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Post by maddieruns on Jun 7, 2013 10:51:30 GMT -5
^It would! And I think those campers that eventually progress to CITs are secretly hoping to be assigned the 11 year old cabins because they basically get to experience Camp Mohawk another year as campers. Whereas if you’re assigned to the 6 year olds cabins, you’d be helping kids tie their shoes, making sure they eat their dinner, and all that endless baby-sitting.
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Post by oldhickory on Jun 8, 2013 10:58:13 GMT -5
I also think it’s weird that there are CITs for the 11 year old cabins. Are 11 year olds really going to listen to someone that's only two years older than them? It’s strange seeing Dawn supervising campers the same age as Mallory and Jessi. to be fair, the kids in dawn's cabin seemed MUCH younger than eleven, especially with how dawn described them. she listed all their dumb quirks in a way that felt like she was humoring them, the way that they tell us how silly vanessa's poetry was, or haley's madame laveaux thing.
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Post by maddieruns on Jun 21, 2013 1:25:17 GMT -5
That’s true. For the most part Dawn’s campers seemed like a fun bunch to spend summer camp with, compared to the happenings of the other cabins. ^Especially if Claudia ever asked Janine who she (J) was! We still should make a list of all the people Claudia asked that of. I wish we had gotten to read their thoughts as they read the letter. It really is too bad no one really wrote back in "real" time as relevant to the story just as an after-word. Oh yeah, weren't we going to do that one day? IIRC, we each were going to type/scan one letter and then "write" back? Anyone still up for doing that? If so, I can start a new thread/sign up. It could be a lot of fun. Oh wow, this is a great idea! Did it ever take off? I’d love to read the thread for this!
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 21, 2013 10:32:30 GMT -5
^ No, we never did do that. I think at one time Wiggirl also suggested we do a Chain Letter type project as well.Either could be fun. I would love to read some replies to the characters.
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Post by starrynight on Jun 21, 2013 19:02:58 GMT -5
I also think it’s weird that there are CITs for the 11 year old cabins. Are 11 year olds really going to listen to someone that's only two years older than them? It’s strange seeing Dawn supervising campers the same age as Mallory and Jessi. to be fair, the kids in dawn's cabin seemed MUCH younger than eleven, especially with how dawn described them. she listed all their dumb quirks in a way that felt like she was humoring them, the way that they tell us how silly vanessa's poetry was, or haley's madame laveaux thing. I think they seemed like normal 11 year olds, not like the mini adults that BSC universe 11 year olds were expected to be.
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Post by maddieruns on Jun 21, 2013 20:02:44 GMT -5
^ No, we never did do that. I think at one time Wiggirl also suggsted we do a Chain Letter type project as well.:)Either could be fun. I would love to read some replies to the characters. Aw, bummer. Both of those ideas sound fun. I'm not sure how I'd respond to the postcards other than figuring out ways to mail Claudia a dictionary.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jun 24, 2013 15:53:37 GMT -5
At least where I live, this week is the last week of school for most elementary/high-school kids. I should pull this one out and read it again since it's technically going to be SUMMER VACATION!!!
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Post by maddieruns on Jul 9, 2013 16:09:47 GMT -5
My favorite part in this book is reading about the hiking trip Dawn goes on with her campers. It sounds like such a fun thing to do. It makes me want to go on some hiking trips myself. I can't believe it took a full day before someone made Debra hand over the map!
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Post by candykane on Jul 12, 2013 7:25:47 GMT -5
^ Especially since Heather seemed to know exactly where they were the whole time. I get she was supposed to be shy and quiet,and not well liked by the other campers, but if I were in her shoes I'd rather have spoken up asap than walk through the woods in circles for a full day.
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Post by starrynight on Jul 12, 2013 11:06:43 GMT -5
^ Maybe a teeny little part of her wanted them to feel a bit stupid because of the way she'd been treated? Or. maybe she really wasn't very outspoken. I don't know that I would have said anything right away at that age, especially if I wasn't 100% sure that I knew what I was talking about. Heather seemed pretty sure, but if there was any doubt in her mind, she may not have wanted to risk being wrong and making things worse for herself.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 13, 2013 17:43:54 GMT -5
^Maybe she was enjoying herself out there, or at least enjoying watching the others suffer. If she really did know where they were then she knew they weren't in any danger.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 14, 2013 10:49:45 GMT -5
I think starry has a point. She more or less waited to be asked.
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Post by ashley868 on Jan 18, 2014 10:33:54 GMT -5
Kristy's makeover reminded me so much of myself. I loved reading about it. I felt like I could have almost written Kristy's part minus the camp part because the same thing basically happened to me. It was my sister and her friends who did it to me though. I had really bushy eyebrows and frizzy hair, and I really didn't wear makeup. My eyebrows annoyed my sister so much that she had her friends come over and help her hold me down so she could wax them. I had four different people applying makeup, fixing my hair, waxing my eyebrows and everything. I did like the end result as well though. This is the first time I've ever read this book, and I just couldn't believe how much I could relate with Kristy. I was tomboyish like her as well, but that's where the similarity ends for us. I was tomboyish but extremely shy and quiet.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 29, 2014 19:50:17 GMT -5
I reread last night hoping the story would be better (to me) this time around. This is still one of my least favorite super specials. Most all the girls have cabin mates who are in some way mean, whether it be the girls in Mal and Jessi's cabin being racist or some of the campers on Dawn's ignoring and/or teasing Heather. Come to think of it, while Charlene (wasn't she the counselor in Dawn's cabin) did come across at the very beginning as nice and fun (when the campers first met and were getting their luggage together, I don't think she ever did try to make camp better for Heather. One funny moment I did like and it even featured Dawn of all people, was when Dawn wanted to loosen the mood up of the campers after Mrs. Means told Charlene about her mom and Charlene needed to leave, Dawn orders the campers to break out their junk food. Reminded me of how Claudia at times does use offering up snacks as a way of breaking up tension. One thing that did jump out at me more this time was how lost Dawn and her campers must have been. I was surprised that the camp's property was that vast to where it was possible to hike for two days and still be that lost. I would think the Meanies might have also labeled the trail a bit better. But then, Stacey's leafy patch of poison ivy was not taken out so maybe the camp owners didn't do much exploring on their own grounds? I would have much preferred reading about Mal and Jessi either being in different cabins or having one of the older BSC members as their counselor. It would have been fun if some of the charges had even a mini chapter about their Camp Mohawk experience and I was disappointed there was not one brief scene (maybe a reply to mal from Claire and their parents) about how (or if) Claire was enjoying being an only child. More Stoneybrook stuff.
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Post by greer on Mar 29, 2014 19:57:49 GMT -5
^i don't know if it was the camp's property or if they just had permission to use, like, a state park or something. But upstate New York is pretty rural in a lot of places, so it's not that surprising. Or that the overnight area was near to re camp, but they got so lost that they ended up outside the bounds of the camp property.
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