Are these quotes from bloggers on blogging OR teenagers (the ones who love camp, not the mosquito-bitten miserable variety) on Jewish summer camp?
“No one in my real life understands me like you guys”
“I’ve been here such a short time, and yet it’s a lifetime”
“In my real life I am insecure and hairy, but here people accept me for who I am–insecure and hairy”
[Song: You’ve Got A Friend]
“You guys accept me for who I am. You are the only ones who know the real me.”
“Honestly? Honestly? I don’t know how I’m going to go back to my real life. Honestly.”
“We share a common language. One They don’t understand. One with many hard consonants”
[Song: That’s What Friends Are For]
“I hereby grant you this badge for best/prettiest/most talented loyal friend”
“There are no losers here. Everyone is accepted. I mean, even if I’m not friends with you, here you can find one. A friend”
“Crying. Just crying.”
[Song: Circle Game]
“I love you. I love you. OH MY GOD I love you”
“You have changed me forever. I will never be the same. Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives”
“I’m going to leave you with this message: Don’t walk in front of me I may not follow, don’t walk beside me I may not lead. Wait. Don’t walk behind me I may not follow. Wait. Just don’t make me go back to those people”
[Song: Stairway to Heaven]
This is so perfect.
Love it!
Having never been to Jewish summer camp – it’s hard for me to make the comparison… But I’m conjuring something up along the lines Dirty Dancing meets Little Darlings. I think I’ve got it…
Great comparison…..and so true!
That’s hilarious and spot on. Having never been to camp, I would have never seen the obvious comparison.
Are all bloggers insecure neurotics? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Funny! Made me think of this, which I just saw an ad for…
http://www.amazon.com/P-S-Hate-Here-PS-Letters/dp/0810982951
Song: My Little Toy Gun. Sing it…la la la la la laaa la la la la la laaaa my little toy gun boom boom BOOM!!!
Just don’t make me go back to those people indeed. They expect me to WORK.
Those have Camp Shalom written all over them. Except those that have Cupcake ’10 written all over them.
Oh I give up. I just like to think I’m getting that badge!
And wait? Some of these have Listen To Your Mother written all over them. 😉
Oh what a wickedly tongue in cheek send-up of the blogging world this is. In England they don’t have summer camps but if they had of done I think I would have fit in so well at Jewish summer camp because I know I am a very good fit for the blogosphere 🙂
Now I am going to read this for a third time and come back to it again and again as not only did you make me laugh but I need to remind myself time and again that there is a real world out there I need to try and participate in too 🙂
That is quite a social statement. Ouch.
Guilty on all counts!
Kumbaya ma’lurd, kuba-ah-ya…
All of the above?
these are from actual blogs…that YOU read? oye.
Does this mean I don’t get my badge? ‘Cause, really, like, you guys really understand me! *sniff* 😉
Has anyone told you lately that you are brilliantly funny?
Just checking.
Super genius.
Also, I know we live far away but we’ll still be friends after the summer, right? (After BlogHer, I mean…)
Uh oh, now you have given me flashbacks from Shabbos talks of years past.
Could you be funnier and smarter? Only if you were immediately time-transported to Jewish summer camp, where you would be the toast of the town. L’Chaim.
Is this what goes on at all those big important blogging camps – er, conferences? Or what a Bloggers Anonymous meeting sounds like? What kind of twisted world do I now inhabit? Oh, who cares. Just give me a badge and be my friend.
I’m truly stumped. I can’t tell which quote belongs to which age group. I never went to Jewish camp, however, oh wait, yes, I did, Tennis camp
You complete me.
Honestly, honestly– I totally believe all those things were actually said at summer camp. Honestly.
🙂
PS I left something for you on my blog.
🙂
jj
Lovely. 🙂 I love the sincerity of youth (and I do mean that sincerely!)
Pearl
Does it have to be either/or?
hmmmm…..truly its impossible to tell!!
I never went to camp. Too buggy. But I loved these songs/quotes. My kids were campers, but only one was a happy one…molly
You captured the intensity of that experience beautifully. What happens? How? And (he says suspiciously) why do religions use summer camp? I think I’m on to something here. Get the kids away from their parents for a while, key up their emotions, and let the brain scrubbing begin. Now I understand why I was soooooo in love with Kim, then Michele, then Jennifer. I finally get it. Phew. Thanks!
Teen angst is apparently the common denominator of Jewish summer camp and Baptist summer camp. Jewish camp was most likely cooler, though- no pressure to get saved.
I love you. I just love you. OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU.
I need to stop reading you while putting the baby to sleep; it’s counterptoductive and I always get the hiccups from trying to swallow my laughter. And by then my cover is blown and he knows mommy was only pretending to sleep so I have to start all over and then I need a new post to read …
Also, there’s not much difference from Jewish summer camp and Nazarene summer camp except for the obvious. I knew that summer camp would prepare me adequately for something in life.