I'VE BEEN PLACED!!

On Friday the 23rd, I travelled up to London with another one of the IYLA girls who happened to live about 20 minutes from me! We got to London and had booked a room at a travel lodge with another one of the girls and about 12 other girls were booked into the hotel too but in different rooms. We all went and had a lovely meal at Zizzi's and then went back to the hotel and talked for ages before going to sleep.

When I woke up, I felt sick to my stomach because it was the day of the IYLA Recruitment Fair. After getting ready and having some breakfast, we headed to the tube station to get to the fair. We had to wait in line for a bit but then all of our group got let in and we were taken into a room for briefing by our leaders, Madison and Steve, who are incredible at what they do! They were really postive, enthusiastic, encouraging and motivating.

When they finished their talk, we all left the room and headed to the camps we wanted to talk to and try to get hired at. Before the fair, we had already received a list of the camps and so could choose our favourite camps beforehand.

My favourite was Camp Seven Hills, so as soon as we got let into the fair, I looked around all of the names of the camps and found Seven Hills right at the end, already with a queue of people! I went and joined the queue and watched 4 other IYLA girls get placed here before I sat down.

The interview itself went really well, I got asked about my hobbies, family, childcare experience, how I've overcome conflicts, what role I wanted to be, any qualifications I have and why I want to come to camp and what I think I will gain from it. The interviewer also went through regulations of camp and after talking for a while, looking at pictures of camp and answering any questions I had, she offered me a place!

I am a Junior and unit counsellor at Camp Seven Hills, in New York!! 

The camp provided me with a booklet which has all the information about camp in it, what to pack, what camp is like, what I should be aware of and I was given information about how to get there.

After filling out the processing form, I called my parents to let them know and then went down to processing where camp america checked over my processing form and gave me a sheet on what happens next, this includes completing the next payment and sorting out my VISA.

I'm so incredibly excited to go to camp, I have 149 days left and I'm so happy because I'm going to the same camp as quite a few of the other IYLA girls so we'll most likely travel there together which will be so amazing!

Good luck to anyone else hoping to go to camp, there's still 4 months left so don't loose hope! :) I hope you're all well lovelies, talk soon xox