Oooooooooklahoma where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!

Hiya HVCC Intern Blog Enthusiasts! This last weekend was an exciting one. We began with an adventure day with APEX Adventures (blog post/epic video montage to come). While the other gals went on a shopping adventure with Lisa and Jeff, I flew to Oklahoma for my friends Kinsey and Tyler’s wedding at the COC Saints […]

Campers Have a World of Good Reflection

A Word from CarlyFries: The ACA hott article topic for the day delved into the 2010 Sites, Facilities, and Program Survey (SFPS) results to take a look at some of the key findings of interest to the camp industry and see how we here at HVCC see these findings coming into play. To summarize, there […]

Tuesday Updates

Good Morning Readers, Last night in our meeting with Lisa, we had an exchange of powers from Prime Minister Lynley to Sultan Carly Fries.  Our first gathering with new leadership was kept brief so that we may all continue the great work we’ve been doing leading up to crunch time, but here are some updates […]

Children’s Camp Week in Review

Alright, it’s getting to be the middle of the week, which means it’s time for last week’s week in review!!! (Someday I’ll actually post these at the end of the week.) So last week we had Children’s Camp here. We unexpectedly met some people from Graceland! Apparently Gracelanders are big fans of being counselors at […]

BREAKING ACTION NEWS UPDATE

The title made you excited, didn’t it? It’s really just a regular conceptual project update! GOTCHA! The past few weeks we’ve been cranking out the conceptual project work and so here’s a running list of what we’ve done so far: Lynley began the project as “driver” (also known as project lead/prime minister) Lynley made a timeline […]

Its Not a Pool it’s an Aquatic Center.

Along with our conceptual project work each intern has an individual project that they work on developing as well. My project, in case you haven’t guessed by the title, is the pool. This will be my third summer of lifeguarding, and at the last campground that I worked at I had a heavy involvement and […]

Unduh the Sea

This weekend myself and the other interns spent our sweeeet freedom shopping and fartin around at the Monterey Bay Aquarium!!! We began our glorious day by sleeping in and slowly making our way into the town of Santa Cruz to roam around and get our shoppin on, while Antonia spent some quality time with her […]

Watching Movies at Jeff & Nelda’s

Note: So I started this post a long time ago, and then was scrolling through the blog posts and realized that I never finished it! So I finished it up today so you could get a much needed update on this situation! -A. After a long day of lifeguarding, training or general errand running, what […]

Ooops!

A half-finished post just made it onto the blog yesterday! Woops! Please ignore that it if you saw it until we can finish writing and editing that! -Antonia

Interns Reflect on Communication

So I wrote this about 2 weeks ago, but never got around to finishing it! Here it is!! So yesterday (I mean on the 12th, two weeks ago,) we discussed another ACA article, this time, on communication, its struggles, and possible solutions. (Want to read the article yourself? Check it out here.) Relevance to Happy […]