Camp is for COUNSERLORS! (not campers)

Some of camp's strongest effects are on the counselors, not the campers. . . . As they struggle to teach, organize, survive and, somehow, sleep, they — even more than the campers — are having their lives transformed. Moreover, because most staff are between the ages of 18 and 25, it is they, and not the campers, who are in the most critical period of identity development in contemporary American society — a time known as "emerging adulthood." To paraphrase a well-known camp song, the kids may be brats and the food may be hideous, but studies suggest that the experience of being a camp counselor is more than just fun and fooling around; it can be even more life changing than that of being a camper. [Full Article]

YES!
As a camper, I didn't like camp. I got homesick, cried too much, swam poorly, and just wanted to go home. But as a *counselor* I LOVED it! Camp counseloring was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And I miss camp.