Camp Lingo

I love that Steve Martin skit where he had difficulty communicating with a cab driver in Paris. He tries speaking in an accent, and with exhasperation exclaims: “It’s like those French have a different word for everything!”.

Camp can sometimes feel that way. We have little inside jokes, short cut phrases, and names that are only used at “The Bubble”. So here is a non-exhaustive list for reference:

Special Days

• Maui Monday… Hawaiian shirts
• Wildlife Wednesday… shirts that feature birds, fish, cats, dogs… really any animal, wild or tame.
• Throwback Thursday… celebration of “old times”
• Jersday… wear a jersey on Thursday (new)
• Freedom Friday… American themed shirts (not really caught on, but close).
• Sleep Late Friday… reveille blows at 8:30, an extra hour of sleep!

Dining Hall

• Table Girls… campers who set the tables and get the hot food.
• Bread Window… where we get bread and dessert
• Window 2…Hot food picked up
• Window 3… dirty dishes returned
• Drink Window… pick up drinks and drop off cups/pitchers
• Silent Celebrate… raise hands with jazz hands but no noise
• Keep ya Plates… a non-cookie dessert
• Crackers… nilla wafers (served after EP)
• OCP… Oreo Cream Pie, everyone’s favorite dessert

Daily Routines

• Job Wheel… how cabins rotate clean up chores
• Bells… how we change classes and call table girls
• Bugles… how we announce whole camp routines of the day
• DMC… Deep Meaningful Conversation
• Whites… what we wear on special occasions
• DHP… Dining Hall Porch
• East Side… the left side of the porch
• West Side… the right side of the porch
• The Pit… where most campers sit in the Pavilion
• Shoppe Date… arranged meeting that occurs between Candy Shoppe and EP
• Tuck Ins… after Devotion time in cabin, counselors check in with each camper.

Places

• Grady’s Nail… where we put maintenance requests
• FAC… Fine Arts Center
• The Grey… White Hall
• Putt Cove… the Marina
• Greystone Point… a granite boulder that overhangs Lake Edith
• The Meadow… a remote hillside field by the lake
• Apple Hill… the meadow on top of Apple Hill (views!)
• Grey Lodge… my house
• Deep Country… where program counselors live
• Bear Mountain… a mountain 10 minutes from camp (hiking)
• Thunderhead… a mountain 5 minutes from camp (riding)

The rundown of the day:

• Breakfast… Sleep Late breakfast with cabin sack meals
• Lunch… Roast Beef Sandwich
• Dinner… 80’s Night (Sloppy Joes, tri color pasta, TCBY Yogurt)
• EP… Opening Vespers
• Weather… hot, humid, scattered showers

Looking to learn more about our camp lingo? Check out the Greystone Dictionary page for more descriptions and fun videos.