Filthy Lucre

If you are paying for camp yourself, describe how you got/are getting money here.

I have actually made all the money I need for camp. Which is a relief. But money-wise, I've still got an overwhelming amount to do before I go, because of things I have committed to. I have a couple webpages to do, but I have to learn specific things before I can start on them, so I have been procrastinating. I've got some other stuff to do, too. If I can get it all done, I'll have a hell of a lot of money, but getting it done is the challenge for me at the moment. It will be good, though, because I will have money for the rest of my travels this year, which I'm sure will be many :) -courtney

I'm not actually paying for the *camp* part of camp, but I'm paying for the hotel thing, and the train food, and other little extras.

I got a job as a nanny for 3 kids 3 days/week, and another job 1 day/week, and another one 1 day/month, and aNOTHER one 2 days/month, and so many other little random ones that I can't even think of... I've totaled up all the permanent ones, and that's almost $2,000 for the summer... that's the most money I've ever had at one time! - JessicaSkater

I'm paying for part of the camp expense stuff, but not all of it. I worked at a living history museum for minimum wage from New Year's to the end of May. Though the people occasionally drove me insane, it was a really great job because I had a lot of free time to sit around and draw, sing, or whatever - I was just the person at the gate who took people's admission money and gave them maps and told them what was happening that day and stuff.

 - Emma

I'm paying for the train down, and I was dangerously broke until I had the Coolest most joyful money-makingness experience. in Vancouver we have a Really big unschoolers support/hang-out group, and one of my best friends and I decided to Teach A Theatre Class for little bity unschoolers! I wrote a script (wheee) and Kerridwyn (happy happy friend person) did the "fight choreography" and we had six kids hanging out with us and being happy! we had a show at the end for their folks and Two of the mothers (the people Paying for the class...) came up to me seprately afterwards and said we Should Charge More! it was so sweet! Every single class ran over time because the kids didn't want to leave, and they were such Awesome people! in any one scene there were usually only three/four folks onstage and the rest would come and cuddle up around us and watch, there was always someone in my lap or Kerridwyn's, even the little boys, and then when it turned out that three of them really could stand more of a challenge we got them off learning the poem, and it was just so Happy! I was a little worried about one of the boys because he was awfully violent and we'd given him the part of the monster that gets killed (the jabberwocky, we were doing a script I did of the Lewis Carol poem), but he were friendly with him and let him do his thing (I was also a little protective of him because he was the only one who couldn't read and he would get really deppressed looking when the others did) but anyway, halfway through he came to us with the idea of doing a first nations dance to drums for his entrance, and stylizing the fight along those lines! he's seven! and until then he'd been mostly just talking about guns! and one of the other boys, the eldest (13), took the youngest little girl (6) under his wing and was always watching out that she got into all the games and it was so Sweet! it was a job I'd have Gladly payed to do, they were such amazing people, I learned So much about acting and characters and stuff, JOY!

-Miranda

to pay for camp last year, i did a little summer program type thing for little girls between 4 and 7 years old and did games and craft projects with them and wrote a little play that they performed for their parents on the last day of the program, and i made enough money to pay for NBTSC (and then some!) so i'm probably going to do that again this year, and hopefully make enough money for two sessions of camp. ~Nell

I have no job right now, and it bothers me a little, but then I do have job offers, so here comes the hard part, picking a job that I would like to do, and one that I can do well, and could do things like travil, and do my own things still, maybe I should not just take one job, maybe I should take them all... I have thought about that, but then I might end up working all the time... I have nothing agenst working, but I do like to have time to fallow what I would like to do, and last time i had a full time job, I got very little of my own things done, and hardly hung out with anyone, or anything, so I guess tomarow, or some other day that is comeing soon, I will call people up, and see what they would like me to do for them, and find out how much they pay, and what the hours are... I just hope I can get out of learning to drive.

well, this year i didn't pay, but next year if i am going to make it to camp like i want to, i am going to have to get a pretty serios job and hope like hell that the aussie dollar doesn't get any lowwer. i'll need about $4000 au which is a pretty scary number if you ask me. i haven't given up hope of getting back but i am hoping that the u.s. dollar drops or the aussie dollar goes up to help my cause, or that we'll win the lottery!!! see, i have to fly and thats not cheap... well, please hope with me/ alex bw

Paying for camp and travel expenses myself this year! I'm still working at the little cinema downtown, two or three nights a week depending on the consistancy of co-workers. I also worked at a law office (if you can call it that) for about four months, which helped a lot. Wish I was doing something more creative for money, but I'm not complaining :)

I'm not paying for camp myself this year, since my parents said they'd pay for one session of camp. I am paying for Theory myself though, and saving for a train pass next winter, and I am very happy with the way I somehow got money for that... I was an assistant director for a children's play for a month this summer, and got $50 0! (As well as a gift certificate to Borders from the director *grin*) This fall I'm planning on working... somewhere... doing something... hopefully it'll be interesting. Yay.