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I did go to 4H camp one year. It was fun. And did some bullshit church stuff. *
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Posted by Tuscy
on March 19, 2024, 13:46:06, in reply to "
I went to soccer camp at ISU
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and thought it was the greatest thing imaginable.
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the world is way more accessible than it seemed like it was back then.
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a class trip to Germany for the other.
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- My daughter is doing a week of horse-camp.
- My son is doing a week of football camp and a week of surf camp.
We'll probably spend about 2 weeks in Tahoe and we'll just muddle through the rest.
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Parents...it's about that time right? What camps (if any) did you sign your kid up for this summer?
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haighter
March 19, 2024, 12:28:33
sports camps for 10 weeks, Banff for one, beach house for two*
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bigbop85
March 19, 2024, 16:23:05
Has anyone here sent their HS kid to any of the U of I engineering camps?
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Herman Blume
March 19, 2024, 14:31:40
None, probably.
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EffinIllini
March 19, 2024, 14:15:48
park district or sailing (exposed through park district lakefront camp)*
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torinese
March 19, 2024, 13:46:43
Park district camp every week we're in town
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
March 19, 2024, 13:45:13
We've got a few weeks of ordinary City Parks camps. There's various versions you can take.
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tvillini
March 19, 2024, 13:37:31
I signed Reggie up for axe throwing, tennis, and the drinking Olympics*
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longsnapper
March 19, 2024, 12:44:52
i'd really like my kids to give camp ondessonk a try. but so far, we haven't signed any of them up
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 12:43:35
mini's going to either take Honors Pre Calc in a one-month intensive or take an enrichment class at
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ATL
March 19, 2024, 12:41:40
My daughter will be back at Catalina Sea Camp running the 2 week program and helping with the 1 week
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RSMBob
March 19, 2024, 12:41:40
My kids are getting older so "camps" are leadership conference at Georgetown for one and...
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Tuscy
March 19, 2024, 12:29:56
man I wish I had access to that sort of thing when I was a kid
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 12:33:24
The closest I ever came to going to summer camp was one year when my mom allowed me
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Philo
March 19, 2024, 14:15:29
Same. My kids have no idea. *
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Tuscy
March 19, 2024, 13:44:49
Yeah, we had no concept of anything growing up in a small town*
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reggiedunlop
March 19, 2024, 12:38:49
I went to weekend physics classes at fermi lab because I was super cool*
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gvibes
March 19, 2024, 15:36:49
try that in a small town, amirite!!??!*
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 14:41:50
Same. I guess some kids did detassel corn. Almost the same!*
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GhostofPokeyStixPast
March 19, 2024, 14:40:56
detassling corn was a great motivator for me
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 15:13:21
And detassling is pretty easy. Building silos, roofing, baling hay & straw... All were way harder*
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longsnapper
March 19, 2024, 15:24:09
I had this same convo with my wife the other day. I had no idea this stuff even existed*
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CWR10
March 19, 2024, 12:47:07
I was detassling corn and Haighter's kids are going to effing surf camp
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 14:45:21
got ran over by a detassling rig...broke my arm and crushed my calf muscle>>>*
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 15:15:12
"Rig"? The folks I worked for we just walked. Sorest shoulders ever. *
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haighter
March 19, 2024, 15:16:11
this video shows it at about the 15 sec mark
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 15:35:57
6 in the morning, dripping wet, razor sharp corn*
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 15:16:53
rain suits were a lifesaver until the dew evaporated off*
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 15:36:44
This was the 90's in Central Illinois
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 15:40:37
yeah, we did that, until we realized rain suits worked so much better*
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lcubed
March 19, 2024, 15:43:29
They have a saying in Scandinavia
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 16:23:49
yikes, hope you were OK*
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 15:16:08
Point of odor...I was also detassling (and bailing hay and loading out chickens). *
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haighter
March 19, 2024, 14:58:42
I'm sure you were*
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 15:11:15
lol*
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Philo
March 19, 2024, 14:47:10
I mean, the whole point of having kids is so they can have it better than you did
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 14:48:29
I went to soccer camp at ISU
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 12:46:21
I did go to 4H camp one year. It was fun. And did some bullshit church stuff. *
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Tuscy
March 19, 2024, 13:46:06
Vacation Bible School really did some heavy lifting
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Sounder
March 19, 2024, 14:38:32
I grew up in a smallish place but our school had access to programs at Johns Hopkins and the USNA
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ATL
March 19, 2024, 12:44:53
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