Who has been on the camp Amerika type thingos?

Who has been on the camp Amerika type thingos or even the cruise ship worker thing? i am trying to get to texas

How did you find it did you make enough money to survive & most important did you still have the time to look around the states

If anyone has links to camps that would be dope

Thoughts ??????

if it means you wont be postin here anymore ill have all the info u need by 9am tomorrow morning

 

snappytom off of this board went over to a camp over there a couple of years ago now.

she was kicked out of the camp and the country though because of a dodgy chef or something. 

I don't remember her being kicked out, eeehehehe.

U dont get to travel much whilst participating in the program, but you can before and after. U also dont get paid a huge amount of money, but obviously its enuff to get by.

Why dont u go to an information evening? I am sure they host one every so often in Ads..

WAIT there is one tonite in Adelaide!!!
http://www.iep.org.au/summercampusa/summercampusa.asp

http://www.campamerica.com.au/

Go and ask people who have been/involved

I Amerika

 

I went to Uni last year with a guy who is now on one of those Camp America programs. He wanted to end up working with kids (teaching I think) so it was a good way for him to add to his resume and do something he'd enjoy - plus he could do some travelling in the US afterwards. From what I saw once you apply you have to have interviews and stuff, then if you get accepted it all happens pretty fast (the actual start of your position that is).

Of course if you're going to the states you need a visa and all that, which apparently is a bit of a pain in the ass to organise, but the people working for those organisations help you out with the technicalities.

While I was in Hungary I had a good friend (lived with him and his girlfriend for about a month) who worked on cruise ships. He would be working for some number of months then have a long break. He did hospitality type work on the boats but said that the staff usually ended up doing anything they could do while working. Living conditions are pretty shit on the boat itself (in terms of not having your own room, constant shift work, etc) but he got to see some nice parts of the world and his income was tax free and paid in American dollars. I don't know how good that would be for us here, but he was 26 and owned a couple of flats in a city in Hungary - so I'd say he was doing pretty well for himself by their standards. Not sure how it looks here, but that type of work is probably great if you can deal with the conditions and want to see a bit of the world.

 The camp America thing Anna posted looks like a bit of a scam you have to pay them about $800 just in fees before you even get over there

Im currently looking at the cruise ship option i could DJ their meat markets not to keen on security i think chucking pissed magots over the side wont go down to well   

yep the camp america things are more for experience than any sort of career move, financially. but they are meant to be a whole lot of fun. u are basically a volunteer! its a similar set up to ausaid and other volunteer organisations.

Cruise liner looks like a better option but its hard to get in to & dosnt get me any closer to texas 

just go to the info session, i am sure it'd be informative! they can tell u more than the website

But it does get you further away from us.

Why do you want to go near Texas?

My own dumb reasons i dont expect anyone outside of my head to understand

Fair enough.

I haven't.

nice dredging effort there!

  Bored are we?

i have, and i named it kamp krusty 

catastrophic, my camp didnt allow us to have breaks and leave the camp site, which sucked arse, but it meant i saved all the money i earned. my camp also paid us in two lump sums mid and end of camp. be careful with your cash, and ask the director to put it away if you dont trust yourself.

nah, it was terrible in many ways, on many levels, however that challenge was awesome, the kids and the nature was worth going through hell. 

my advice would be is to apply early so you are more likely to be matched with a camp you will be happy with. i.e. if you are a smoker, go to a smoker-friendly camp   

Did you get kicked out of it and do you mind me asking why if you did?

long story and i dont have the time to write an epic post  perhaps in person if i meet ya sometime 

 

thanks! 

nah, just joshin'... now that ive seen Chris has let the cat out of the bag... yes, i was - it was a big cover up i tells ya!  all good, cos hard times present the most valuable lessons! 

I honestly think that is something to be proud of! I wanna know because I think it is so fucking cool.

Im curious now 

Epic post puhlease!

I wanna know why you got kicked out! bring it on bebe

I double beg you to post it up 

i know why i know why  - cos Ronnie Coleman is from texas


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This is just plain rediculous.

 

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ok, here comes the epic post....

applied late so didnt get a choice of which camp i could go to. i wanted to go to a smoking friendly, inner-city kids camp (for 'under-priviledged' kids). but i got sent to a girls scout camp, strict as, no smoking...

the director and her employees who ran the camp were same-sex attracted women. nothing against lesbians, max respect, wish i was one myself! but these 'women' had nothing but contempt for all of us straight, young thrill seeking camp counsellors.

and here were the conditions:

- no breaks, no leaving camp site on days off (we were in the middle of nowhere). bears frequented our site, and we were left without anyone, no cars in case of emergencies.
- all her camp staff, admin, senior counsellors quit because of the director except one within the first two weeks.
- there was rampant bitching and favouritism throughout the 8 weeks I was there, i.e. only a 3-4 out of 25 odd counsellors were allowed to take the kids out on off-site adventure activities.
- food was processed crap-out-of-a-can
- on a daily basis at least one person was crying on the phone, general morale of the camp counsellors was depressing to say the least.
- the cook attempted to rape my friend, he walked out to town and disappeared, and she was told to leave, hence cover-up i was talking about.

as a result i got emotional and vocally expressed my opinion on the incident, then i was fired the next day. the shock i felt was surreal, i could not believe they were firing me as though i was the bad guy, and knew i was the scapegoat. i phone CCUSA and they urged me to file a complaint, but i was very keen to get out of there and get onto my travels.

the day i left, i got to san fran and called Nes who told me a good friend had gone to jail. alone, low funds and shaken (not stirred), i used my pre-paid 30 day greyhound pass to catch countless of buses up through the states to leave JFK within 6 days of being fired (as the Visa had required me to do so in this situation).

was funny cos after 3.5 days on the bus, no shower, nothing i arrived in NYC looking like a homeless chick  finally got to my hostel at 9am, they told me i couldnt check in until 4pm, so put my stuff in a locker and left (still no shower haha). saw the sights, and went up to the empire state building. the staff quoted me a ridulous amount to go up to the observation deck, but the ticket staff and security gathered around, looked at me and turned around to say i can go up for free. 

in those six days i saw a lot of the country, met some real crazies and just loved the experience. as for camp, the nature was so so beautiful and i loved working with the kids - and most of the camp staff. i wouldnt change anything that had happened, as i said, i learnt a lot.

then i went over to the u.k, met my first love in holland and hung out around europe for 6 months...

 I reckon I have seen the first 5 minutes of that movie