Compliment

Today I got a great compliment. Two girls came up to me and said, "this is our 8th summer coming to camp. It was really fun, and then for a while, it really wasn't, but you've really made camp fun again. Thank you."

So often at camp, I hear kids whining or I receive calls or emails with parents complaining. Good things don't often inspire someone to write or call or give positive feedback. So I appreciated that they made the effort to come and talk to me. Also, teenage girls are definitely the toughest critics, so it was a big deal for them to say that.

Last summer, I heard about the directors from 5 years ago over and over. "When M and B were here..." Kids never mentioned the directors after them, or the director before me. I contacted M and B in the fall and we've talked several times. I have made a HUGE amount of changes to camp since last summer, and so to be told camp was "back to being fun" really made my day!