There's No Place Like Summer Camp: Stories, Tips, and Laughs from Camp America, Camp Counsellors and Beyond
There's No Place Like Summer Camp: Stories, Tips, and Laughs from Camp America, Camp Counsellors and Beyond

There's No Place Like Summer Camp: Stories, Tips, and Laughs from Camp America, Camp Counsellors and Beyond

There's No Place Like Summer Camp: Stories, Tips, and Laughs from Camp America, Camp Counsellors and Beyond

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Looking for a podcast that offers an entertaining and insightful look into the world of American Summer Camps? Look no further than There’s No Place Like Summer Camp! Hosted by Andrew Waterhouse, this podcast features 101 Summer Camp Tips, Funny Stories, and Chats that capture the magic of volunteering with top organizations like Camp America, Camp Leaders, and BUNAC. Whether you’re a seasoned camp counselor or just starting out, this podcast is sure to provide valuable insights and inspiration. And with new episodes released every Tuesday, There’s No Place Like Summer Camp is the perfect way to stay connected to the summer camp community all year long. Visit http://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com or https://andrewwaterhouse.com to learn more and start listening today!

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SPECIAL EPISODE: CAMP AMERICA BOOK RELEASE | VIDEO PODCAST!
MAY 23, 2025
SPECIAL EPISODE: CAMP AMERICA BOOK RELEASE | VIDEO PODCAST!
<h1 data-start="241" data-end="291">Camp America: Second Summer Shenanigans Is Here!</h1> <p data-start="293" data-end="531">The wait is over. After months of anticipation, <em data-start="341" data-end="382">Camp America: Second Summer Shenanigans</em> has officially launched. This bold, hilarious, and heartfelt follow-up in the <em data-start="461" data-end="496">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> series is now available worldwide.</p> <p data-start="533" data-end="691">Whether you are a former Camp America counselor, a fan of backpacking memoirs, or just someone who loves wild travel stories with heart, this book is for you.</p> <h2 data-start="693" data-end="738">A Celebration of Chaos, Campers and Change</h2> <p data-start="740" data-end="1121">Following the success of the first book, Andrew Waterhouse is back with more behind-the-scenes tales from one of the most unique summer jobs in the world. <em data-start="895" data-end="922">Second Summer Shenanigans</em> explores what happens when a returning counselor arrives at camp only to discover that everything has changed. New faces, bigger responsibilities, and even more outrageous escapades fill every page.</p> <p data-start="1123" data-end="1335">This book dives deeper into the emotional highs and lows of life abroad. From laugh-out-loud moments in the mess hall to vulnerable reflections under the stars, it captures the spirit of summer like never before.</p> <h2 data-start="1337" data-end="1398">The Video Podcast: Behind the Scenes and Between the Lines</h2> <p data-start="1400" data-end="1606">To celebrate launch day, we have dropped a special video podcast episode. Andrew Waterhouse sits down to reflect on what inspired this second book, what readers can expect, and why this one feels different.</p> <p data-start="1608" data-end="1628">You will hear about:</p> <ul> <li data-start="1632" data-end="1693">The return to camp life and how it impacted Andrew personally</li> <li data-start="1696" data-end="1749">Fan-favorite characters making surprise reappearances</li> <li data-start="1752" data-end="1799">Why this book means more than just storytelling</li> <li data-start="1802" data-end="1871">Advice for future Camp America counselors and aspiring memoir writers</li> </ul> <p data-start="1873" data-end="1955">Whether you are reading the book or tuning into the video, you are in for a treat.</p> <h2 data-start="1957" data-end="1982">Why You Should Read It</h2> <p data-start="1984" data-end="2153">If you ever wondered what it is like to spend a summer working in America, this book gives you the real story. It is equal parts funny, cheeky, emotional, and inspiring.</p> <p data-start="2155" data-end="2162">Expect:</p> <ul> <li data-start="2166" data-end="2229">Camp gossip that could only be shared after leaving the country</li> <li data-start="2232" data-end="2290">Honest reflections on friendships, identity and growing up</li> <li data-start="2293" data-end="2337">Late-night adventures that belong in a movie</li> <li data-start="2340" data-end="2404">A raw look at the mental health struggles that often go unspoken</li> </ul> <p data-start="2406" data-end="2528">This is not just a camp diary. It is a coming-of-age travel memoir set in the most chaotic and beautiful place imaginable.</p> <h2 data-start="2530" data-end="2546">Available Now</h2> <p data-start="2548" data-end="2692"><em data-start="2548" data-end="2589">Camp America: Second Summer Shenanigans</em> is out now in paperback, ebook and audiobook formats. You can <a href="https://amzn.to/4jh8w9x">grab your copy on Amazon</a> (check your own country if not from the UK) and other major retailers.</p> <p data-start="2694" data-end="2911">Make sure to check out the full video podcast and join the celebration. Share it with fellow counselors, leave a review, and follow Andrew’s journey as the <em data-start="2850" data-end="2885">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> series continues to grow.</p> <h2 data-start="2913" data-end="2925">Thank You</h2> <p data-start="2927" data-end="3124">Thank you to everyone who has supported this series so far. Your messages, reviews and stories mean the world. This book would not have been possible without your love for camp and all its madness.</p> <p data-start="3126" data-end="3180">Here’s to another unforgettable summer&#8230; in book form.</p> <p><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&amp;linkname=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&amp;linkname=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&amp;linkname=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_reddit" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&amp;linkname=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" title="Reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook_messenger" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook_messenger?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&amp;linkname=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" title="Messenger" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Fcamp-america-book-release%2F&#038;title=SPECIAL%20EPISODE%3A%20CAMP%20AMERICA%20BOOK%20RELEASE%20%7C%20VIDEO%20PODCAST%21" data-a2a-url="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/camp-america-book-release/" data-a2a-title="SPECIAL EPISODE: CAMP AMERICA BOOK RELEASE | VIDEO PODCAST!"></a></p>
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There’s No Place Like Summer Camp Audiobook | Now on Audible
MAR 19, 2025
There’s No Place Like Summer Camp Audiobook | Now on Audible
<p data-start="0" data-end="86"><strong data-start="0" data-end="84">Behind the Scenes of Recording the <em data-start="37" data-end="72">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> Audiobook</strong></p> <p data-start="88" data-end="120">Hey there, fellow adventurers!</p> <p data-start="122" data-end="481">I’m beyond excited to share a little behind-the-scenes glimpse of my latest project &#8211; the <em data-start="210" data-end="245">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> audiobook. This project has been a labor of love, and now that it’s all recorded, I wanted to give you a sneak peek into what goes into turning a book into an audiobook, as well as the special preview podcast I’ve put together for you.</p> <p data-start="483" data-end="506"><strong data-start="483" data-end="504">Why an Audiobook?</strong></p> <p data-start="508" data-end="1010">For me, <em data-start="516" data-end="551">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> is all about energy, fun, and those unforgettable camp moments. Writing it was one thing, but recording the audiobook took it to a whole new level. I wanted to capture the vibe, the excitement, and the chaos of camp life, but also the friendships and growth that happen in those spaces. A lot of people enjoy audiobooks for their convenience, but also for the personal connection you get with the narrator &#8211; so, who better to bring the story to life than me?</p> <p data-start="1012" data-end="1029"><strong data-start="1012" data-end="1027">The Process</strong></p> <p data-start="1031" data-end="1508">Recording the audiobook was one of the most exciting yet challenging experiences I’ve had. I spent countless hours in the studio (aka my makeshift home recording space), perfecting each chapter, making sure the energy was right, and ensuring that the laughs, heartaches, and shenanigans translated well. It wasn’t just about reading the words; it was about embodying the emotions, pacing the story just right, and of course, making sure I kept you entertained the whole time.</p> <p data-start="1510" data-end="1712">I have to admit, there were a few moments where I tripped over my words or had to redo a line for the perfect delivery. But that’s all part of the process, right? It’s all about getting it just right.</p> <p data-start="1714" data-end="1740"><strong data-start="1714" data-end="1738">Free Preview Podcast</strong></p> <p data-start="1742" data-end="2084">To give you a taste of what the audiobook has to offer, I’ve recorded a special preview podcast. It’s a little teaser of the wild camp stories, the humorous interactions, and some of the best moments from the book that you’ll hear when you dive into the full audiobook. I hope it gets you as excited as I am to share the whole thing with you!</p> <p data-start="2086" data-end="2310">You can listen to the preview podcast for free, and I’d love to hear what you think. Whether you’re already a fan of audiobooks or this is your first foray into the world of narrated stories, I think you’ll enjoy the vibe.</p> <p data-start="2312" data-end="2330"><strong data-start="2312" data-end="2328">What’s Next?</strong></p> <p data-start="2332" data-end="2564">The full audiobook will be available soon, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy the preview and get a glimpse of what’s coming. Keep an eye out for updates on the full release and, as always, thank you for your continued support.</p> <p data-start="2566" data-end="2704">Until next time, happy listening, and I hope <em data-start="2611" data-end="2646">There’s No Place Like Summer Camp</em> brings you just as much fun as it did for me to create!</p> <p data-start="2706" data-end="2751"><strong data-start="2706" data-end="2749">Listen to the <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1W79XL1/?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-439530&amp;ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_439530_rh_uk">Audiobook here:</a></strong> https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1W79XL1/?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-439530&amp;ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_439530_rh_uk</p> <p data-start="2753" data-end="2833" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Feel free to leave a comment or share your thoughts &#8211; I love hearing from you all!</p> <p><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&amp;linkname=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&amp;linkname=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&amp;linkname=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_reddit" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&amp;linkname=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" title="Reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook_messenger" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook_messenger?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&amp;linkname=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" title="Messenger" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplacelikesummercamp.com%2Faudiobook-available-now%2F&#038;title=There%E2%80%99s%20No%20Place%20Like%20Summer%20Camp%20Audiobook%20%7C%20Now%20on%20Audible" data-a2a-url="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/audiobook-available-now/" data-a2a-title="There’s No Place Like Summer Camp Audiobook | Now on Audible"></a></p>
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51% and Massive Life Updates
JUL 10, 2023
51% and Massive Life Updates
<h4>Transcript from the podcast episode</h4> <p>Surprise surprise! Hi everyone! And surprise!</p> <p>Obviously you can tell from the audio recording but not in the office today doing the usual podcast location but surprise I&#8217;m here! You can hear the anxiety pulsing through my veins as I&#8217;m recording outside in the general public where anyone can hear me. But I&#8217;ve come out of the crack of dawn at 8:45 but surprise it&#8217;s another episode of There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp. It&#8217;s good to be back, man.</p> <p>The whole situation with the podcast is basically, what we&#8217;re going to be doing is having special episodes from here on out really. It&#8217;s gone from being the weekly or bi-weekly shows where we are now with episodes that are on a special occasion.</p> <h3>So why am I here today?</h3> <p>I thought you know what, it&#8217;s been a while since I last did a recording. The last episode was with <a href="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/maisie-craddock/">Maisie Craddock</a>, the YouTuber, where we did that interview, and it was really cool to be featured <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVJjIBd73TU">on her channel</a>. So I hope you enjoyed that episode. But I&#8217;m here today with something a little different. It&#8217;s not so much of an interview. This is just more of a sort of a life update. Check-in with you guys, to surprise you this Monday, with a podcast episode while you&#8217;re doing whatever you&#8217;re doing.</p> <p>So yeah, we&#8217;re here with a special episode. Sort of like a touch-base episode, shall I say? We&#8217;re just gonna be like talking about what&#8217;s been going on talking about what&#8217;s been going on both in my life and what&#8217;s going on with the podcast and the book. And I&#8217;ve got some cool updates to come.</p> <h4>So what&#8217;s been going on with me? Well, I&#8217;ve become a dad!</h4> <p>It&#8217;s been a mental few months. While all this quietness is happening on the podcast front. We&#8217;ve got a new child in the mix, say. So I&#8217;ve become a dad since the last podcast and it&#8217;s it&#8217;s a big change in your life, man. It&#8217;s big. It&#8217;s a hefty change. Becoming a dad is mental. You know that there. There are videos out there. If you go to <a href="https://andrewwaterhouse.com">Andrewwaterhouse.com</a> You can go to <a href="https://www.andrewwaterhouse.com/andrews-blog/">my blog</a>, you&#8217;ll be able to see my reaction to being told that I was going to be a dad and <a href="https://www.andrewwaterhouse.com/teamwork-makes-the-dream-work/">the surprise on my face</a> was like, wait, what?!</p> <p>But yeah, she&#8217;s here now Rosie is here. And it&#8217;s been she&#8217;s coming up to six months old now which is mental. I don&#8217;t know when that will last podcast I recorded was but it was definitely before she was born. So yeah, it&#8217;s a big uphill learning curve. The first couple of months are brutal on the on both of us really. It&#8217;s a lot of learning a lot of responsibility, a lot of buying things. But to be honest, over the course of the six months, Rosie has been absolutely fantastic baby to have. She&#8217;s really brought the families together both sides. Being the first grandchild on both sides, so she gets absolutely spoiled with kisses and hugs and gifts and you name it, but she&#8217;s been around Angel.</p> <p>So, yeah, basically that&#8217;s been a massive change sneakily six months old now. And we&#8217;re getting into that with sort of routine. And we have been for a short while to be honest, where I&#8217;m more settled in my job. And I&#8217;ve got more of the routine sort of hunkered down with who does what chores and who&#8217;s the best at putting her to sleep and sort of exchanging that information as well. So we can both be really good at all things. And it&#8217;s been quite cool, to be honest, being a parent, because it&#8217;s the small things where you&#8217;re like, oh my God she rolled herself over today! And that&#8217;s massive news as a parent, massive news. Every tiny little thing you&#8217;re absolutely flabbergasted by so this week, for instance, she&#8217;s started to do this wriggle sort of dance, where she, she&#8217;ll wriggle while she&#8217;s on her back, almost like she&#8217;s dancing. Yeah, so every little thing that she does, you&#8217;re just like, stunned and amazed by and then you sort of forget, it&#8217;s apparent that they&#8217;re actually a human being. They&#8217;re going to be doing human being things and, you know, eventually, she&#8217;s going to start talking, start crawling, start walking, having a job, going to school, getting grades for things, maybe scoring a goal in a football team or something like that. It&#8217;s just like another world. You just think holy shit, all these little things that this person&#8217;s doing is something that I made. Yeah, but it&#8217;s been great.</p> <h3>Possible future podcast: Thoughts on sending my child to be a camp counsellor one day</h3> <p>I think we&#8217;re gonna probably do, there&#8217;s probably a whole other podcast discussion on sort of what it&#8217;s like to consider about your child going to summer camp. Do I want Rosie to go to summer camp? Do I want her to go to scouts and cubs in the UK, which is sort of the most similar experience to camp America as you get in the UK. But do I want her to go and volunteer and go and do all of those things? It&#8217;s definitely worth a podcast discussion about. But anyway, being great news on that front, a lot of changes you can expect.</p> <h3>I&#8217;ve become a homeowner: Renovations and floods!</h3> <p>So, at the same time, as Rosie has come about, there&#8217;s been an update on the house. So you&#8217;ll, you&#8217;ll learn that this period has been so much change in my life. So we purchased the house and didn&#8217;t mean for it to happen this way. But we purchased a renovation project, a semi-detached three bedroom house. And we got there, I think the month or the couple of weeks after Rosie was born. So for the past six months or so, we&#8217;ve been having to renovate the house alongside Rosie being around, we still haven&#8217;t moved in yet six months down the line. But hopefully within the month, next month or two we&#8217;ll be in settled.</p> <p>It&#8217;s been a massive job with her on that front as well. So we talking kitchen renovations to rewiring to gas leaks to two water leaks that flooded the house. responsibilities, man, I prefer the days of going to summer camp and just not having bills to pay and all those things. That&#8217;s been a massive change as well. So having that having our own house, we&#8217;ve always been renting and to finally be able to buy a house do it up, make it the way we wanted as well. It&#8217;s gonna be a massive change in our lives.</p> <p>I was going to record this episode as a video podcast, but I thought you know what, rein it in, get that adrenaline down, calm down. I get so excited when I&#8217;m doing these podcasts. Get off your high horse and not do a video podcast out in public when you can barely talk in public.</p> <p>So with the new house, we&#8217;re going to be having an office that&#8217;s one of the rooms that I was like if we get in this house, this room is going to be my office. I work from home a lot. So you might have seen in previous podcasts or YouTube clips that I&#8217;ve done. I&#8217;ve got a had an office at the previous place. And I&#8217;ve got a Camp America shrine with my Camp America shirts, put up in a display box. So every time I walk into my office, I see those camp shirts, and I remember all of those memories of how good it really was with a couple of photos of the boys alongside so I wanted a similar place in my new house. The new house is so much bigger and more appropriate for what we&#8217;re going to be doing. Both in terms of bringing up a family, but also working from home having that space and it as a large semi-detached home. So I guess we got to make that office a really cool place. And it all also probably ends up with me having some sort of studio space.</p> <h3>New Studio Podcasting Space</h3> <p>So we&#8217;re going to have like a good recording setup. And I think in the next future special episodes, I&#8217;m going to make them video based. So I know, Spotify and other podcast platforms are pushing for the video, podcasting space. So watch out for that soon as well. So we&#8217;ve got the studio, we&#8217;ve got a house, we&#8217;ve got a child, is there anything else that&#8217;s been cracking on in the back of my mind keeping me occupied?</p> <h4>Changing jobs too</h4> <p>Yes, change of jobs, throw that into the mix. So I&#8217;ve got a bit frustrated at the last job with lack of opportunity and feeling like I&#8217;m like pulling the whole team. And without me the sort of Team collapsed and things like that. So long story short, I was looking very sparingly at job positions. Operations Manager is my current title. And I was just looking for similar soft positions, found one applied for one and got the job. And it was so out of the blue, because normally, I&#8217;m so used to applying for jobs. And I&#8217;m sure a lot of you can sort of empathize with this if you&#8217;re applying for tons of jobs. And people say oh, you&#8217;re not experienced enough or, you&#8217;re not quite suited for this role. And you end up applying for hundreds and hundreds of jobs. But I&#8217;m at a place in my life now where I&#8217;m fucking 30 years old, still talking about summer camp, you know. But at 30, you sort of have that experience behind you now.</p> <p>So I&#8217;ve got a couple of years of experience doing operations manager positions. And basically what I do is stuff to do with web design. So I won&#8217;t bore you with details. So web design agency, Operations Manager is my background. And yeah, basically, I&#8217;ve been, I applied for like one or two jobs and got a job. And I was like, Oh, shit, I didn&#8217;t really it wasn&#8217;t really seriously considering a move, but I got the job and soon moved on&#8230; the pay is 25% extra helped. So it&#8217;s kind of like an offer too good to refuse. But here we are. And it&#8217;s a really good position. Really good growth. And it means that I can provide for my family, while we&#8217;re in this transitional period of buying a house and raising a child.</p> <h3>Experience is paying off!</h3> <p>But all fun and games and, you know, experience brings. So speaking of websites and stuff, there are significant changes to this website too. There&#8217;s been an overhaul to how we appear in Google now. So every podcast even this one, as I talk is going to be transcribed into a blog post. So people who are searching for things like &#8216;Can I go to Camp America when I&#8217;ve got tattoos&#8217; that will be translated by my bot into a blog post. (Yes you can by the way, <a href="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/can-you-volunteer-at-summer-camp-with-tattoos/">read more here</a>) And away we go. We get some more views and people so I&#8217;ve seen real growth in the podcast. If you don&#8217;t follow me already on Twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/androow09">@androow09</a>.</p> <p>You might have seen I was really proud of the stats on Spotify. Recently, I had a like an end of year podcasters insights, email come in from Spotify. But how the podcast was doing and it was like 400% growth in 2022 which is like shit like these are serious numbers. So I do appreciate all of your guys support.</p> <h2>51% off There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp at Amazon for Prime Day</h2> <p>One of the things that I wanted to bring up in this episode is a really good special offer for you guys this week. Monday, this coming week, because we&#8217;ve got Prime Day on Amazon. I think it&#8217;s the 12th and 13th of July 2023, of course. So Prime Day is coming up and I thought, let&#8217;s hop on this, let&#8217;s provide content for you guys at a cheaper rate. So I&#8217;ve knocked off  51%. I think it&#8217;s just the e-book. But if you want to go check that out, go on to Amazon or <a href="https://amzn.to/3DWyFHL">go here</a>. And you can get the Kindle version of the book for I think it&#8217;s £3.99.</p> <p>I&#8217;m quite excited to hear what people think of the book. And if you have given it a read, or if you buy it or, you know, take advantage of the 51% off. Please do leave a review! It really does help.</p> <h3>Camp America have their own podcast &#8211; my seat is still warm!</h3> <p>One of the things I wanted to talk about in today&#8217;s episode is I&#8217;ve seen Camp America are doing their own fucking they&#8217;re doing their own fucking podcast what&#8217;s going on now? What&#8217;s going on? I go away for like a few months. And they hop it. They hop straight on. And, yeah, they started to do their own podcast. So it&#8217;s kind of interesting. I popped them a tweet on Twitter. So Camp America, if you&#8217;re listening, go check your tweets. I did tweet. Yeah. Because I saw the launch tweet that basically said, Oh, we&#8217;ve got a podcast now. I was like, <em>what?!</em></p> <p>I&#8217;m currently here walking around at 9am with my there&#8217;s no place like summer camp t-shirt on so if you haven&#8217;t got that already. Go check that out. I do have <a href="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/shop">a merch store</a> that&#8217;s available.</p> <h4>Content, Book, Podcast traction</h4> <p>It&#8217;s been what is 2023 now so it&#8217;s been nine years since I last went to camp. But it&#8217;s only been like, one year since the book was released. And for all that content of podcast episodes and website and merchandise stores, good to finally see a bit of traction coming along. So I hope you enjoy the updates to my life, the podcasts, the website, you&#8217;ve got the merch store as well. You&#8217;ve also got the 51% off the book for this week. It&#8217;s only this week, by the way.</p> <h4>My Prime Day Wishlist: A Fridge vending machine</h4> <p>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this Prime Day for a while. And what I&#8217;m going to be picking up in this Prime Day is actually a Kindle Paperwhite base, the kid&#8217;s version, apparently is supposed to be more value for money. So I&#8217;m going to be grabbing a Kindle that&#8217;s got a backlit screen and Natasha is going to love that. Because my current setup for reading books at night involves a neck light that goes around the back of my neck with two little pronged, like light bulbs coming out of each side of my neck. Even though it says it focuses the light onto the book, it&#8217;s nothing quite like a backlit screen, sort of similar to how you get on a phone. So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to be picking up during the Prime Day sales. I&#8217;m also looking at a gym, a home gym, maybe getting a rowing machine, maybe a running machine.</p> <p>There are some other bits for the house, I want to get like a vending they get they&#8217;ve got these like, you know, when you go to a vending machine, and they&#8217;ve got the cans of Coke or whatever in the machine and you see them push the coke to the front after you push the numbers in and give you money. However, they&#8217;ve got something similar for a fridge. So I&#8217;ve been getting all this nice technology and appliances and new things for the house. We&#8217;ve got carpets coming in in the next couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve got a carpenter coming around to fix these words that I&#8217;ve never heard of like architraves. And yeah, it&#8217;s one of those things that I want to pick up in Prime Day sales, is they&#8217;ve got these vending machines, sort of like cam pushers for your fridge. So I&#8217;ve got a massive-ass like floor-to-ceiling fridge now. And I want to put in this vending machine pusher for cans of Coke. So I&#8217;m like sort of dedicating a whole row of fridge to coke.</p> <h4>How to see updates from me and rumours of second book</h4> <p>I&#8217;d say just keep an eye on my socials. Keep an eye on the website as well. And hearing you share the pod is really good for me to hear you guys love it. It&#8217;s only been like one year since the book was released. I do often get get asked when&#8217;s the second one coming, because I went to summer camp twice. That has been started, but the first book took so many years to create and edit and polish. I think you&#8217;d really see it if you especially if you buy the paperback version when you have in your hand. It&#8217;s a thick, chunky boy. And it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve used big fonts. These are small ass fonts. Small class fonts with a big chunky book. That&#8217;s how I like them.</p> <p>The second book is, has been sort of started on it&#8217;s very early days, but it does take years to publish a book. It can&#8217;t be something I just rush out because then it just doesn&#8217;t make sense. My first few versions of the book were bad and it took time to get them right.</p> <h3>I DO have a second book &#8211; The Fly Who Flew Too High!</h3> <p>Oh, I haven&#8217;t done a podcast about my other released book! So it&#8217;s kind of not related to summer camp at all. That might be why I might not have mentioned it. So I&#8217;ve actually released the second book. So when Rosie was born, I released a book dedicated to her, called The Fly Who Flew Too High. It&#8217;s £6.99 for a paperback version, which is like the standard price for a kid&#8217;s book. It&#8217;s a picture book of a fly, who wakes up one morning in a very loud garden and gets fed up of all of his neighbours, making noise and waking him up. So he decides to fly away, and he flies up into the sky, and then he goes higher and higher, and he keeps going. And then he busts through the atmosphere, and starts flying around space and the solar system, and he goes and visits different planets. It&#8217;s a fun, original story that had always been on my mind for a couple of years. If you want to go check that out, if you&#8217;ve got kids of your own, check below. It&#8217;s got really good reviews!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/44jMUCI"><strong>The Fly Who Flew Too High &#8211; available on Amazon.</strong></a></p> <h4>Approaching Middle-Age</h4> <p>It&#8217;s crazy, I&#8217;m at the age now where all of the work is starting to pay off doing these podcasts and making the effort of recording every week and optimizing the website. Having the books out there, it creates the audience and then I get support from you guys. And it&#8217;s I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s really nice to see that. The belief that I sort of had to have in myself to release all this content is starting to pay off. And I think tears.</p> <p>If you ever go to <a href="https://www.andrewwaterhouse.com/andrews-blog/">my blog</a>, You see I ramble quite a lot about working hard, or mental health struggles, or, as a lot of things like just ramblings of a madman a little bit on that. And to see that, projects that I&#8217;ve always had a passion for starting to sort of pay off, as I&#8217;m like at my mid-life at the minute. 30 years old, you know, people live to say 80. So I&#8217;ve got like 10 years left. And so I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m on the way down, literally. That&#8217;s if you are lucky! Wow, that&#8217;s a bit morbid for 9am on a Sunday morning.</p> <h4>Tips for improving your mental health</h4> <p>Anyway, so it&#8217;s nice, you know, it feels like I feel like there&#8217;s a lot of pressure in society at the minute where you&#8217;re having to compare yourself to others and I don&#8217;t know. Yeah, it&#8217;s when you&#8217;re comparing yourself to others, it doesn&#8217;t get you anywhere, you have to just compare yourself to who you were before. And no one can compete with you and what you are doing. That was a really big lesson that I learned through reading books and educating myself and looking at the habits that have and really honing in on positive habits. And one of the positive habits as all of you know, is read books. No one says oh if you want to get yourself out of a mental health struggle, go watch some TV or go play video games. No one says that&#8230; they always say read books.</p> <p>So it&#8217;s nice to see that you guys support me with that. So I&#8217;d like to thank you for purchasing right thank you for tweeting me the messages that I get and Facebook messages as well. I don&#8217;t even have a Facebook presence. I never push the Facebook following because I don&#8217;t like Facebook at all. Facebook was one of the really bad habits that I found was draining my mental health. The only Facebook presence for this site is a Facebook page, only to do some paid advertising, which doesn&#8217;t really work. No one wants to ads. So I much prefer to do podcasts and content and interviews and blog posts and that sort of thing.</p> <h3>The Avengers of stress and adulting: Baby, House, Job</h3> <p>I don&#8217;t know when our next year, like I say, a lot going on in my life at the minute, not meaning to brag or anything. It&#8217;s just, you know, sometimes these things just come at once. Here I am having a newborn, a new house, which is also a renovation in brackets, and also a new job. So it&#8217;s like the trifecta of stress. It&#8217;s like almost it&#8217;s almost the Avengers of stress, you know, you just bring in the fucking Super Villains together. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got going on at the minute.</p> <p>But I can see the way out. there are some times during all of this, where I was just like, What am we doing? Why are we doing all this at the same time and it didn&#8217;t really meant it was never meant to happen this way. But sometimes that&#8217;s the way the cookie crumbles.</p> <h4>Eight MagPies Means for a Wish!</h4> <p>Whoa, I&#8217;ve got seven magpies in front of me. I&#8217;m not one for superstitions, but the magpies man every time every time. 1..2&#8230;34567&#8230;8! No way. Oh my god, you&#8217;re getting this breaking news there. I&#8217;ve got eight magpies in front of me. So I&#8217;ve got one for superstitions but the magpies thing I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s stuck with me and this is gonna be a fun ending so I&#8217;m going to find out what eight magpies means. I bet some people maybe the Gen Z of you who have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about okay so I&#8217;m having a look let me just try this out Magpie meaning numbers.</p> <p>So you&#8217;ve got the one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, or four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told&#8230; ah eight is for a wish. Okay, so what am I going to wish for? What would you wish for? Wish for summer camp? I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s good to hang out with you guys.</p> <h5>Camp Wildfire &#8211; the UK summer camp for adults</h5> <p>Speaking of wishing for summer camp. It dawned on me I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned it in previous episodes. For the <a href="https://campwildfire.co.uk/">Camp Wildfire</a>, who was on Dragon&#8217;s Den? A couple of years ago now, but basically it was on the UK Dragon&#8217;s Den, someone came up with the idea of doing adults summer camp. experiences for people. <em>And I don&#8217;t think they got funding in the end. Spoiler alert.</em> But it&#8217;s always played on my mind, like, Ah, how nostalgic and how cool would it be? But it&#8217;s just full of adults. But summer camp for adults in the UK. There&#8217;s a part of me that wants to give it a try. So I went onto YouTube earlier and had a look at people that were there and the reviews and, man, there&#8217;s something about it that I&#8217;d love to give it a try. But at the same time, it&#8217;s not going to be the summer camp that I remember.</p> <h4>Why I didn&#8217;t return for a third summer at Camp America</h4> <p>And that&#8217;s part of the second book really, is why it was only to a summer camp, man. It&#8217;s a drug. And here I am, nine years later, since going to summer camp myself in here I am in a bus stop in Manchester, talking about summer camp.</p> <p>But yeah, I&#8217;ve got eight magpies here, my wish. My wish&#8230; I&#8217;ll tell you what I wish for. I know it&#8217;s bad luck to tell but its more about bonding with you guys.</p> <p>I&#8217;m going to wish for maybe Rosie to be healthy and happy. Something like that. Rosie to be healthy. I think the happy part would count as a second wish.</p> <h3>In closing: I&#8217;m in a good space.</h3> <p>A lot clearer headspace as well.  I say to get yourself into some healthy habits if you aren&#8217;t in the right place. Look at what&#8217;s not clicking for you at the minute. Meditation is one that&#8217;s really honed me in personally. I&#8217;m now more grounded and present. And comparing myself to myself and not to others. You should want to be happy for your friends when they are successful. You shouldn&#8217;t sat there with envy because they&#8217;re doing something that you&#8217;re not, or they&#8217;ve got something that you don&#8217;t have. That was a biggie for me, I used to be on Facebook all the time and I used to see people who were way younger than me were buying a house and I was here struggling having moved miles and miles away from Potters Bar.</p> <p>But I never considered how they got it, or the backstory that granddad and grandma died and then inheritance went to them, or they won the lottery, or the dad is always in America working his ass off and never sees the kids. You don&#8217;t know that. But on Facebook I just saw the glitz of showing off the keys. That took me a while to figure out. So if you are struggling, I&#8217;d say compare yourself to yourself. And maybe read <a href="https://amzn.to/3O6qZta">Atomic Habits by James Clear</a>, that&#8217;s a good book&#8230; And also read There&#8217;s no place like summer camp &#8211; its 51% off!</p> <p>Alright, guys. I&#8217;ll see you in the next episode. I don&#8217;t know when it will be. But I&#8217;m still around. I&#8217;m still alive. I&#8217;m still writing. I&#8217;m still talking. I need to end the episode. Thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe wherever you&#8217;re listening to. It&#8217;s totally free. If you want to check out more about there&#8217;s no place like summer camp. Go to <a href="http://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com">theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com</a></p> <p>All right, I&#8217;m gonna love you and leave you finally, its been a good chat. 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Special Episode – Maisie Craddock YouTuber Interview
NOV 13, 2022
Special Episode – Maisie Craddock YouTuber Interview
<p>We return for a special episode! Going forward it&#8217;s special one-off episodes and we&#8217;re starting with Maisie Craddock. She&#8217;s got a fantastic YouTube channel full of Camp America and summer camp content. In this podcast episode, we talk all things summer camp, what it meant to her and the tips she took away from her experience. If you want to see when she interviewed me, go on to YouTube and search for Maisie Craddock. I hope you enjoy this episode and I&#8217;ll see you occasionally for more special one-off episodes in the future. If you want to be on the podcast, get in touch! I&#8217;m on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/androow09">androow09</a> or you can reach me by going to <a href="http://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/contact/">theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/contact</a>.</p> <p>Her channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MaisieCraddock/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/MaisieCraddock/videos</a></p> <h3>Maisie Interviews Me &#8211; EXTRA video Recorded For her channel:<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pVJjIBd73TU" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></h3> <h3>Transcript from this podcast:</h3> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Hello everyone and welcome to There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp. I&#8217;m Andrew Waterhouse, and in today&#8217;s episode, we&#8217;ve got a special interview lined up for you today. This is Maisie Craddock from YouTube. Nice to have you on. Come on into our tent, and I&#8217;ll spill the beans</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Hello, everyone.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> All right. Welcome back, everyone. It&#8217;s good to have you here. I&#8217;ve got a special episode for you today with Maisie Craddock. Maisie is someone that I found on YouTube while doing some research on summer camp YouTubers, she&#8217;s got a fantastic channel, and I would highly recommend watching her videos all about the tips and tricks and things that she&#8217;s learned the travels as well as what she&#8217;s gone through being at Camp America. So welcome, Maisie. Thanks for being our special guest on today&#8217;s podcast.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Hello. I mean, thank you so much for having me. I&#8217;m really glad that we&#8217;ve been able to sort of collaborate because I feel like we&#8217;re on very similar pages about advising people about summer camps. So I&#8217;m very happy to be on and talking to you.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> It&#8217;s a very special privilege. I&#8217;ve gone months without doing a podcast episode. But I think from here on out, special interviews, such as this one, are going to make up the majority of the content. Very excited to have you here today. So I was just going to start the ball rolling with some questions just about yourself. So do you want to tell us about yourself? Where were you from? How old are you? Why should you do camp? How many years?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah, and so I&#8217;m Maisie and I live in the northwest of the UK. I&#8217;m 24 years old. But I went to camp when I was 19. So that was in 2018. And I went to a camp in Pennsylvania and a camp called Chestnut Lake Camp. And I don&#8217;t know what else about me. I currently work now in TV. And I obviously have my YouTube channel. So that&#8217;s all sort of my interests. And also at camp. My role was sort of related to that, which I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll get into as we go along.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> So you went to camp at 19? That&#8217;s a relatively young age to do camp, I think, yeah, how come you did it at that age?.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> I finished at college. And I just wasn&#8217;t ready to go to uni or anything. So I took a gap year. And I&#8217;ve always ever since I&#8217;ve been young just been obsessed with America, I think it was just growing up watching Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and all that. And I just have this American dream in my head. So as soon as sort of, I was old enough to do it, because you can be 18 and older. I was just that I want to go and do it. And doing it in my gap here was sort of a perfect time to do it. I do think that I was quite young because obviously the drinking age in America is 21. So that sort of came into play later on in the troubles, where some of my friends who were 21 could go out and I couldn&#8217;t. But I am quite a mature person, I would say so like I didn&#8217;t feel really young or anything like that. And I think that you sort of forget about everyone&#8217;s age just at camp. So I just went when I was ready to be honest.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Perfect. So how come you thought of the idea of doing Camp America? Was there anyone you know? Or was it always an attraction with the TV movie Disney thing?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> I&#8217;d say that that was a big part of it. You know, I&#8217;ve loved films like Camp Rock and Parent Trap and stuff like that. So I&#8217;ve always heard about it. I did have a neighbour that did Camp America, maybe about three or four years before I went. So you know, I&#8217;d heard about that. And I just yeah, I&#8217;ve always just known about it. And I think I just wanted an experience of travelling and then as soon as you know the gap year hit that was just instantly the thing that I knew I wanted to do it wasn&#8217;t go to Thailand or go to Australia or anything like that. It was I want to do camp America. So I think it&#8217;s been going around for like 60 years or something camp America so I&#8217;ve just known about it. And that&#8217;s just Yeah, I just wanted to jump straight into be honest.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Yeah, well Okay, so before we just get into the camp, I was just gonna ask you about the recruitment fair. How did you find that?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> So I, cuz I was so keen and knew that I wanted to do it. And I actually like applied online as everybody else does in like, nope, um, maybe it was September time of the like the year I, it was September 2017. And I went camping like or not August or May 2018. So September I applied and then had like your interview with somebody who then basically just says, you know, you&#8217;re okay even like they say that you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re suitable for camp basically. But you don&#8217;t obviously get them recruited by a camp until that point. And then I actually did go to a recruitment fair, because I just wanted to like, open my options up as much as possible. Obviously, my camp profile was live. So camps could sort of hire me via the app via the online application. But I also went to Leeds for the recruitment fair. You&#8217;ve just as we&#8217;ll get into, when you&#8217;re doing Camp America, you&#8217;ve just got to get yourself out of your comfort zone and just throw yourself in. At that recruitment, fair, I just went in, they told us prior, like, don&#8217;t stand on your phone, make sure that you&#8217;re sort of chatting to people around you because the camps have their eyes on you. Then I just approached the different camps, the ones that I had sort of researched online and thought that they sounded great. Initially, I was thinking of maybe doing more drama roles and stuff. But as I approached them, they all said, Oh, no, we&#8217;ve already hired that. And I was like, Oh, my gosh, what, what should I go for now? So I sort of winged it on the spot and was like, Well, I have got media experience. I&#8217;ve just made media a level. And then there was one camp that was looking for, like a web team, part of being part of the web team. And I just completely blanked it, and said, you know, and it is true, like, that is what I&#8217;m into. But I said, Yeah, I&#8217;ve done all this photography, and all this, I&#8217;ve only done a little bit. But she was like, yes, you sound great, you can be part of the web team. And I got hired on the spot, then by my camp, which, as I discovered, you know when I went to camp, it was one of the best roles I could have done. But at the time, I would say that you sort of have to just pick yourself up. And if you want to get hired there, then you have to just make sure that you&#8217;re like me, you know, saying that you&#8217;re the best person on earth, basically. But a lot of people didn&#8217;t get hired at the recruitment fair. So if you don&#8217;t get hired, I wouldn&#8217;t be so disheartened by it. Because, you know, there are other opportunities like you had Andrew, where you applied later on. And then you get applied, you get hired online.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Yeah, absolutely. So was Chestnut Lake, were they the first table you approached? Had you gone in with like, a certain camp that he wanted to go to? And what type of camp was Chestnut like?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> So I had about five camps. That was hot. I can&#8217;t remember how many were there, maybe about 20 to 30 camps at the recruitment fair. And I had about five, written down that were my favourites. So Chestnut Lake wasn&#8217;t the first one that I approached, I actually approached one called Trails and which was next door to Chestnut Lake. But they didn&#8217;t have anything suitable for me. So then chestnut lake was the second sort of camp that I approached. So I was quite lucky in that sense. In terms of the camp that it was like, it was a pretty sort of standard camp, I would say. I know they have special needs camps. They have Jewish camps. They have underprivileged camps. I would say that mine was more on the privileged end of a camp, I found out that parents sending their children to camp for just their session was about nine grand. So it was quite an expensive camp. I would say a lot of the kids were from more wealthy families. You know, my camp had sort of it, you didn&#8217;t just stay at camp, you also had day trips or trips away with the kids as well. So that sort of represented sort of the money side of things. A lot of the kids were Jewish. But it wasn&#8217;t a Jewish camp. Like we didn&#8217;t do any sort of like you know, religious rituals or anything like that. It was all just sort of standing next to the pledge the allegiance to the flag every day other than that it was.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> So I was just gonna ask about being a photographer that&#8217;s kind of like a different sort of role that a lot of people would go to camp would have. How did you find being a photographer and being? What did you find a bit external to the day-to-day running of camp? Were there any kids, you had to like, sort of train or show how to use a camera? Or were you like more taking photos of the activities as kids would come? Come through? Camp?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah. Yeah. So as I said, Before, I had no idea sort of what being part of the web team would involve. But it ended up being probably one of the best jobs in my opinion, at camp because I was still part of I shared a bunk with the kids. And I was still part of sort of my own division. So at nighttime and stuff, I would like still look after them. And when we were doing activities in the evening, I would be with them and my fellow counsellors that are in that division. But in my actual job, I was slightly isolated from not isolated, I was just away from the kids that I was like, assigned to, which was nice, because I then would get a schedule each day, and it would tell me, so in the morning, you need to go and take pictures of the seven-year-old boys that are playing football, then after that, you need to go to take pictures of the older girls that are on an outdoor adventure. I would just go and spend an hour with each, like different ages of kids, and take pictures of them of what activities they were doing. Then at the end of the day, I would upload all those pictures onto the Chestnut Lake website for their parents to be able to see what they&#8217;re up to. So I loved it because it meant then that I would spend an hour with not only different kids, but also the counsellors that were looking after those kids, and also the specialists that were at that area as well. So it meant that sort of everyone knew me at camp, I was always sort of going around. And I would return back, you know, it wasn&#8217;t just, I&#8217;ve been with you one day, I&#8217;ll never come back to that group. Again, like I was obviously there for a long period of time. So it was really great. It was really sort of rewarding in the sense of like parents loving to see what their kids are up to. The kids being like, oh, take this picture of us, it was really fun. Also, on a personal level. It really improved my own skills, like photography and stuff like that. So it was a good role.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Okay. I imagine a lot of other kids&#8217; poses become favourites. Did you have any favourite kids that or side the other side, where they were just a pain?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yes. And it also depends on what age the kids are as well because we had kids from like, being about six. So they were tiny, all the way up to like teenagers, like 16-17 year-olds. And yeah, you would have it depends on their personalities. But it was always really important for me to get a picture at least one picture of every child. And there were some that were not interested at all in getting the pictures taken. They just wanted to be doing the activity. And I&#8217;d be like, that annoying person that&#8217;s like, Please smile for the photo, too. Sometimes I had to adapt to that. And if they felt really uncomfortable, I&#8217;d just get action shots of them doing what they were doing. But then yeah, you have the other kids that want to be in every photo. And it came to the point where I&#8217;m like, You need to not be in this photo now. Because you&#8217;re in every photo where you just sort of get used to it. And I think just warming to the kids as well. And just being like, Oh, come on smiling or just making them laugh. Always just sort of made it a bit easier.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Great. So I was gonna just sort of touch on the culture of your camp. So you say it&#8217;s a traditional sort of camp with no religion, no special needs anything like that. But how did you find those first few days settling in? Was there a culture that you had to adjust to? How did you settle in and like, find friends? Because I imagine you went by yourself. You didn&#8217;t know anyone prior to going to camp?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> No. Yeah, I went by myself. I actually met one girl on Twitter when we both got recruited. And we&#8217;re both going to the same camp. So we actually like out of convenience travelled together. But we were like we got on and everything but we didn&#8217;t end up being like really close friends throughout camp. So and I also didn&#8217;t and it&#8217;s really important not to like just stay attached to one person. And that&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s where I come from Eric always says like, don&#8217;t go with a friend. So yeah, the first few days, were a bit scary, but you&#8217;ve just got to throw yourself in there like I&#8217;m a really sociable person anyway. So straight away, I was just meeting people and met some people at the airport, which made things a little bit easier that will go into my camp. And then we all sort of shared the plane journey and the bus journey together. So straightaway sort of had people that you&#8217;ve sort of gone from the UK with, which made it a bit easier. But as soon as you got to camp, it was just like, where are my like, especially if I was in Pennsylvania, which was in the middle of nowhere. And you&#8217;ve then got all these Americans, which, obviously, speak the same language and everything, but they are different. They are like, just, I don&#8217;t know how to describe them. But they&#8217;re very dramatic, very over the top. They&#8217;re very, very friendly and polite, I would say most of them. And it was, it was fine. I think, luckily, obviously, you have your sort of staff week. And so that sort of settles you in before you&#8217;re overwhelmed with all the kids. But yeah, I think it was, it was a great experience. You&#8217;ve just got to throw yourself in there and just, you know, chat to everybody. And I think naturally, you just gravitate towards the people that are very similar to you, and you just make new friends. And it was absolutely fine.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> To just touch on that topic. Were there any other Brits that? Oh, you said there was one other prep was there a little collection of British people that sort of came to your camp at the same time? Because that&#8217;s how, at least in my camp, there were initial staff weeks, the Brits would all be their own group. The Israelis would be their group, the Americans would be their group. Did you find it was a little Clicky? In that respect?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah, I would say obviously, for the first sort of arrival period, we did all arrive together. So there were some Brits, but also there were some returners as well that were coming with us because we&#8217;re all sort of on the same flight or the same coach in and obviously those returners had American friends. So they were sort of great in merging those with them. And yes, I would say, initially, I guess there are cliques that form, but the Americans were just so great, and just approaching you and just chatting to you. We didn&#8217;t really have as you say, you had Israelis, we didn&#8217;t really have many people over than Brits and Americans at the camp. And there were like, Spanish people, and they, they were sort of stuck together. But they sort of worked in the kitchen and things like that. I genuinely I do think that everybody just sort of on the first few days just sort of threw themselves in and was all quite chatty, and then I think cliques do form. I think no one knows each other initially. So you&#8217;re just sort of finding your clique. But once you&#8217;ve found your clique, then there is there are definitely cliques.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Great. So I was just gonna ask about your highlights of camp. Is there anything that stood out to you from your year? Being a photographer?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Well, I mean, obviously, the highlight was my role. I loved my role at camp. But also just the friends that I made would be a highlight in itself. But I&#8217;d say just sort of the day-to-day is a highlight, you know, I don&#8217;t know if it is actually taken that back. I got to be honest, sometimes I struggled with camp. And, you know, it was very different to like the real world. So some of my highlights were when we sort of went on day trips out of camp because that was a day where we didn&#8217;t have the kids with us. And we got to sort of explore different cities, we&#8217;re sort of close to Philadelphia and New York and stuff. So they were like highlights, and obviously the travels after a highlight. But in terms of camp, I&#8217;d say the little things like your campfires, your cookouts, singing with the kids, all the sort of little activities that you did, and just those moments in the bunk as well, where you&#8217;re like bonding with your counsellors and the kids like doing their braids and their hair and just like sweet things like that. Were like the highlights, like the little things. And also eating too much food is a thing, but I love food. So, you know,</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> when in America I think that&#8217;s how you sell into the culture. .</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah, exactly. I just fit in everything. Yeah, literally. And the food account was okay. But you&#8217;re just hungry all the time because like the days were just so long and you&#8217;re on your feet all the time, so it just ended up being eating anything. But yeah, I like it. There were a lot of highlights, but I won&#8217;t lie when I say there were some down moments as well.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Absolutely. It&#8217;d be wrong of us to pretend that camps just full of sunshine and rainbows, though it&#8217;s certainly days of my cup experience where I was like, Well, you know what? I&#8217;d rather be at home.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah, exactly. I remember, I think, maybe a week in I FaceTimed, my parents and just burst into tears. And they were like, it&#8217;s fine. Like, I think it was just the culture shock of like, just completely different environment from being at home. Suddenly you&#8217;re at camp and like, our bunks were really weird as well. I know it sounds like a little thing. But we had bunk beds, and all the kids were like, on the ground. But the counsellors that shared the bunk were like, above the kids in each corner of the room, but there was no barrier on the bunk bed. So it was literally just you could roll off and fall out of the bed. I think I didn&#8217;t, but I had a friend that did and broke his nose. I think things like that as well. When you&#8217;re first settling in, you&#8217;re like, I don&#8217;t know where I am. I don&#8217;t know anyone. I&#8217;ve also got this weird bed that I can&#8217;t even be comfortable in at night. And I&#8217;m like shoving myself against the wall. So it was all just things like that. But you know, once you sort of get settled in and you start making like those friendships that you know, true friendships. And it was amazing. On the whole.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> It&#8217;s funny you mentioned the bunk beds because we actually had a kid I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s in the first book where they rolled off their bunk beds, and they broke their back, I think we ended up having an air ambulance come and pick them up. And that was like a big drama of camp. So Americans, you need to sort out your rails on what&#8217;s going on.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> I know I genuinely don&#8217;t get it. And they also didn&#8217;t have ladders or PPE either. So you&#8217;d have to like literally like scramble and like put your leg on, it was so weird.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Right? So we&#8217;re coming up to the end of the questions I have for you. As we&#8217;re doing that, I&#8217;ll just keep it safe for work for the time being. The last question on that topic is What would you say to someone that&#8217;s thinking of doing Camp America?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> I would say go all in, you know, if you&#8217;re thinking about it, then just do it. If you can give up three months of your summer, and you come to America, you have to pay I think about 700 pounds ish, I think that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like. But if you obviously can afford that, then great. Go for it. And you also obviously earn money once you&#8217;re at Campus well, so it sort of balances out it&#8217;s not loads of money. It&#8217;s just as they call pocket money. But I would just say, you know, whether you&#8217;re an introvert or an extrovert, go for it. Because for me, it was the best thing one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever done in my life, and I will never ever forget it. And yeah, I think that&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all I would say really is just go for it.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Okay, so more spicy questions. Now as we&#8217;re coming up to the end. In your the chat we&#8217;ve done on your YouTube channel, you mentioned that you were single at camp. How was that?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> And to be honest, it was I was glad that I was single camp, having got to camp and seeing people that were in relationships. Literally, the majority of the people that I was friends with that were in relationships at home, their relationships broke down. I think you know, I don&#8217;t mean that to scare anybody. But it&#8217;s also the reality of you go to camp, and you can&#8217;t really go on your phone and at my camp, we had to lock our phones away for most of the day. I was lucky with my role because I could sort of sneakily have it when I was like editing the photos and stuff. But otherwise, you couldn&#8217;t have it apart from on your time off. It&#8217;s very sort of you&#8217;re in your camp bubble. There are other sorts of distractions. There may be other temptations there. And I think I was glad that I was single because I didn&#8217;t have anybody to worry about back home. Now. I&#8217;m not single and the thought of going to camp now having no water it&#8217;s like that&#8217;s, that would really make me nervous. Just because it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s when you&#8217;ve got a loved one back at home. You&#8217;d be wanting to check in on them, you&#8217;d know that they want to check in on you. And like, especially the way that my camp was, I couldn&#8217;t like to have access to my phone, and then you&#8217;ve got the time difference as well. So I would say it&#8217;s definitely difficult, but it&#8217;s also doable. Like, if obviously, if you&#8217;re sort of secure in your relationship, then it will be fine. You&#8217;ve just got to communicate and pre-warn your partner that, you know, it might be difficult, but if you trust each other, then it will be fine. But personally, I was very glad that I was single. And I could just think and do whatever I wanted.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> I shouldn&#8217;t have really said this in the interview we had on your channel. But I think also the time difference, having, you know, approximately three months away from your loved one, that&#8217;s a long time, especially when you&#8217;re outside of camp, that not being able to speak to each other and not be able to, you know, go on a date night together. That&#8217;s a long time to be apart. And I think that definitely plays its part if you are going to camp when in a relationship.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah. 100%</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> I was just going to touch on camp goggles, and the lack of privacy in camp. How did you find those two?</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> So camp goggles is similar to what we&#8217;ve just mentioned. So you are in a bubble-like camp? And sort of what you see at Camp is probably not what you would see in real life. You know, I think for the majority of us, me and my friends that look back now we&#8217;re like, Why did I fancy that person or something like that? They were obviously great people. But I just think when you&#8217;re in your sort of normal life, headspace, you just wouldn&#8217;t even it wouldn&#8217;t cross your mind. But boot camp goggles were funny like I touched on in my video, like, I went to Camp thinking that I was going to find a cowboy. And as soon as I saw somebody with cowboy boots and a cowboy hat, I was just like, Oh my gosh. But really like, yes, they were a great person. And nothing happened at all. But it&#8217;s just a stupid, like, I almost feel that camp was almost like going back to school. With the sense of it was very gossipy. Everybody knew things you had crushes on people like you fancied them and like it very, it felt like I was back at school with the sense of that. And what was the other or the lack of privacy? Yeah, and my, the toilet in my camp was so strange, because the doors, literally you would stand up and you would see the bottom half of your leg from like your knees down, and you would see your head. So the toilet doors were so short that literally like if people stood up, they could see you on the toilet. And straight away. I was like, Oh my gosh, like hat, like, how do I get used to this, but you just got to think I&#8217;m here for three months, I&#8217;ve just got to do it. Like, I&#8217;ve just got to go in there and just do what I need to do. And the same with the showers and just getting changed in front of people. Like I think at first you&#8217;re sort of like, you know, a bit. But you just get used to it. And you&#8217;re all in the same boat. And yeah, I think as well, you touched on it before in terms of lack of privacy as well. If you do sort of form a relationship at camp, and you want a bit of time on your own with that person. I think it can be quite difficult. You&#8217;ve got to be careful with where you choose for your private moments. And because for some reason people always seem to find out when something has happened. The latest gossip, it&#8217;s the latest gossip. It&#8217;s like, Well, what happened at the lake last night and all this, which is great. And it was it. That was you know, going back to highlights of camp. All of that is a highlight of camp because it&#8217;s just so entertaining and funny.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Every day is full on I find every day is full of news full of activities. Yeah, got it.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock<br /> Yeah. But yeah, you do have to be careful because there were people that did get fired as well from my camp. Not really for things like that. I think if you did stuff like that and got caught a few times, then yes, you&#8217;d get fired. But also just being inappropriate or sort of doing wrong things like there were a few people that did like drugs and stuff that was completely, you know, that got found out and fired straight away. So you just got to you have in the sense of me saying it&#8217;s like school, you have got to be careful, like you&#8217;re in school like you don&#8217;t want to lose your job and you&#8217;ve got to sort of be sensible, as well.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse<br /> Absolutely. Okay, so we&#8217;re up to the final question. And this is a question that I asked everyone that&#8217;s come on the podcast Did you can have some time to think about what food or smell will bring you back to summer camp? Is there a particular food or smell that you like, that reminds you of camp? Take your time.</p> <p>Maisie Craddock</p> <p>There are quite a few foods to be fair. A really weird one, and no one will ever say this, is the lack of veg. The only veg we had was raw broccoli and I was like &#8220;I have to have veg!&#8221;. Every time I go to the supermarket now and do some cooking, chopping up broccoli, that brings me back to camp. It is dead funny! But another one is the classic smores, which remind me of camp. Especially the way done at camp with the Hershey bars and Graham Crackers, the smell of smoke and all of that, reminds me of camp.</p> <p>Andrew Waterhouse</p> <p>Wow I would never have put raw broccoli on my list of guesses for what foods people may bring up on that question. But there we have it! That is the end of this podcast and I want to thank Maisie for being a special guest. 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The End of the Podcast For Now
MAY 24, 2022
The End of the Podcast For Now
<div style="background:#e8f5e9; border-left:4px solid #4caf50; padding:12px 16px; margin-bottom:20px; border-radius:4px;"> <p style="margin:0;"><strong><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f4da.png" alt="📚" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Update:</strong> The podcast has since returned! Check out the <a href="/episodes/">latest episodes</a> — and both books in the series are now available on <a href="/books/">Amazon</a>.</p> </div> <p>This episode we say goodbye to the podcast. It&#8217;s been great guys, but I really have to focus on getting the best out of my time. Expect to see me promoting There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp on TikTok and other platforms to help spread the word on how good summer camp truly is. It&#8217;s not goodbye &#8211; I&#8217;ll come and go but for now its an adios to the podcast and on to other projects. Thanks for your support, kind words etc. I&#8217;ll be back, just don&#8217;t know when. Stay up to date on my whereabouts by following me on Twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/androow09">@androow09</a>.</p> <h3>A Transcription from the Podcast&#8230;</h3> <p>Hello, guys, and welcome to another episode of There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp. I&#8217;m outdoors today, and it&#8217;s a nice day in the middle of May. However, there&#8217;s a slight difference in the audio quality and background sounds because I&#8217;m on the road and feeling a bit out of breath. Today&#8217;s episode is a little different as I want to talk about the changes in my life that have impacted the podcast and where we go from here.</p> <h4>Current Challenges and Confusion</h4> <p>In the previous episode, I shared with you all about my house move and some changes in my life. However, my current living situation doesn&#8217;t allow me to continue with the weekly podcast episodes. I&#8217;m feeling a bit confused about where to take the podcast from here due to my living arrangements and work schedules. The podcast has always been a place to promote my book and build a community around summer camp, as well as answering questions and providing entertainment. It has been an enjoyable project for me, but with the recent changes, I need to reconsider the format.</p> <h4>Reflecting on the Original Goals</h4> <p>The goal of the podcast has always been to promote my book and encourage people to volunteer at camp America during the prime time for summer camps. However, with the current challenges, I feel the need for a change in approach to get the best out of myself and promote the book effectively. My living situation has made it difficult to record podcasts every week and come up with new ideas, so I need to find a solution.</p> <h4>Considering the Way Forward</h4> <p>As we are currently on Episode 84 or 85 of long-form discussions about summer camp and all the tips and advice I could think of, I realize that the podcast episodes will always be available for new and old listeners to revisit. The interviews and discussions about summer camp will continue to be there for everyone to listen to. However, I need to make some changes to keep the podcast alive and thriving.</p> <h4>Finding a Solution</h4> <p>Going forward, I have a vague solution in mind. I want to keep the podcast alive but adapt to my current living situation. I will continue to share my deep passion for summer camp and how it has changed me and others. But I might need to change the format and frequency of the episodes to accommodate my current challenges. This is a passion project, to provide valuable content and engage with my audience, but I also need to find a balance that works for me.</p> <h4>Some Thoughts</h4> <p>I want to thank all of you for your continued support of There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp. The podcast is not going anywhere, but there will be some changes in the format and frequency of episodes due to my current living situation. I will continue to share my love for summer camp and provide valuable content to my audience. I appreciate your understanding and look forward to the next chapter of the podcast.<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5121" src="http://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284-770x489.png" alt="there's no place like summer camp ebook and paperback render" width="770" height="489" srcset="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284-770x489.png 770w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284-1170x743.png 1170w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284-768x488.png 768w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284-1536x976.png 1536w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1645825284.png 1810w" sizes="(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /></p> <h3>Introduction to Why I Wrote the Book:</h3> <p>Have you ever had an experience that changed your life? For me, it was going to summer camp. It took me from someone who was sheltered and introverted to someone with a world of experiences and friends. That&#8217;s why I decided to create a podcast called &#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp.&#8221; But now, after covering many topics, I think it&#8217;s time for a change. In this post, I&#8217;ll talk about my experience at summer camp and how it led me to my latest projects.</p> <h2>How Summer Camp Changed My Life:</h2> <p>When I went to summer camp for the first time, I had no idea how good it would be. I had only heard about how good it was from other people who had either done it or heard about it by word of mouth. It took a bit of a leap of faith to go, not knowing anyone or anything, and putting in about 1000 pounds. But I walked away with tons of stories, experiences, and friends, and my eyes were opened to the world. I knew I had to spread the word.</p> <h2>Creating &#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp&#8221;:</h2> <p>One of the good habits I kept was keeping a diary, which I did from about age 16 to 23. Every night before I&#8217;d hit the sack, I&#8217;d sit on my phone typing away the notes of what had happened that day. I knew that I had to take what was such an amazing experience, from what was in my diary into something that the general public could really enjoy and educate themselves upon. And that&#8217;s how the idea for the podcast &#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp&#8221; was born. I knew it was a passionate thing that I wanted to get out there, and I think it was such a niche that&#8217;s very untapped. I knew so many people who had done it, and I wanted to share the experience.</p> <h2>From Podcast to Book: There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp</h2> <p>The project started from a dark place to be honest – a long-term relationship had come to an end shortly after my second stint at summer camp, and I needed a project to distract me. I had quality content in my diary entries, and I knew it was something that I wanted to get out there. That&#8217;s why I wrote my debut book, &#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Summer Camp.&#8221; I translated my diary entries into something that people could enjoy, adding dialogue that was never there in my diary entries, and more.<img decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5065" src="http://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-770x770.jpg" alt="theres no place like summer camp logo" width="770" height="770" srcset="https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-770x770.jpg 770w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-1170x1170.jpg 1170w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://theresnoplacelikesummercamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/coloured-logo-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /></p> <h4>Next Steps: A Children&#8217;s Book</h4> <p>After my book was published, I found myself looking for a new project. I decided to break out of the routine of going back through diary entries and translating them into something that people enjoy. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m working on a completely different kind of project now – a children&#8217;s book called &#8220;The Fly That Flew To High.&#8221; It&#8217;s a story that I&#8217;ve had in the back of my mind for about two years, and I&#8217;m excited to get it out there for a different kind of audience. It&#8217;s really weird how the story came about, but I&#8217;ll keep that for another episode.</p> <h3>In Closing&#8230;</h3> <p>Summer camp changed my life, and I hope that my book and podcast can inspire others to take that leap of faith and experience it for themselves. But now, it&#8217;s time for a change, and I&#8217;m excited to work on my children&#8217;s book and see where that takes me. 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