FINALLY!

9 Days...

A New Hope

Oh the rage!!!

Oh my word I am SO annoyed!! I was woken up this morning by a phone call from Camp America telling me that Camp Vega (the camp I thought I would be working for over the summer) has managed to over staff themselves, so many of us will have to be dropped. They were only authorised to take 12 people but instead signed up 24!! Although CA have told me that I will definately be garunteed a place at a camp somewhere, I'm so fustrated that Vega could make such a huge mistake! Now I have to go through the whole waiting, meeting people going to my camp etc all over again when I thought I was all sorted.

Will probably go down the London RF as I think I come across better face to face, quite a long way to go though so I hope it pays off!

Once again, I'm annoyed!

Sorry for ranting.

Char x x x

1 Step Closer

Yay! My CA direct page says I have garunteed status, nice to see it in writing at last!

Not a lot else going on really, just getting bits and bobs together now, paying everything (ouch!) and getting visa etc sorted.

My uni play is next weekend, how absurd! Feels like I've only been researsing a week!

Will report back with more interesting stuff soon! Char x x x

Totally unrelated to CA

I thought you all might like to know that I am now the Treasurer of the brand new shiny Vocal Harmony Society at Newcastle University! The power may well go to my head!

That is all. Char x x x

Crisis Averted!

Medical form crisis over! Spoke to numerous returners who said they didnt return their form for ages and all was good, which is pretty much what the woman on the phone at CA office said too!

Yay! x x x

It's like being a contestant on Countdown...

Hi everyone! Hope everyone's getting excited about their places, they seem to be rolling in thick and fast! Becoming more and more glad I went to Edinburgh and snapped up a place! I don't think I could deal with watching everyone else!

So I'm having a small dilemia with my medical form, it says on the letter I got after being processed that any missing info (for me this is just my medical form) needs to be sent off within 10 days. This is not good as my bloody doctors wont give me an appt till thursday at the earliest!!! I've emailed CA officials and will give them a call tomorrow but I just don't want to stupidity of my clinic to jeopardise my lovely shiny place! Hopefully they'll be nice about it cos I've sorted everything else. Saying that, does anyone know if you have to send the actual CRB complete certificate off, or just an application for it?

Despite all this, I'm getting even more exited to go! I keep finding more people going to my camp, more pictures and videos of where I'll be staying and more places to add to the already endless list of places I want to visit!

Speaking of which, my brain actually can't contain the number of places I want to go to! If I have the money, I want to go corss country to California and the west coast. I'd love to go to Vegas!! Maybe I could get a job as a showgirl for a week to earn a bit more cash? The thing that I cant decide is a) how to get to wherever it is I want to visit and b) wether to bother going to some places like New York (where I've been before and is expensive!) and Vegas that probably need a fair amount of monies to really appreciate and enjoy. Also, I don't want to plan this epic trip, and then find that nobody from my camp wants to go any further than Boston! Part of me wants to plan ahead to save money and part of me wants to wing it! I DON'T KNOW!! My poor head doesn't usueally have to contend with this many thoughts at any one time.

Spoke to my dad earlier and he was getting all emotional about me going, "Its hard enough not seeing you for a few weeks while you're at uni, let alone 3 months!". Bless him, I'll miss everyone at home but its hard to think about that when you're the one who'll be off jetsetting and having the time of your life!

Finding it hard to believe that I have to get through a whole other semester of uni before I can enjoy all this properly! Exams are extra stressful this year because if I fail and have to resit, the resit dates are while I'm at camp! And I'm sure as hell not flying all the way back to the UK just to sit a stupid 90min exam!

Right, best get to bed, in order to pass said exams, I need to actually go to my lectures!

Good luck and congrats to everyone waiting or placed, will report back with more ramblings soon!

Over and out - Char x x x

Cavepeople Crew on Newcastle Uni Freshers Crew 2009

The Recruiment Fairs...Duh Duh Daaaaaaaaahhhh!

So it came to my attention that I didn't actually say much about the Recruitment Fair yesterday, due to my sheer excitement at getting placed!

Anyhow, I thought I might share a few words of advice for those of you yet to go!

1) Wear comfy shoes! You will be standing in a lot of ques. Also layers and plenty of water are a good idea, it gets hot, and you get really thirsty with the anmount of talking that you do! If you have someone to hold all your stuff while you're chatting to camps, mores the better! Oh, and maybe try to make a list of questions you have for specific camps, then you dont get confused what to ask who!

2) You can try and plan you're route round the booths, I did...but then it all went out the window when I saw the ques for some places, and the free spaces for others! Also, if there's a space at a table that isn't on your list, go talk to them! Camp Vega wasn't on my list of people to see, I went on a whim and now I'm off there in 5 months! Plus, if you get an offer from one camp, there's nothing to stop you going to look round a few other places before you make a decision, just make sure you let everyone know what your choice is if you get 2 offers.

3) They LOVE personality, I went to talk to one camp who said although I wasn't quite qualified for the position I wanted, I should talk to the head director because my personality was exactly what they wanted.

4) The que for Burgess and Hayward Camp will be MASSIVE! But, girls and boys have different ques, so dont be too put off if you see a huge line of the opposite sex waiting!

5) Finally, if you do get placed, leave a good half an hour for your processing as the line will no doubt be long and some peoples applications take longer than others to complete!

Have fun everyone! Hope this makes the process a little bit easier, and even more I hope you get placed! VEGA VEGA VEGA VEGA!!!!!

Char x x x

Somebody loves meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

 Woohoo!!!!

Went to the Edinbrugh Recruitment Fair today, wasn't really sure what to expect but lo and behold, came home with A PLACE AT CAMP VEGA!!  

Its a girls camp somewhere in Maine, start on 17th June and I cant belive its actually happening now! Still kind of in shock...guess I've got 5 months to get used to the idea! 

Let me know if you're going to Vega, or any others camps in Maine come to that!

Off to squeal some more!! Char x x x

And so it begins!!!!

Hi Everyone!! So I've had my application sorted for a while but only just seemed to be able to get in here, so yay for me!

Had all my extended family, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc up for Christmas and was talking about CA today so I'm all excited again. I keep forgetting that I'm really going, can't wait to get placed.

Totally just realised I forgot to introduce myself, clearly I'm not that important :p My name's Charlotte, I'm 19 and originally from Sheffield, yay!! I'm at uni in Newcastle which is brilliant beyond brilliant, doing psychology which is less than brilliant but remotely interesting.

When I'm at home I live with my dad and sister, and every now and again my dad's girlfriend and her kittens stay over.

I like making a song and dance about everything, literally, I'm really into musicals :p

I think thats pretty much everything you'll need to know about me for now, so....over and out!

Charlotte x x x