irl Power: This video was very accurate about the behavior of girls to different situations,people and surroundings. I recognized that girls become more aware of their surroundings and actions and the reaction of others, so then they sometimes react in ways to avoid judgement and negativity. I think the great thing about an all girls [...]

Hi everyone! My name is Mallory Nickel and this will be my second summer at RBC!!! I’ll be teaching paddling (most likely kayaking) and I can’t wait to be back in a boat on our lake and on some whitewater with our wonderful campers!! I just graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BS in environmental [...]

While watching these videos, I’ve come to realize how parents can stress and be nervous about camp just as much as the campers! This surprised me but at the same time didn’t. I feel that if I was a parent, one thing that would really make me happy to hear or see is that my [...]

I think that these videos helped me understand going to camp from the perspective of a parent. Although the parents have fears about their child being away from them, they also seem very hopeful about what their child will experience when away at summer camp. I think that counselors are the easiest way to set [...]

I really appreciated hearing real hopes and concerns of parents. Some parents expressed that they want their child to not only gain new experiences from camp, but they also wish for things like decision making, goal setting, leadership, and independence to be learned. These are qualities that can each one of us can model for [...]

I really enjoyed these videos! I really liked how the first video explained the concepts and then the second video showed several examples. The videos were alot easier to follow that way. The parents of our campers are giving us a huge gift of trust to watch and care for their girls for a month! [...]

I think these videos did a great job capturing many important roles of counselors that we might not thing about too frequently. In terms of how can we make parents feel secure in leaving their daughter in our care: I think it’s so essential that on day one, when the parents come to drop off [...]

After watching these videos, I realized that being a camp counselor requires much more responsibility than any other job I have had with children, such as a babysitter, teacher, or coach. It is a job of greater pressure due to the fact that the parents are not simply entrusting their children with you for several [...]

These videos emphasized the various roles of a counselor: stand-in parent, role model, friend, sister, instructor, and caregiver. Some of my past summer trip leaders have impacted me so much and are still my role models. I wish I could be as awesome as them! I know that at camp we have the greatest responsibility [...]

It was good to see what parents feel like about camp in the first video because it talked a lot about how much of an effect the counselors have on the kids. If the kids are going home and talking about their counselors so much once camp is over, we better make sure that what [...]

I enjoyed how they broke down the thought process of a camp counselors. I feel that people do theses naturally without thinking but the video made us more aware of this. Great thoughts. The parent video is so true. These are all things parents and ex-campers talk about when they are asked about camp. I [...]

I really liked these videos! The parents speaking reminded me that I am the caretaker of their child at camp for the week, two weeks, and so on. I like to think of my self being a “mother” to these campers, and treat them like my own children. And being a mother, you must be [...]

I think it’s a bigger deal than I realized for a parent to leave a daughter at camp for the summer. Since I’m not a parent, it’s hard to know what putting your daughter’s life in someone else’s hands is like, but I can imagine that it is tough. That being said, we as counselors [...]

I liked these videos a lot. They really addressed a lot of my concerns as a first time counselor. I don’t have a background with camps, never went to one as a kid… so I was kind of clueless as to what I was expecting, what the parents were expecting, and what my employer would [...]

Let’s just say Girl Power was a great video to explain various topics in a short amount of time! I loved how the video presented advice in several key points. I do believe that the examples were beneficial. I absolutely the video was informative. I never really noticed that some girls have a hard time [...]

Bullying, to me, seems the most interesting thing to see when it is an all female population. From what I’ve seen, boys and girls usually argue/fight over small things. However, in an all-girl setting, some of the bullying issues are a lot deeper than what it is. In the girl world, it is imperative that [...]

Hi everyone! My name is Keonna, but you can call me Keke for short. My hometown is Atlanta, Georgia, but now I live in South Carolina. This will be my very first year as a camp counselor at Rockbrook Camp, BUT I have been to Brevard several times! I am quite excited about this new [...]

WASSSUPP!! haha Hey everyone!! My name is Cherie Haseltine, and I’m from Marietta, GA. I was blessed to be apart of Rockbrook camp on the adventure trip staff in 2009 when I went to Brevard college. At Brevard, I played Soccer there and was involved in Wilderness Leadership and Experiential Education program which was awesome! [...]