Camp Daisy Essay

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Camp Daisy A week and a half of brutal staff training I could tell I was ready for this job I love working with children and being a strong leader and an inspiration for little girls in girl scouting. This has been my first real life job I have done. Getting my schedule a few days before I had to leave to clean the camp up to the very last of cleaning the camp up for the rest of the year was such a journey that changed my life intensely. Walking into my first staff meeting was such a rush and waiting for the bus to bring the girls to the camp to the car riders coming with their parents and missing them dearly. I remember walking into the dining hall with my green polo, and khaki shorts was killing me from how hot that summer was on the record books. I walked in and everyone yelled, “RICO!” And I exclaimed back, “Everyone, oh how I missed you guys!!” There was no turning back once I walked thru those doors, the commitment I gave to everyone there was such a powerful thing, this was my dream to be a camp counselor for years and all the on the side training I prepared myself for this moment. Saying to myself over and over, “this is it. This is it.” AS I was giving myself some reassurance this whole situation, walking into to the rustic looking dining hall with the air-conditioning blowing on me, the thrill of being there in the outdoors and having fun with a group of twelve girls. Being a camp counselor has such a big responsibility behind it like, making sure they don’t have the “five M’s” but there really are six of them. The “five M’s” include munchies, medicine, money, magazines, music and mobiles. These were the most important rules to the camper other

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