48 Days To Go!

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Im super excited to be starting this blog to document my time in the states this summer working at YMCA Camp Letts in Maryland! I've managed to secure this amazing opportunity through Camp America and I have also been lucky enough to be selected to be one of Camp Americas Story Tellers for 2018. This means that Camp America has asked me to document my time and experience this summer. I am going to try and document as much as I can; including my planning and prep before I go to Camp, my time at Camp and my after Camp Travels.

To start with, I should probably introduce myself. I know there will be people that I know in real life who will be reading this out of curiosity, so those people can skip the introduction.
My name is Jade, I'm 19 and I live in a small village in Lanarkshire, Scotland. I currently work full time as a receptionist but decided that life is too short to not take chances like this and so with some encouragement from my friends and family, I applied for Camp America! 

My Camp is located in Maryland on the East Coast and I fly out to start my summer there from Edinburgh on the 3rd of June 2018. I will spend 2 weeks doing some staff training and preparing the Camp for the children's arrival. I will finish working on the 17th of August but have the opportunity for 1 month worth of travel in the states when I finish working, and so I will probably be returning to Scotland sometime in September. 

Since it is only 48 days until I leave for Camp, I'm spending these next 7 weeks getting everything organised that I'll be taking with me. In that time I also need to go down to the American Embassy in London to get my Visa and will be attending the Camp America Orientation in Glasgow next Saturday which I will be posting about at some point over the next two weeks.

I hope my posts will be beneficial for anyone who wants to know more about the Camp America experience and that it will give anyone that's interested, the push they need to make the leap to doing what makes them happy :)

Follow my Instagram: @jadetravel_ca
How to apply to CA: https://www.campamerica.co.uk/costs/applying/how-to-apply

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