**This thread is not about acting!!! **

I'm in need of some good goss to read.. What was the best / worst camp drama you've ever had ?

Can be anything.. kids drama, counsellor drama, drama with the locals.. etc.

Share!

A coupel of years ago, there had been a tree fall on the power lines dow the road from our camp...we discovered when eating dinner at about 6.30 the lights and fans in the dining hall went off and all was slent as all the extractor fans in t he kitchen cut out. So then at the end of dinner we were all told that if you needed to pee...if its yellow let it mellow if its brown flush it down...and being a girl scout camp some kids were sent to pee in the woods! So we had no electricity over our entire camp, which also meant no water as its all pumped across the camp. So we survived the evening, prepared with torches of course! And the admin staff headed off to walmart to buy water for dirnking only. We were told if it went on past 11pm without electricity they'd start sending the 150 kids home. So we got them all into bed wondering if we'd be packing them all up in the morning and then at about 11.15 there was this big cheer right across camp when the electrics came on, the lights outside all the flushies (what we call the toilets because they flush and arent latrines liek many GS camps) turned on. Us counsellors raced to go flush the toilets...which were full of ...welll everything since right before dinner as we coudlnt flush them!!! We had tried, while the electric was still of, brining buckets of water from the lake to pour into the tank to flush them out but because they run on pumped water your couldn't pour it in!! What a night. You dont realise how much you rely on things until you are left without them!

this happened a few times at my camp losing electricity. and also we lost power after a storm we lost power for over 24 hours luckily their was no kids.

lol if there were no kids there it would ahve been fine! but the toilets were the worst. Our kids sleep in tents in units with one counsellor cabin, 5 tents and 2 toiets....and with up to 20 kids per those 2 toilets plues the 4 staff it was kinda nasty!! Was so glad when we could flush them!


this summer jsut gone we had a scarey moment. One night after a session was over and the kids had gone, there had been a skunk on site so for safetly all the staff moved into one of the big buildings for the weekends instead of the tents. Well, we were getting settled in and i was talkign to our CD and we saw this car drive along the roadway and down past the meadow, and she suddenly fillped 'who's on my camp OMG quick get in the van'. the gates arent locked to our camp, jsut shut so in theory anyone who was determined could drive in but we're in the middle of nowhere. So 4 of us ran with her, jumped in the van and she drove (incredibly fast) down the roadway after this car sooo fast, i think we were all scared thinking who'd got on camp and what we'd do when we found them, i'd never seen my CD scared like that. Anyway we pull up by this car and it turned out to be the camps caretaker who lives in a house next to the camp,. he'd driven in to check out the skunk situation! But we hadn't recognized the car, it was dark out!

lol thats funny!

on the busiest week of camp, we had 200 kids and it was about 10pm. and one of the parents had called my CD and said that we had a tornado warning in our area. we had to gather all the kids and take them to the dance studio to watch a 'movie'. i have never been so frightened in all my life but thankfully it never came to anything!

Yeah its scarey when things liek that happen...especially things we've never eperienced before in the UK! If we ever get a big storm the whole camp ends up in the dining hall with lots of sining, and drinks and stuff until its safe for the kids to go back to their tents. Last summer i was stuck in the office for a coupel of hours when a big storm was coming over, on storm watch lookign at the radar maps and pretty much watchign it come over us on screen. Never seen anything like that here. Their thunder and lighting is liek 10 times worse than any we get here, quite scarey to start with!

i know even the thunder and lightening i was scared of. if it starts all the riding staff have to go to the barn and bring 18 horses to their stables... and with me being scared i run around like a headless chicken! looking back now its silly being so sared at least this year i will know what to expect

Ooh, this is a really interesting topic guys! Anyone else got stories to share?

Boy dramas? heheh

there were so many dramas at my camp. its a mixed camp anyway, so the boys and girl sleep seperately in seperate sections of the camp, but they are really not that far from each other, but there are fairly severe punishments for getting caught in either section. In the middle of the night one night the older boys raided the girls part of the camp, they went into the oldest girls cabin and stole one of every pair of shoes that the girls in there owned! the next morning they obviously got found out and all you could see after breakfast was danny the boys head trekking back to the girl cabin with the biggest plastic bag full of shoes! needless to say, the boys were found out and spent the entire day raking the swim beach!!

a really scary moment we had was in my cabin with the 10-11 yr old girls. one night the other counselors and i came back from our 2 hours off at about midnight as thats the curfew. we had noticed recently that our cabin attracted loads of spiders, HUGE spiders hanging from the windows just outside. this night we got back and we counted 30 enormous spiders in the windowframes, inches from the sleeping girls. well we were a bit hyper anyway and started freaking out and smashing them down with brooms, but it all got a bit hysterical, the girls all woke up, started screaming about the spiders, especially when we noticed a few INSIDE the cabin on the windows. head staff heard the comotion and came over and evacuated our cabin into one of the older girls cabins. we got there and counted off the girls, however we have a set of twins in that cabin and we accidentally counted one off twice. 10 minutes goes by and suddenly we realise we are one camper missing. i run back to the spider infested cabin which has been in total darkness for the last 10 minutes, i open the door and flick the lights on and there is the other twin standing in the middle of the cabin, sleepwalking, looking like that girl from the grudge, hair all over her face, limp limbs. possibly the most frightening experience ive ever had!!... needless to say we didnt mention it to her parents on change over day that we'd left one behind!!

omgness this sounds soooo scary!!!!! i would so have freaked out!!!

We had one night at camp that there was the HUGE storm coming over and it was on our camp out night when we all slepp in the woods instead of in our cabins!! we were in the site in the woods and somebody came round and told us to go back to the camp centre so we did and thank gosh there were counsellors on their days off to do the running around! however i noticed that one of the boys cabins werent there and they were one of the furthest sites away and they didnt have one of camps phones on them so i had to run to their site and tell them about the storm however by the time i got there they had all left!!! and i was like omgness i so did not just run all this way and your not even here so i moved some of their stuff into the cabins at the site and then ran back to the centre and there were the boys just chilling out!!!! i was not happy that i ran all that way but i was happy that they were all ok!!!


there was another one where one of the counsellors on our night off we were swimming and she dived into the pool from the diving board and smashed her head on the bottom of the pool! she chipped her two front teeth and scrached all of her face and really hurt her shoulder! it was shocking to see a counsellor that hurt as we were used to the campers hurting themselves!!!

lol, i love the discription "looking like the girl from the grudge"... nice camp turns into nasty camp.. i hope they dont have spiders in pensylvania.. well, i hope they dont have big spiders anyway

keep hopeing!!! im pretty sure they do! but its the ants and other bugs that annoy me! im not really that bad with spiders in fact i quiet like them!!! I know im weird!

i dont mind them.. id just rather not go near the---- in fact, why like.. OKOkokok, I HATE spiders lol!

and i heard you can get leeches in the water?

id rather be covered in a few leeches then touch a spider

in our lake we havent got leeches...well not seen any in the last 5 years. but there are watersnakes which apparenlty could break your ankle! they're constrictors.