Camp Rince Ceol

[irishdancegirl_7]

Did anyone here go to Camp Rince Ceol summer 2007 session 1 in New York?!?

[treblemaker62]

I want to go there so badly!!!!

[worldchampion]

i went two years ago! i wish i had gone this year but didn't have enough $$$$! I WILL BE GOING NEXT YEAR THOUGH!!! I'M SO EXCITED!

[reelbigmouth]

I really want to go next year, my friend Paige went and she loved it!
Did you meet anyone named Paige?

[irishdancegirl_7]

not that i rememberr

[momthechauffer]

My daughter went this past summer, session #3. She liked it, but was very, very very very very homesick. It was the first time away from home for more than just an overnighter at a friends house or overnight with the Girl Scouts. She learned lot out of it, missed two incredible workshops because of her homesickness. She might want to go back again next year, but only if I sign up as a "Camp Mom". She's only 12. She made some great friends, she sees them at feisanna and they email each other occasionally. One of the friends she made, her dad grew up with my husband, down the street from each other in NYC. Too funny. They were having a little mini-reunion the last day of camp when we were picking up our dd's.

Her favorite thing was Pilates. I would have thought she would have hated it, but she loved that the most. Drills, she hated. I got the impression EVERYONE hated drills. Movie night was fun, the showcase was fun. She said showering, the lines were long for that, so she didn't bother for a couple of days. The thing that truly made her a worry wort was injuries. Sheila, the camp director was injured and had to give up dancing and that scared the daylights out of my dd. All she talks about is making sure you do certain things to avoid injury.

She finally learned about turnout. She always had gotten comments on her mark sheet that said "toes" and "turnout". They showed her how to improve on it. That was the biggest plus.

That's my take on the camp. I think it was a big help with some issues my dd was having with her dancing. Some things she needs to work on her own. Will she go again next year? I don't know. The jury is still out on that one. I'd love to see her go again, but even she said herself she wasn't ready yet for being away from home for 5 days. I'm not pushing it.

[irishdancegirl_7]

yeah i got pretty homesick but nothing that really cut into my dancing classes or workshops because it was also my first time being away from home but the thing i liked was that we didn't have a lot of downtime. That really helped me since it was go time the entire time i didn't have much time to think about missing my family. I liked pilates in the sense that it really helped me dance better. I was doing leaps higher than EVER after I got all stretched out! Showering was a problem for me too! But i showered every night...one night i waited 30 MINUTES to take a probably 3 minute shower!!! I don't know if I will be going back next summer but it was an AWESOME experience and I learned SOOOO much!

[worldchampion]

Originally Posted by irishdancegirl_7

yeah i got pretty homesick but nothing that really cut into my dancing classes or workshops because it was also my first time being away from home but the thing i liked was that we didn't have a lot of downtime. That really helped me since it was go time the entire time i didn't have much time to think about missing my family. I liked pilates in the sense that it really helped me dance better. I was doing leaps higher than EVER after I got all stretched out! Showering was a problem for me too! But i showered every night...one night i waited 30 MINUTES to take a probably 3 minute shower!!! I don't know if I will be going back next summer but it was an AWESOME experience and I learned SOOOO much!

when i went.. all of the girls in my group would get into our swimsuits as we were supposed to wash them every night too and then we would all be in the one big shower together (in swimsuits). it wasn't really a problem for me the first few nights when we didn't do that... i just got in the shower as soon as we got back and took the smallest one that didn't have a light so that no one would be pressuring me to get done REALLY fast

[irishdancegirl_7]

there was one girl on my floor who liked to take 15 to 20 minute showers and when you're at home thats cool but at camp thats a little crazyyy



aree you going this next summer?!?

[22chiyo1000]

Sorry, session 2!!!