What kind of camp would you like to go to?

[undeterred]

[ganeshji]

1. Please not Jesus camp

I really have nothing personal against Jesus but that kid is freaking me out.

[Redstone]

2. That one.

Redstone

[Mutley]

3. Space Camp.

It was fun the first time around. :D

[undeterred]

4. I've been to a Jesus camp and Girl Scout camp

I learned to build a fire with one match at the latter.

At the former I was forced to finish climbing up a mountain even after a rock from an avanlanche hit my foot and badly bruised it. But the leader had prayed that we would all make it to the top, so I HAD to.

[noonwitch]

17. I've been to those, plus two different music camps.

The Young Life (Jesus) camp I went to was a lot of fun. They were evangelicals, but not necessarily fundamentalists. I was 16 when I went there. We went horseback riding, mountain climbing, rapelling and white water river rafting in Colorado.

Girl Scout camp was a riot-we ran around like little monkeys in the woods for two weeks with a bunch of college kids supervising us. I was about 9 or 10 at the time.

I went to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp twice. It was fun, but I got food poisoning the second time I went.

I went to All-State Orchestra program at Interlochen. That was an awesome experience.

[undeterred]

21. I went to YL camp in Colo when I was 16 too

Probably the same one! There are things about it that didn't bother me then that really bother me now. The whole thing is scripted, start to finish, same talks, same jokes, etc. It appears spontaneous but its more like theater.

That's the camp where I got hurt and they wouldn't let me go back down the mountain.

[noonwitch]

25. I went to Frontier Ranch, but there was another one down the street

I think it was called Silver Creek.

I had a lot of fun, and have no regrets about the time I spent in Young Life. They kept me out of trouble at a time in my life that I was particularly vulnerable.

The counselors were also pretty cool (they were from our area, the ones we saw every week at club meetings). We went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton on the way to camp, and spent one night in Glenwood Springs, CO. We wandered around that town unsupervised that night. A couple of the guys (hockey players, of course) scored some weed there and were busted at the hotel by the counselors, who didn't send them home (as had been threatened prior to leaving). They confiscated the weed and rightfully assumed that there would be none available at camp.

They do script the sketches and stuff, at least from the staff end. They usually picked kids for them that they knew were outgoing and not going to be embarrassed. They plan the evangelical pitch for a certain night, and then have follow up the next day. I already had "asked Christ into my life" at a club meeting at home, and was already involved with Campaigners (the "inner circle" Bible Study). But it's all done out of love, with Young Life.

I had so much fun, but I did get badly sunburned. I blame myself for that, I was 16 at the time. But it was on the level of sun poisoning. I was very sick on the bus home, and they made me drink a ton of orange juice so I wouldn't get dehydrated.

The only kid who got out of the big mountain climb (we had some smaller ones to prepare us) had a cast on his leg. I was one of the last ones to make it to the top (the sunburn thing caused me problems), but I was glad I did it. I still am glad that they coerced me into going rapelling and onto the ropes course. I would have regretted it later if I had chickened out.

But the view from Mt. Princeton was amazing, and worth all the sweat and panting for breath at a high altitude.

You live and learn-I'm not an evangelical as an adult. I'm a liberal christian, now. But that time was an important time in my own spiritual development, as important as the time I spent practicing wicca, the church I grew up attending or my current church attendance.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. Art Camp n/t

[Cobalt-60]

6. It had to be Hemp Camp

I've already had boot camp.

[noonwitch]

20. Music camp in the 70s was virtually the same thing.

If I had been inclined, I could have scored anything I wanted at Interlochen in 1979, except sex with a heterosexual male.

[Random_Australian]

7. Nerd camp was easily the best.

Scouts was FUN, sure, but just wasn't tinged with AWE. (Awe from things like seeing individual atoms)

[Tikki]

8. Whoa....Band camp......

Tikki

[Guava Jelly]

9. You misspelled shemp

3 stooge camp would be fun :rofl:

[sakabatou]

10. Fanime camp

Or any other Anime Convention Camp

[China_cat]

11. Dog Camp

http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/newsletters/dogcamps.shtml

[undeterred]

13. We wanna go there too.

Although my dog liked his week at the spa without me.

[donheld]

12. Gay band camp

:D

[datasuspect]

14. porn star camp

[bertha katzenengel]

15. Angels Baseball Camp

O8)

[Broken_Hero]

16. Superman Camp

or rather, Comic Book Geek Camp...:hi:

[The2ndWheel]

18. Re-education

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[Radical Activist]

22. Camp Wellstone!

or band camp

[undeterred]

27. Went to Camp Wellstone twice!

Not scenic, but the most worthwhile training I've had as an adult.

[NewWaveChick1981]

23. Love camp, as long as it's not one of those "marriage retreat"

camps. :rofl: It's gotta be fun and it's gotta be sexy. :evilgrin:

[swag]

24. Rock Camp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_As469qG6WQ

8 and 9 year old members of Music Mania perform a very Velvet Undergroundish original composition at the 08/12/2006 showcase of the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls, Bagdad Theater, Portland, OR.

Music Mania

Grace - Guitar
Raven Schofield - drums
Amelia Wall Babson - keys
Caitlin Gast - vocals
Band Manager: Cathy Foy

"Billy, Milley and the Rockcamp"

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (x4)
I wore my coat
one chilly day
(a chilly day)
My name is Billy (Billy)
I am really silly (really silly)
And my wife's name
is Lilly my daughter's
name is Milley
I thought about the
past. (The past)
When Milley had
a blast (A blast)
At the rockcamp (Rockcamp)
They had a band
it was named the
Rocking Turtles (Rocking Turtles)
They were great!
They were rocken and rollen
(Rocken and rollen)
Rocken and rollen
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (x a million
Oh yeah!
1.2.3. Girls Rule!

[momophile]

26. resort spa camp...

hot stone massages, private hottubs, salt rubs, manicures and pedicures, sliced cucumber in the pitchers of water...

that kind of camp...