another summer camp story

there was a mom’s coffee at cafe cosmos near school. at the coffee, i chatted with a mom of one of jj’s 15 year old friends. i told her some jj camp stories about everyone smoking, the designated smoking areas, the terrible food. she had to tell me HER camp story. she said her daughter went to a camp through the company. it was an upscale camp for 15-17 year olds. her daughter told her that on the last night the counselors said, “so you know that you are not allowed to sleep together, but tonight is your last night, so if you want to, we’re handing out condoms to everyone”.

ahh, the french...   the mother was so shocked she couldn’t say anything and she's french!  she had to wait until later to discuss it. she asked, and “so , you”. her daughter’s eye rolling, and “come on mom” reassured her. of course, the argument could be made that it’s better to hand them out than to NOT hand them out.

also – figured out where alot of kids go to camp.  years ago, i had tried to find a french camp for jj, but couldn’t.  turns out many companies have “social clubs”  that have company sponsored and discounted offers for employees from vacation homes and ski trips to summer camps for the kids.  any company over a certain size is, by law, required to have these organizations called “committee d’enterprise”.   it is the employee’s right to have one.  a small percentage of everyone’s pay is taken to support this committee.  the funny thing is that there are some companies that are so large that their commitee d’enterprise is huge and has its very OWN committee d’enterprise. 

new word for the day:  heteroclite = constituted of variety of things, of different styles, synonyme – bizarre.  english = motley.  composite, disparate, heterogenious,panache varied.

painted 4 hrs.

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