Took forever to type this up and posted because I’ve been busy with camp related activities. But June 1 this year officially started my summer job at Camp Chief Little Turtle with Area Director’s Week. Not exactly a week long, but the purpose of this week is to give the senior staff and area directors a head start on planning things out for their area before the rest of the staff shows up.
An Area Director is basically the person in charge of their area at camp, overseeing everything that happens in the area. The different areas at camp include Shooting Sports, Ecology, Buckskin (history based area - more on this one later), Aquatics, Handicraft, Outdoor Skills, High Adventure, Trading Post (the store), TurtleQuest (a 1st year camper program) and Top Scout (a program for older scouts).
This
is my 3rd year as Buckskin Director for CCLT. Back a long time ago I would always refuse
to work at camp. I wasn’t a fan of
the summer heat and mosquitos so every time my brothers would tell me about a
job opening at camp I would always refuse. Two years ago I finally cracked, desperate for a summer
job. I heard about which jobs had
openings, so I applied for those.
A few days after my interview there was a brand new job opening that
wasn’t on the application that I was told about and I accepted it. And I’ve been back ever since.
Now, as mentioned earlier, Buckskin is a history-based area at camp. This year we teach several history-based merit badges (Indian Lore, American Heritage, Scouting Heritage) and also Citizenship In The World. In the afternoons we offer open Tomahawk Throwing, fire branding, frontier-based games and knife throwing. We used to do Black Powder Muzzle Loader shooting as well, but I decided to change things up a bit this year.
Now, as mentioned earlier, Buckskin is a history-based area at camp. This year we teach several history-based merit badges (Indian Lore, American Heritage, Scouting Heritage) and also Citizenship In The World. In the afternoons we offer open Tomahawk Throwing, fire branding, frontier-based games and knife throwing. We used to do Black Powder Muzzle Loader shooting as well, but I decided to change things up a bit this year.
So
Director’s Week this year involved euchre, getting things around for AHG week
(more on that in a future post), starting to get things around for the Boy
Scouts, more euchre, getting acquainted with new staff members, even more
euchre, going up to Kalamazoo for a Women’s Football game, getting
re-acquainted with past staff members, and on top of that even more euchre and
plenty of inside jokes to go around. Eventually I'll post pics up of camp and various areas of camp, but that'll be for another post.
Bring on the summer.
Bring on the summer.
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