3) TAKS Camp (Waco)
What could be worse than failing the standardized TAKS test for Texas students? Spending your summer studying for the next test. Ugh. I would imagine that the teacher gets hazardous duty pay.
2) Beauty Camp (Waco)
I saw the sign for this just outside a run-down beauty salon. I'm not sure I want to be near a 12-year-old girl who spent the day at beauty camp. Further detracting from that camp's appeal was the corpulent lady wearing sweat pants and smoking just outside the door; which somehow undercut the theme of "beauty."
1) Camp O' Fun (Grosse Pointe)
The really scary thing about the Camp O' Fun is that it meets Monday through Friday all summer from 7:30 am to 6:15 pm. Nothing can be fun for eleven hours a day. Yikes. Also, it is pretty much a given that something called the "Camp O' Fun" will be no fun at all. I suspect it really is just day care provided by bored and/or deranged high school students, but "Camp O' Fun" just builds up unfair expectations of either a trip to Ireland or a jolly headmaster named Mr. O'Fun.
I have to say, though, that none of these matches the level of sheer terror offered at St. Paul's "Camp Drop-Off." I'm not making this up-- it is literally located at the top of a cliff overlooking the Mississippi River. Seemingly, you dump kids over the drop-off and see how they do.
Can you beat that?
Clown camp? They probably have that.
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ReplyDeleteCamp Horstick was the name of my church camp. Say it out loud. Yup.
Hey we offered camp for 'park rats' in the Shores. It just wasn't called camp back in 1980.
ReplyDeleteI went to Camp Ghormley,a Presbyterian church camp, near Wenatchee,I think."Oh,the biscuits out at ca-amp/They say are mighty fine/One rolled off the table/And killed a pal of mine/O-oh I don't want no more of ca-amp life/Gee,but I wanna go/(But they won't let me go/Oh,how I wanna go ho-o-ome." Highlight of the camp came when two campers decided to make out in the chapel outside under the benches and got their braces stuck in one another's braces. Good times.
ReplyDeleteI taught TAKS camp in Fort Worth for three years. We got extra "combat pay," but there is no amount of money that can compensate me for the grey hairs those kids gave me! It was during one of those camps that I decided to go to law school.
ReplyDeleteLearning, I'm sure that by the end of the summer you were ready for Camp Drop-Off.
ReplyDeleteDo you have an address for Camp Drop Off? I have a short list of Scouts and a longer list of Scout parents that I wish to offer scholarships to this fine institution!
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Learning, sounds like the call to preach that came to many a farmer facing the south end of a northbound mule plowing in July and August! Many a true vocation was unearthed in that situation.
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ReplyDeleteHealth Camp on the Circle is the worst camp for eating healthy, but it's tasty.
ReplyDeleteI can confirm that Camp O Fun in GP is, indeed, NO FUN AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteCamp Siloam Springs, Arkansas Baptist Assembly. They claim to be a Christian camp, but other than a long-winded, talentless preacher screaming a message to elementary school kids, there's not much Christian about it
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