Back soon!!

Posted by bankiedrummer
12:04 AM , 5-Dec-2009 | 0 comments | Link You fun filled blog will be back shortly.....

CHECK THE FORUMS

Posted by bankiedrummer
9:46 PM , 29-Nov-2009 | 0 comments | Link Hey guys if you haven't done so already check out the forums. Returners like myself can help you with questions you may have about camp or visa's or medicals etc. While CA are being mobbed with e-mails it takes them a while to get back and its maybe something we could help you with.

Placed at KYSOC for 2nd summer!!

Posted by Ashleigh
7:14 PM , 3-Nov-2009 | 0 comments | Link

I am sooo excited to be placed back at KYSOC for a second summer!! Last summer was the best summer of my life and to be doing it again makes me sooo happy!!

I am so excited to see all the returners (Hey Sophie Hey!) and to meet all the newbies!!

Have to start my countdown now... again! This is the hardest bit about it.

YYAAAAAAAAY!!!

1 day to go n Im off to camp sonshine!

Posted by African Queen
10:33 , 8-Jun-2009 | 1 comments | Link

woah It's finally time!

Soo excited :D

Best of luck to everyone, have amazing summers everyone!

xx

7 days!

Posted by African Queen
11:35 , 2-Jun-2009 | 1 comments | Link

7 Days to go!

Still Nothin! But i have move to top of the lists now!

Posted by MATTHEW*DRUMMER*
12:42 PM , 19-May-2009 | 0 comments | Link
Still not heard anything while everyone got flight dates! but I have been told I have been more to top of the list due to my CV which is good, they said I should heard something in 2 weeks time! x

Posted by Becky W
12:27 PM , 17-May-2009 | 0 comments | Link

well good news folks, i finally passed my driving test!! I failed once again since the last blog - BUT who cares!? i have a driving license - and its pink! thats right, not green :D

watch out hamilton theres a new driver in town.

America is like only 4 weeks 5 days away - which i suppose is kinda late since people are there now. thats strange isnt it? im looking out my window and its grey and miserable, and thinking in 5 WEEKS I will actually be in long island - the sun will (hopefully) be shining (i mean it will be june) and I will probably be lobster red already.

one thing im not lookign forward to is not seeing my boyfriend for 3 months - which is going to suck! but i reckon it'll be fine - i'll get my letter writing skills perfected when i'm out there.

soooo excited!!!

Orientation...

Posted by Haley
1:59 PM , Sunday 10 May 2009 | 2 comments | Link So... I wnt to the orientation in Plymouth yesterday. Was very useful and definitley cleared a lot of things up! Last thing to do now is my visa interview in a couple of weeks and thats everything done!

I finallt got my medical form sorted out on Friday, its only taken me 3 months to find a doctors who will fill out both the Ca form and my one from camp, what a sham! Also had to cough up £120 which is a joke but I had to get them done so theres nothing I can do really!

Ive also got my holdall sorted, its 140litres so I need to see how full I can actually pack it and still be able to lift it! Ive also sorted out my caxton fx card, that came the other day so Im nearly all ready apart from packing nearer the time.

Im still unsure of how many sets of clothes to take for during the day as I know we can do laundry etc but I dont want to run out too quickly! |Especoa;;y as I will only really be able to have them once as Im working withy oung children who like to get veryy messy! I can always rinse things out in the sink I suppose.

Anyway thats mosly everything updated!

Officially Graduated!!

Posted by African Queen
1:17 , 9-May-2009 | 2 comments | Link

Yay I graduated last nyt! so much fun so happy n proud!

NEXT BIG THING!

AMERICA!! 32 DAYS TO GO!

XX

I have got...

Posted by African Queen
1:40 , 28-Apr-2009 | 2 comments | Link

34 Days to go!!

Kentucky

Posted by Leanne
6:31 PM , 17-Apr-2009 | 1 comments | Link HI!!:) Is there anyone one here who is going to Kentucky Easter Seals camp in May??

Please get back to me if you are thanks :):)

Have a good one! :)

xxx

Busy, Busy, Busy...

Posted by Haley
1:07 PM , Sunday 12 April 2009 | 0 comments | Link

Ive been placed for around a month now and have had a lot to sort out since.

After paying my visa fee, medical insurance and fuel surcharges I got my visa appointment which is the 22nd May and the forms through the post. They look very complex but luckily the powerpoint help they give you is really straight foward and makes the who form filling out process so much easier.

I also have my flight detials, I fly from Heathrow on 20th June at 3:34. And Im with Virgin Atlantic which Im really happy about as I love their planes.

My final thing to do is get my medical form filled out (the doctors are going to charge me £70 ouch!) and pay my baggae insurance fee, then its just making sure I have everything I need to take and packing! Wooo!

Just under 10 weeks until I fly out there, I cant wait!!!

LA anyone 20th may??

Posted by brittany
7:39 AM , 11-Apr-2009 | 0 comments | Link so anyone in LA or hollywood before camp im there from 20-24th may and i need friends haha

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

Posted by African Queen
5:33 , 11-Apr-2009 | 2 comments | Link

1 MONTH

4 WEEKS

2 DAYS

UNTIL AMERICAA!!

Flight Times :D

Posted by Ashleigh1991
6:51 PM , 1-Apr-2009 | 0 comments | Link

Got all my flight details today....sooo exciting :D

Flying on the 18th May at 15:45 with Virgin from London Heathrow to Newark so if anyones on the same flight please get in touch :)

Need to start getting organised now totally dont have long.

Done a car boot sale on Sunday which was great as raised an extra £100 for camp on all my old rubbish so more money towards my summer yipppeee :D

Anyway bye for now x x x x

8 weeks!!

Posted by brittany
12:36 PM , 29-Mar-2009 | 1 comments | Link

SOOOO 8 weeks is all thats stopping me from jetting off to america!!!

ive been sooo overwhelmed by the amount of people that have sent me lovely emails from camp on the facebook group. soo far 5 aussies at camp soo im impressed!!! many of the councelors have been going there for years many have been campers. i was doing a google search and it came up in the top 5 camps in america.... soo now im nervous!!!

hope everyones going good with their placements and getting ready for camp... what to pack is another issue haha im not even gonna go there till later haha

Its All Coming Together...

Posted by Haley
8:56 AM , Thursday 19 March 2009 | 0 comments | Link So after my CAD page changed I payed off the fuel surcharges and visa fees, now all I have to do is pay off the medical insurance and sort out baggage insurance. I phoned up my doctor and they told me it would cost £70 to get my form filled out! I have one from camp as well so I am slightly panicking now as that effectively means £70 less travel money!!

I have been finding out what items I need to bring from the camp returners who have all been very lovely and helpful! I am starting to make a list to add to the item list my camp send me. My visa papers have been printed so I should recieve them in the post shortly and my camp are sending my contract so its all coming together quite nicely now!

Recruitment Fair...

Posted by Haley
2:17 PM , Friday 13 March 2009 | 1 comments | Link I didnt write a blog straight after the recruitment fair as I didnt want to jinx things!

I attended the London recrutment fair last Sunday 7th March. From what I could make out from the forum, I thought it would be a good idea to get there very early so I had a good chance of talking to lots of camps. I joined the queue at about 9:15 which was good as just after lots of people started showing up!! The time flew by as I was busy talking to people etc and before I knew it we were being let in at 11!

I had spent hours making a list of all the camps that fitted my arrival date (as it is quite late: 20th June, there wernet that many) and started going to those booths. Some had completely changed their arrival date to way earlier in June and the few directors I did talk to told me they weren't hiring any more girls!

I then went to speak to the director of Camp Harlam about the position of Junior/Pre-School counsellor and after a short interview he offered me a place!! I was so shocked/excited/greatful that it all seems like a bit of a blur now! I want to processing and was out of the town hall by 12!! My mum and myself had assumed it would be a long day and didnt think we would be leaving until the doors closed from what everyone on the forum was saying, so I was extremely lucky.

Today my page changed to congratulations!!!! I am so happy I was fed up of signing on to see 'ready to be placed' as I have done every day since mid Spetember!! So now its just making the final payment and getting everything sorted! I cant wait it all seems so real now!!