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Camp Robindel
The Camper’s Guide
by Lila, age 8
Published in 2015
This guide was made by Lila for a school project.
Minor edits have been made to include actual photos from Camp
Robindel and to be sure that information about camp is accurate.
1. Activities...page 1
• My favorite thing
• What activities
• Elective
Table of Contents
2. Homesickness...page 2
• Talking to a counselor
• What to do/dealing with it
• Avoiding it
3. Field Trips...page 3
• Your money: how to spend it
• Great trips
• Sneeze and wheeze: allergies
4. What to do after dinner...page 4
• Gaga, bunks, Oh My!
• How to do what you are doing
• What I like best
5. Saying Goodbye...page 5
• Piece of my heart
• Tears and tissues: how not to cry
• What to do on the bus ride back
6. Conclusion...page 6
7. Glossary...page 7
8. Acknowledgements...page 8
Are you looking for an all girls camp on a shining sparkling lake?
Well Camp Robindel has all the good camp things! No one is ever
sad because of camp! There are activities that are super awesome,
the meals are great, the bunks are amazing, everything is great!
Everybody is nice, but you will find out more about this wonderful
camp in this book so read now!
To Ann and Nat
1. Activities
Activities are super fun! My favorite is elective but we will talk about that later. The art
barn is where arts and crafts is! They have everything from beading to pottery wheel. It is the
best place to draw, paint, bead, and to work with clay. Upstairs is beading and crafts, the crafts
are usually paper but sometimes they’ll mix it up.
Land sports has sooo many sports! There is: basketball, softball, lacrosse, soccer,
volleyball, etc. The staff are kind, they have a positive attitude, and help you! You go to the
field if it is soccer or lacrosse, volleyball is at an outdoor sand pit, softball is at a baseball field.
Now there’s oh so many other activities but I’m gonna let you explore that!
Elective
I’ll tell you about elective. There’s a big board in the dining hall where all the names
and bunks are and there’s tags with words like “ski” or “swim.” When you put a tag with the
word like ski on it and tada, you’re going to ski or swim. It’s not like your whole bunk is going to
elective, it’s just you our one or two people from your bunk. It’s every day and it’s just so great!
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2. Homesickness
Do not panic, this is highly common. Talk to a counselor! Now this is easy to do. Say
what you miss and they’ll probably say “Well, think of the happy bright side!” If you don’t think
that’s good enough, hug your friend or a counselor. If you are still sad, cry and write a letter
home.
If you absolutely don’t want to cry but you need to, relax your jaw or yawn, wipe your
eyes or blow your nose. Cross your eyes, this almost always make you laugh!
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3. Field Trips
Field trips are on 4 Wednesdays in the summer. The staff will ask you “how much money
do you want to spend?” Now look, your parents spend a tons of money just so you could go
here, so they gave you extra money just so you could buy little trinkets. Now I am not trying to
make you feel bad, it’s just that they spend a LOT of money. I recommend $25 or under so you
can buy something nice but not expensive.
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4. What To Do After Dinner
You get to wander around camp after dinner. You can play Gaga, a sport where you use
only your hands or take a stroll around camp. My favorite thing to do is to go sit on the big rock
near the lake. You can even check mail! Look at your bunk’s name in one of the slots and go get
your counselor who can pick up the mail for you.
My second favorite thing to do is to meet up with friends and play truth or dare! You
play truth or dare by a person who is saying “truth or dare?” I pick dare because your friends
get to do silly things with you. Once I ended up with a mustach on me for two straight days!
Truth is when you tell a secret about your self. I told my friend this: whisper whisper whisper.
HA HA HA!!
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5. Saying Good Bye
Now this was hard for me because I had such a good time at camp!! Now that I’m home
I feel like I left a piece of my heart at camp right in the bed I slept in for seven weeks. That very
piece is longing for me to come back, I miss camp a lot. Anyway, I was crying hytsterically when
I had to leave. You probably don’t want to do that so here’s how not to cry.
1. Relax your jaw, move it up and down, side to side, this should help. 2. Blink a whole lot, it
will help drain out tears trying to come out. 3. Hug your friends a great deal and say promises
and get sappy. 4. Never EVER stop thinking positive, don’t think the “what ifs” and think “I get
to see my family and friends at home again!” This might be hard but do it, I believe in you you
awesome girl!
It’s down right boring on the ride back or flight back so do these little ice breakers. Do
Mad Libs if you have them and think of really funny ones. Write in your diary about camp, your
experience, what you are going to miss, or whatever you want. Talk! This is just in a girls nature
to chat so talk to the person next to you about everything camp! (Look at the diary section for
ideas.) Get to know the person like: what’s the persons name, how long they have been there,
or ice breakers. Now I could go on and on, but I want you to explore for yourself.
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Conclusion
As you can see, this camp is perfect if you want a shining sparkling lake near your bunk.
After reading this book, don’t you want to go to Camp Robindel now? I bet you do, but I must
get going. Go make memories here at Camp Robindel. See you at camp!
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Glossary
Dining Hall: Where Chef Gary makes amazingly good meals and
we eat!
Ice Breakers: Certain categories about things like this person likes
and likes to do. They are mostly get to know the person activities.
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Acknowledgements
Thank you to Ann and Nat for being the owners and directors
of Camp Robindel and a big shout out to my big brothers friend
Charlie. Charlie told my brother about an all boys camp my big
brother goes to: Winaukee. Then we visited the sister camp, Camp
Robindel, my camp. And that’s how I got to know Camp Robindel.
My school was writing non-fiction books and my second non
fiction book topic was camping, but I was writing too much about
Camp Robindel. But once again, a big humongous thanks to Ann
and Nat. Good night nor good morning but good bye! Bye!!
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Willow is our youngest bunk at Robindel. Willow 2014 is pictured above.