5 Things camp counselors smell like
Camp counselors have the most important role and are undoubtedly one of the most valuable assets to any summer camp. Their crazy, caring, fun and loving personalities are what campers keep coming back to camp for. However, their overly exciting and jam-packed schedules often leaving them smelling a little funky every now and then.
Here are 5 things camp counselors smell like:
1. Sunscreen
Due to campers being out and about in the exposure of the sun all day long, sun protection is a priority at summer camps. This means that counselors are responsible for applying and ensuring that all their campers are covered in sunblock. Sunblock isn’t particularly the best smelling type of lotion. It’s also rather sticky and is spread easily from one person to the next through body contact, which is why, through all the hugging and fun games, counselors end up smelling like a bottle of sunscreen.
2. Bug Spray
You can’t expect to be in harmony with the bugs when you are invading their natural habitats in the outdoors. Going out amongst canopies of trees and in the heart of nature, means that you will indefinitely come into contact with a variety of bugs; from spiders to bees, all the way to mosquitoes and fleas. You will be face-to-face with bugs of every shape and every colour as a camp counselor. Making use of bug repellent is the best way to avoid bites and keep the bugs away. Just like how counselors have to prevent sunburn, they would have to protect their campers from bug bites, which means they are bound to smell like insect repellent.
3. Chlorine
There are three types of showers that camp counselors take, one, more than under a shower hose and on tiles is in the summer camp swimming pool. Pool swim is an essential part of any summer camp. Campers often begin their day in the pool and end their day in the pool. This means that camp counselors inherit the scent which comes from pool chlorine. It is, however, better than smelling like sunscreen or bug spray.
4. Camp Fire
The most important tradition at any summer camp is the summer camp campfire. Most camps even go to the extent of hosting a campfire daily. Where there is fire, there is smoke, and in between grilling the marshmallows to make s’mores and making contact with the ash from the firewood, camp counselors cannot help but smell like something that just came out of an oven. That too, at a very high temperature.
5. The Ocean
Summer camps that are located along the coast, often make going to the beach a focal part of their camp activities. Going to the beach, again, would mean that you will be exposed to the sun and need to be bathed in sunscreen. Over and above being marinated in sunscreen, you will be picking up all the sea sand, getting the sea spray in your hair, and inevitably, smelling like the ocean. This has to be one of the best scents camp counselors carry with them, and, one of the three showers they are most likely to take at camp, apart from swimming in the pool and taking a shower in a bathroom.
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Here are 5 things camp counselors smell like:
1. Sunscreen
Due to campers being out and about in the exposure of the sun all day long, sun protection is a priority at summer camps. This means that counselors are responsible for applying and ensuring that all their campers are covered in sunblock. Sunblock isn’t particularly the best smelling type of lotion. It’s also rather sticky and is spread easily from one person to the next through body contact, which is why, through all the hugging and fun games, counselors end up smelling like a bottle of sunscreen.
2. Bug Spray
You can’t expect to be in harmony with the bugs when you are invading their natural habitats in the outdoors. Going out amongst canopies of trees and in the heart of nature, means that you will indefinitely come into contact with a variety of bugs; from spiders to bees, all the way to mosquitoes and fleas. You will be face-to-face with bugs of every shape and every colour as a camp counselor. Making use of bug repellent is the best way to avoid bites and keep the bugs away. Just like how counselors have to prevent sunburn, they would have to protect their campers from bug bites, which means they are bound to smell like insect repellent.
3. Chlorine
There are three types of showers that camp counselors take, one, more than under a shower hose and on tiles is in the summer camp swimming pool. Pool swim is an essential part of any summer camp. Campers often begin their day in the pool and end their day in the pool. This means that camp counselors inherit the scent which comes from pool chlorine. It is, however, better than smelling like sunscreen or bug spray.
4. Camp Fire
The most important tradition at any summer camp is the summer camp campfire. Most camps even go to the extent of hosting a campfire daily. Where there is fire, there is smoke, and in between grilling the marshmallows to make s’mores and making contact with the ash from the firewood, camp counselors cannot help but smell like something that just came out of an oven. That too, at a very high temperature.
5. The Ocean
Summer camps that are located along the coast, often make going to the beach a focal part of their camp activities. Going to the beach, again, would mean that you will be exposed to the sun and need to be bathed in sunscreen. Over and above being marinated in sunscreen, you will be picking up all the sea sand, getting the sea spray in your hair, and inevitably, smelling like the ocean. This has to be one of the best scents camp counselors carry with them, and, one of the three showers they are most likely to take at camp, apart from swimming in the pool and taking a shower in a bathroom.
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