camplikeagirl
Girl Scout camp counselorsomewhere in the woods, probably in a canoe
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
Mary Schmich (1997 essay)
I think about this a lot. A lot of things scare me, but some things are worth being scared about and doing them anyway.
Finding which ones they are will be a lifelong pursuit.
There were some young kids playing at the park today. One of them said âLiar liar pants on fire!â The other one replied âI donât even care about that. I donât even believe in that.â
Who's up watching their boulder roll down again
I miss summer camp⌠I canât wait for summer⌠I miss my buddies from summer camp⌠summer will come⌠I will rise again⌠to go to summer campâŚ
I canât wait for camp foodjsgdusbd
I went to bed and I woke up feeling well rested. this has never happened before what do I do
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900 favorite vintage postcards, mostly weird.
Campers enjoy some water activities at Camp Eagle Island summer camp.
Saranac Lake, New York
1960
me, to the kids i worked with last week: welcome to medieval camp everyone! can anyone think of any fun medieval activities we might do here at camp this week?
kid: well, they used to do this thing where they would take your body and make it into four pieces and i think it was called quartering.
me: thatâs called torture! we will not in fact be participating in torture this week! âŚanyone else?
Camp Names:
So youâre spending the Summer at Camp, and your Camp uses âcamp namesâ⌠Whether youâre a new CIT or a counselor, using a camp name can be hard to adjust to (even if youâve been waiting for this moment for years)!
You need to learn to respond to a new name, write it on papers, and introduce yourself as such. The secret to (quickly) learning to identify with and respond to a new camp name?
Refer to yourself in the 3rd person!
Yep, itâs weird! And yes, itâs awkward! But it truly works like a charm. Narrate what youâre doing, answer questions in the 3rd person- use your name in 3rd person references liberally and then some.
âSunshine is feeling great about high ropes!â
âCasper is going to go to clean up in here and then Casper will head to lunch.â
âSnappy is headed to the lodge!â
Help your new coworkers to get comfortable with their names: use their camp names liberally as well! Even if they are a returning staff member, using their name can help them get back into their camp persona (more on this later).
âRhythm is good! How is Acorn today?â
âMeadow is going to the lake with Sketch, does Atlas want to join?â
âHas Comet seen Ponyo yet?â
This helps everyone to get into the flow of camp, and can speed up the adjustment process- donât let camp culture shock get the best of you, embrace the weird new culture around you! But of course, speak up when you feel the new (or return!) counselor scaries set in. Whether itâs your first summer or seventh, the start of summer anxiety can get to you- talk to your fellow counselors and admin staff, and know you will do amazing things this Summer!
Donât mind me. Just cleaning your dash
so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig
Summer Camp, 1996
Camp Names:
So youâre spending the Summer at Camp, and your Camp uses âcamp namesâ⌠Whether youâre a new CIT or a counselor, using a camp name can be hard to adjust to (even if youâve been waiting for this moment for years)!
You need to learn to respond to a new name, write it on papers, and introduce yourself as such. The secret to (quickly) learning to identify with and respond to a new camp name?
Refer to yourself in the 3rd person!
Yep, itâs weird! And yes, itâs awkward! But it truly works like a charm. Narrate what youâre doing, answer questions in the 3rd person- use your name in 3rd person references liberally and then some.
âSunshine is feeling great about high ropes!â
âCasper is going to go to clean up in here and then Casper will head to lunch.â
âSnappy is headed to the lodge!â
Help your new coworkers to get comfortable with their names: use their camp names liberally as well! Even if they are a returning staff member, using their name can help them get back into their camp persona (more on this later).
âRhythm is good! How is Acorn today?â
âMeadow is going to the lake with Sketch, does Atlas want to join?â
âHas Comet seen Ponyo yet?â
This helps everyone to get into the flow of camp, and can speed up the adjustment process- donât let camp culture shock get the best of you, embrace the weird new culture around you! But of course, speak up when you feel the new (or return!) counselor scaries set in. Whether itâs your first summer or seventh, the start of summer anxiety can get to you- talk to your fellow counselors and admin staff, and know you will do amazing things this Summer!
Kindred spirits (lovers of all things Girl Scouts, particularly those which are vintage), I present to you my latest project:
Adding vintage badges to my â24 staff hoodie!
Each badge represents one week of my summer season, whether it be a lesson I learned or a reference to something that happened. I think I like the arrangement (all on the left sleeve) but I may change it⌠who knows! These are all from the 60âs!
Example- my third week is represented by the Campfire Cooking badge, because we had a (quite large) grease fire during cookout⌠not our finest moments but we survived!
i miss the noise of the woods. the cicadas at night and the crickets and the occasional wind rushing through trees or if itâs raining the pitter patter of the raindrops hitting the tent canvas and the whip-poor-wills and the morning doves and everything
âThe whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to âthe serious.â One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the seriousâ
â Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp
When your highland goat eats all your shorts right off the line
(via Mike Lynch Cartoons: Girl Scouts of America Activity Booklet: âItâs Fun To Designâ by Kathleen B. Kelly)
I miss summer camp⌠I canât wait for summer⌠I miss my buddies from summer camp⌠summer will come⌠I will rise again⌠to go to summer campâŚ
I canât wait for camp foodjsgdusbd
Green Bay Girl Scouts and counselors on woodland trail at Lost Lake Organization Camp, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Wisconsin
1952.
Itâs Girl Scout Day! March 12, 2024, is the 112th birthday of Girl Scouts in the United States, and to celebrate, weâre sharing a lithograph of the Girl Scout alumnae who became NASA astronauts.
Girl Scouts learn to work together, build community, embrace adventurousness and curiosity, and develop leadership skillsâall of which come in handy as an astronaut. For example, former Scouts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir worked together to make history on Oct. 18, 2019, when they performed the first all-woman spacewalk.
Pam Melroy is one of only two women to command a space shuttle and became NASAâs deputy administrator on June 21, 2021.
Nicole Mann was the first Indigenous woman from NASA to go to space when she launched to the International Space Station on Oct. 5, 2022. Currently, Loral OâHara is aboard the space station, conducting science experiments and research.
Participating in thoughtful activities in leadership and STEM in Girl Scouts has empowered and inspired generations of girls to explore space, and we canât wait to meet the future generations who will venture to the Moon and beyond.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!
vintage Girl Scouts and Velma my beloveds !!
In one episode of the Scooby Doo Show, Velma mentioned that she knew Morse code beacuse she was in girl scouts.... when I tell you I SCREAMED because I was ALSO in girl scouts (though I never learned morse code :/ ) and because two of my special interests are scooby doo and vintage fashion, but one of my, like, sub categories of special interests lol under vintage fashion is the history of girl scouts and vintage gs uniforms!! They were sososososoo cute and they changed with the fashion of the times <33 I own a 1939 junior uniform too! ANYWAYS this had to be created. The gang's ages aren't really specified and obviously they haven't aged over the years but since SD started 1969/1970, lets suppose Velma was a girl scout in the early to mid 60s. I put her in a senior uniform and tried to be as accurate as possible. yeah that's it!!!!
Camp Names:
So youâre spending the Summer at Camp, and your Camp uses âcamp namesâ⌠Whether youâre a new CIT or a counselor, using a camp name can be hard to adjust to (even if youâve been waiting for this moment for years)!
You need to learn to respond to a new name, write it on papers, and introduce yourself as such. The secret to (quickly) learning to identify with and respond to a new camp name?
Refer to yourself in the 3rd person!
Yep, itâs weird! And yes, itâs awkward! But it truly works like a charm. Narrate what youâre doing, answer questions in the 3rd person- use your name in 3rd person references liberally and then some.
âSunshine is feeling great about high ropes!â
âCasper is going to go to clean up in here and then Casper will head to lunch.â
âSnappy is headed to the lodge!â
Help your new coworkers to get comfortable with their names: use their camp names liberally as well! Even if they are a returning staff member, using their name can help them get back into their camp persona (more on this later).
âRhythm is good! How is Acorn today?â
âMeadow is going to the lake with Sketch, does Atlas want to join?â
âHas Comet seen Ponyo yet?â
This helps everyone to get into the flow of camp, and can speed up the adjustment process- donât let camp culture shock get the best of you, embrace the weird new culture around you! But of course, speak up when you feel the new (or return!) counselor scaries set in. Whether itâs your first summer or seventh, the start of summer anxiety can get to you- talk to your fellow counselors and admin staff, and know you will do amazing things this Summer!
things i learned working at a summer camp:
-you're gonna be ugly and not everyone's going to like you and that doesn't mean you aren't good and loveable and important.
-protective parents are the scariest and most dangerous creatures on this planet
-your beliefs will be questioned a lot in life and that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong, but you have to be open to it. you cannot follow your beliefs without accepting that you're a human in a subjective world. sometimes you're going to be wrong and that doesn't make you a bad person.
-so many things can be solved with a hot meal and a full night's sleep
-friendships are going to be inconvenient. that is the nature of friendship. but you are going to do things for your friends because you love them, not because it's convenient, and vice versa. and it won't be a burden because you and others choose to carry that.
-literally just give yourself two minutes to breathe and think about a problem without outside influence. step into a broom closet and block your ears. sometimes you're panicking because you're overwhelmed by outside stimuli added to a situation, not because the situation is too overwhelming to handle.
-sometimes you've gotta be alone with yourself. you're feeling overwhelmed and stressed and like you're going to snap at anything that breathes? take a solo trip to the grocery store and buy a mango and eat it with your hands alone in your car. think about your favorite tv show. plan your future apartment on pinterest. just only talk to yourself for an hour or two.
-sometimes self care is a face mask but a lot of times it's washing your water bottle and your favorite pair of pants and filling your gas tank. i feel a whole lot better after washing my water bottle than i do a bubble bath.
-i'm so sorry to tell you this but exercise and vegetables will legitimately make you feel better if you've been depressed a while. i still get mad about it but it works.
go forth and be sane friends
An instructor teaches archery to a camper in the summer camp "Wooden Acres"
Montreal, Quebec
1942