Motivations

I was pleasantly surprised that the motivations my peers and I discussed about being a camp counselor/director are pretty evenly split between being seen and unseen in the media. Most of my current motivations honestly stem from my past experiences in camp counseling. I want to be a camp counselor/director because I know I enjoy it and care about it. However, why did I want to be a counselor in the first place? Well that goes back to my days as a camper. I was blessed with some excellent role models in the positions of counselors and I wanted to be a great role model just like them.

But even before that comes the question of why I wanted to go to camp in the first place. Now this is where the media plays its role. Almost all of the YouTube clips I've collected come from movies and television shows I watched as a child either about camp or with several scenes taking place at camp. Confession time...before attending camp, I would watch reruns of the show Bug Juice on the Disney channel (a reality show that follows a group of kids going to summer camp). Even before my first summer as a counselor, I watched the show on YouTube.

So while my motivation for being a counselor/director hasn't necessarily been fueled by the media, my initial interest in camp (as a child) was pretty heavily influenced by shows and movies I'd seen, which has lead to my interest in being a camp counselor. I've been pretty lucky that my experiences at camp (as a camper and counselor) have been as fun as those I've seen on television and in several movies.