How did you spend/how will you spend the summer after graduation?
I spent my summer after graduation the same way I spent every summer of elementary school, junior high, high school, and college. I went to camp. As a kid I absolutely loved camp. For a while I actually considered being a camp director when I grew up as a genuine career ambition.
So the choice to spend my summer after graduation working as a CIT (counselor in training) was a no brainer for me. I held many of my camp friends in higher regard than my school friends and was thus thrilled to spend a summer with them. It was a very fun summer, that involved the proper mix of being idolized by little kids and flirting with boys that only a CIT can manage.
I haven't spent a summer at camp in ten years. I did take a year round administration position at a summer camp immediately after graduating from college and quickly discovered summer camp isn't very fun when it isn't summer. So I left camp behind and forced myself to finally grow up. Still I get a twinge of nostalgia at the start of every summer as a part of me longs to pack a duffle bag and tromp out into a cabin in the woods ready to sing silly songs and pull pranks on the boys.
What about you? What did you do the summer after you graduated from high school?
12 comments:
I never did the "camp" thing. I've been camping before in a leaky tent for two nights when I was a child. That put me off the whole "getting close to nature" experience. Now my idea of "roughing it" is a hotel room without a coffee machine. :)
I went to church camp for a few summers, and loved it, but the camp I went to was not nearly as cool as the types on TV and in movies. We didn't even have a lake! (crazy right?!) Being a counselor sounds super fun.
I spent every summer from the age of six to sixteen, and then a couple summers during college either as a camper or working at camp. It was fantastic, and some of my best memories are camp-related. :)
I've never gone to summer camp but my cousin went to America once as a counsellor. Looking back I would have loved to do that. Seems like fun!
It's funny, my best friend was a CIT and I completely forgot that term until you mentioned it. I did girls camp for four years which was... well, not as fun because there was no flirting.
I never went properly went to camp either but did go to help out once on a short weekend trip for younger kids when the position was advertised in my university. I was quite fun! Sounds like you had great summers :)
i goofed off and went to the beach as much as possible--and worked for a while for a commercial photographer
Aw, my parents never let me go to a summer camp. It sounds like so much fun!
Oh, this post brings back wonderful summer camp memories! Never became a counselor or CIT, but I did go pretty much every summer during middle and high school.
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Ahh, summer camp! My favorite was a horse camp put on by the Girl Scouts, even though I didn't belong to that organization. Learned to paddle a canoe, and also that horses are especially flatulent when you're standing behind them picking their hooves!
As the youngest of seven kids, summer camp just wasn't an option. One year, though, my parents signed me up for a two-week daycamp about 15 miles from home and I loved it. I still remember the name of "my" horse - Sundance.
How fun that you got to spend so many summers at camp - and I love that you considered a career as a camp director.
Being a counsellor sounds a lot of fun!
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