Quotes From the JC Weekend

  • “I just wanted to say thank you for this weekend. I had the best time and I
    • really did bond with a lot of the guys I know I hadn’t talked to before. After this weekend I have learned so much about them!”

  • “I made new friends, got reacquainted with old ones, learned about being a
    • counselor, and got to be at Camp…yes, and I made friends in Hut 6!”

  • “I learned a lot about what this summer is going to be like, what being a
    • counselor is like, and I learned how excited for the summer I really am!”

  • “Seeing the people from my Hut 6/Juniper was great…so many of them I haven’t
    • talked to or seen since I left Camp, and I got to really know some of the girls much better than when we were campers. I feel we’re a much tighter unit now, both number-wise, and emotionally because we got to hang out together this weekend.”

  • “I feel much more prepared to be a counselor. I probably would have had no
    • idea what I was doing this summer if it weren’t for the weekend.”

  • “I wasn’t nervous about the weekend, but rather I was unsure of what to
    • expect. It had been almost two years since I had seen some of the returning JCs, and I wondered how it would be between us. I clearly had nothing to worry about, as we were back to where we had left each other within minutes.”

  • “I learned more than I ever thought I would have at the JC weekend. It made
    • me realize that being a counselor comes with many responsibilities, as we will constantly be caring for other campers. Just going over everything showed me how prepared I am for the summer, and that many of my fears were just premature.”

  • “I was able to reestablish my friendships immediately. The people at Camp

    • make it such a great place, and even two years were not enough to distance
    us from each other.”

  • “I feel one hundred times more prepared to be a JC because of the weekend.

    • It helped to relieve my fears, teach me how to handle many situations, and
    just overall be a good counselor and friend to my campers.”

  • “More than anything, it made me excited for the summer to come.”