lifeguard i guess you might need slightly different clothes to what I took as I was a general councellor so did all the activities but basically i went to places like matalan and primark and brought their cheap t-shirts. I also took a few pairs of cropped trousers, a pair of jeans, some shorts, jogging bottoms, a couple of hoddies and then different types of shoes (so trainers, flip flops, etc.) You'll need either a blue or white top for the friday even meal as it's a jewish camp and they have their shabbat meal (which is the best meal of the week) Oh and of course I took some nicer clothes for time off but not many as I brought some when I was out there and went shopping.

I basically followed the list your get given, you can't go wrong if you do that.

There are washing machines so you can quite easily wash your clothes but I wouldn't take anything you really like incase one of the machines ruin it

hope that helps

oh and meant to put this photo on before but forgot
this is the pool so this is probably where you'll spend more of your Ashleigh ... unless your a lifeguard on the lake
This is the deep end of the pool (after all the staff of white pine village jumped in together)

Thanks for the photos it looks good. Did u go travelling after camp ? x

Well yeah. My parents came out after I finished and I met them in New York and we were there for a week before going to Boston for a few days then they flew home and I flew back to Michigan and went on a roadtrip with some people from camp to Colorado and back, stayed at a friends house for a few days before flying home

In a way I wish my parents had come out though and I could have travelled longer with friends or done a trek america tour but it was great anyway. I would def recommend travelling after camp
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I really want to travel after camp, I dont have to be home until the 13th September so planning on egtting a flight backon the 12th so that gives me three weeks to travel =-} but i have no idea where i want to go, apart from new york

xx

That's what I was like, I didn't come back until I really had to. I didn't know where to go and moaned at one of the American's I was working with so he suggested we did a roadtrip and it ended up being to colorado as one of our supervisors was moving there so we went to keep her company. I'd say wait until you get there to decide where to go coz you'll probably find others want to travel too then you can go together. Internal flights and buses are cheap enough to wait to do til you get there and you have access to a computer with internet to book it all then.

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Think im going to go with the "go with the flow" plan!
can we use the internet quite a bit whilst were at camp??

xx

yeah they did have a rule of 15 minutes per day and you had to sign in and out but it generally didn't work that way. I found that if it was free when you got there then you could use it for as long as you like ... unless there was a queue then the 15 minute rule did stick but you learnt when the busy times were and didn't go then

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Alright all, i'm off to wooden acres aswell! Can't wait i'm doin some campower work I think should be a laugh!

ahhh wooden acres, seems like yesterday, oops sorry ppl flashback, ok My name is David Orrells Aka Danger Dave The Sprinkler. i went to wooden acres last year and let me start by sayin YOUR GONNNA LOVE IT!!!!,

I was a general counselour for the lakeside boys the greartest group of boys ever (please note they were the 'group masterbaters' ,apparently, dont worry they will train u on that situation) anyway be careful of them they are a rowdy bunch, wooden acres is an awesome camp tho, the indoor water park is amazing, ur gona love it, just dont get caught messing around.

If theres any question u wana ask go for it,

Oh one more thing mainly just for the guys, American chicks love our accent so enjoy!!

we all wish it was only yesterday Dave but alas it was not, lol ... never really understood the whole strinkler thing but whatever

I gotta say I think the lakeside boys were the loudest group there ... and always seemed to me messing around at meal time when I walked past them, hehe

yeah forgot to meantion before ... as Dave just said don't get caught messing around, at one point I think 7 people were fired in one go for getting caught but don't get scared by that, play by the rules when being watched and you'll be fine.

You going back this year Dave?

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The sprinkler beacme the greatest dance move of all time, every1 in michigan now knows it thanks to me, muahahahhaha. they werent that loud, well okay we did win the cheer off cos we were loud but ( damn i dont hav an excuse lol)

yea well harv fired 5 people for drinkin on camp leaving me the only red captain of color war left, i even thought he was gona fire me when i beat him a poker (it was well funny ask him about it)

Unforntuantley im not comin this year, have to grow up and go to uni to be come a teacher, stupid society with its adultness But i should be back nxt summer to rock it once more.

Hi everyone, im going to wooden acres aswell! cant wait, i leave on the 17th june, im gonna be a supervisor in the fine art department. If anyone wants to get in contact with me so we can exchange questions etc lol feel free. xxxx