What Staff Say

Timber Lake is more than just a camp. It’s a feeling, a collection of moments, its smiles with sleep in your eyes and the laughter of your campers filling the air, it’s arms around each other singing the Alma Mater, its opportunity for growth, a mindset, a family, but most importantly, it’s a place you’ll never forget. 

The moment I stepped off the bus at camp, it was like stepping into an alternate universe. The grass is greener, the birds chirp louder, the sun shines a little brighter and for me, I smiled a lot harder compared to before camp. 

When I made the decision to go to camp, it was because I knew I wanted to work with children in my medical career and I wanted the chance to impact my campers in a meaningful way. I wanted my campers to believe in themselves in a moment they felt self-doubt because of me, to know I could provide them some guidance through the hardship of making and keeping friends and that I could make them feel special. However, 4 months since my first summer, I find myself either stopped in the street in the middle of the day, reminded of a time I had with my campers, feeling the love and the happiness they brought me, or I’ll be faced with a personal challenge and I remember if I can look after 7 girls for 2 months and have them believe in me, I can do anything. My point is, you find that if you let them, your campers can be the source of the greatest personal growth, and the ones who make you believe you are special. 

I’ll forever be changed by the 7 little people I got to take care of, along with the amazing camp sisters I made. You find you bond extremely fast with your peers at camp. They are truly the only people who know how you’re feeling and what you’re going through. And Timber Lake take such pride in selecting the best of the best to be counselors, so you know you’ll be meeting and making friendships with the most amazing and talented people from all over the world. Thanks to Timber Lake, I now have friends in many corners of the globe, friends I have since visited after camp, and whom have redirected my life for the better. 

Travel is an enriching experience on its own, now mix that with working with international people your age, in a fast paced and confined environment, and you find your social skills blossom and you’ve made connections in the most unlikely of places. 

Timber Lake has truly and wholeheartedly changed my life. There’s nothing more i can say about Timber Lake than, “12480, you see numbers I see home”.

(and if you don’t quite get this quote, come back and read my testimonial a year from now, after spending your first summer at this incredible camp and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about)