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What the flip is Camp Ears?
Camp Ears is an independent, camper-founded, awesome-time-having girls’ summer camp that’s been rocking since 2002. Based in trust and the pursuit of fun, we increase our creativity, self-reliance, intelligence, and leadership skills through workshops, games and new experiences. Campers are responsible for helping plan the camp, as well as facilitating activities and fundraising.
Exceptional Donors - People who have been deeply generous in their support
- Marisha Simons, PA
- Melanie Douty, PA
Some of Our Long-Term Goals
- √ Get customized camp sweatshirts
- -Get matching tattoos (kidding) (sort of)
- -Go to France (or other countries)
- -Have a little sister camp
- -Have a brother camp
9 comments:
Dear Johanna,
Whoa, I love that idea! How about it would be 3-5 days long and we can teach songs and awesome group games and outdoor challenges and it would be SO FUN I totally know 100 people who would sign up right away. And, how come no one is commenting? All you have to do is click on "0 comments" and the page comes up to write in your comment. It's really easy! love, Johanna
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thats a good idea. i know the rock and roll camp for girls does something a bit like this only with drum sticks not marshmello roasting sticks. also sometimes grownups don't like to be told what to do by teenagers.
johanna is so cool.
All true. I think that grownups ought to pay more attention to teenagers, and follow their directions too. Especially if the teenagers have an extensive knowledge of awesome things to do in the outdoors and know their way around a marshmallow roasting stick, and are people who are great leaders and whose ideas are really good ones. That is the kind of experience grownups would sign up to have. You could totally decide whether to let them have ice cream or what.
Kristin forgot her username. Uhhhh...
Anyways.
Yeah, it'd be fun, but Cypress is right: most adults don't really listen to us.
And I mean, even if they were trying to, at some point they would probably go, "Why are these kids telling us to stand on one foot and say the alphabet backwards? And why are we doing it?! Let's go [insert some gross adult-y thing like smoking. I'm feeling uncreative.]!!"
That's true, at some point they might. Maybe we can subvert their rebellion by keeping it short, like only a few days, and giving them free time so they could get their own stuff done if they needed to. We can make it really clear that if they try to sneak off and do boring adult things like smoking, drinking, balancing checkbooks, etc, they will be treated as though they'd lost at silent football. And if someone were really messing around, they would have to deal with ME. Besides, wouldn't people be signing up because they wanted the experience of camp taught by you guys, where they were entertained by awesome camp activities and were free from the pressures of boring adulthood? Because they welcomed the chance to be told to stand on one foot and say the alphabet backwards, just for the hell of it, and they could just do it and have fun?
You crazy. Even if adults should listen to us, well, unless they are adults I know, they probably won't. I think it is a really good idea, but not very practical. Imagine a kid using a marshmallow roasting stick that is too short. The parent says you can't use it. Oh, and one more thing. If this is ever going to work, NO PARENTS. They are used to bossing their kids around.
Got it: no parents. Good thinking. You guys are wicked smart, I hope you know that.
I picture the people who would sign up for this camp as being in their twenties - not an age where they are generally used to telling teenagers what to do. How could we address it if people did try to tell you what to do, not listen, etc? Could we structure the experience in a way that it would not be such a problem?
One thing we've talked about doing as a fundraiser in Philly is having Camp-for-an-Evening, where people come for 3 or 4 hours and we have activities set up, a campfire for hotdogs + marshmallows, songs, crafts, all kinds of camp stuff. I think it would be a lot of adults who would come, so maybe that could also be a practice run for a longer camp.
Another thing to remember is that planning a camp is like getting to plan your own society. Currently you are in a society which does not listen to you. How would you go about structuring a society that did listen to you? What would be different?
maybe it would be a better idea to have a camp style night/sleep over in which there was a fire and stories and tents and clean up to a)better fit busy schedules. b) to make them grownups easier to deal with. c) easier.
there would be marshmello roasting and slient foot ball and smelly socks. maybe a simple craft and some yummy dinner followed by some burnt cobbler (not the shoe kind). it could happen in a camp site close to the place where the "campers" live. like there's that place super close to olympia on the lake.... i don't remember what it's called but it would work well. although you don't really want the adults to have there own cars, in which they might end up, a) sleeping b) smoking c)being poopy butt grownups in
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