She’s got ruach! She’s got spunk! She’s the one who decides your bunk! And trips. And activities. And basically everything else about your summer. The camp director may make it look easy, but, as these three women can attest, it takes a lot more than a clipboard and a whistle to run a camp,
“The day could have been a disaster but with counselors who know how create a good time even when things don’t go as planned the girls had a blast!”
The cheering — we’d cheer nonstop the entire day. Now I don’t particularly love it I can’t see what thrill I had in singing all those wacky songs but I love seeing my campers and supervisors having a good time and occasionally I’ll join in. And my partner — my sister-in-law Osnas Bajnon — runs the camp with me and she loves cheering so it balances things out.
When I was in camp things were simpler — we made our own fun. The standards are much higher now — it seems like a lot of kids don’t know how to create a good time and we have to provide it for them. It’s nonstop action and sometimes I wonder if we’re handicapping them by providing all the fun. I try to stick activities into my program that make the girls use their own creativity and spirit and they thrive on it.
Most important is that she’s someone who’s a good role model for pre-teens. She needs to be geshmak and have the ruach to run the camp — counselors in a teen camp really run it they work directly with me and my sister-in-law because we don’t have head counselors. Thirdly I’d like her to connect to the campers. I try to have some counselors who are artistic talented in acting creative with breakouts and so on but those aren’t a must they’re a plus.
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