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[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Oh, the camp I went to was in MA in the Berkshires.

Which camp did you go to? I used to work at Danbee when I was in college

[tunatartare]

The Joseph Eisner Institute for Living Judaism (yes that was the full name) aka Camp Eisner. I also went to Camp Hi Rock for a summer.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

The Joseph Eisner Institute for Living Judaism (yes that was the full name) aka Camp Eisner. I also went to Camp Hi Rock for a summer.

I know I've heard of Hi Rock. We were just outside of Pittsfield...I think technically in Hinsdale, MA. I loved that place!

[AlphaFrog]

I can't believe this thread has 23 replies to it.

[tunatartare]

It was fun. At Eisner your parents paid for you to go get snacks from the canteen twice a week, but the camp had a policy that before you could go to the canteen with your bunk, you had to write a letter to your parents and show it to your counselor. Sessions were 4 weeks long and my mom's birthday is in the summer, so I ended up writing about 9 letters to my parents each summer. At Hi Rock the canteen was on a debit program, no letter writing involved. I didn't write home for about 2.5 weeks. My Jewish mother called the camp director in hysterics asking what they were doing to me that I was so miserable and didn't want to write home. I tried to explain to her that when you don't write home, it's a good thing.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

It was fun. At Eisner your parents paid for you to go get snacks from the canteen twice a week, but the camp had a policy that before you could go to the canteen with your bunk, you had to write a letter to your parents and show it to your counselor. Sessions were 4 weeks long and my mom's birthday is in the summer, so I ended up writing about 9 letters to my parents each summer. At Hi Rock the canteen was on a debit program, no letter writing involved. I didn't write home for about 2.5 weeks. My Jewish mother called the camp director in hysterics asking what they were doing to me that I was so miserable and didn't want to write home. I tried to explain to her that when you don't write home, it's a good thing.

haha...yeah, there is a weekly letter requirement b/c it's a full summer camp (2 months) with parent visiting weekend about halfway through. Although some of the kids were so weird in the letters that camp office got calls anyway. I think the kids also got one phone call before parent visiting and one after. Those were fun times...kids get so homesick!

[tunatartare]

We never had phone rights. Not like we wanted them. Most of us preferred getting to spend a summer without parents. Until we needed snacks and had to write home for care packages. Although I got jipped. Only time I ever got a care package was when the laundry got delayed by a week and I ran out of clean underwear.