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amp counselor
Clive Selwyn,
while working at
Camp Tamarack
in Ortonville last year,
remembers calling out to
his muddy campers, "If you
keep on shoveling, you'll
get all the way to
Australia!"
Staring at him blankly,
one camper asked, "Don't
you mean China?!"
Remembering the myth
from his childhood in
England, Selwyn responded
that those who dig down-
ward from where he comes
from do, in fact, end up in
Australia.
Selwyn and James Lessel,
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a five-year Tamarack coun-
American counselor Kiln Dorfman
selor, got their jobs through
Gild
English counselor James Sanders
programs that help foreign
enjoy
five time in Tamarack.
students to work and travel
in America.
Lessel was hired at a
non-profit British-Camp America
Gavin Davis, 26, a former
Fair. The division of the American
Tamarack counselor from Dorchester,
Institute for Foreign Studies hosts
Dorset, England, said teaching out-
yearly one-day fairs in England,
door education to fast-paced
Germany, Holland, Poland, Bulgaria
American kids allowed him to share
and Ireland. American summer camp
his own "tips for learning how to take
directors meet potential staff, includ-
a gentle stroll through the woods,
ing counselors and kitchen and laun-
stopping occasionally to listen to
dry personnel, from 50 countries.
what's going on."
Lessel described his initial experi-
Overseas staff often stayed in
ence in an American camp as "com-
homes of co-workers during free time,
pletely intimidating due to the fact that
invitations Lessel called, "a godsend."
I was in this huge country pretty much
He doesn't "think the American staff
alone," although he did have "a few
give themselves half the credit that
buddies that I came to camp with." He
they deserve for the amazing hospitali-
later decided to give the locals a chance
ty they and their families give the for-
and "became really good friends with a
eign staff."
lot of people from America."
Some, however, do more than offer
,, Coming to America helped Lessel
a bed and a shower to a counselor on
gain more experience in life skills in a
a day off. When Willoway Day Camp
totally new environment, learning
needed host homes for foreign staff,
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about many different cultures."

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