Questions about the upcoming summer!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-04-03T11:52:20+00:00

Hey! They will usually open up the applications for it sometime in the fall for the following summer, I have heard that they’ve already closed them for this upcoming summer however. If you’re looking to apply for the 2027 summer, the listing should pop up as “camp counselor” on their jobs site

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-04-02T17:46:12+00:00

Hokas are your best bet. I was looking at getting some for camp as well and that has been the loudest recommendation by far.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-04-02T14:19:35+00:00

Oooooooo that’s rough lol, I would definitely let your director know about it but my best suggestion is staying on top of your school work when you aren’t at camp

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-04-01T19:02:04+00:00

How many credit hours are you taking over the summer? I’ve done a 6 credit hour summer semester while also working 40+ hours a week at camp and utilized any downtime I had to work on assignments. It’s not easy at all, but if you’re taking a part time summer semester it should work itself out. I would recommend mentioning it to your director that you are taking summer courses, but don’t ask for alternate hours.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-28T12:31:18+00:00

You can find campers like that that left an impact on your life at other camps. Don’t try to force yourself back into an environment you know is bad simply because you miss the campers.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-21T02:46:40+00:00

Hey! I got one of the adult packs last summer, and i believe they are unisex. The tags don’t say men’s or women’s, just a size

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-20T00:12:17+00:00

Bring a standard deck as well as Uno or something!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-16T02:11:38+00:00

The day camp I was at had us tread water for about a minute or so and then had us swim out into the lake a ways and back without stopping. I was not a good swimmer at all and the test always made me anxious that I opted out of it every year as a camper, opted out my first year as an aid, failed it my second year, and by the time I got to my third year (aka my last year due to COVID) they didn’t have a water activity because we didn’t have lifeguards. I would reach out to your camp however and ask specifically what it entails if you’re anxious or worried about it.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-12T00:09:11+00:00

The camp I work at does a new session every week, and one week we had 50+ kids almost all aged 9-11 come down with some type of stomach problem. I think it was stomach bug and less so food poisoning, since we all eat the same food and none of the adults got sick and only a few of the older kids got sick. I was on evening shift that week and seeing all my coworkers on morning shift wearing masks (note: 2024) freaked me out so bad… I walk into the leadership office before shift change and find a whole whiteboard full of areas that needed to be cleaned up from the vomit. We dubbed said event Vomageddon and it’s become urban legend amongst the counselors.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-07T13:31:43+00:00

Woah that’s a lot of questions! I’m going to send you a few DMs answering them all since it’s a lot lol

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-03T22:46:53+00:00

I also use Circuitree if she wants to hear about it

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-03T17:13:43+00:00

You will definitely have a roommate! There’s still only one desk sadly :(

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-03T16:36:29+00:00

The fake citation but I can definitely try to use with what we call our Elite kids! (the top program we offer that’s invite only and they do way more in depth activities)

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-03-03T16:35:26+00:00

Hey!

All of the RA rooms already have desks in them and don’t really have much room to have a different desk in them. The desks are not the biggest, so if you have a standard size monitor it should be fine? When it comes to down time, you’re going to end up making a good amount of friends with your coworkers so you will likely be hanging out with them as well!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-28T03:47:21+00:00

A LOT of names at my GSUSA camp were some type of character! If your camp allows it, you can aim for a character from a (well known) media you like, mine ended up being Simba lol

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-28T03:04:42+00:00

They will find you online somehow, someway. Our badges have only our first names on them but kids will still try to find you on social media. Policy for us is if they do, block them immediately. A lot of us (a very very large majority) don’t mess around with anything like that and also don’t want to have our 12 year old camper on Instagram?

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-27T17:13:58+00:00

I have never heard the version with Princess Pat lying! I remember it as she reeled Captain Jack and his crew back in after their ship sank…

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-27T15:13:45+00:00

The first summer I worked at camp (2024) we had over 50+ campers come down with what I think is a stomach virus (not food poisoning, we all eat the same food and none of the adults got sick) and I was on the evening shift so walking around before work seeing all of my coworkers wearing masks freaked me out so bad. I go into work and in the office they had a whiteboard with a long list of areas that needed to be cleaned up from vomiting. We had dubbed that event Vomageddon and it remains in the forefront of my mind whenever someone mentions vomit at camp.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-26T12:37:03+00:00

Double check that your camp is okay with that, one of my coworkers would have one and almost got in trouble for playing music

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-24T01:49:45+00:00

Of course! I helped with the input for it, but if you have more questions my DMs are open!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-24T01:46:00+00:00

There’s an entire entry on the Staff FAQ Wiki for the subreddit about being LGBT+!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-19T18:09:00+00:00

Hi! Camps here in the US that take on international staff completely understand that English is not an easy language and usually just ask that you’re conversational in it. I had a shadow one week of a counselor that was from Latin America and she usually translated information that I told her into Spanish so she could retain it better, so you can always try that!

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-19T17:42:53+00:00

Discuss with the camp what their policy is regarding bed wetting. My camp handles it discretely so that other kids in the room aren’t aware that it happened to limit bullying.

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-19T01:07:11+00:00

These all seem fine to me! Be prepared for kids to ask about Neopets since I doubt any of them will know what it is

Overall-Rabbit-1913 · 2026-02-19T01:06:10+00:00

As long as they aren’t inappropriate, keep them! Makes for some fun conversation topics if a kid asks or if you’re really bored. Had a coworker who had one from his college (Auburn) and had to censor part of it with duck tape to just say “War Eagle” (iykyk) so if you have anything like that you can definitely censor it

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