Summer/Day camp experiences anyone?

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Me, I nearly hated all my experiences, the Christian camp my parents sent me to 3 times in a row I cried in tears begging them not to take me their because all the kids were arrogant narcissistic a**holes, they used know-it-all overly aggressive teens/adolescents as counselors, I was very well behaved yet they would lash at me for the smallest things. Cliques would immediately form at all the summer camps I've been to, especially with the adolescent staff. I was usually by myself but my older sister if she was there they would try to force me to socialize.

My last two summer camp experiences were actually delightful despite being a loner, not sure if I understood this but there was one girl who kept trying to flirt with or just being more than the usual friendly to me. The counselors were mature adults, none of the other campers were full of themselves except for this one guy but everyone hated him. Despite the passive aggressive body language I didn't notice I gave off till recently, people noticed me being alone and tried to socialize with me. But what makes me feel a little depressed is when camp is over and everyone is hugging each other good bye, I'm just sitting on the bus alone thinking "Hurry up I wanna get home already" then I realized that if I didn't have a roommate I really wouldn't have anyone to say good bye to.

From 3rd grade to 5th grade the after school day camp I go to was my social life, despite being bullied at schools the kids in my day camp were very mature, and could actually hold an intellectual conversation. One kid was too aggressive at times but it didn't bother me much. One kid tried to steal my video game didn't bother me much when he apologized.

Now my parents thought I developed enough social skills to work at a day camp this summer but it ended up being a horrible experience like I thought, they used disingenuous know-it-all adolescents/teens. The kids were bratty, 9-11 year old kids still seemed to have the cons of mindset of toddlers/ kindergartners. They seemed like they had nothing better to do than get to bad things, tattle, cry about something insignificant or just be brats. A few kids including an ADHD kid started attaching themselves to me when I noticed I was more friendly and approachable than the other counselors. The life in the workplace was very dull despite being a kids place. They turned down all of my ideas even though I would pay for it myself like on some days when kids can't go outside or it's hot out I can bring in my popcorn machine and snowcone machine. They didn't like that I handed kids personal misting fans because I noticed they would use their cold drinking water to cool themselves off and it left them thirsty afterwards since would pour a lot of it on themselves or share with others. They didn't allow electronics so it made it harder for me to socialize although the adolescent supervisors were glued to their phones when the boss wasn't around. I found most of the movies they showed to be insulting to these kids intelligence and capabilities. I wanted to show them stuff I look at my age that is more entertaining and can amuse both genders, didn't let me either. Hell at their age my day camp exposed me to happy tree friends and I became a fan of it.

I hated how most of the staff/supervisors were know-it-all adolescents one of them resembled a guy in my freshman year of highschool that I hated to point I'd smash his teeth with a hammer. They formed cliques and would talk about the new employees behind their back or harass them. They also formed this dumb initiation where all the new employees spend $100 on them even though it's a summer job that only pays us minimum wage. I honestly felt that the power of being a supervisor went to boosted their egos. The supervisor I had talked to me in a very condescending way infront of the children which lowered my moral and made me felt powerless. His aggressive attitude disappears when ever the boss is around. He started getting more aggressive to everyone once the boss stopped doing her surprised check ups when she wants to check up on the new employees.

Anyway what were your experience going to or work at a day/summer camp

The summer camps you went to, Jermaine, how long did you have to stay there? For me it was always about 1 week.

I kind of enjoyed the ones I went to when I was 9 and 10 years old, but I did cry loud on my first nights there.

When I was 11 I went to summer camp while attending a school I did not enjoy at all. I deliberately got into a fight with a kid I disliked, and then I was sent home.

But when I was 12, I went to camp with the same school, and I had a pretty good time. I remember it for 'Freak On A Leash' by Korn being played by the boys constantly (it was 1999). Overall it was kind of boring and stupid, but we made the best of it.

I'm being kind of concise here but I guess I'm just trying to squeeze this post out before going to sleep.

No, I have never been sent to any summer camp.

I went to summer camp a few times when I was younger. I always hated it because it involved being dropped off in an unfamiliar place surrounded by unfamiliar people with required physical activities. I got to embarrass myself around tons of kids and adults I prayed I'd never see again in my life.

I liked summer camp so much, I worked there all four summers of college. being a counselor wore me out. luckily the first year, I was mostly the first aid person, then the rest, camp secretary. as secretary, I worked closely with the camp director. I regard him as a second father.

this and last summer i went to this great Autism camp at the autism resource center, last year there were only 4 members incliuding myself, 3 boys and i was the only girl, this year there were 8 members, 6 boys and 2 girls (one of the 2 was me) we did things like go to a water park and watch a movie, it was great, most of the camp was for High functioning only, but i made a few low functioning friends too. i had a great time.

Day camp in the summer was torture for me but I can swim and twirl a baton still, 37 years layer.

I went to 4H camp, and have a few good memories from it. I always seemed to find a friend to guide me through everything.

I spent a week at Mountain Lakes camp many moons ago. It was fun. Little did I know I would have a need for "getting away from it all" as I grew older.