Camp Schedule

I think that some of us don't like certain things about the schedule at camp and some of us DO like certain things about the schedule so I thought we should talk about it and then let grace know what we don't want on the schedule anymore and if there are things that we want to add to the schedule so......Go at it.

• At some point I'll go through everything on this page and send it to grace. I'll post on here when I'm going to do that but I just don't know yet.

• Gender Groups

• Power Shuffle

• Prom

I don't really like having this on the schedule because I think it has been over done and these kind of things are more fun when they happen spontainiously.

• is that just about the prom or about all three?

who has more to say, but will say it later...

• mostly the prom but all three to some extent.
• I agree in the case of the Gender Groups, but y'know, sometimes things just DON'T happen spontaniously, and sometimes people might have something else going on when whatever spontaniously happens. I think people like time to prepare for both the PowerShuffle (Mentally) and the Prom (By dollin' themselves up yo!). Yup.

• Quiet Times

I liked the quiet hour better when it was late in the day instead of right after luch.

I thought wellness time worked really well right after lunch... it also helped with the staffer's meeting not overlaping evening meeting. Having a siesta time right after lunched worked well for my metabolism. :)

I felt like there was this huge piece of time in the middle of the day when there wasn't much going on and then the rest of the day was to packed. I feel like if wellbeing time is going to be right after lunch it should maybe only be a half hour instead of the whole hour. Because lunch time is an hour long but lunch really only takes a half hour. So in effect wellbeing time ended up being 1 1/2 hours. For me that seemed to long.

• Wake Up Time

I thought that the later wake up call was a REALLY good idea. People got the sleep they needed and were able to more closly follow there 'normal' schedules in a lot of cases.

• ditto! It was warmer as well, which I am absolutely positive helped in my not-getting-sick effort as well as my waking-up-and-getting-out-of-bed effort.

I felt like there was too much emphasis on workshops this year... of course the workshops are always wonderful, but for me the best things about camp have always been the spontaneous ones. And it feels like there's less and less time for spontinaity. Perhaps encourage people to not commit to workshops before camp unless they need to prepare supplies in advance? That might make space for more spur of the moment workshops, as well as more time for people to sit around and read aloud or make daisy chains or have mud fights or change the world. What do other people think about the workshop schedule this year...?

• that sounds like a really good idea (about encouraging people to not commit to workshops.) I felt like the workshop schedule was kind of overwhelming... and definitely didn't give enough time to do fun random things and participate in workshops (which is probably why I ended up missing so many workshops.) Mari

• i dont like prom. i find it really lame and boring. this year i didnt even go and im happy for that. i think it would be cooler if somone just dressed up one night and themn others would dress up too

• i really didnt like the songs this year. i found them a little too over done. i swear we sang "we come from the mountans" 80 million times. we should sing some others too eh?

• i hated the bed time but it didnt work out thank goodness

• i didnt like the no candy thing. but im willing to let that go

• id really inforce the no sex thing. i know people had sex and if you want came to stay S.A.D (sex alcal drugs) free you have to start inforceing it. you have to
• How would you suggest enforcing that? To enforce something like that you need to start telling people that they can't sleep together... that they can't sleep in places where they can't easily be seen... that certain areas are off limits (Like places where sex could be had!)... or you're gonna end up with staffers breathing down everyones neck all the time. Enforcing such a thing would be a burden and an inconvience on the whole camp. Plus it'd take away a lot of the trust that current exisits between campers and staffers.
• sex can be reduced by people sleeping in 3's but then we get into the gray aira of what 3 and where and when and how and so on so forth. sadly having 135 kids on a semmi small space you will get sexual tention but as for the drug and alical i beleve it can be avoided.
• But how would you ENFORCE that people only sleep in threes? That's what I'm getting at. How would you MAKE SURE it happens that way without compromising everyones privacy and trust? That's the point I'm trying to make. I think a lot of our community at NBTSC is based on trust, and that would be ruined if things were that strictly enforced. We need to trust that people will make the right choices, like not bringing alcohol and drugs to camp and stuff like that. I'm PARTICUARLY opposed to the people who bring such things to camp, it's REALLY REALLY stupid. But on the other hand, I wouldn't want to ENFORCE that they don't. I'd much rather trust that people are smarter than that. (Admittedly, not everyone is)

• i missed all so rad. i really liked that

• i missed the hug circle a lot too i didnt feel i could really say goodbye to people
• There was a hug circle at first session. From what I hear there not-being-of-one was a one-time occarance.

• i love our groups it gives us a chance to talk and share things
• Yeah, I love groups too! I totally don't understand people who hate advisee group. I'm always really glad it's there.

• we need more snack food. we ran out of peanut butter and bread and jam the 2^nd last day.

• toatly keep the powershuffle

• i liked the gender groups. like really liked them.

uh yes. thats all for now